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ClearCase and ClearQuest

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Request that CTE preserve filename extension when comparing or merging files

When comparing multiple or arbitrary versions of a file element, ClearCase, and CTE in particular, should preserve the extension of hte file being compared. The current behavior is to append ".contrib.#" to the file name, and this can cause some m...
almost 6 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 0 Future consideration

ClearCase on SLES15 should use libncurses.so.6

ClearCase on SLES15 should use libncurses.so.6 Request that ClearCase 9.0.1.x do not require 'legacy' files from the OS but use the OS files which exist per default in newer OS versions.
almost 6 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 1 Future consideration

block client side CCRTC integration with setting in server.conf

Following TS001302012 pvob cmi setting to disable client side RTC integration which was implement in a complex way when having numberous of PVOBs and multiple RTC instances. I got that answer Hi Jerome, L3 says that cmi settings are always per pro...
about 6 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 1 Future consideration

Multi-Processor option for omake

The multi core processor is common in the current development system but the omake has no option to utilise multi-processor. It is a huge draw back from other utilities like a Visual Studio compiler.Our test result showed normal compile is 2 to 3 ...
over 6 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 0 Future consideration

Compatibility of "omake -EN" with Batch-mode inference rules

The lack of compatibility is affecting on our build performance using omake -EN. The nmake provides "Batch-mode inference rules" to improve the performance of compile.https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/cpp/build/batch-mode-rules However it is confir...
over 6 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 0 Future consideration

file date displayed in CTE search result

In ClearTeam Explorer, "Last Modified" and "Created" date are displayed in the ClearTeam Details window but not in ClearCase Search Results window.
over 6 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 0 Future consideration

Better Integration Between IBM ClearCase (clearmake) and IBM LSF

The clearmake command line utility for compiling over ClearCase has got a great functionnality of making distribution of build over multiple plateforms. IBM® Platform LSF is a powerful workload management platform for demanding, distributed HPC en...
over 6 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 0 Future consideration

Performance profiling of VOB DBs, VOB DB filesystems, and live load balancing

VOBs DB's have files like, database, journal, and lock files. Misc files. Hundreds of VOB may share the same filesystem.Many VOB processes may try to write at the same time and possibly send the DB file system into write throttling. The create and...
over 6 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 0 Future consideration

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

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