In the Rational® ClearQuest® environment, change requests record defects or request modifications for a project or product. In the Rational ClearCase® environment, versions of the elements that represent a project or product are managed. Each version embodies one or more changes to an element.
With the base ClearCase integration with Rational ClearQuest, one or more change requests are associated with one or more versions. These associations enable a project manager to correlate versions in one environment with project or product information in the other environment. A single change request can be associated with more than one version. The set of versions that implement the requested change is called the change set for that request.
A single version can be associated with more than one change request. These change requests are called the request set for that version.
The integration has the following interfaces:
The base Rational ClearCase Integration Configuration tool on Windows systems displays a window in which you perform the following configuration steps:
If you select V2-Perl as the trigger type, you can use triggers defined in a central location rather than copies on all the client systems.
If you select V2-Perl as the trigger type, after you exit the configuration tool, you need to modify a configuration file (config.pl) to set database connectivity information and additional policy parameters.