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ClearCase and ClearQuest

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recommendations for characteriistics of security software to protect ClearCase data at rest.

ClearCase Development should come up with a set of parameters that customers could look at and compare their in house security requirements. HCL ?IBM would develop this set of parameters for all customers.
over 6 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 0 Future consideration

Hide specific record types from query creation base on users/groups

I would be nice and more secure to have the availability of hiding specific record types from the new query menu for specific users or groups.
over 6 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearQuest 1 Future consideration

Adding group permission to newly created View using CM API

Setting View permission when a view is created dynamically using CM API
almost 7 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 0 Future consideration

Automatically Open the CTE in Currently Set View

We have a shared environment with many views and VOBs. It is required that when ClearTeam Explorer is launched, it will go directly into the currently set view. This would be equal to the xclearcase behavior.
almost 7 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 1 Future consideration

Make the Windows based Region Syncronizer be able to parse NAS paths

The RS tool is not good at guessing -- or remembering - a windows facing storage path.Can this be improved or made such that it can remember the previous entry - like that in the view creation advanced GUI; once I set my local view storage it reme...
almost 7 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 0 Future consideration

a GUI front-end to cleartool find

Request a GUI front-end to cleartool find
almost 7 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 0 Future consideration

Add VMWare ESXi 6.5 support for Clearcase

IBM System Requirements for Clearcase states that only VMWare ESXi 5.x supports Clearcase which is a very old version. Ideally the application should be supported on latest VMWare ESXi hypervisors. The latest version as of now is ESXi 6.5. Please ...
almost 7 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 0 Future consideration

Add support for version/Tool name/Publisher info for SCCM report

SCCM is used by some customers to scan the software installed on their desktops. Currently, most IBM/Rational software provides version/Tool and name/Publisher information to the SCCM tool. Please add this functionality for ClearCase.
almost 7 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 1 Future consideration

Provide file-based ClearQuest connection support on Windows (similar to on Linux/UNIX)

The federal government has been implementing DFARS (NIST 800-171) requirements for a few years. These are mandatory and effective as of December 31, 2017. One of the DFARS requirements is that database usernames are changed every 90 days. This wre...
almost 7 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearQuest 1 Future consideration

Ability to avoid dead-end of clearcase stop script

When a user has open session for view and VOB, the 'clearcase stop' script creates a dead-end situation where reboot is required. It is preferred that 'clearcase stop' fails to stop ClearCase service if MVFS cannot be unloaded.
almost 7 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 0 Future consideration