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Support custom Eclipse options in ClearCase help browser spawned by cleartool man or the "online help" option on Windows.

In the current releases, cleartool man on windows spawns CTE... If the host is impacted by Eclipse issue https://github.com/eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.ui/issues/1704 The help pages will not display correctly, possibly losing the table of co...
2 days ago in Heritage / ClearCase Submitted

Roadmap for supporting Jakarta 10 and JPA 3.x

We need to move to at least Java 17 and have recently upgraded to RAD 10.0 for Java 17 support. We also have applications which use JPA, that will require some modernization to move to JPA 3.x/Jakarta 10; however, we have found that there is no JP...
3 days ago in Heritage / Application Developer Submitted

"Modify" installs that do not manipulate the albd service should not prompt for albd process credentials.

When performing upgrade or modify installs, Installation Manager requires that the installing user provide the albd credentials. In "modify" cases where -- for example -- the user is adding a Visual Studio or other integration, the installer shoul...
3 months ago in Heritage / ClearCase Submitted

REST API feature to search documents using watson assistant which is not available yet RAM

We are looking for REST APIs for RAM search that can be invoked via URL. and can be integrated with watson assistant.
over 4 years ago in Heritage / Asset Manager Future consideration

Provide SRFM option for checkout in CTE

This request is to add a checkout option in ClearTeam Explorer (CTE) for synchronous request for mastership (SRFM): https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/how-set-clearcase-synchronous-request-mastership That would allow the user to checkout immediatel...
9 months ago in Heritage / ClearCase Under review

add the button Backout counter to the mq web console 9.2 very useful for the client to unlock the queue

is it possible to add the button Backout counter to the mq web console 9.2 like this: Increase BO counter +/-5 and Decrease BO counter+/-5? our client is asking for it. for now, the only option is to change the default value. but in case of blocke...
over 3 years ago in Heritage / Application Developer Not under consideration

RAMv754's Standalone RTC not supported Java 8

We recently upgraded RAM Server to v754 but we are using Standalone RTCv6.0 Server to store RAM Policies. Unfortunately RTCv6.0 is not supporting Java 1.8. That reason we are one stopped one of the Cluster's RAM node which is running on other Serv...
about 7 years ago in Heritage / Asset Manager Future consideration

GUI options for clearcase cmi integration

The purpose of this idea is to add default menus in clearcase GUI (CTE, CC Explorer, Windows Explorer) for the following functionalities: -list versions and their association under the current directory -select a current task from the list of avai...
8 months ago in Heritage / ClearCase Under review

Support for Buildforge database on AWS RDS

One of our clients wants to migrate BuildForge to AWS with the buildforege database schema from on-prem database to AWS RDS database. But current databases on AWS RDS is not supported.
3 months ago in Heritage / Build Forge Submitted

Move application data ("var" directory in particular) to \ProgramData on Windows...

The standard location for transient application data on Windows is the "\ProgramData" directory. This was a change made some time ago to improve application security. ClearCase still stores data in \Program Files\... In many cases, "hardening" too...
3 months ago in Heritage / ClearCase Submitted