Setting up the UCM integration with Rational® ClearQuest®

You can use UCM without Rational® ClearQuest®, the change request management tool, but the UCM integration with Rational® ClearQuest® adds significant project management and activity management capabilities. When you enable a UCM project to work with Rational® ClearQuest®, the integration links all UCM activities to Rational® ClearQuest® records. You can then take advantage of the UCM and Rational® ClearQuest® state transition model and the query features of Rational® ClearQuest®. Reporting and charting features are available on the Windows® system. These features allow you to do the following:

Assign activities to developers
Use states and state transition rules to manage activities
Generate reports based on database queries
Select additional development policies to be enforced

To set up the UCM integration with Rational® ClearQuest®, you enable a Rational® ClearQuest® schema to work with UCM or use a predefined schema that is enabled for UCM. Then, you either create a new Rational® ClearQuest® user database or upgrade an existing Rational® ClearQuest® user database to use the UCM-enabled schema. When the Rational® ClearQuest® environment is established, you enable your UCM project to work with Rational® ClearQuest®.