Setting up Rational ClearCase

To set up an IBM® Rational® ClearCase® environment, see its documentation. Conceptually, the following steps accomplish the task. However, the process might differ depending on your Rational ClearCase environment and which version of this product you are using.

For information about the Rational ClearCase product, see the Rational ClearCase Information Center.

Procedure

  1. Using Rational ClearCase, create a directory to serve as the VOB mounting point.
  2. Create the VOB (mkvob) and mount it (mount). Alternatively, you can use the VOB Creation Wizard.
  3. Create a view (mkview) and activate it (startview). Alternatively, you can use the View Creation Wizard.
  4. Add to version control (mkelem) any directory that is a parent to the Rational Rhapsody® workspace repository (the _rpy directory). This includes the directory that you can optionally create as part of a new IBM Rational Rhapsody project.

Results

Note: Check out (reserve) this directory before connecting to the archive. Connect to Archive basically makes the <project>_rpy directory a VOB element, and therefore should be done only once, by one user. In Rational ClearCase, adding a new VOB element performs a Check In operation as well.

Place a Rational Rhapsody project within a directory with the same name as the project. For example, create a directory called MyProject and save your Rational Rhapsody project to this directory so it contains the MyProject.rpy file and MyProject_rpy directory.


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