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ClearCase and ClearQuest

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increase "Local Epoch" limit

The current "Local Epoch Num" is reported by 'lsepoch' command. The maximum for that number in a clearcase database is 2147483648. This request is to increase that limit significantly to allow more durable replicas.
2 months ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 3 Future consideration

"Remember Repository" option in Clearquest Login for SSO authentication

With SSO authentication, "Remember User ID" saves login name but still require user intervention to select Repository in case there are multiple repositories. The requirement is to add another option "Remember Repository" so that users can logon t...
3 months ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearQuest 1 Future consideration

CMI Integration - Restricting the end user to select only one task while performing ClearCase check-in operations

With current configurations in CMI, with custom query, it was listing all the tasks to select with check box for associating those tasks for a single file, which is not correct. A single file element should be able to have multiple tasks/activitie...
4 months ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 0 Future consideration

ClearQuest Web Server Using Tomcat Implementation

Implement ClearQuest web services using Apache Tomcat, including the companion Report Launcher. (1) ClearCase and ClearQuest are often deployed together and should offer parallel implementation solutions. In 2018, the ClearCase/ClearQuest roadmap ...
almost 4 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearQuest 3 Future consideration

Trigger type management in ClearTeam Explorer

This request is to add trigger type management in ClearTeam Explorer (CTE).Currently CTE has label and branch type browsers where you can view/add/remove a type but not for trigger.
6 months ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 0 Future consideration

IM albd check should use alternative to NTLM

Installation Manager (IM) currently uses legacy NTLM authentication to check for clearcase server process (albd) credentials during installation on Windows.More and more customers disable NTLM in their environment which causes albd check to fail.T...
about 1 year ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 2 Future consideration

Automatically update CQ OSLC provider with schema revision

The ClearQuest OSLC provider within the CQ CM server (cqwebprofile) is used by ClearCase CMI integration to query about schema information. Currently the cqwebprofile needs to be restarted in order to reflect the change after a user DB upgrade int...
over 1 year ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearQuest 1 Future consideration

ClearCase compatibility with Azure AD

a. How from Architectural perspective Azure AD joined devices are not supported (since it is the future)? From a technical point of view, it is actually not currently possible to do this on Windows hosts because Azure AD is not backward compatibl...
over 2 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 1 Future consideration

Allow to use environmental variables (for example, %JAVA_HOME%) when providing JRE/bin directory during ClearCase installation

Currently, when you install ClearCase 10, the JRE/bin directory must be specified and it has to be a hard-coded value. The issue we are having with this restriction is that during our process to patch Java (which is done every 3 months), the path ...
4 months ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 1 Future consideration

ClearQuest install should check for existence of dependent libraries and error or warn if they're not present

Our ClearQuest prerequisites mention this requirement, but the ClearQuest install is allowed to complete (without any error or warning), even when these dependent libraries are not present. This yields errors when running the product after the "su...
almost 4 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearQuest 1 Future consideration