I cannot see pvob on clearcase GUI but when I list the vobs in command line (cleartool lsvob -s), I can see it.
In order to make it visible on the clearcase GUI, what are the necessary steps should I take?
Also it looks like a private Pvob, how can I make it public?
The Pvobs are visible in the ClearCase Project Explorer (type clearprojexp), not in the ClearCase Explorer ('clearexplorer').
The pvob could be used as a vob, but it normally is used only as a referential for UCM metadata (projects, streams, activities...), and not for data (files/directories).
It is an Admin vob for other (data) vobs, which explains why you don't see it in the ClearCase explorer.
For your second question, you need to use the cleartool mkvob command:
UNIX, Linux, and Windows: Private-to-public VOB conversion
To convert a private VOB to a public VOB, use a command like this:
cleartool mktag -vob -tag \vob3.p -replace -public \\saturn\users\vbstore\private3.vbs
This replaces the VOB's private VOB tag with a public one.
mktag prompts you to enter the VOB tag password.
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How to search all archived file that exceeds 100MB in a particular BASE Clearcase VOB. In Unix file system, it is easy:
find . -type f -size +104857600c -exec ls -la {} \;
Would it be possible to search directly in the folder of the VOB in the file system without create a Clearcase view and modify the config spec?
If I have to create a Clearcase view, would it be possible to use the cleartool command find to search in the whole VOB.
As mentioned in this technote:
At present there is no size option available with the cleartool find command.
The decision was made by Product Management to exclude the requested feature from future upgrades and releases due to the significant architectural changes required to implement the solution.
So creating a view remains mandatory.
And you can either directly use the ClearCase Explorer:
Or use your regular Linux command in a dynamic view:
# find . -size +20480c -print
./vendor/Common/NT/work/toolset/make/cal.output
./vendor/Common/NT/work/toolset/make/paf.output
would it be possible to use the cleartool command find to search in the whole VOB.
"The whole VOB" as in "all possible versions"... not really, unless you try and find files in the extended pathnames of an MVFS dynamic view. I haven't tested that option so.
The clearfsimport command for Clearcase is always using RESERVED checkout while trying to import a project inside clearcase VOB.
Can you please tell me how to perform clearfsimport based project file import using UNRESERVED option instead of default RESERVED option?
One way would be to set your ClearCase preferences to unreserved by default.
See "To set the default for reserved or unreserved checkouts (Windows)e"
Tools > Options and, in the Options window, click ClearCase Options.
Click Start > Programs > IBM Rational > IBM Rational ClearCase > User Preferences.
In the ClearCase User Options window, in the Check Out field, to make unreserved checkouts the default setting, clear Reserved.
But if you don't want to change the default (or you are on Linux), you can also define a post-op checkout trigger.
cleartool mktrtype -element -all -post checkout -exec '/opt/rational/clearcase/bin/cleartool unreserve -nc '$CLEARCASE_PN' TRIGGERNAME
You would set that trigger just for the duration of the clearfsimport.
I'm sure I was able to pop up the ClearCase Activity Properties window from the command line at one point.
Does anybody how to make this happen?
Thanks!
This might be one of the executable in <IBM/Rational/ClearCase>/bin, but you can also try (using cleartool describe):
cleartool descr -graph activity:myActivity#\myPVob
Otherwise clearprojexp.exe launched the UCM project manager itself.
I'm trying to change the ownership on a VOB, and I see that the cleartool protect command has a chown option. It's asking for a pname, and I can't seem to find documentation on what a pname is or how to specify one. I guess my questions boil down to:
What's a pname? What's its format?
How do I specify the pname for a VOB?
Is there documentation on pnames somewhere? Or at least examples of changing ownership of VOBs.
Changing the ownership of a Vob is done through cleartool protectvob.
It will require the "pname-in-vob":
The pathname of the VOB tag (whether or not the VOB is mounted) or of any file system object within the VOB (if the VOB is mounted).
I.e: /vobs/MyVob (unix-style) or \MyVob (usual Windows declaration for Vob tags)
It is different from cleartool protect, which would only protect an element (file or directory), which is, in the case of a Vob, the root directory of the Vob.
The path of that root directory would be the pname.
But again, that wouldn't change the ownership of the Vob.
"pname" is a VOB path name. An example element path name would be M:\view1\vob3\src\main.c or /vob3/src/main.c (depending on your platform). cleartool protect changes permissions or ownership of a VOB object identified by its pathname
I want to checkout some files from a batch script, but since we use UCM checking out files needs to be associated with an activity. Is there an easy way to show the GUI for creating/selecting an activity to associate the checkout with?
You can pop up the dialogue by using the cleardlg program with arguments /checkout .
You can simply ask for an activity name in your script, and then use the cleartool setactivity command
cleartool sectact -view viewTag -none # make sure to unset any previous activity
cleartool sectact -view viewTag newActivity # set the new activity (name#\pvob)
You can launch the ClearCase Project Explorer (UCM GUI) with clearprojexp, but I don't think a "UCM activity dialog box" is available as a separate executable.