You must use the Rational Team Concert client for two primary administrative purposes:
You can integrate Rational Quality Manager with the Rational ClearQuest defect tracking system. This integration is realized through the ClearQuest Connector.
With the ClearQuest Connector you can synchronize information between work items in Rational Quality Manager and ClearQuest records.
With the ClearQuest Connector you can work in both tools and share data. Through synchronization operations, the ClearQuest Connector maps Rational ClearQuest records, such as defects, to Rational Quality Manager work items. When a user creates or modifies a Rational ClearQuest record, the ClearQuest Connector creates or modifies a corresponding work item in Quality Manager. The creation and modification changes also flow from work items to ClearQuest records.
The ClearQuest Connector uses the ClearQuest Gateway, a server process, to communicate with the Jazz Server and connect ClearQuest records with work items in the Rational Quality Manager project area.
Before you can use the ClearQuest Connector, you must configure your Rational ClearQuest and Rational Quality Manager environments. You must apply the JazzInterop package to your Rational ClearQuest schema and then upgrade the user database with that schema. In the Quality Manager project area, you must create synchronization rules for each Rational ClearQuest record type that you want to synchronize with Rational Quality Manager work items. Synchronization rules describe how to map Rational ClearQuest record type fields to Rational Quality Manager work item type properties.
The ClearQuest Connector includes a sample Rational ClearQuest schema, DefectTrackingInterop, and sample synchronization rules files, which you can use to walk through the process of configuring and using the ClearQuest Connector. The sample is a good way to learn how to configure and use the ClearQuest Connector before you attempt to configure the ClearQuest Connector for use in your production environment.
For details about the ClearQuest Connector, see the help topic Getting started with the ClearQuest Connector at https://jazz.net/jazzdocs/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.team.connector.cq.doc/topics/ c_getting_started_cq_connector.html. This topic provides links to the following additional help topics about the ClearQuest Connector:
The Jazz process is the collection of roles, practices, rules, and guidelines used to organize and control the flow of work. The project process is defined in a project area and can be further customized in a team area. In IBM Jazz, you use processes to define user roles and their permissions for performing operations within the tool.
IBM Rational Quality Manager provides a preconfigured default process that is automatically deployed on to the Quality Manager project area. Any customization that you perform is done on this project area and process.
You can configure the following components of the Rational Quality Manager Jazz process: