Using the ClearCase Connector for Rational Team Concert source control

Rational Team Concert™ includes a ClearCase® Connector that supports flexible interoperation between Rational Team Concert source control and Rational® ClearCase.

The ClearCase Connector supports a ClearCase Synchronizer for bi-directional synchronization between Rational ClearCase source control and Rational Team Concert source control, and it supports a ClearCase Importer for one-directional importation of Rational ClearCase source control, with history, to Rational Team Concert source control.

Both the ClearCase Synchronizer and the ClearCase Importer require that a synchronization host is configured, with the ClearCase Connector and Rational ClearCase installed on it, and a synchronization process account is created in the repository and added to the team area.

The ClearCase Synchronizer uses a bi-directional synchronization stream to import data from Rational ClearCase and export data from Rational Team Concert. The Synchronizer is not designed to import every version of an artifact from Rational ClearCase to Rational Team Concert source control. Instead, it enables synchronization of selected files and folders between both environments, so that development can continue in each.

The ClearCase Importer uses a one-directional synchronization stream to import UCM and base ClearCase files and folders to Rational Team Concert source control with ClearCase history. The Importer retrieves ClearCase history from a UCM stream using baselines or from a base ClearCase branch using a combination of a label type(s) and an attribute type. This is not a bi-directional synchronized stream and any changes made to imported source cannot be exported from Rational Team Concert source control to Rational ClearCase.

Editions note: While Rational Team Concert Standard edition and Enterprise edition include the full functionality described in this topic, the Express and Express-C editions include support for the ClearCase Importer.
License note: To perform the task described here, a team typically creates a special user who is assigned the ClearCase Connector Client Access License.
License note: To perform the task described here, you must be assigned the Developer Client Access License. Starting Rational Team Concert 2.0.0.1, Contributors can also deploy and manage report templates and create their own reports from those templates.

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