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ClearCase and ClearQuest

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Detailed information about changed schemas

ClearQuest shall record additional information about checked-in schema, including “check in date”, who checked it out, who checked it in, and APIs to get this new information in a Perl / VBA script.
over 7 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearQuest 1 Future consideration

Import of Technology Libray in Cadence locks Virtuoso

Selecting a technology library in library manager and right click to checkin a library the oa library gets locked
over 7 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 1 Future consideration

CQDesigner: Improved code structure and execution

We would like the error reporting in Perl, VB, or any other language being used, to be more useful for determining the exact point in the code where it happens.
over 7 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearQuest 5 Future consideration

Allow to increase the size for an existing Short Text field in ClearQuest from

Currently in ClearQuest ALM Schema, size of the Short Text field cannot be extended after a version is checked in. But there are reasosns where field size needs to be increased due to Business Needs. Truncating the size might cause an issue for al...
over 7 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearQuest 4 Future consideration

ACL in a new VOB

The NT ACLs are causing more overhead to maintain I would like to request the following:1. A site environment switch to no have ACLs on new vobs.2. The GUI interface to select a feature level like 7 (so ACLs are not turned on) 3. Ability to link a...
over 7 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 0 Future consideration

ClearCase versioin 8.0.1.x support for Eclipse Neon (4.6.x)

At the moment Clearcase 8 is not supported in the latest version of Eclipse (4.6.x). This means that we are unable to install the Clear Team Explorer plugin to work directly with Clearcase from Eclipse.
over 7 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 0 Not under consideration

Please minimize RPC chatter on RPCs number 27 and 28 are HOSTINFO and CLNT_LIST_REGISTER.

Request is to cut down or provide some site configurable options to chatty RPCs. In this case "lsclient" is never used. It seems an excess of RPCs are sent from clients to registry server to gather information that may not be necessary. There is s...
about 8 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 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

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

Do not install Microsoft Access database engine when installing ClearQuest

ClearQuest clients are deployed on end users' Windows PC. The Microsoft Access database engine is automatically installed when the CQ client is installed, but it clashes with the installed MS Office, making it impossible for MS Office to operate p...
7 months ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearQuest 4 Is a defect