Setting up the UCM integration with Rational ClearQuest

You can use UCM without Rational® ClearQuest®, the change request management tool, but the UCM integration with Rational ClearQuest adds significant project management and activity management capabilities. When you enable a UCM project to work with Rational ClearQuest, the integration links all UCM activities to Rational ClearQuest records. You can then take advantage of the UCM and Rational ClearQuest state transition model and the query features of Rational ClearQuest. Reporting and charting features are available on the Windows® system. These features allow you to do the following:

Assign activities to developers
Use states and state transition rules to manage activities
Generate reports based on database queries
Select additional development policies to be enforced

To set up the UCM integration with Rational ClearQuest, you enable a Rational ClearQuest schema to work with UCM or use a predefined schema that is enabled for UCM. Then, you either create a new Rational ClearQuest user database or upgrade an existing Rational ClearQuest user database to use the UCM-enabled schema. When the Rational ClearQuest environment is established, you enable your UCM project to work with Rational ClearQuest.