Starting in Rational® ClearQuest® version
7.0, there is extended code page support.
The following code page extensions are included in
Rational ClearQuest versions
7.0 and later:
- Support for storing non-English, non-ASCII data in ClearQuest schema
repositories and user databases on Linux and the UNIX system, and
extended support for these features on Windows systems.
- Support for using the product in mixed character set
deployments.
- Localization for additional languages.
- Extended graphical user interface (GUI) support to configure and
use code pages in the Maintenance Tool, Designer, Export Tool, Package
wizard, and User Administration Tool.
Starting in version 7.0, Rational ClearQuest processes
data in Unicode, and its applications use the ClearQuest data
code page to write to its databases. In versions of ClearQuest earlier
than 7.0, data is processed by using the local character set. Even
when the ClearQuest data
code page does not match the local character set, ClearQuest applications
can now connect to the Rational ClearQuest database in read/write
mode. In previous versions, write operations were not allowed unless
the local character set matched the ClearQuest data
code page.
Support for additional code pages
Starting
in version 7.0, Rational ClearQuest supports
additional languages and locales. The product now supports the following
Microsoft Windows code pages on all supported platforms:
- 932 (Japanese SJIS)
- 936 (Simplified Chinese)
- 949 (Korean)
- 950 (Traditional Chinese)
- 1250 (Eastern Europe)
- 1251 (Cyrillic)
- 1252 (Latin-1)
- 1253 (Greek)
- 1254 (Turkish)
- 1255 (Hebrew)
- 1257 (Baltic)
- 20127 (ASCII)
Safe ShiftJIS is also supported. See Supported data code pages and Locales associated with supported
ClearQuest data code pages for details on supported languages
and locales.
Rational ClearQuest version
7.1.1 adds support for UTF-8 (8-bit Unicode Transformation Format)
and data code page 65001 for the DB2 and Oracle database sets. See Supported data code pages and Locales associated with supported
ClearQuest data code pages for details and limitations.
New national language support for Linux and the UNIX
system
In Rational ClearQuest versions
earlier than 7.0, only ASCII data can be written to ClearQuest databases
and schema repositories located on the UNIX system and Linux. In Rational ClearQuest version
7.0 and later, full national language support is extended to the UNIX
system and Linux. Any supported data code page can be written to databases
and repositories on supported platforms.
Extended GUI support
Starting in version
7.0, options are available in ClearQuest to perform
the following tasks:
- Use the Maintenance tool to set or change the ClearQuest Data
Code Page setting for a schema repository or connection
to any of the supported ClearQuest data
code pages.
- Use the User Administration tool to specify file encoding when
exporting user and group information,
- Use the Designer to create a new user database, selecting from
all schemas defined in the schema repository. Newly created schema
repositories that use data code pages 932 or 60932 (Japanese), or
936 (Simplified Chinese) contain matching localized versions as well
as ASCII versions of every schema included with ClearQuest. Other
schema repositories contain only ASCII schema versions. Localized
schema version names reflect the language and the package version
numbers.
- Use the Package wizard to install packages in a schema, or the
Package Upgrade wizard to upgrade packages in a schema, selecting
from a list of the latest available packages compatible with the ClearQuest data
code page of the schema repository. In a schema repository whose data
code page is 65001 (UTF-8), the Package Upgrade wizard displays all
localized and ASCII versions of every package. In a schema repository
whose data code page is 932 or 60932 (Japanese), or 936 (Simplified
Chinese), the Package Upgrade wizard displays the latest matching
localized versions and ASCII versions of every package. In other schema
repositories, the wizard display only ASCII package versions.
- Use the Export tool to select the file encoding when exporting
query results.
- Select the file encoding when exporting a profile.