Displaying the properties of a view

You can use the HCL VersionVault Administration Console or the cleartool lsview command to display the properties of a view.

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Properties include information about the view’s creation date, last modification date, and owner. If you use the HCL VersionVault Administration Console or the –long and –full options to lsview, you can get additional information, including:
  • The view’s text mode
  • The view’s protections
  • Whether the view’s ownership and permissions are consistent
  • When and by whom the config spec was last updated
  • Whether the view is a dynamic view or a snapshot view
  • Whether the view is read-only or writable
  • For a dynamic view, whether it creates shareable or nonshareable derived objects
  • When and by whom view-private data was last accessed
  • When and by whom a view-private derived object was last updated
  • For a dynamic view, when and by whom a derived object was last created, promoted, or winked in
This information can help you decide whether a view is still in use, or contains artifacts that might still be needed.
Note: Changes to any of these properties might not be reflected immediately by the HCL VersionVault Administration Console or cleartool lsview, although in most cases view property update latency is short (less than 30 seconds).