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ClearCase and ClearQuest

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Enhanced journaling in Installation Manager

When something goes wrong during product installation or update with IM, it's often difficult to do a post-mortem. The current logs are not sufficient to pinpoint the failing step and root cause. Thus it would be helpful to get clear and detailed ...
about 2 months ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 1 Not under consideration

Cleartool CMI integration chtask command needs -replace option

Right now, the steps to change the task association of a checked-out element are to:1. Use chtask -add_task to add the new task 2. Use chtask -remove to remove the old task. If the second step is missed, or fails, a single change is associated wit...
4 months ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 1 Not under consideration

Support for Oracle Enterprise Linux

Due to Red Hat's shutting down public access to their distribution source packages, Oracle and other "compatible" linux distributions can no longer state that their kernel or userspace packages are 100% compatible with the matching Red Hat Enterpr...
4 months ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 2 Not under consideration

CMI Integration - Restricting the end user to select only tasks that are mastered locally, now it is allowing to select tasks mastered in any site

With current configurations in CMI, with custom query, it was listing all the tasks to select even though mastered in other site in multisite environment for associating tasks in ClearCase operations, which is not correct. A single element version...
6 months ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 2 Functionality already exists

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 ...
7 months ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 1 Future consideration

ARM Support for ClearCase.

Microsoft seems to be going all-in on Windows-on-ARM, adding AI features to Windows that essentially require ARM processors. "CoPilot+" Windows PC's, which are ALL Windows-on-ARM are releasing NOW and if they become a hit with users, ClearCase may...
8 months ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 1 Not under consideration

Provide mechanism for clearfsimport to associate its checkins with CMI tasks in base ClearCase VOBs/views.

Clearfsimport is not just a "one time use" import tool. It is often used to import third party "code drops" and revised versions of tools into ClearCase. (For example, if you are keeping compilers like GCC under source control to improve build aud...
8 months ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 0 Future consideration

Ensure ClearCase CtCmd functions with CQPerl by bundling it with ClearQuest

Since ClearCase and ClearQuest are now "debundled," there is the possibility that CQ Perl Hooks, etc., that perform ClearCase operations using CtCmd will fail if ClearCase and ClearQuest Perl versions diverge. We have already seen issues where add...
11 months ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearQuest 2 Future consideration

ClearCase CMI integrations should allow setting tasks in the GUIs

The Change Managment Interface (CMI) based integrations have replaced some of the older integration methods with an arguably less usable integration. Feature shorrtcomings include: 1. In the old base ClearCase/Clearquest integration, the user can ...
almost 1 year ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 0 Future consideration

Modernize / Update the ClearQuest User Admin Tool window and offer a web version.

Modernize / Update the ClearQuest User Admin Tool window and offer a web version. Its functionality feels like old Win NT style app with old limitations. It is clunky and frustrating to use. From a marketing perspective, it appears to be old, stal...
about 1 year ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearQuest 0 Future consideration