Configuring and using the ClearCase Importer

You can use the ClearCase® Importer to import ClearCase VOB data along with a limited amount of history to Rational Team Concert™ source control. You can make changes in Rational Team Concert source control to the files and folders with imported history but the changes cannot be exported to Rational® ClearCase.

The ClearCase Importer can import files and folders with historical data from UCM streams and base ClearCase. Baseline history is imported from a UCM stream using all baselines or a subset of baselines on that stream. Version history is imported from base ClearCase using label types with an attached attribute type.

After files, folders, and historical data have been imported to Rational Team Concert source control, you can make changes to files or folders in Rational Team Concert, but these changes cannot be exported to ClearCase. You can, however, import additional ClearCase history by running a synchronization on the synchronization stream that you created during the initial importation.

The steps used to set up the ClearCase Importer are similar to the steps used to set up the ClearCase Synchronizer because they both require a ClearCase Connector configuration that supports the creation of synchronization streams. They also share some parts of the interface.

To use the ClearCase Importer, configure one or more Rational ClearCase hosts to support synchronization between Rational Team Concert source control and Rational ClearCase, create a synchronization process account in the repository and add it to the team area, then use the Import wizard and the Select Files wizard to import a UCM or base ClearCase stream and specify resources and history to import.


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