Integrating Studio with IBM Rational ClearCase

Rational® ClearCase® is a configuration management system (CMS) tool providing version control, workspace management, configuration process, and build management. With Rational® ClearCase®, your development team gets a scalable, best-practices-based development process that simplifies change management – shortening your development cycles, ensuring the accuracy of your releases, and delivering reliable builds and patches for your previously shipped products.

By default, HCL OneTest™ Embedded offers configuration management support for Rational® ClearCase®. You can however customize the product to support different configuration management software. When using Rational® ClearCase®, you can instantly control your files from the product Tools menu.

Note: Before using ClearCase commands, select Rational® ClearCase® as your CMS tool in the CMS Preferences.

Source Control Commands.

For any file in the HCL OneTest™ Embedded project, Rational® ClearCase®, or any other CMS tool, can be accessed through a set of source control commands.

Source control can be applied to all files and nodes in the Project Browser or Asset Browser. When a source control command is applied to a project, group, application, test or results node, it affects all the files contained in that node.

The following source control commands are included to be used with Rational® ClearCase®:

Add to Source Control
Check Out
Check In
Undo Check Out
Compare to Previous Version
Show History
Show Properties

Refer to the documentation provided with Rational® ClearCase® for more information about these commands.

Source control commands are fully configurable from the Tools menu.

To control files from the Tools menu:

Select one or several files in the Project Explorer window.
From the Tools menu, select Rational® ClearCase® and the source control command that you want to apply.

To control files from the Source Control popup menu:

Right-click one or several files in the Project Explorer window.
From the popup menu, select Source Control and the source control command that you want to apply.