Troubleshooting: Breaking of package scripts of Rational ClearQuest

To ensure that the Visual Basic hooks of Rational® ClearQuest® continue running on the Rational Connector for SAP Solution Manager package, change the Windows scripting language of a Rational ClearQuest schema to BASIC.

About this task

If you are running Rational ClearQuest on Windows with Visual Basic hooks, applying the Rational Connector package can prevent these hooks from running.

The problem is that the Rational ClearQuest package runs all its hooks in the Perl scripting language. When the package is applied, the overall schema scripting language is switched from BASIC to PERL. This switch breaks any Visual Basic hooks that might exist elsewhere in the schema. The following steps give a workaround so that both Visual Basic and Perl scripts can be used in the same schema.

Procedure

  1. Open the Windows ClearQuest Designer. The default location is Rational ClearQuest directory\cqdesign.exe.
  2. Connect to the appropriate schema repository.
  3. Check out the schema that you want to change the scripting language for.
  4. Double-click Schema Properties, change the Windows scripting language to BASIC, and click OK
  5. Check in the schema.
  6. Upgrade the user DB.

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