Managing a Rational Programming Patterns local workspace

You are strongly advised against reusing a local workspace that was created with a previous version of the product. However, running a new migration from Pacbase is not necessary.

You are advised to start from an empty local workspace and to load the content of the repository workspace into it. You can reuse the repository workspace that was used before. The metadata will then be correctly reset for Rational® Programming Patterns and its required products.

Even if it is not advised, reusing a local workspace remains possible. If updating the local workspace is required in a new Rational Programming Patterns version, then a migration process for the existing local workspace will be provided as far as possible. This process might be simple, that is to say an individual migration upon the opening of an editor, or the migration of an entire workspace in a command-line mode. In any case, this process will be documented with the version.

For example, for Rational Programming Patterns V9.5, if you must reuse a workspace from the V9.1.1 version, then the Text and Meta Entity instances of the Pacbase facet will be migrated when the editor is opened. You will then be able to update them.

To fully benefit from the evolutions of this new version, you are advised to reindex the content of the existing local workspace. If you are an administrator, you are also advised to reindex the content of the Rational Team Concert™ server.
  • To reindex the content of an existing local workspace, open the Pattern Driven Programming perspective and the Design Explorer view. Right-click each location and select Rebuild Local Workspace.
  • To reindex the content of the Rational Team Concert server, open the Work Items perspective and the Team Artifacts view. Expand each project area and expand Enterprise Extensions. Right-click Source Code Data.

    With Rational Team Concert V6.0.1 and later, you configure the source code data scanning for the stream with the choice Open Scan Configurations. To know how to do it, see the explanations in the Rational Team Concert documentation: Creating a scan configuration for a stream.

    With Rational Team Concert V5.0.2 or V6.0, select Reset Source Code Data.


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