Fixing projects that contain linked and unlinked activities

After you enable a project to work with Rational® ClearQuest®, some of the project activities can remain unlinked to Rational® ClearQuest® records. Similarly, when you disable the link between a project and a Rational® ClearQuest® user database, some activities may remain linked. The following scenarios can cause your project to be in this inconsistent state:

• A network failure or a general system crash occurs during the enabling or disabling operation and interrupts the activity migration.
• The Rational® ClearQuest® user database can become corrupted, forcing you to restore a backed-up version of the user database. That version of the user database is out of sync with the PVOB that contains the project that is linked to the user database.
• You use the cleartool command-line interface to rename an activity or a project. When you rename an activity or project from the command-line interface, the UCM integration with Rational® ClearQuest® does not update the corresponding user database record with the name change. As a result, the DevOps Code ClearCase® and Rational® ClearQuest® objects are not synchronized.
• The project VOB is in a DevOps Code ClearCase® MultiSite configuration, and unlinked activities were added by a DevOps Code ClearCase® MultiSite synchronization operation to the local PVOB project, which is enabled to work with Rational® ClearQuest®.