Software Configuration Management: A Clear Case for IBM Rational ClearCase and ClearQuest UCM

Managing mastership in ClearQuest

This section looks at the issues around mastership in ClearQuest.

Local mastership model

The out-of-box behavior is for the originating site to master the records it creates. If your change management process is at the stage where you are just recording changes, or where the approval process is done locally, the defaults work fine.

Manual change of mastership

Just as with ClearCase, you can give mastership away of a record mastered by your site. From the command line, as an ClearQuest administrator:

  multiutil chmaster -fam PLAY -user admin "" tokyo Defect:PLAY00000001

To allow users to give away mastership, modify the schema to expose the mastership field ratl_mastership as shown in Figure 14-6:

Figure 14-6. ...