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This document contains a complete listing of releases, refreshes, fix packs, and interim fixes sorted by version for IBM® ClearCase.

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Initial release (11.0.0)
Link Date Released Status
Download 11.0.0
APAR Description
APAR C167638 Uncheckout of an element with "cleartool setview -exec 'cleartool umco -rm" from a second view in a base shell.
APAR C159945 CCBE unable to handle retrieving compare or merge contributors if path names are too long.
APAR C167236 checkvob: cleartool: Error: No match found for manager id 'yq'.
APAR PH55585 Multiple trace issues in cmiregister.
APAR C167924 rmbranch possibility to cause missing containers
APAR C166130 SLRV: db_oplog_delete_entries() can't use oplog as a key
APAR C166822 Version extended paths are only accessible to 254 characters. Regression from CC 9.1.0.5
APAR PH56668 A modify install to remove Automatic view support will not remove the "R" drive (and possibly more)
APAR PH56808 cmi_migrate.pl in "base" mode fails when processing files whose names contain spaces.
APAR PH57237 notify cannot send mail via open mail relays after upgrade to 9.1. Not recognizing mail relay responses AT ALL
APAR PH55584 CMIRegister always prints message saying CQ registration failed, regardless of the actual provider used.

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Fix Pack 1 (10.0.1.1)
Link Date Released Status
Download 10.0.1.1
APAR Description
APAR C167638 Uncheckout of an element with "cleartool setview -exec 'cleartool umco -rm" from a second view in a base shell.
APAR C159945 CCBE unable to handle retrieving compare or merge contributors if path names are too long.
APAR C167236 checkvob: cleartool: Error: No match found for manager id 'yq'.
APAR PH55585 Multiple trace issues in cmiregister.
APAR C167924 rmbranch possibility to cause missing containers
APAR C166130 SLRV: db_oplog_delete_entries() can't use oplog as a key
APAR C166822 Version extended paths are only accessible to 254 characters. Regression from CC 9.1.0.5
APAR PH56668 A modify install to remove Automatic view support will not remove the "R" drive (and possibly more)
APAR PH56808 cmi_migrate.pl in "base" mode fails when processing files whose names contain spaces.
APAR PH57237 notify cannot send mail via open mail relays after upgrade to 9.1. Not recognizing mail relay responses AT ALL
APAR PH55584 CMIRegister always prints message saying CQ registration failed, regardless of the actual provider used.

Fix Pack 1 (10.0.1)
Link Date Released Status
Download 10.0.1
APAR Description
APAR C150618 The multithreaded albd_server crashing due to race conditions between two threads working with the same client. Also, signal handler is logging errors with the non-main thread.
APAR C163273 Displaying directory contents in ClearTeam Explorer for the first time is significantly delayed.
APAR PH40651 While scrolling through a large project with multiple files in Visual Studio Solution Explorer, there was a performance issue.
APAR PH40993 rcleartool endview {automatic view tag} causes CRCLI2035E Unable to complete command "lsview" error if rcleartool lsview -long run against view.
APAR PH44576 Using the ClearCase Admin Console GUI (ccadminconsole) during the selection of a view-tag or vob-tag, an "MMC snapin error dialog" might pop up.
APAR PH51767 Solution Explorer in Visual Studio 2017 UI shows the 'loading symbol' as a mouse pointer for several minutes when integrated with ClearCase.
APAR PH52494 UNIX user format is different from the Windows domain qualified name. Windows user format contains domain prefix so that it assumes both the users are different and checking out new licenses for the same user.
APAR PH52579 ALBD Service name is displayed as Atria.
APAR PH52716 ClearCase 10.0.0.0 prints "Bad oplog entry descriptor checksum." when importing packets from an FL4 VOB.
APAR PH53037 Upon opening "ccadminconsole -> My Host" in IBM Rational ClearCase versions 10.0.0.x, users will see a popup (or in the status field at the bottom of the window) with the following message: Host is running ClearCase version. Not all remote administration features are available in this version of ClearCase.
APAR PH53181 Unable to pull the mastership of VOB element in ClearCase Explorer.
APAR PH53222 ClearCase on RedHat 9.0 or higher, Ubuntu 22.04.1 or higher, or Ubuntu 20.04.5 HWE kernel may experience a system crash caused by a stack overflow.
APAR PH53226 "Loose" backtick in makefile causes clearmake runaway on Linux.
APAR PH53268 When ClearCase is stopped, MVFS unload and unmount are invoked always. This is giving errors in server only installation or when MVFS is not installed or available.
APAR PH53619 While converting multibyte stream to wide character, the output parameter was not updated when "\0" is passed as input and this variable has the old value. The condition to break the loop was based on this variable and it was never coming out of the loop. This was the reason for hanging.
APAR PH53707 View created using the "use private branch" function with view profile throws an error attempting to display view profile in properties GUI.
APAR PH54057 While processing files with long lines, NULL character (\0) is encountered before EOL due to over loop of a NULL filled array. So, type manager errors out considering this as error data.
APAR PH54259 A warning is logged in the Installation Manager log file when installing ClearQuest 10.0.0.x that says there is a "circular order dependency in installable unit com.ibm.clearquest.service.control.bridge.iu.win_x86_64".
APAR PH54334 MVFS was initializing the file size using a structure that could not be correctly set up under specific conditions, mainly under high stress with parallel accesses. This was leading the memory manager to incorrectly deal with memory mapped files, resulting in zeroed pages.
APAR PH55197 Out of support Visual Studio 2010 runtimes are being installed by ClearCase.
APAR PH55292 Document fails to include a step to restart ClearQuest Web server.
APAR PH55533 When installing ClearQuest, the error - "You have entered the path to an installation of WebSphere Application Server that is not supported. Please point to a 64-bit installation of WAS." was displayed due to Installation Manager not being able to determine the WAS version and bitness because of Japanese output.


Fix Pack 1 (10.0.0.1)
Link Date Released Status
Download 10.0.0.1
APAR Description
defect CHCLS00159421 An error message is displayed when a Visual Studio project is opened from a SUBST drive created for a snapshot view through the command-line interface.
defect CHCLS00158785 CTE / Eclipse: Lock (obsolete) on activity "name_of_obsolete_activity" prevents operation "set activity"
defect CHCLS00158847 Type names are allowed to be integers if they exceed the size of a C long type.
defect CHCLS00159239 (Eclipse) Explorer does not refresh activities
APAR PH45957 ClearCase and RTC cmi integration fails with quote in task summary
APAR PH49508 Test for renamed cleartext files may cause undesired side effects to MVFS clients
APAR PH51515 Use of obsolete 'ctime' embedded function in ck_all_tfds_for_nulls.pl script may cause the script to prematurely terminat
APAR PH50779 Rebasing a stream in the Project explorer GUI will print garbage characters instead of the view name if the rebase view has checkouts
APAR PH50914 When performing "Add to source control" on a large number of files in a webview, some files remain view private
APAR PH51223 VISUAL STUDIO 2017 Integration prompts for checkout when file is already checked out from CLEARTEAM EXPLORER

Initial release (10.0.0)
Link Date Released Status
Download 10.0.0
APAR Description
defect CHCLS00154045/C285924 vob_sidwalk -recover_filesystem crashes when used for long duration
defect CHCLS00157130/C328663 VOB server rejects an apparent default RHEL NFSv4 server behavior, returning "invalid argument" if the container acl's come back as "user" and not "user@domain"
defect CHCLS00157550/C336577 ClearCase Windows Explorer throws an error message with garbage characters when getting the properties of an activity when trying to set it from the view properties dialog.
APAR PH10163 Omake was not closing the database handle on exit.
APAR PH24016 When a local copy of a ClearCase branch type is created, the usid was not getting inherited from global type. Hence, the wrong fstat information was getting updated to oplog.
APAR PH38862 "dbid not found" message on removing any stream with too many timeline objects.
APAR PH40986 ClearCase license requests fail when using the lad_server and the user is from the domain (other than the albd).
APAR PH44957 The Change Management Integration sometimes fails to return data for "cleartool lsactivity -find -provider" if a headline or title for one of the items returned by the query contains a character that cannot be represented in the local code page..
APAR PH47775 When creating IBM Rational ClearCase VOB and view storage using "ClearCase Server Storage Wizard", the storage folder name by default is creating a space between ClearCase and underscore character('_') as "ClearCase _Storage".
APAR PH47884 ClearCase 9.1.0.2 version tree browser and merge tool GUI's fail to launch
APAR PH48080 Removing a symlink in a web view is not working
APAR PH48347 On RedHat Enterprise Linux systems that use systemd, ClearCase can be started before NFS or automounting is running, which can cause VOBs to not be mounted when they should be.
APAR PH48369 %[views]p format option throws "no tag found in region" for views in other regions or at other sites when it should just display the view UUIDs
APAR PH48449 MVFS was receiving a request that is supposed to be sent to disk drivers and it crashes the system due to a missing argument.
APAR PH49508 Test for renamed cleartext files may cause undesired side effects to MVFS client.
APAR PH49515 Use of obsolete 'ctime' embedded function in ck_all_tfds_for_nulls.pl script may cause the script to prematurely terminate

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Fix Pack 6 (9.1.0.6)
Link Date Released Status
Download 9.1.0.6
APAR Description
APAR C167638 Uncheckout of an element with "cleartool setview -exec 'cleartool umco -rm" from a second view in a base shell.
APAR C159945 CCBE unable to handle retrieving compare or merge contributors if path names are too long.
APAR C167236 checkvob: cleartool: Error: No match found for manager id 'yq'.
APAR PH55585 Multiple trace issues in cmiregister.
APAR C167924 rmbranch possibility to cause missing containers
APAR PH56668 A modify install to remove Automatic view support will not remove the "R" drive (and possibly more)
APAR PH56808 cmi_migrate.pl in "base" mode fails when processing files whose names contain spaces.
APAR PH57237 notify cannot send mail via open mail relays after upgrade to 9.1. Not recognizing mail relay responses AT ALL
APAR PH55584 CMIRegister always prints message saying CQ registration failed, regardless of the actual provider used.

Fix Pack 5 (9.1.0.5)
Link Date Released Status
Download 9.1.0.5
APAR Description
APAR PH40651 While scrolling through a large project with multiple files in Visual Studio Solution Explorer, there was a performance issue.
APAR PH51767 Solution Explorer in Visual Studio 2017 UI shows the 'loading symbol' as a mouse pointer for several minutes when integrated with ClearCase.
APAR PH52579 ALBD Service name is displayed as Atria.
APAR PH53037 Upon opening "ccadminconsole -> My Host" in IBM Rational ClearCase versions 10.0.0.x, users will see a popup (or in the status field at the bottom of the window) with the following message: Host is running ClearCase version. Not all remote administration features are available in this version of ClearCase.
APAR PH53181 Unable to pull the mastership of VOB element in ClearCase Explorer.
APAR PH53707 View created using the "use private branch" function with view profile throws an error attempting to display view profile in properties GUI.
APAR PH54057 While processing files with long lines, NULL character (\0) is encountered before EOL due to over loop of a NULL filled array. So type manager errors out considering this as error data.
APAR PH55197 Out of support Visual Studio 2010 runtimes are being installed by ClearCase.
APAR PH55533 When installing ClearQuest, the error - "You have entered the path to an installation of WebSphere Application Server that is not supported. Please point to a 64-bit installation of WAS." was displayed due to Installation Manager not being able to determine the WAS version and bitness because of Japanese output.

Fix Pack 4 (9.1.0.4)
Link Date Released Status
Download 9.1.0.4
APAR Description
defect CHCLS00154045 vob_sidwalk -recover_filesystem crashes when used for long duration
defect CHCLS00157130 VOB server rejects an apparent default RHEL NFSv4 server behavior, returning "invalid argument" if the container acl's come back as "user" and not "user@domain"
defect CHCLS00158785 CTE Eclipse: Lock (obsolete) on activity "name_of_obsolete_activity" prevents operation "set activity"
defect CHCLS00158847 CTE Eclipse: Type names are allowed to be integers if they exceed the size of a C long type.
defect CHCLS00159239 CTE(Eclipse) Explorer does not refresh activities
APAR PH10163 Omake does not explicitly close databases on exit, leading to potential lock manager issues.
APAR PH24016 local copy of a ClearCase branch type is created, ownership not preserved across multisite ownership preserving replicas
APAR PH38862 "dbid not found" message on removing any stream with too many timeline objects.
APAR PH40986 LookupOnlyFQNames registry value will cause async licenses to fail if requesting user account not in the same domain as the albd account.
APAR PH45957 The Change Management Integration sometimes fails to return data for "cleartool lsactivity -find -provider" if a headline or title for one of the items returned by the query contains a character that cannot be represented in the local code page
APAR PH47775 When creating IBM Rational ClearCase VOB and view storage using "ClearCase Server Storage Wizard", the storage folder name by default is creating a space between ClearCase and underscore character('_') as "ClearCase _Storage".
APAR PH47884 ClearCase 9.1.0.2 version tree browser and merge tool GUI's fail to launch
APAR PH48080 Manually "deleting" a symlink from a web view induces multiple unexpected/undesirable behavior.
APAR PH48347 On RedHat Enterprise Linux systems that use systemd, ClearCase can be started before NFS or automounting is running, which can cause VOBs to not be mounted when they should be.
APAR PH48369 %[views]p format option throws "no tag found in region" for views in other regions or at other sites when it should just display the view UUIDs
APAR PH48449 MVFS was receiving a request that is supposed to be sent to disk drivers and it crashes the system due to a missing argument.
APAR PH51515 Use of obsolete 'ctime' embedded function in ck_all_tfds_for_nulls.pl script may cause the script to prematurely terminate
APAR PH51515 Use of obsolete 'ctime' embedded function in ck_all_tfds_for_nulls.pl script may cause the script to prematurely terminate
APAR PH50779 Rebasing a stream in the Project explorer GUI will print garbage characters instead of the view name if the rebase view has che
APAR PH50914 When performing "Add to source control" on a large number of files in a webview, some files remain view private
APAR PH51223 VISUAL STUDIO 2017 INTEGRATION prompts for checkout when file is already checked out in CLEARTEAM EXPLORER

Fix Pack 3 (9.1.0.3)
Link Date Released Status
Download 9.1.0.3
APAR Description
defect C151797 When running ClearCase clearmake in a parallel, or distributed, mode, may 'hang' if there is an issue with starting up an abe process. If an abe has been started, and clearmake has assigned a target to that abe, and then the abe fails to start up in time, or there is a communication problem between clearmake and the abe, clearmake will try and assign the target to a different abe, and clearmake may hang if there are any problems trying to re-assign that target to a different abe.
defect C266062 Poor signal handling can result in a race condition when forking new processes, causes thread deadlock and ClearCase albd hang.
defect C303560 ClearCase "cleartool getcache -view -cview" may show negative values.
APAR PH25206 The ClearCase infocenter is missing information on user region map file.
APAR PH36404 On a ClearCase Multisite recursive import failure, the condition check before deleting a packet was missing to check if there is any target VOB available or not. It was only checking the variable which updates when -invob is provided. Hence, import process assumed there were no target VOB available and packet was deleted.
APAR PH38407 The ClearCase startup script may fail to create /var/lock/subsys.
APAR PH41792 The ClearCase clearprompt GUI has multiple rather-obvious display problems... (64 bit only).
APAR PH42350 When creating a new view using the ClearCase front desk, the "Edit view configuration" window appears and then "disappears."
APAR PH43904 SClearCase and VersionVault infocenters reference 16-bit build auditing and vdmaudit.
APAR PH44551 ClearCase triggers that prompt for user input fail.
APAR PH44670 Non-ClearCase mounts (nca exported view/VOB) may not resolve symlinks on Linux with kernel after 3.13 inclusive.
APAR PH44671 The ClearCase MVFS may cause system crashes when dealing with cleartext files via UNC paths that refer to local system.
APAR PH44742 The ClearCase checkvob operation may incorrectly report elements as being locked.
APAR PH45599 The ClearCase MVFS was missing a specific scenario when locking a cache structure. Certain structure member was changing during its manipulation during the cache usage, causing the crash.
APAR PH46426 In a IBM Rational ClearCase integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 environment, when the "ClearCase Base" toolbar is enabled (view->Toolbars->ClearCase Base) in a webview, setting the focus on the solution panel will result in not being able to Minimize the Visual Studio window. Attempts to minimize the window results in it maximizing again automatically. WORKAROUND: Set the focus to another panel, then minimize or disable the "ClearCase Base" toolbar
APAR PH46428 ClearCase ClearTeam Explorer when delivering a baseline from "deliver from stream" window. If there is more that one baseline available for delivery and one is removed the "OK" button is greyed out.
APAR PH46451 ClearCase clearmake may crash when exiting.
APAR PH46726 Using ClearCase ClearTeam Explorer: if you click on cancel during the complete phase of a long delivery, it doesn't stop the delivery and you have to wait until the end when all check-ins are done. After that, you need to resume the delivery to finalize it
APAR PH46918 Mounting ClearCase automatic views on Linux may cause a kernel crash.
APAR PH47569 When importing sync packets, ClearCase MultiSite fails without printing an error message if EOF of a packet file is reached while fetching version data or the follow-on packet is missing or this was the only packet in the set.
APAR PI72597 While creating a ClearCase brtype with "-global -acquire" flags, it internally acquiring ordinary types of same name even though object mastership is not present. So it leads to creation of multiple global definition hyperlinks for local type.
APAR PI79611 In the Rational ClearTem Explorer (CTE) ClearQuest (CQ) client, you may find that the static text fields populated by another field (via field dependency) show up blank, rather than the expected value. When the user Click on the "Customer" tab, find the field "new_field" and populate it with a value and the same value should be reflected in the static text field. However, the refresh doesn't happen and the static text field just shows the label.
APAR PI92391 The ClearCase ClearTeam Explorer ClearQuest node may truncate error messages and contain exceptions. The result is to pop up with the error message "Throw an error message ...". the mentioned error message is shown in the popped-up error dialog box in CTE.

Fix Pack 2 (9.1.0.2)
Link Date Released Status
Download 9.1.0.2
APAR Description
APAR PH38410 CLEARCASE 9.1.0.0 MAY CRASH IN GSKIT IF ODDLY-PROVISIONED CERTIFICATES EXIST IN THE WINDOWS CERTIFICATE
APAR PH38541 ClearCase network provider was missing exception handlers to deal with RPC failures.
APAR PH38564 CLEARCASE 9.1.0 VISUAL STUDIO INTEGRATION INCORRECTLY ATTEMPTS TO REPLACE SOURCE CONTROL BINDINGS. When opening a Visual Studio solution or project under ClearCase source control after updating to ClearCase 9.1.0, the ClearCase integration incorrectly checks out all projects in the solution and changes the source control binding from "Rational ClearCase" to "Atria ClearCase."
APAR PH38713 Customer may experience ClearCase MVFS (Multi Version File System) not being loaded on boot.
APAR PH39740 Errors creating ClearCase views using view profiles after upgrade to 9.1.0.x
APAR PH39815 The lack of synchronization could cause a system crash if the cache was used during its purge
APAR PI49247 When using ClearCase lsbl and the user specifies "-component" and -level | -ltlevel | -gtlevel but does not specify "-stream", then lsbl will log internal error message for baselines from streams in other UCM project VOBs.
APAR PI52370 Shortly after doing a ClearCase reformatvob, "multitool syncreplica -export" starts to fail with messages due to creation of bad oplogs. This is happening because reformatvob changes the db id as well as db gen num.
APAR PI79613 Create a ClearQuest form that contains a form field with nothing in the label Open form in CTE You may see a "java.lang.NullPointerException" error when opening a ClearQuest (CQ) form in ClearTeam Explorer (CTE). This prevents the user from being able to access the form.

Fix Pack 1 (9.1.0.1)
Link Date Released Status
Download 9.1.0.1

APAR Description
"CS0173847" Problem:Improper signal handling may cause a hang.

Fix: Signal handling was corrected.

PH23325 Problem: Adding multiple directories to a web view using rcleartool update -add is failing even though view information is same. and fails silently.

Fix: Modified the view info comparison check against reference to contents of object using equals method.

PH25873 Problem: Installing or upgrading to ClearCase 9.0.1.7 and later incorrectly installs the ClearCase integration into unsupported versions of Visual Studio. The integration then interferes with the correct operation of the unsupported version of Visual Studio.

Fix:The installation of ClearCase has been updated to list the supported versions of Visual Studio as optional features that the user can enable as desired during the installation. The installation of the integration into the unsupported versions of Visual Studio has been removed.

PH28419 Problem: Creating Automatic view fails when user region maps are in use and the creating user is not mapped to the WAN server's actual region.

Fix: ClearCase automatic view creation with a region map file has been fixed.

PH27989 Problem: Memory allocation issue may be noticed, in rare cases, when events are received during shutdown.

Fix: Event received during the shutdown process are handled to address these issues.

PH29677 Problem: When using the Gnu make compatability mode and specifying a clearmake variable on the command line that contains a reference to another variable, the variable declaration passed down to child makes was incorrect and will cause a clearmake parsing syntax error.

Fix: The variable string being passed to the child clearmake process has been formatted correctly so that the clearmake parsing is correctly done and the build continues.

PH31061 Problem: ClearTeam Explorer may produce a MalformedResponseException pop-up error when large attributes are encountered.

Fix: ClearTeam Explorer was modified to properly display elements that have large attributes.

PH31419 Problem: Customer may experience some delays in operations when listing files in automatic view.

Fix: Multi Version File System (MVFS) was modified to avoid creating additional cache files.

PH33132 Problem:On Linux systems with ext4 filesystems, when accessing directories in that filesystem through a ClearCase view-extended path the ls command may return incomplete results.

Fix: This problem with view-extended access to ext4 directories is fixed in ClearCase 9.0.1.12, 9.0.2.4, and 9.1.0.1.

PH33465 Problem: Autmounted CC VOBs, when manually umounted are not automatically remounted on the next access if said access is through view extended paths.

Fix: This problem is fixed in ClearCase 9.0.1.12, 9.0.2.4, and 9.1.0.1.

PH33498 Problem: Loading of activities from PVOB --> Project --> Stream --> Activities was taking more time than it used to take in 9.0.1.4 and before.

Fix:ClearTeam Explorer has been modified to efficiently load activities.

PH33653 Problem: lad_server.exe(152696): The ClearQuest-UCM OSLC and CMI integrations may core on linux_x86 if a parsed ClearQuest record headline contains characters that cannot be converted to the local code page.

Fix: These integrations should no longer core if a parsed ClearQuest record headline contains characters that cannot be converted to the local code page.

PH33891 Problem: Customer is unable to see 'CheckedOut but removed' elements from ClearTeam Explorer.

Fix: We have introduced new 'State' column in 'ClearCase Checkouts' view to show the state as 'Checked Out but Removed' for all the files which are deleted from the filesystem. (ClearCase Checkouts' view can be accessed from Window--> Show View --> Other... --> ClearTeam Explorer --> ClearCase Checkouts from ClearTeam Explorer).

PH33893 Problem: CM Server is-eclipsing property was not recognizing checkouts as eclipsable objects.

Fix: Is-eclipsing calculations are now performed for checkouts.

PH34453 Problem: ClearCase Search was disabled for dynamic views and (if enabled) was resulting '0 matches', even if matching resources were available.

Fix: ClearCase Search is now enabled for dynamic views and resulting correct match, displaying all the matching resources in 'ClearCase Search'.

PH35828 Problem: The IBM Rational ClearCase / Cadence Virtuoso integration allows a user to perform SCM operations in both the "Library Manager" and in the editor itself. If a user imports a checkedout cell view into the library manager to checkin a schematic that is currently being edited, changes in the schematic editor can be lost.

Fix: Added a logic for handling the unmanaged lock files.

PH37165 Problem: In the ClearCase Cadence Integration: If a cell view under virtuoso is checked out with "-unreserved" option, the "Show file status"may throw Errors and not show the status of the cell.

Fix: Checked out with "-unreserved" option has been fixed.

PH37613 Problem: Running ClearCase with Crowdstrike installed may cause some performance degradation.

Fix: Multi Version File System (MVFS) was modified to handle Crowdstrike demand.

PI06930 Problem: When reformatvob or db_dumper is invoked and if the root component of the VOB is not available, CRDE validation fails and triggers db__err_abort_call().

Fix: CRDE now validates the failure and continues with db_dumper or reformatvob execution without fail.

PI14642 Problem: Dev stream creation from a baseline errors out which is expected. However, the displayed error message is not much informative.

Fix: Rephrased the error string to cover all 4 rebase rules mentioned in https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSSH27_9.0.1/com.ibm.rational.clearcase.cc_ref.doc/topics/ct_rebase.htm and eliminated the misleading phrase "from the same project".

PI48845 Problem: Maximum packet size for a VOB replica packet, in config file, was set to much higher value than which is allowed. Due to which, packet shipping was failing for the larger packets which was adhering the maximum size set in config file.

Fix: Changed the maximum packet size to correct one.

PI52455 Problem: Delivering an already delivered baseline should provide a more informative message.

Fix: When the same baseline is delivered again, following warning message is displayed:- cleartool: Warning: No activities to deliver from stream "d1" to target stream "i1".

PI54489 Problem: MULTITOOL CHREPLICA ON WINDOWS GUI INCORRECTLY ALLOWS CHANGING THE PRESERVATION MODE FOR A REMOTE VOB REPLICA TO PRESERVING.

Fix: Preservation mode of replica can be change to preserve only if none of the replica from vob-family has preservation mode.

PI60118 Problem: Rebasing an integration stream to a baseline in the same project fails without providing proper error message.

Fix: Handling the present use case to display error message why rebase is not possible. "Can't rebase to baseline \"%s\"\nof component \"%s\". You can only rebase an integration stream to\nbaselines from other integration streams, or to import or initial baselines.\n".

PI64433 Problem: Recommended and/or member of composite baseline can be removed by executing "cleartool rmbl" if the baseline is from private VOB only but public VOB baselines removal is not allowed.

Fix: Now both public & private VOB baselines can't be removed, by default and retained consistency. Also introduced a new CLI flag "public", which prevents public VOB removal - same as present behavior.

PI89155 Problem: The ClearCase UCM deliver dialog cannot be completed after skipping a merge conflict.

Fix: On Restart user will get the dialog to resolve the "merge conflict" not error dialog.

PH10137 Problem: Microsoft VC 6, 7, and 7.1 Redistributables should no longer be distributed with CC/CQ as they present potential vulnerabilities.

Fix: Microsoft VC 6, 7, and 7.1 Redistributables have been removed from the installation for CC/CQ 9.1. This will not be fixed in 9.0.x. Please upgrade to the 64-bit 9.1.x release to get this fix.

PH17984 Problem: The graphical help pages on Unix are out of date. They are from version 8.0.

Fix: The graphical help pages on Unix have been updated to match the version of the product.

PH33110 Problem: The installation of ClearCase 9.1 may cause Installation Manager 1.9.1.4 to crash.

Fix: ClearCase 9.1.0.1 install now succeeds with Installation Manager 1.9.1.4

PH33111 Problem: The "cleartool find" command, without options shows visible and nvisible (not visible) elements and not only visible elements as documented.

Fix: The "find" topic/man page has been updated in ClearCase 9.1.0.1.

PH34674 Problem: time_t structure memory size increased on 64-bit platform. This made reformatvob and other DB related functionalities to read value from more memory locations which was not matching the actual value.

Fix: Cleartool Time values are adjusted which fixes present and related memory read issues.

PH35812 Problem: Multiple display issues with windows native UCM GUIs after install of, or upgrade to, ClearCase 9.1.0.0.

Fix: The ClearCase gui issues have been resolved.

PH37186 Problem: ClearCase snapshot view move procedure incorrectly states purpose of xcopy /k option.

Fix: The help topic has been updated in ClearCase 9.1.0.1.

"CS0085663" Problem: Sporadic kernel crash when closing files under certain conditions.

Fix: MVFS was modified to validate some kernel structures when a file is closing.

PH20838 Problem: While creating a view with NFS mount point - specifically with extended host path name, host path name was not captured correctly. Hence, the view creation used to fail with incomplete host path name.

Fix: Updated the parsing logic function to populate the host path name completely with which now the view creation succeeds.

PH24953 Problem: Cleartool commands prompting for comments will not respond to ctrl-c, sigpipes, etc., until after comment is completely supplied.

Fix: Cleartool signal handling was corrected.

PH26821 Problem: When using the legacy Clearcase gui to run a describe on a ClearCase element on Solaris 11.x the window is not bought up and the command fails silently.

Fix: The script used to implement the legacy Clearcase gui describe command was fixed.

PH27795 Problem: Using ClearCase clearmake and printing "time spent building with abes: ..." caused clearmake to crash and the build to abort.

Fix: Memory is now freed after printing.

PH28419 Problem: MVFS wasn't handling the correct error code when trying to read information from registry and the data was bigger than expected, leading MVFS to fail its load process.

Fix: The MVFS is now able to manage itself to deal with bigger data.

PI41286 Problem: During findmerge, file elements are checked repeatedly in directory passes as well, considering it as a directory, because initially all VOB elements are marked as "not a file". Hence, an error message is printed repeatedly due to the repetitive attempt of searching the file.

Fix: Marked the file element at the initial stage with which now file elements are checked only once in file pass.


Initial release (9.1.0)
Link Date Released Status
Download 9.1.0

APAR Description
PH20838 Problem: While creating a view with NFS mount point - specifically with extended host path name, host path name was not captured correctly. Hence, the view creation used to fail with incomplete host path name.

Fix: Updated the parsing logic function to populate the host path name completely with which now the view creation succeeds.

PH24953 Problem:Cleartool commands prompting for comments will not respond to ctrl-c, sigpipes, etc., until after comment is completely supplied.

Fix: Cleartool commands prompting for comments will not respond to ctrl-c, sigpipes, etc., until after comment is completely supplied. So to handle the signals as they arrive, we have used PFM_SELECT_INHIBITED() in imsg_get_input(). Also used "fcntl()" system call to get the current flag states for retaining and set non-blocking state for file descripter before calling fgets(). This helps to unblock the signals in fgets and process by using external pfm_raise() call..

PH26821 Problem: When using the legacy Clearcase gui to run a describe on a ClearCase element on Solaris 11.x the window is not bought up and the command fails silently.

Fix: The script used to implement the legacy Clearcase gui describe command was fixed.

PH27795 Problem: Using ClearCase clearmake and printing "time spent building with abes: ..." caused clearmake to crash and the build to abort.

Fix:Memory is now freed after printing.

PH28419 Problem:MVFS wasn't handling the correct error code when trying to read information from registry and the data was bigger than expected, leading MVFS to fail its load process.

Fix:The correct code error is tested and MVFS is now able to manage itself to deal with bigger data.

PI70628 Problem: While describing a hyperlink in ClearCase with "-fmt" flag no output is displayed as the events were already scrubbed.

Fix: Added a new warning to notify the user that the hyperlink events were scrubbed.

PI41286 Problem:During findmerge, file elements are checked repeatedly in directory passes as well, considering it as a directory, because initially all VOB elements are marked as "not a file". Hence, error message is printed repeatedly due to the repetitive attempt of searching the file.

Fix: Marked the file element at the initial stage with which now file elements are checked only once in file pass.



Fix Pack 8 (9.0.2.8)
Link Date Released Status
Download 9.0.2.8
APAR Description
APAR C150618 The multithreaded albd_server crashing due to race conditions between two threads working with the same client. Also, signal handler is logging error with non-main thread.
APAR C163273 Displaying directory contents in ClearTeam Explorer for the first time is significantly delayed.
APAR PH40993 rcleartool endview {automatic view tag} causes CRCLI2035E Unable to complete command "lsview" error if rcleartool lsview -long run against view.
APAR PH44576 Using the ClearCase Admin Console GUI (ccadminconsole) during the selection of a view-tag or vob-tag, an "MMC snapin error dialog" might pop up.
APAR PH52494 UNIX user format is different from the Windows domain qualified name. The Windows user format contains domain prefix so that it assumes both the users are different and checking out new license for the same user.
APAR PH53222 ClearCase on RedHat 9.0 or higher, Ubuntu 22.04.1 or higher, or Ubuntu 20.04.5 HWE kernel might experience a system crash caused by a stack overflow.
APAR PH53226 "Loose" backtick in makefile causes clearmake runaway on Linux.
APAR PH53268 When ClearCase is stopped, MVFS unload and unmount are invoked always. This is giving errors in server only installation or when MVFS is not installed or available.
APAR PH53619 While converting multibyte stream to wide character, the output parameter was not updated when "\0" is passed as input and this variable has the old value. The condition to break the loop was based on this variable and it was never coming out of the loop. This was the reason for hanging.
APAR PH54334 MVFS was initializing the file size using a structure that could not be correctly set up under specific conditions, mainly under high stress with parallel accesses. This was leading the memory manager to incorrectly deal with memory mapped files, resulting in zeroed pages.
APAR PH55292 Document fails to include a step to restart ClearQuest Web server.


Fix Pack 7 (9.0.2.7)
Link Date Released Status
Download 9.0.2.7
APAR Description
defect CHCLS00154045 vob_sidwalk -recover_filesystem crashes when used for long duration
defect CHCLS00157130 VOB server rejects an apparent default RHEL NFSv4 server behavior, returning "invalid argument" if the container acl's come back as "user" and not "user@domain"
defect CHCLS00158785 CTE Eclipse: Lock (obsolete) on activity "name_of_obsolete_activity" prevents operation "set activity"
defect CHCLS00158847 CTE Eclipse: Type names are allowed to be integers if they exceed the size of a C long type.
defect CHCLS00159239 CTE(Eclipse) Explorer does not refresh activities
APAR PH10163 Omake does not explicitly close databases on exit, leading to potential lock manager issues.
APAR PH24016 local copy of a ClearCase branch type is created, ownership not preserved across multisite ownership preserving replicas
APAR PH38862 "dbid not found" message on removing any stream with too many timeline objects.
APAR PH40986 LookupOnlyFQNames registry value will cause async licenses to fail if requesting user account not in the same domain as the albd account.
APAR PH47775 ClearCase Server Storage Wizard creates the ClearCase Storage directory name with the space in it
APAR PH48080 Manually "deleting" a symlink from a web view induces multiple unexpected/undesirable behavior.
APAR PH48347 On RedHat Enterprise Linux systems that use systemd, ClearCase can be started before NFS or automounting is running, which can cause VOBs to not be mounted when they should be.
APAR PH48369 %[views]p format option throws "no tag found in region" for views in other regions or at other sites when it should just display the view UUIDs
APAR PH48449 MVFS was receiving a request that is supposed to be sent to disk drivers and it crashes the system due to a missing argument.
APAR PH49508 Test for renamed cleartext files may cause undesired side effects to MVFS clients
APAR PH51515 Use of obsolete 'ctime' embedded function in ck_all_tfds_for_nulls.pl script may cause the script to prematurely terminate

Fix Pack 6 (9.0.2.6)
Link Date Released Status
Download 9.0.2.6
APAR Description
defect C151797 When running ClearCase clearmake in a parallel, or distributed, mode, may 'hang' if there is an issue with starting up an abe process. If an abe has been started, and clearmake has assigned a target to that abe, and then the abe fails to start up in time, or there is a communication problem between clearmake and the abe, clearmake will try and assign the target to a different abe, and clearmake may hang if there are any problems trying to re-assign that target to a different abe.
defect C266062 Poor signal handling can result in a race condition when forking new processes, causes thread deadlock and ClearCase albd hang.
defect C303560 ClearCase "cleartool getcache -view -cview" may show negative values.
APAR PH36404 On a ClearCase Multisite recursive import failure, the condition check before deleting a packet was missing to check if there is any target VOB available or not. It was only checking the variable which updates when -invob is provided. Hence, import process assumed there were no target VOB available and packet was deleted.
APAR PH38407 The ClearCase startup script may fail to create /var/lock/subsys.
APAR PH42350 When creating a new view using the ClearCase front desk, the "Edit view configuration" window appears and then "disappears."
APAR PH43904 SClearCase and VersionVault infocenters reference 16-bit build auditing and vdmaudit.
APAR PH44551 ClearCase triggers that prompt for user input fail.
APAR PH44670 Non-ClearCase mounts (nca exported view/VOB) may not resolve symlinks on Linux with kernel after 3.13 inclusive.
APAR PH44671 The ClearCase MVFS may cause system crashes when dealing with cleartext files via UNC paths that refer to local system.
APAR PH44742 The ClearCase checkvob operation may incorrectly report elements as being locked.
APAR PH45599 The ClearCase MVFS was missing a specific scenario when locking a cache structure. Certain structure member was changing during its manipulation during the cache usage, causing the crash.
APAR PH46426 In a IBM Rational ClearCase integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 environment, when the "ClearCase Base" toolbar is enabled (view->Toolbars->ClearCase Base) in a webview, setting the focus on the solution panel will result in not being able to Minimize the Visual Studio window. Attempts to minimize the window results in it maximizing again automatically. WORKAROUND: Set the focus to another panel, then minimize or disable the "ClearCase Base" toolbar
APAR PH46428 ClearCase ClearTeam Explorer when delivering a baseline from "deliver from stream" window. If there is more that one baseline available for delivery and one is removed the "OK" button is greyed out.
APAR PH46451 ClearCase clearmake may crash when exiting.
APAR PH46726 Using ClearCase ClearTeam Explorer: if you click on cancel during the complete phase of a long delivery, it doesn't stop the delivery and you have to wait until the end when all check-ins are done. After that, you need to resume the delivery to finalize it
APAR PH46918 Mounting ClearCase automatic views on Linux may cause a kernel crash.
APAR PH47569 When importing sync packets, ClearCase MultiSite fails without printing an error message if EOF of a packet file is reached while fetching version data or the follow-on packet is missing or this was the only packet in the set.
APAR PI72597 While creating a ClearCase brtype with "-global -acquire" flags, it internally acquiring ordinary types of same name even though object mastership is not present. So it leads to creation of multiple global definition hyperlinks for local type.
APAR PI79611 In the Rational ClearTem Explorer (CTE) ClearQuest (CQ) client, you may find that the static text fields populated by another field (via field dependency) show up blank, rather than the expected value. When the user Click on the "Customer" tab, find the field "new_field" and populate it with a value and the same value should be reflected in the static text field. However, the refresh doesn't happen and the static text field just shows the label.
APAR PI92391 The ClearCase ClearTeam Explorer ClearQuest node may truncate error messages and contain exceptions. The result is to pop up with the error message "Throw an error message ...". the mentioned error message is shown in the popped-up error dialog box in CTE.

Fix Pack 5 (9.0.2.5)
Link Date Released Status
Download 9.0.2.5

APAR Description
APAR PH38410 CLEARCASE 9.1.0.0 MAY CRASH IN GSKIT IF ODDLY-PROVISIONED CERTIFICATES EXIST IN THE WINDOWS CERTIFICATE
APAR PH38541 ClearCase network provider was missing exception handlers to deal with RPC failures.
APAR PH38564 CLEARCASE 9.1.0 VISUAL STUDIO INTEGRATION INCORRECTLY ATTEMPTS TO REPLACE SOURCE CONTROL BINDINGS. When opening a Visual Studio solution or project under ClearCase source control after updating to ClearCase 9.1.0, the ClearCase integration incorrectly checks out all projects in the solution and changes the source control binding from "Rational ClearCase" to "Atria ClearCase."
APAR PH38713 Customer may experience ClearCase MVFS (Multi Version File System) not being loaded on boot.
APAR PH39740 Errors creating ClearCase views using view profiles after upgrade to 9.1.0.x
APAR PH39815 The lack of synchronization could cause a system crash if the cache was used during its purge
APAR PI49247 When using ClearCase lsbl and the user specifies "-component" and -level | -ltlevel | -gtlevel but does not specify "-stream", then lsbl will log internal error message for baselines from streams in other UCM project VOBs.
APAR PI52370 Shortly after doing a ClearCase reformatvob, "multitool syncreplica -export" starts to fail with messages due to creation of bad oplogs. This is happening because reformatvob changes the db id as well as db gen num.
APAR PI79613 Create a ClearQuest form that contains a form field with nothing in the label Open form in CTE You may see a "java.lang.NullPointerException" error when opening a ClearQuest (CQ) form in ClearTeam Explorer (CTE). This prevents the user from being able to access the form.

Fix Pack 4 (9.0.2.4)
Link Date Released Status
Download 9.0.2.4

APAR Description
"CS0173847" Problem:Improper signal handling may cause a hang.

Fix: Signal handling was corrected.

PH23325 Problem: Adding multiple directories to a web view using rcleartool update -add is failing even though view information is same. and fails silently.

Fix: Modified the view info comparison check against reference to contents of object using equals method.

PH23639 Problem: Installing or upgrading to ClearCase 9.0.1.7 and later incorrectly installs the ClearCase integration into unsupported versions of Visual Studio. The integration then interferes with the correct operation of the unsupported version of Visual Studio.

Fix: The installation of ClearCase has been updated to list the supported versions of Visual Studio as optional features that the user can enable as desired during the installation. The installation of the integration into the unsupported versions of Visual Studio has been removed.

PH25873 Problem: Installing or upgrading to ClearCase 9.0.1.7 and later incorrectly installs the ClearCase integration into unsupported versions of Visual Studio. The integration then interferes with the correct operation of the unsupported version of Visual Studio.

Fix:The installation of ClearCase has been updated to list the supported versions of Visual Studio as optional features that the user can enable as desired during the installation. The installation of the integration into the unsupported versions of Visual Studio has been removed.

PH27989 Problem: Memory allocation issue may be noticed, in rare cases, when events are received during shutdown.

Fix: Event received during the shutdown process are handled to address these issues.

PH29677 Problem: When using the Gnu make compatability mode and specifying a clearmake variable on the command line that contains a reference to another variable, the variable declaration passed down to child makes was incorrect and will cause a clearmake parsing syntax error.

Fix: The variable string being passed to the child clearmake process has been formatted correctly so that the clearmake parsing is correctly done and the build continues.

PH31061 Problem: ClearTeam Explorer may produce a MalformedResponseException pop-up error when large attributes are encountered.

Fix: ClearTeam Explorer was modified to properly display elements that have large attributes.

PH31419 Problem: Customer may experience some delays in operations when listing files in automatic view.

Fix: Multi Version File System (MVFS) was modified to avoid creating additional cache files.

PH33132 Problem:On Linux systems with ext4 filesystems, when accessing directories in that filesystem through a ClearCase view-extended path the ls command may return incomplete results.

Fix: This problem with view-extended access to ext4 directories is fixed in ClearCase 9.0.1.12, 9.0.2.4, and 9.1.0.1.

PH33465 Problem: Autmounted CC VOBs, when manually umounted are not automatically remounted on the next access if said access is through view extended paths.

Fix: This problem is fixed in ClearCase 9.0.1.12, 9.0.2.4, and 9.1.0.1.

PH33498 Problem: Loading of activities from PVOB --> Project --> Stream --> Activities was taking more time than it used to take in 9.0.1.4 and before.

Fix:ClearTeam Explorer has been modified to efficiently load activities.

PH33653 Problem: lad_server.exe(152696): The ClearQuest-UCM OSLC and CMI integrations may core on linux_x86 if a parsed ClearQuest record headline contains characters that cannot be converted to the local code page.

Fix: These integrations should no longer core if a parsed ClearQuest record headline contains characters that cannot be converted to the local code page.

PH33891 Problem: Customer is unable to see 'CheckedOut but removed' elements from ClearTeam Explorer.

Fix: We have introduced new 'State' column in 'ClearCase Checkouts' view to show the state as 'Checked Out but Removed' for all the files which are deleted from the filesystem. (ClearCase Checkouts' view can be accessed from Window--> Show View --> Other... --> ClearTeam Explorer --> ClearCase Checkouts from ClearTeam Explorer).

PH33893 Problem: CM Server is-eclipsing property was not recognizing checkouts as eclipsable objects.

Fix: Is-eclipsing calculations are now performed for checkouts.

PH34446 Problem: When working in a dynamic view on Red Hat 7, a problem allocating buffer space for kernel RPC data can cause delays of seconds to hours to occur during some ClearCase operations.

Fix: This problem is fixed in ClearCase 9.0.1.12, 9.0.2.4, and 9.1.0.1.

PH34453 Problem: ClearCase Search was disabled for dynamic views and (if enabled) was resulting '0 matches', even if matching resources were available.

Fix: ClearCase Search is now enabled for dynamic views and resulting correct match, displaying all the matching resources in 'ClearCase Search'.

PH35828 Problem: The IBM Rational ClearCase / Cadence Virtuoso integration allows a user to perform SCM operations in both the "Library Manager" and in the editor itself. If a user imports a checkedout cell view into the library manager to checkin a schematic that is currently being edited, changes in the schematic editor can be lost.

Fix: Added a logic for handling the unmanaged lock files.

PH37165 Problem: In the ClearCase Cadence Integration: If a cell view under virtuoso is checked out with "-unreserved" option, the "Show file status"may throw Errors and not show the status of the cell.

Fix: Checked out with "-unreserved" option has been fixed.

PH37613 Problem: Running ClearCase with Crowdstrike installed may cause some performance degradation.

Fix: Multi Version File System (MVFS) was modified to handle Crowdstrike demand.

PI06930 Problem: When reformatvob or db_dumper is invoked and if the root component of the VOB is not available, CRDE validation fails and triggers db__err_abort_call().

Fix: CRDE now validates the failure and continues with db_dumper or reformatvob execution without fail.

PI14642 Problem: Dev stream creation from a baseline errors out which is expected. However, the displayed error message is not much informative.

Fix: Rephrased the error string to cover all 4 rebase rules mentioned in https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSSH27_9.0.1/com.ibm.rational.clearcase.cc_ref.doc/topics/ct_rebase.htm and eliminated the misleading phrase "from the same project".

PI48845 Problem: Maximum packet size for a VOB replica packet, in config file, was set to much higher value than which is allowed. Due to which, packet shipping was failing for the larger packets which was adhering the maximum size set in config file.

Fix: Changed the maximum packet size to correct one.

PI52455 Problem: Delivering an already delivered baseline should provide a more informative message.

Fix: When the same baseline is delivered again, following warning message is displayed:- cleartool: Warning: No activities to deliver from stream "d1" to target stream "i1".

PI54489 Problem: MULTITOOL CHREPLICA ON WINDOWS GUI INCORRECTLY ALLOWS CHANGING THE PRESERVATION MODE FOR A REMOTE VOB REPLICA TO PRESERVING.

Fix: Preservation mode of replica can be change to preserve only if none of the replica from vob-family has preservation mode.

PI60118 Problem: Rebasing an integration stream to a baseline in the same project fails without providing proper error message.

Fix: Handling the present use case to display error message why rebase is not possible. "Can't rebase to baseline \"%s\"\nof component \"%s\". You can only rebase an integration stream to\nbaselines from other integration streams, or to import or initial baselines.\n".

PI64433 Problem: Recommended and/or member of composite baseline can be removed by executing "cleartool rmbl" if the baseline is from private VOB only but public VOB baselines removal is not allowed.

Fix: Now both public & private VOB baselines can't be removed, by default and retained consistency. Also introduced a new CLI flag "public", which prevents public VOB removal - same as present behavior.

PI89155 Problem: The ClearCase UCM deliver dialog cannot be completed after skipping a merge conflict.

Fix: On Restart user will get the dialog to resolve the "merge conflict" not error dialog.


Fix Pack 3 (9.0.2.3)
Link Date Released Status
Download 9.0.2.3

APAR Description
CS0085663 Problem: Sporadic kernel crash when closing files under certain conditions.

Fix: MVFS was modified to validate some kernel structures when a file is closing.

CS0100993 Problem: When running a build using clearmake, a segment fault may occur if clearmake encounters an extremely large macro expansion.

Fix: Clearmake has been updated to address large macro expansions.

CS0111980 Problem: Clearcase does not make it clear which VOB the below error message refers to. db.m:146 DB__WRONG_SERVER "Process not running on registry specified hostname (%s)\n". Also prints redundant error messages in db_server log.

Fix: To be more specific, vob path name is added in the error message and also added check against vob path name to avoid redundant error messages for each db_server instance.

CS0139156 Problem: Excessive output in lad_log with "Error: Operation "sysutl_user_to_sid" failed:"

Fix: Now for an invalid user the error message is printed only one time in the lad_server log.

PH09114 Problem: When iterating through label (or branch) types in a Perl script, CAL crashes before returning the list of metadata types to the script.

Fix:CAL label & branch processing no longer results in a stack overflow.

PH14405 Problem: lad_server.exe(152696): Error: Operation "sysutl_user_to_sid" failed: NT after enabling the async license daemon Reported above error when user sid type is one of the group accounts. Also lad_server log can be overly verbose and grows dangerously quickly with this error.

Fix: Group accounts no longer cause the lad_server to fail.

PH20838 Problem: While creating a view with NFS mount point - specifically with extended host path name, host path name was not captured correctly. Hence, the view creation used to fail with incomplete host path name.

Fix: Updated the parsing logic function to populate the host path name completely with which now the view creation succeeds.

PH23654 Problem: File was not getting merged from one branch to other as changing config spec was unloading the element. During merge search, merge happens only for loaded elements.

Fix: During Merge Search, refresh loads the element before initiating merge. So, after merge file and contents would be merged to destination branch

PH24275 Problem: Hovering over version in GUI vtree browser with multi-line command or other large amount of metadata causes tooltip to flicker.

Fix: In current fix we restrict the number of lines user can see on tool-tip. If number of lines crossed the defined one we are showing message with truncated text "...please use element properties to view full text", so that user can know that tool tip doesn't contain full text and he can see the full comment from properties.

PH24953 Problem: Cleartool commands prompting for comments will not respond to ctrl-c, sigpipes, etc., until after comment is completely supplied.

Fix: During Cleartool signal handling was corrected.

PH26821 Problem: When using the legacy Clearcase gui to run a describe on a ClearCase element on Solaris 11.x the window is not brought up and the command fails silently.

Fix: The script used to implement the legacy Clearcase gui describe command was fixed.

PH27637 Problem: Infocenter page on MVFS settings for samba significantly out of date.

Fix: The "Configuring Rational ClearCase to support Samba" topic has been updated in the help that installs with ClearCase 9.1 and in IBM Knowledge Center for ClearCase 9.1.

PH27795 Problem: Using ClearCase clearmake and printing "time spent building with abes: ..." caused clearmake to crash and the build to abort.

Fix: Memory is now freed after printing.

PH27887 Problem: In ClearCase 8.0.x version, when a user tries to check in or cancel checkout for views already open though editor, a warning dialog message were displayed saying “The file is currently open for edit…”. But, in ClearCase 9.0.x, this features were not available.

Fix: These features are now available in ClearCase 9.0.x version.

PH28419 Problem: MVFS wasn't handling the correct error code when trying to read information from registry and the data was bigger than expected, leading MVFS to fail its load process.

Fix: The MVFS is now able to manage itself to deal with bigger data.

PH29893 Problem:"Show File Status.." dialog crashes if there is a hidden folder.

Fix: The dialog no longer crashes.

PH30138 Problem: The path to squidtool was not properly quoted.

Fix: The squidtool application now spawns without issue.

PH30160 Problem: Visual Studio integration checks out source file parent directory during "remove from project, but not the disk".

Fix: Removing file element will not create new version for directory.

PH30403 Problem: During Manual Merge on parent directory, sub-directories were also getting merged due to issues in implemented refresh functionality.

Fix: Refresh functionality after manual merge operation has been fixed.

PI08032 Problem: Vob container's location dbid status was handled properly when a 'checkvob -fix' is done to fix a deleted container status. Due to which error occurred during database dumping process of 'reformatvob'.

Fix: Updated the container's status handling logic with which now 'reformatvob' is dumping and loading database successfully.

PI41286 Problem: During findmerge, file elements are checked repeatedly in directory passes as well, considering it as a directory, because initially all VOB elements are marked as "not a file". Hence, an error message is printed repeatedly due to the repetitive attempt of searching the file.

Fix: Marked the file element at the initial stage with which now file elements are checked only once in file pass.

PI65098 Problem: Copy and Paste of the share project in CTE renaming the project/file/folder gets NEP .

Fix: Code changes to handle the Null pointer exception during rename on the Copy-Pasted project are taken care of.

PI77043 Problem: The ClearCase clearprompt utility fails when the number of characters of a string is greater than 2069 characters.

Fix: Allocation of clearprompt's internal buffer was corrected.

PI97705 Problem: Cleartool rmver command execution validates for interested version before deleting the selected version. However, similar validation was missing while executing rmbranch command.

Fix: Cleartool rmbranch command execution now validates for any existing baseline in the branch and the command execution does not proceed if any baseline version is found on the branch.


Fix Pack 2 (9.0.2.2)
Link Date Released Status
Download 9.0.2.2

APAR Description
CS0089200 Problem: MULTITOOL SYNCREPLICA -IMPORT" DELETES SOME PACKETS WHERE IT SHOULD REPORT "... NOT APPLICABLE TO ANY LOCAL VOB REPLICAS"

Fix: Corrected logic for syncreplica import.

PH11076 Problem: During a deliver to any stream where there is a preop trigger that looks for environment variable "CLEARCASE_POP_KIND" in an integration stream.Since CTE/CCBE were not setting this EV value hence triggers were failing.Same issue was found for Rebase operation.

Fix: Now CTE and CCBE are setting EV "CLEARCASE_POP_KIND" value and same we are able to see in trigger script during Deliver and Rebase (CHECKOUT and CHECKIN) Operations. And also it makes sure that Checkout and Checkin happen only during Deliver/Rebase.

PH25670 Problem: If an application running on Microsoft Windows tries to read a file in a ClearCase dynamic view using non-cached I/O, after it has already been in use for cached I/O, a deadlock may occur while flushing the cache, and that process and any other processes trying to access that file will hang.

Fix: MVFS handling of the FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING option during file open was modified to eliminate a possible deadlock.

PH25682 Problem: A segmentation fault may occur when running an executable built within a ClearCase dynamic view on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.8 system.

Fix: Running an executable built within a ClearCase dynamic view no longer seg faults.

PI42014 Problem: When one or more VOB elements are ACL protected cleartool findmerge doesn't report any differences.

Fix:During cleartool findmerge command execution, ACL protected objects cannot be accessed and due to this failure command execution exits silently. Hence user was not notified about failure reason. Now error string - with problematic object name, will be displayed informing user about the inaccessibility.

PI65406 Problem: When running 'cleartool setcs' in a batch file with loading nonexisting vob in config spec, the 'update' of the view (implicitly started by the 'setcs') results in errors but the 'errorlevel' always returns 0 - executed successfully".

Fix:To separate the two actions of setting config spec and updating the view, we have exposed "-nupdate" flag from "setcs" implementation. With this when running 'cleartool setcs -nupdate' with config spec, it always returns errorlevel as 0. This operation will not invoke updating the view, So it will not return any error.

PI70628 Problem: While describing a hyperlink in ClearCase with "-fmt" flag no output is displayed as the events were already scrubbed.

Fix: Added a new warning to notify the user that the hyperlink events were scrubbed.

PI90398 Problem:Typing CTRL-C in the terminal does not terminate the process or close the GUI window, when using tools such as xcleardiff and xclearcase, after starting an IBM Rational ClearCase GUI from the command prompt.

Fix: Users are now able to terminate, and properly send the process to background, for the GUI windows, after starting an IBM Rational ClearCase GUI from the command prompt.


Fix Pack 1 (9.0.2.1)
Link Date Released Status
Download 9.0.2.1

APAR Description
CS0003102 Problem: ClearCase Clearmake does not adjust the build concurrency, and it is causing an excessive number of abes and not making appropriate use of abes.

Fix: Clearmake has been changed to limit the number of abe processes to be equal to the -J value or the number of build server hosts, which ever is smaller. Previously, clearmake would start abe processes based on the number of build server hosts, regardless off the -J value, and when a build override situation is encountered, not all of the existing abes were terminated, leaving more abe processes around consuming file descriptors. This change introduces better abe management and limits the number of abes.

CS0003966 Problem: When a CCASE_BLD_HOSTS override changes from one set of hosts to another, the "require" host table is removed, and only "IDLE" abes are terminated. This means that abe's starting jobs, abes actively building, and (possibly) ones in "available" state, are NOT shut down abes accumulate over time.

Fix: Clearmake has been changed to limit the number of abe processes to be equal to the -J value or the number of build server hosts, which ever is smaller. Previously, clearmake would start abe processes based on the number of build server hosts, regardless off the -J value, and when a build override situation is encountered, not all of the existing abes were terminated, leaving more abe processes around consuming file descriptors. This change introduces better abe management and limits the number of abes.

CS0069277 Problem: The ClearCase MVFS disable flag (in the "atria_start" script) was not functional.

Fix:Redefinition of the MVFS flag was resetting the setting and thereby not functional. This APAR fixes that issue and now the flag is functional.

PH02243 Problem: The ClearCase MVFS disable flag (in the "atria_start" script) was not functional.

Fix: Technote http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27023148 was updated.

PH05925 Problem: ClearCase change management integrations (CMI) could fail on Windows when connecting to a change management server with an SSL certificate that expires in year 2038 or later

Fix: ClearCase CMI has been corrected to handle SSL certificates expiring in year 2038 or later.

PH10188 Problem: Send and receive buffer size when entered in KB/MB was not read correctly and creating problem while launching the Multistite applet.

Fix: Tokenizing the receive & send buffer values solved the problem..

PH14795 Problem: After creating a ClearCase snapshot view on Linux using a registered view storage location with a Windows based view server host the view owner is unable to remove the view.

Fix: The rmview function has been fixed.

PH16660 Problem: Using ClearCase ClearTeam Explorer to show CMI activities may result in NullPointerExceptions in RTC Integrated environment.

Fix: We did a rollback on FILTERING feature which was the root cause for this NULL POINTER EXCEPTION.

PH17193 Problem: ClearCase mainframe TSO client operations may fail with "No such file or directory".

Fix: The ClearCase mainframe TSO client was modified to use correct syntax.

PH17266 Problem: When creating a new stream and adding non-modifiable components using ClearCase ClearTeam Explorer, the original baseline(s) seem to get lost.

Fix: ClearTeam Explorer now correctly manages baselines and components.

PH17597 Problem: Executing the ClearCase clearprojtool binary creates a duplicate key "Atria " in registry.

Fix:ClearCase clearprojtool registry use / management was corrected.

PH17973 Problem: ClearCase mainframe TSO client operations may fail with "No such file or directory".

Fix:The ClearCase mainframe TSO client was modified to use correct syntax.

PH18122 Problem: ClearCase MVFS was not correctly forwarding lock key information to the underlying file system, resulting in a lock conflict when writing to the INI file.

Fix: The lock key is now forwarded to the underlying file system and the write completes successfully.

PH18585 Problem: ClearCase squidtool ShowActivityProperties throws a double-free error on Linux.

Fix: Memory / string management was corrected.

PH18960 Problem: A Segmentation fault may occur when running an executable built within a ClearCase dynamic view on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 machine.

Fix: Running an executable built within a ClearCase dynamic view no longer seg faults.

PH19721 Problem: When adding large numbers of files to source control via ClearCase ClearTeam Explorer, some files "disappear" from the expected directories after the operation completes.

Fix: ClearCase ClearTeam Explorer now correctly adds large numbers of files to source control

PH20085 Problem: When files are added/removed to a web view using the command line or a GUI other than ClearTeam Explorer, the changes may not be reflected in ClearTeam Explorer, particularly if there are any "unusual" issues with the web view (like a checked-out-but-removed file).

Fix: Client-side code which reads a web view directory, now ignores not-found errors for local copies of files that are known to the server and continues reading. This resolves the problem.

PH20800 Problem: When using ClearCase to build software using Visual Studio 2017 or newer on Microsoft Windows, the build audit may be incorrect. This would cause some build target's configuration records to be incomplete, and also could cause build targets to fail to rebuild even though another component on which the target depends has changed.

Fix:Audit pointer management was corrected.

PH21656 Problem: When upgrading the version of ClearCase on a Windows system, a reboot is required to complete the upgrade installation. After that reboot, the system may crash shortly after restarting. It may enter a loop of crashing and restarting, in which case it must be booted in safe mode to allow manual manipulation of files in order to work around the problem.

Fix: The crash is caused by incomplete cleanup of a previous version which is being replaced during the upgrade.

PH21997 Problem: Right clicking on an excluded file in a ClearCase / VS 2017 project throws *8* unhandled exception.

Fix: While debugging we found that we are passing NULL value while accessing the list without checking the NULL. We just check the NULL condition and it works fine.

PH22017 Problem: After installing ClearCase 9.0.2 on Windows 10 or newer, the installation will succeed, but after reboot MVFS filesystem will not be started. This message is observed in the system event log: The IBM Rational ClearCase Multi-Version FS for NT10.0 x86_64 service failed to start due to the following error: Windows cannot verify the digital signature for this file.

Fix: This was a product packaging error and the MVFS driver in 9.0.2.1 is correctly signed.

PI38327 Problem: The ClearCase command "cleartool getlog -around", may miss the first event (if you compare it to a different cleatool getlog command output).

Fix: Internal file pointer / record management was corrected.

PI42664 Problem: ClearCase clearexport_ccase commands may crash when the length of an attribute name+value exceeds an internal buffer size of 4096.

Fix: During cvt_data file generation, when attribute name and value is copied to buffer having size 4096, checked if total number of characters exceeds 4096. If so, a warning is generated and attribute value is truncated so that it fits into the buffer and would not result in buffer overflow/crash.

PI49720 Problem: Customer may experience a crash when building using code composer IDE.

Fix: ClearCase was changed to avoid -host, -gpath and -hpath to be used on a non-NAS environment. This fix is available in ClearCase versions 8.0.1.16, 9.0.0.06, 9.0.1.02 and beyond.

PI73696 Problem: The ClearCase "cleartool rmtag" command may fail on a network mapped drive due to insufficient return code validation.

Fix: Return code are now validated correctly and "cleartool rmtag" command executes successfully on network

PI82754 Problem: If a Windows ClearCase CCRC WAN server is installed to a directory without spaces (i.e., not the default c:\Program Files or c:\Program Files (x86) directory), a ClearCase upgrade, which cause a preserve and restore of the local CCRC WAN server view storage, damages the view storage security information (because the preserve/restore on Windows does not correctly handle the file/dir security information, including ACLs).

Fix: The CCRC WAN server preserve/restore code was changed to use the Windows robocopy command, which correct

PI90393 Problem: A problem associating a ClearQuest record to a ClearCase UCM activity gives an incorrect error message in a Japanese language environment.

Fix: The error message has been corrected.

PI95706 Problem: ClearCase Build Concepts document incorrectly states that clearaudit should work in a snapshot view.

Fix: The help topic corrected.

PI98203 Problem: When a file was being moving to "lost+found" directory, file was getting renamed and new filename was exceeding the filename length limit supported by OS.

Fix: Before moving a file to "lost+found" directory, check if the new filename will exceed max supported filename length limit. If so, then truncate the filename before renaming the file.

PM96191 Problem: Operation Not permitted" error on Windows XP/2003 when starting a view stored on Netap 8.2 cDOT.

Fix: ClearCase views stored on Netap 8.2 cDOT no longer experience this issue.


Initial release (9.0.2)
Link Date Released Status
Download 9.0.2

Patches same as 9.0.1.8

(9.0.1.14)
Link Date Released Status
Download 9.0.1.14
APAR Description
defect C151797 When running ClearCase clearmake in a parallel, or distributed, mode, may 'hang' if there is an issue with starting up an abe process. If an abe has been started, and clearmake has assigned a target to that abe, and then the abe fails to start up in time, or there is a communication problem between clearmake and the abe, clearmake will try and assign the target to a different abe, and clearmake may hang if there are any problems trying to re-assign that target to a different abe.
defect C266062 Poor signal handling can result in a race condition when forking new processes, causes thread deadlock and ClearCase albd hang.
defect C303560 ClearCase "cleartool getcache -view -cview" may show negative values.
APAR PH36404 On a ClearCase Multisite recursive import failure, the condition check before deleting a packet was missing to check if there is any target VOB available or not. It was only checking the variable which updates when -invob is provided. Hence, import process assumed there were no target VOB available and packet was deleted.
APAR PH38407 The ClearCase startup script may fail to create /var/lock/subsys.
APAR PH42350 When creating a new view using the ClearCase front desk, the "Edit view configuration" window appears and then "disappears."
APAR PH44265 An attempt to update ClearCase and ClearQuest to 9.0.1.13 when installed on the same system gets an error in InstallationManager and the update is blocked from proceeding. The error encountered is "CRIMA1161E: Failed to find required installation files.". Adds the changes in IFix release 9.0.1.13-IFix01.
APAR PH43904 SClearCase and VersionVault infocenters reference 16-bit build auditing and vdmaudit.
APAR PH44551 ClearCase triggers that prompt for user input fail.
APAR PH44670 Non-ClearCase mounts (nca exported view/VOB) may not resolve symlinks on Linux with kernel after 3.13 inclusive.
APAR PH44671 The ClearCase MVFS may cause system crashes when dealing with cleartext files via UNC paths that refer to local system.
APAR PH44742 The ClearCase checkvob operation may incorrectly report elements as being locked.
APAR PH45599 The ClearCase MVFS was missing a specific scenario when locking a cache structure. Certain structure member was changing during its manipulation during the cache usage, causing the crash.
APAR PH46426 In a IBM Rational ClearCase integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 environment, when the "ClearCase Base" toolbar is enabled (view->Toolbars->ClearCase Base) in a webview, setting the focus on the solution panel will result in not being able to Minimize the Visual Studio window. Attempts to minimize the window results in it maximizing again automatically. WORKAROUND: Set the focus to another panel, then minimize or disable the "ClearCase Base" toolbar
APAR PH46428 ClearCase ClearTeam Explorer when delivering a baseline from "deliver from stream" window. If there is more that one baseline available for delivery and one is removed the "OK" button is greyed out.
APAR PH46451 ClearCase clearmake may crash when exiting.
APAR PH46726 Using ClearCase ClearTeam Explorer: if you click on cancel during the complete phase of a long delivery, it doesn't stop the delivery and you have to wait until the end when all check-ins are done. After that, you need to resume the delivery to finalize it
APAR PH46918 Mounting ClearCase automatic views on Linux may cause a kernel crash.
APAR PH47569 When importing sync packets, ClearCase MultiSite fails without printing an error message if EOF of a packet file is reached while fetching version data or the follow-on packet is missing or this was the only packet in the set.
APAR PI72597 While creating a ClearCase brtype with "-global -acquire" flags, it internally acquiring ordinary types of same name even though object mastership is not present. So it leads to creation of multiple global definition hyperlinks for local type.
APAR PI79611 In the Rational ClearTem Explorer (CTE) ClearQuest (CQ) client, you may find that the static text fields populated by another field (via field dependency) show up blank, rather than the expected value. When the user Click on the "Customer" tab, find the field "new_field" and populate it with a value and the same value should be reflected in the static text field. However, the refresh doesn't happen and the static text field just shows the label.
APAR PI92391 The ClearCase ClearTeam Explorer ClearQuest node may truncate error messages and contain exceptions. The result is to pop up with the error message "Throw an error message ...". the mentioned error message is shown in the popped-up error dialog box in CTE.

Interim Fix 1 (9.0.1.13-iFix01)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PH44265 Interim fix 9.0.1.13-iFix01 addresses the inability to upgrade ClearCase and ClearQuest to version 9.0.1.13 when both products are installed on the same system. Note that interim fix 9.0.1.13-iFix01 is needed only if you install ClearCase and ClearQuest on the same system.

(9.0.1.13)
Link Date Released Status
Download 9.0.1.13

APAR Description
APAR PH38410 CLEARCASE 9.1.0.0 MAY CRASH IN GSKIT IF ODDLY-PROVISIONED CERTIFICATES EXIST IN THE WINDOWS CERTIFICATE
APAR PH38541 ClearCase network provider was missing exception handlers to deal with RPC failures.
APAR PH38713 Customer may experience ClearCase MVFS (Multi Version File System) not being loaded on boot.
APAR PH39740 Errors creating ClearCase views using view profiles after upgrade to 9.1.0.x
APAR PH39815 The lack of synchronization could cause a system crash if the cache was used during its purge
APAR PI49247 When using ClearCase lsbl and the user specifies "-component" and -level | -ltlevel | -gtlevel but does not specify "-stream", then lsbl will log internal error message for baselines from streams in other UCM project VOBs.
APAR PI52370 Shortly after doing a ClearCase reformatvob, "multitool syncreplica -export" starts to fail with messages due to creation of bad oplogs. This is happening because reformatvob changes the db id as well as db gen num.
APAR PI79613 Create a ClearQuest form that contains a form field with nothing in the label Open form in CTE You may see a "java.lang.NullPointerException" error when opening a ClearQuest (CQ) form in ClearTeam Explorer (CTE). This prevents the user from being able to access the form.

(9.0.1.12)
Link Date Released Status
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APAR Description
"CS0173847" Problem:Improper signal handling may cause a hang.

Fix: Signal handling was corrected.

PH23325 Problem: Adding multiple directories to a web view using rcleartool update -add is failing even though view information is same. and fails silently.

Fix: Modified the view info comparison check against reference to contents of object using equals method.

PH23639 Problem: Installing or upgrading to ClearCase 9.0.1.7 and later incorrectly installs the ClearCase integration into unsupported versions of Visual Studio. The integration then interferes with the correct operation of the unsupported version of Visual Studio.

Fix: The installation of ClearCase has been updated to list the supported versions of Visual Studio as optional features that the user can enable as desired during the installation. The installation of the integration into the unsupported versions of Visual Studio has been removed.

PH25873 Problem: Installing or upgrading to ClearCase 9.0.1.7 and later incorrectly installs the ClearCase integration into unsupported versions of Visual Studio. The integration then interferes with the correct operation of the unsupported version of Visual Studio.

Fix:The installation of ClearCase has been updated to list the supported versions of Visual Studio as optional features that the user can enable as desired during the installation. The installation of the integration into the unsupported versions of Visual Studio has been removed.

PH27989 Problem: Memory allocation issue may be noticed, in rare cases, when events are received during shutdown.

Fix: Event received during the shutdown process are handled to address these issues.

PH29677 Problem: When using the Gnu make compatability mode and specifying a clearmake variable on the command line that contains a reference to another variable, the variable declaration passed down to child makes was incorrect and will cause a clearmake parsing syntax error.

Fix: The variable string being passed to the child clearmake process has been formatted correctly so that the clearmake parsing is correctly done and the build continues.

PH31061 Problem: ClearTeam Explorer may produce a MalformedResponseException pop-up error when large attributes are encountered.

Fix: ClearTeam Explorer was modified to properly display elements that have large attributes.

PH31419 Problem: Customer may experience some delays in operations when listing files in automatic view.

Fix: Multi Version File System (MVFS) was modified to avoid creating additional cache files.

PH33132 Problem:On Linux systems with ext4 filesystems, when accessing directories in that filesystem through a ClearCase view-extended path the ls command may return incomplete results.

Fix: This problem with view-extended access to ext4 directories is fixed in ClearCase 9.0.1.12, 9.0.2.4, and 9.1.0.1.

PH33465 Problem: Autmounted CC VOBs, when manually umounted are not automatically remounted on the next access if said access is through view extended paths.

Fix: This problem is fixed in ClearCase 9.0.1.12, 9.0.2.4, and 9.1.0.1.

PH33498 Problem: Loading of activities from PVOB --> Project --> Stream --> Activities was taking more time than it used to take in 9.0.1.4 and before.

Fix:ClearTeam Explorer has been modified to efficiently load activities.

PH33653 Problem: lad_server.exe(152696): The ClearQuest-UCM OSLC and CMI integrations may core on linux_x86 if a parsed ClearQuest record headline contains characters that cannot be converted to the local code page.

Fix: These integrations should no longer core if a parsed ClearQuest record headline contains characters that cannot be converted to the local code page.

PH33891 Problem: Customer is unable to see 'CheckedOut but removed' elements from ClearTeam Explorer.

Fix: We have introduced new 'State' column in 'ClearCase Checkouts' view to show the state as 'Checked Out but Removed' for all the files which are deleted from the filesystem. (ClearCase Checkouts' view can be accessed from Window--> Show View --> Other... --> ClearTeam Explorer --> ClearCase Checkouts from ClearTeam Explorer).

PH33893 Problem: CM Server is-eclipsing property was not recognizing checkouts as eclipsable objects.

Fix: Is-eclipsing calculations are now performed for checkouts.

PH34446 Problem: When working in a dynamic view on Red Hat 7, a problem allocating buffer space for kernel RPC data can cause delays of seconds to hours to occur during some ClearCase operations.

Fix: This problem is fixed in ClearCase 9.0.1.12, 9.0.2.4, and 9.1.0.1.

PH34453 Problem: ClearCase Search was disabled for dynamic views and (if enabled) was resulting '0 matches', even if matching resources were available.

Fix: ClearCase Search is now enabled for dynamic views and resulting correct match, displaying all the matching resources in 'ClearCase Search'.

PH35828 Problem: The IBM Rational ClearCase / Cadence Virtuoso integration allows a user to perform SCM operations in both the "Library Manager" and in the editor itself. If a user imports a checkedout cell view into the library manager to checkin a schematic that is currently being edited, changes in the schematic editor can be lost.

Fix: Added a logic for handling the unmanaged lock files.

PH37165 Problem: In the ClearCase Cadence Integration: If a cell view under virtuoso is checked out with "-unreserved" option, the "Show file status"may throw Errors and not show the status of the cell.

Fix: Checked out with "-unreserved" option has been fixed.

PH37613 Problem: Running ClearCase with Crowdstrike installed may cause some performance degradation.

Fix: Multi Version File System (MVFS) was modified to handle Crowdstrike demand.

PI06930 Problem: When reformatvob or db_dumper is invoked and if the root component of the VOB is not available, CRDE validation fails and triggers db__err_abort_call().

Fix: CRDE now validates the failure and continues with db_dumper or reformatvob execution without fail.

PI14642 Problem: Dev stream creation from a baseline errors out which is expected. However, the displayed error message is not much informative.

Fix: Rephrased the error string to cover all 4 rebase rules mentioned in https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSSH27_9.0.1/com.ibm.rational.clearcase.cc_ref.doc/topics/ct_rebase.htm and eliminated the misleading phrase "from the same project".

PI48845 Problem: Maximum packet size for a VOB replica packet, in config file, was set to much higher value than which is allowed. Due to which, packet shipping was failing for the larger packets which was adhering the maximum size set in config file.

Fix: Changed the maximum packet size to correct one.

PI52455 Problem: Delivering an already delivered baseline should provide a more informative message.

Fix: When the same baseline is delivered again, following warning message is displayed:- cleartool: Warning: No activities to deliver from stream "d1" to target stream "i1".

PI54489 Problem: MULTITOOL CHREPLICA ON WINDOWS GUI INCORRECTLY ALLOWS CHANGING THE PRESERVATION MODE FOR A REMOTE VOB REPLICA TO PRESERVING.

Fix: Preservation mode of replica can be change to preserve only if none of the replica from vob-family has preservation mode.

PI60118 Problem: Rebasing an integration stream to a baseline in the same project fails without providing proper error message.

Fix: Handling the present use case to display error message why rebase is not possible. "Can't rebase to baseline \"%s\"\nof component \"%s\". You can only rebase an integration stream to\nbaselines from other integration streams, or to import or initial baselines.\n".

PI64433 Problem: Recommended and/or member of composite baseline can be removed by executing "cleartool rmbl" if the baseline is from private VOB only but public VOB baselines removal is not allowed.

Fix: Now both public & private VOB baselines can't be removed, by default and retained consistency. Also introduced a new CLI flag "public", which prevents public VOB removal - same as present behavior.

PI89155 Problem: The ClearCase UCM deliver dialog cannot be completed after skipping a merge conflict.

Fix: On Restart user will get the dialog to resolve the "merge conflict" not error dialog.


(9.0.1.11)
Link Date Released Status
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APAR Description
CS0085663 Problem: Sporadic kernel crash when closing files under certain conditions.

Fix: MVFS was modified to validate some kernel structures when a file is closing.

CS0100993 Problem: When running a build using clearmake, a segment fault may occur if clearmake encounters an extremely large macro expansion.

Fix: Clearmake has been updated to address large macro expansions.

CS0111980 Problem: Clearcase does not make it clear which VOB the below error message refers to. db.m:146 DB__WRONG_SERVER "Process not running on registry specified hostname (%s)\n". Also prints redundant error messages in db_server log.

Fix: To be more specific, vob path name is added in the error message and also added check against vob path name to avoid redundant error messages for each db_server instance.

CS0139156 Problem: Excessive output in lad_log with "Error: Operation "sysutl_user_to_sid" failed:"

Fix: Now for an invalid user the error message is printed only one time in the lad_server log.

PH09114 Problem: When iterating through label (or branch) types in a Perl script, CAL crashes before returning the list of metadata types to the script.

Fix:CAL label & branch processing no longer results in a stack overflow.

PH14405 Problem: lad_server.exe(152696): Error: Operation "sysutl_user_to_sid" failed: NT after enabling the async license daemon Reported above error when user sid type is one of the group accounts. Also lad_server log can be overly verbose and grows dangerously quickly with this error.

Fix: Group accounts no longer cause the lad_server to fail.

PH20838 Problem: While creating a view with NFS mount point - specifically with extended host path name, host path name was not captured correctly. Hence, the view creation used to fail with incomplete host path name.

Fix: Updated the parsing logic function to populate the host path name completely with which now the view creation succeeds.

PH23654 Problem: File was not getting merged from one branch to other as changing config spec was unloading the element. During merge search, merge happens only for loaded elements.

Fix: During Merge Search, refresh loads the element before initiating merge. So, after merge file and contents would be merged to destination branch

PH24275 Problem: Hovering over version in GUI vtree browser with multi-line command or other large amount of metadata causes tooltip to flicker.

Fix: In current fix we restrict the number of lines user can see on tool-tip. If number of lines crossed the defined one we are showing message with truncated text "...please use element properties to view full text", so that user can know that tool tip doesn't contain full text and he can see the full comment from properties.

PH24953 Problem: Cleartool commands prompting for comments will not respond to ctrl-c, sigpipes, etc., until after comment is completely supplied.

Fix: During Cleartool signal handling was corrected.

PH26821 Problem: When using the legacy Clearcase gui to run a describe on a ClearCase element on Solaris 11.x the window is not brought up and the command fails silently.

Fix: The script used to implement the legacy Clearcase gui describe command was fixed.

PH27637 Problem: Infocenter page on MVFS settings for samba significantly out of date.

Fix: The "Configuring Rational ClearCase to support Samba" topic has been updated in the help that installs with ClearCase 9.1 and in IBM Knowledge Center for ClearCase 9.1.

PH27795 Problem: Using ClearCase clearmake and printing "time spent building with abes: ..." caused clearmake to crash and the build to abort.

Fix: Memory is now freed after printing.

PH27887 Problem: In ClearCase 8.0.x version, when a user tries to check in or cancel checkout for views already open though editor, a warning dialog message were displayed saying “The file is currently open for edit…”. But, in ClearCase 9.0.x, this features were not available.

Fix: These features are now available in ClearCase 9.0.x version.

PH28419 Problem: MVFS wasn't handling the correct error code when trying to read information from registry and the data was bigger than expected, leading MVFS to fail its load process.

Fix: The MVFS is now able to manage itself to deal with bigger data.

PH29893 Problem:"Show File Status.." dialog crashes if there is a hidden folder.

Fix: The dialog no longer crashes.

PH30138 Problem: The path to squidtool was not properly quoted.

Fix: The squidtool application now spawns without issue.

PH30160 Problem: Visual Studio integration checks out source file parent directory during "remove from project, but not the disk".

Fix: Removing file element will not create new version for directory.

PH30403 Problem: During Manual Merge on parent directory, sub-directories were also getting merged due to issues in implemented refresh functionality.

Fix: Refresh functionality after manual merge operation has been fixed.

PI08032 Problem: Vob container's location dbid status was handled properly when a 'checkvob -fix' is done to fix a deleted container status. Due to which error occurred during database dumping process of 'reformatvob'.

Fix: Updated the container's status handling logic with which now 'reformatvob' is dumping and loading database successfully.

PI41286 Problem: During findmerge, file elements are checked repeatedly in directory passes as well, considering it as a directory, because initially all VOB elements are marked as "not a file". Hence, an error message is printed repeatedly due to the repetitive attempt of searching the file.

Fix: Marked the file element at the initial stage with which now file elements are checked only once in file pass.

PI65098 Problem: Copy and Paste of the share project in CTE renaming the project/file/folder gets NEP .

Fix: Code changes to handle the Null pointer exception during rename on the Copy-Pasted project are taken care of.

PI77043 Problem: The ClearCase clearprompt utility fails when the number of characters of a string is greater than 2069 characters.

Fix: Allocation of clearprompt's internal buffer was corrected.

PI97705 Problem: Cleartool rmver command execution validates for interested version before deleting the selected version. However, similar validation was missing while executing rmbranch command.

Fix: Cleartool rmbranch command execution now validates for any existing baseline in the branch and the command execution does not proceed if any baseline version is found on the branch.


(9.0.1.10)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
CS Problem: MULTITOOL SYNCREPLICA -IMPORT" DELETES SOME PACKETS WHERE IT SHOULD REPORT "... NOT APPLICABLE TO ANY LOCAL VOB REPLICAS"

Fix: Corrected logic for syncreplica import.

Problem: During a deliver to any stream where there is a preop trigger that looks for environment variable "CLEARCASE_POP_KIND" in an integration stream.Since CTE/CCBE were not setting this EV value hence triggers were failing.Same issue was found for Rebase operation.

Fix: Now CTE and CCBE are setting EV "CLEARCASE_POP_KIND" value and same we are able to see in trigger script during Deliver and Rebase (CHECKOUT and CHECKIN) Operations.And also it makes sure that Checkout and Checkin happen only during Deliver/Rebase.

PH11076
PH21362 Problem: When one or more VOB elements are ACL protected cleartool diff doesn't report any differences.

Fix: During cleartool diff command execution, ACL protected objects cannot be accessed and due to this failure command execution exits silently. Hence user was not notified about failure reason. Now error string - with problematic object name, will be displayed informing user about the inaccessibility.

PH22918 Problem: Label function fails for some libraries.

Fix: The label function was repaired.

PH23440 Problem:Sometimes cleartool getcache -mvfs command output may not be coherent with scaling values shown in Clearcase Control Panel.

Fix: Clearcase Control Panel was modified to fix that behavior.

PH24775 Problem: Using clearmake in a distributed environment with ClearCase 9.0.1.09, there might be a very specific scenario where the makefile includes some targets that cannot be build in parallel that are identified using the .NOTPARALLEL directive, and the not parallel targets are also to be directed to a list of specific build servers (e.g. using the CCASE_BLD_HOSTS environment variable). With this scenario, it is possible the resulting build may become stuck and hang and not make any progress if one of the specific build servers has an error starting an abe, or if the abe is very slow in responding.

Fix:If the situation occurs, where a target is specified as not being able to be built in parallel (.NOTPARALLEL directive used) and the target is directed to a specific build server as identified in the makefile using the CCASE_BLD_HOSTS environment variable, and the resulting build server has an issue starting an abe, or the abe is slow to respond, clearmake will now re-schedule that target to be built on a different build server and the build will continue.

PH24887 Problem: ClearTeam Explorer change_sets not visible in CTE CQ interface.

Fix: While creating the 'ClearQuest Details' view we have made those tools to get listed in toolbar with proper actions

PH25670 Problem: If an application running on Microsoft Windows tries to read a file in a ClearCase dynamic view using non-cached I/O, after it has already been in use for cached I/O, a deadlock may occur while flushing the cache, and that process and any other processes trying to access that file will hang.

Fix: MVFS handling of the FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING option during file open was modified to eliminate a possible deadlock.

PH25682 Problem: A segmentation fault may occur when running an executable built within a ClearCase dynamic view on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.8 system.

Fix: Running an executable built within a ClearCase dynamic view no longer seg faults.

PI42014 Problem: When one or more VOB elements are ACL protected cleartool findmerge doesn't report any differences.

Fix:During cleartool findmerge command execution, ACL protected objects cannot be accessed and due to this failure command execution exits silently. Hence user was not notified about failure reason. Now error string - with problematic object name, will be displayed informing user about the inaccessibility

PI65406 Problem: When running 'cleartool setcs' in a batch file with loading nonexisting vob in config spec, the 'update' of the view (implicitly started by the 'setcs') results in errors but the 'errorlevel' always returns 0 - executed successfully".

Fix:To separate the two actions of setting config spec and updating the view, we have exposed "-nupdate" flag from "setcs" implementation. With this when running 'cleartool setcs -nupdate' with config spec, it always returns errorlevel as 0. This operation will not invoke updating the view, So it will not return any error.

PI70628 Problem: While describing a hyperlink in ClearCase with "-fmt" flag no output is displayed as the events were already scrubbed.

Fix: Added a new warning to notify the user that the hyperlink events were scrubbed.

PI90398 Problem:Typing CTRL-C in the terminal does not terminate the process or close the GUI window, when using tools such as xcleardiff and xclearcase, after starting an IBM Rational ClearCase GUI from the command prompt.

Fix: Users are now able to terminate, and properly send the process to background, for the GUI windows, after starting an IBM Rational ClearCase GUI from the command prompt.


Fix Pack 9 (9.0.1.9)
Link Date Released Status
Download 9.0.1.9

APAR Description
CS0003102 Problem: ClearCase Clearmake does not adjust the build concurrency, and it is causing an excessive number of abes and not making appropriate use of abes.

Fix: Clearmake has been changed to limit the number of abe processes to be equal to the -J value or the number of build server hosts, which ever is smaller. Previously, clearmake would start abe processes based on the number of build server hosts, regardless off the -J value, and when a build override situation is encountered, not all of the existing abes were terminated, leaving more abe processes around consuming file descriptors. This change introduces better abe management and limits the number of abes.

CS0003966 Problem: When a CCASE_BLD_HOSTS override changes from one set of hosts to another, the "require" host table is removed, and only "IDLE" abes are terminated. This means that abe's starting jobs, abes actively building, and (possibly) ones in "available" state, are NOT shut down abes accumulate over time.

Fix: Clearmake has been changed to limit the number of abe processes to be equal to the -J value or the number of build server hosts, which ever is smaller. Previously, clearmake would start abe processes based on the number of build server hosts, regardless off the -J value, and when a build override situation is encountered, not all of the existing abes were terminated, leaving more abe processes around consuming file descriptors. This change introduces better abe management and limits the number of abes.

CS0069277 Problem: The ClearCase MVFS disable flag (in the "atria_start" script) was not functional.

Fix:Redefinition of the MVFS flag was resetting the setting and thereby not functional. This APAR fixes that issue and now the flag is functional.

PH02243 Problem: The ClearCase MVFS disable flag (in the "atria_start" script) was not functional.

Fix: Technote http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27023148 was updated.

PH05925 Problem: ClearCase change management integrations (CMI) could fail on Windows when connecting to a change management server with an SSL certificate that expires in year 2038 or later.

Fix: ClearCase CMI has been corrected to handle SSL certificates expiring in year 2038 or later.

PH10188 Problem: Send and receive buffer size when entered in KB/MB was not read correctly and creating problem while launching the Multistite applet.

Fix: Tokenizing the receive & send buffer values solved the problem..

PH14795 Problem: After creating a ClearCase snapshot view on Linux using a registered view storage location with a Windows based view server host the view owner is unable to remove the view.

Fix: The rmview function has been fixed.

PH16660 Problem:regression Using ClearCase ClearTeam Explorer to show CMI activities may result in NullPointerExceptions in RTC Integrated environment.

Fix: We did a rollback on FILTERING feature which was the root cause for this NULL POINTER EXCEPTION.

PH17193 Problem: ClearCase mainframe TSO client operations may fail with "No such file or directory".

Fix: The ClearCase mainframe TSO client was modified to use correct syntax.

PH17266 Problem: When creating a new stream and adding non-modifiable components using ClearCase ClearTeam Explorer, the original baseline(s) seem to get lost.

Fix: ClearTeam Explorer now correctly manages baselines and components.

PH17597 Problem: Executing the ClearCase clearprojtool binary creates a duplicate key "Atria " in registry.

Fix:ClearCase clearprojtool registry use / management was corrected.

PH17973 Problem: ClearCase mainframe TSO client operations may fail with "No such file or directory".

Fix:The ClearCase mainframe TSO client was modified to use correct syntax.

PH18122 Problem: ClearCase MVFS was not correctly forwarding lock key information to the underlying file system, resulting in a lock conflict when writing to the INI file.

Fix: The lock key is now forwarded to the underlying file system and the write completes successfully.

PH18585 Problem: ClearCase squidtool ShowActivityProperties throws a double-free error on Linux.

Fix: Memory / string management was corrected.

PH18960 Problem: A Segmentation fault may occur when running an executable built within a ClearCase dynamic view on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 machine.

Fix: Running an executable built within a ClearCase dynamic view no longer seg faults.

PH19721 Problem: When adding large numbers of files to source control via ClearCase ClearTeam Explorer, some files "disappear" from the expected directories after the operation completes.

Fix: ClearCase ClearTeam Explorer now correctly adds large numbers of files to source control

PH20085 Problem: When files are added/removed to a web view using the command line or a GUI other than ClearTeam Explorer, the changes may not be reflected in ClearTeam Explorer, particularly if there are any "unusual" issues with the web view (like a checked-out-but-removed file).

Fix: Client-side code which reads a web view directory, now ignores not-found errors for local copies of files that are known to the server and continues reading. This resolves the problem.

PH20800 Problem: When using ClearCase to build software using Visual Studio 2017 or newer on Microsoft Windows, the build audit may be incorrect. This would cause some build target's configuration records to be incomplete, and also could cause build targets to fail to rebuild even though another component on which the target depends has changed.

Fix:Audit pointer management was corrected.

PH21656 Problem: When upgrading the version of ClearCase on a Windows system, a reboot is required to complete the upgrade installation. After that reboot, the system may crash shortly after restarting. It may enter a loop of crashing and restarting, in which case it must be booted in safe mode to allow manual manipulation of files in order to work around the problem.

Fix: The crash is caused by incomplete cleanup of a previous version which is being replaced during the upgrade.

PH21997 Problem: Right clicking on an excluded file in a ClearCase / VS 2017 project throws *8* unhandled exception.

Fix: While debugging we found that we are passing NULL value while accessing the list without checking the NULL. We just check the NULL condition and it works fine.

PI38327 Problem: The ClearCase command "cleartool getlog -around", may miss the first event (if you compare it to a different cleatool getlog command output).

Fix: Internal file pointer / record management was corrected.

PI42664 Problem: ClearCase clearexport_ccase commands may crash when the length of an attribute name+value exceeds an internal buffer size of 4096.

Fix: During cvt_data file generation, when attribute name and value is copied to buffer having size 4096, checked if total number of characters exceeds 4096. If so, a warning is generated and attribute value is truncated so that it fits into the buffer and would not result in buffer overflow/crash.

Problem: Customer may experience a crash when building using code composer IDE.

Fix: ClearCase was changed to avoid -host, -gpath and -hpath to be used on a non-NAS environment. This fix is available in ClearCase versions 8.0.1.16, 9.0.0.06, 9.0.1.02.

Problem: The ClearCase "cleartool rmtag" command may fail on a network mapped drive due to insufficient return code validation.

Fix: Return code are now validated correctly and "cleartool rmtag" command executes successfully on network mapped drive.

PI82754 Problem: If a Windows ClearCase CCRC WAN server is installed to a directory without spaces (i.e., not the default c:\Program Files or c:\Program Files (x86) directory), a ClearCase upgrade, which cause a preserve and restore of the local CCRC WAN server view storage, damages the view storage security information (because the preserve/restore on Windows does not correctly handle the file/dir security information, including ACLs).

Fix: The CCRC WAN server preserve/restore code was changed to use the Windows robocopy command, which corrects this issue

PI90393 Problem: A problem associating a ClearQuest record to a ClearCase UCM activity gives an incorrect error message in a Japanese language environment.

Fix: The error message has been corrected.

PI95706 Problem: ClearCase Build Concepts document incorrectly states that clearaudit should work in a snapshot view.

Fix: The help topic corrected.

PI98203 Problem: When a file was being moving to "lost+found" directory, file was getting renamed and new filename was exceeding the filename length limit supported by OS.

Fix: Before moving a file to "lost+found" directory, check if the new filename will exceed max supported filename length limit. If so, then truncate the filename before renaming the file.

PM96191 Problem: Operation Not permitted" error on Windows XP/2003 when starting a view stored on Netap 8.2 cDOT

Fix: ClearCase views stored on Netap 8.2 cDOT no longer experience this issue.


Fix Pack 8 (9.0.1.8)
Link Date Released Status
Download 9.0.1.8

APAR Description
PH01069 When using ClearTeam Explorer to examine the properties of a version or element, the properties window may not display any data until the "Show Properties" command is selected multiple times. Then it will begin working normally.

Fix:TThe Properties window in ClearTeam Explorer now displays data correctly when "Show Properties" command is selected.

PH05225 Problem: ClearCase clearmake may print out a warning message with an invalid signal number when a sub-process exits without properly being detected by the abe.

Fix: The invalid signal number is corrected to provide the correct number, and a few more checks are performed to provide more specific information on the process termination.

PH05225 Problem: ClearCase clearmake may print out a warning message with an invalid signal number when a sub-process exits without properly being detected by the abe.

Fix:The invalid signal number is corrected to provide the correct number, and a few more checks are performed to provide more specific information on the process termination.

PH08229 Problem: IBM Knowledge Center has out of date statements for ClearCase 9.0.1

Fix:The help topic has been updated.

PH09080 Problem:An option used during install of the GSKit on Solaris zones was depreciated in Solaris 11. This would cause the GSKit installation to fail and subsequently the ClearCase or ClearQuest install would also fail.

Fix: The GSKit install for Solaris 11 was changed to use a Solaris environment variable to allow the install to complete successfully.

PH09425 Problem: ClearCase vob_server RPCs may timeout due to windows socket irregularities causing misdirected RPCs.

Fix: ClearCase windows port management code was modified in order to resolve this issue.

PH10215 Problem: ClearCase weekly log scrubbing completes successfully but blurts Perl syntax warnings.

Fix: The ClearCase weekly log scrubbing script now properly closes the directory before function execution completes.

PH10602 Problem: ClearCase sites with company-wide groups having thousands of long-named users may cause ClearCase core to run out of buffer space.

Fix: ClearCase core now uses a larger buffer and has the ability to make the buffer larger.

PH11084 Problem: The ClearCase Cadence Integration ClearCase4Cds label function fails for cells with special character in cell name

Fix: Now we handle special character in the cellname and libname. we are using cadence api e.g. nmpCDBAToLibraryUnix to change name from CDBA to Library namespace and nmpLibraryUnixToCDBA from Library namespace to CDBA.

PH11850 Problem:When ClearCase Unix jobs run and attempt to send status emails, the notify program may crash if the mail program fails.

Fix: ClearCase Unix notify functionality now properly detects mail program failures.

PH13312 Problem: The ClearCase CMI JIRA integration reports invalid XML or invalid JSON (version dependent) when attempting to run ct settask -find.

Fix: ClearCase The ClearCase CMI JSON parser now correctly parses the query response returned from the JIRA server.

PH13593 Problem:Clearcase Windows may crash on high stressed system.

Fix: Clearcase MVFS (Multi Version File System) was changed to avoid a crash protecting shared data.

PH13623 Problem: The ClearCase albd_server, when running with multiple registry worker threads, sometimes gets into an infinite loop..

Fix: The albd_server, when running with multiple registry worker threads, should no longer get into an infinite loop.

PH13952 Problem: ClearCase Omake may stop functioning on the second execution of a macro used by multiple targets

Fix: Omake has been updated to properly handle multiple uses of macros.

PH13954 Problem: Installing ClearCase 9.0.1.7 on Centos you may encounter: Internal error in MVFS panel.

Fix: OS version checking has been corrected in ClearCase install.

PH14755 Problem: For a VOB with a very large number of label types, exploring label types in ClearTeam Explorer may not fully populate the details (Type/Created/Scope/Lock) for all label types found.

Fix: ClearTeam Explorer property fetching has been fixed.

PH14884 Problem: The base CC/CQ integration (v2Perl) hangs, after updating to CC 9.0.1.6, due to missing expected environment variables in trigger environment.

Fix: As a solution, we have added both CCASE and ATRIA prefix for env variables for clearcase.

PH15339 Problem: After upgrading to ClearCase 9.0.1.7, the ClearCase explorer no longer displays the entire context menu in the view root of a dynamic view.

Fix: The context menu for the root of dynamic views in the ClearCase explorer has been corrected to show all expected options.

PH15551 Problem: The ClearCase Cadence Integration may fail on checkin of a category in ClearCase 9.0.1.6 integrated with Cadence 6.1.7

Fix: This issue was resolved by fetching the correct category name.

PI97506 Problem: ClearCase Build Concepts document incorrectly states that clearaudit should work in a snapshot view.

Fix: The help topic is corrected.

PI97362 Problem: ClearCase and ClearQuest installs the Microsoft VC++ 2008 run-time to support the IBM GSKit library. The Microsoft VC++ 2008 run-time has gone out of support and needs to be updated.

Fix:The GSKit has been updated to version 8.0.55.9 which depends on the Microsoft VC++ 2013 run-time instead of the Microsoft VC++ 2008 run-time. With this update ClearCase and ClearQuest will no longer install the Microsoft VC++ 2008 run-time.

PM97377 Problem: A ClearCase UCM environment variable, called CCASE_DISABLE_FDN_REUSE, was added in ClearCase V8.0. When set to TRUE, this environment variable prevents the creation of duplicate baselines when a foundation baseline has already been reused in a previous "make baseline" operation and when the baseline that has been reused resides in a PVOB which is not under the same AdminVOB hierarchy as the PVOB where the new baseline is being created. Use of the variable requires setting the environment variable on all clients.

Fix: Added a UCM policy to allow for setting the behavior once, on the server; all clients with this patch will use the UCM policy setting.


Fix Pack 7 (9.0.1.7)
Link Date Released Status
Download 9.0.1.7

APAR Description
PH06057 When ClearCase is starting on a Solaris 11 update 4 system, the following warning message can be seen: /opt/rational/clearcase/sol_x86/kvm/5.11_4/amd64/mvfs: use of symbol '_depends_on[]' is deprecated: "strmod/rpcmod"

Fix:The ClearCase source code which references the deprecated symbol '_depends_on[]' has been updated to replace that reference with options passed to the linker to encode that dependency in the MVFS module at link time. There is no functional change to the MVFS, and the warning message at load time is eliminated.

PH06211 Problem: ClearCase users on Oracle Solaris systems sporadically experience extremely slow performance of a particular dynamic view, accompanied by a series of error messages of the form: "View server for not responding still trying (st=5 er=145).

Fix: Sporadic slow performance of a dynamic view on Oracle Solaris occurs when there is a conflict between kernel services using the same udp port for RPCs. This is fixed in ClearCase 8.0.1.21 and 9.0.1.7.

PH07552 Problem: ClearCase clearmake may print out a warning message with an invalid signal number when a sub-process exits without properly being detected by the abe.

Fix:The invalid signal number is corrected to provide the correct number, and a few more checks are performed to provide more specific information on the process termination.

PH07824 Problem: ClearCase umask management was changed due to multi-thread considerations. Long lived CtCmd processes only obtained umask once (at startup).

Fix: CtCmd processes now correctly obtain the process umask.

PH08215 Problem: The ClearCase cleartool checkvob sub-command may erroneously report mis-protected containers on Windows.

Fix: The fix allows checkvob to properly detect container protections on Windows.

PH12090 Problem: A ClearCase credmap done on a UNIX host, to a Windows server can map group IDs, but cannot map user IDs.

Fix: ClearCase credmap processing has been corrected.

PI71360 Problem: ClearCase reop triggers do not block the request for mastership in synchronous request for mastership checkouts and mkelems.

Fix: Preop triggers on reqmaster will now fire during synchronous request for mastership checkouts and mkelems, and will allow the User to block requests for mastership during those operations.

PI85648 Problem: The newest ClearCase CtCmd bits aren't available on CPAN.

Fix: ClearCase CtCmd bits are available on the Rational Fix Portal.


Fix Pack 6 (9.0.1.6)
Link Date Released Status
Download 9.0.1.6

APAR Description
PH03537 Under high transaction loads, Windows ClearCase servers are disproportionately impacted by file lock contention on vista.* files. The underlying cause is that the OS file lock API used by the database core has a fixed one-second retry interval. As such, any contended locks will introduce an immediate one-second delay in the operations in question.

Fix:ClearCase Windows and Unix now use NON-blocking lock calls

PH04203 Problem: When you are working in ClearTeam Explorer on a Portuguese Microsoft Windows Operating System, you may encounter an error after clicking "Compare with predecessor" version.

Fix: Fix the the broken Portuguese translation for Compare/Merge preference.

PH05884 Problem: In the RTC client where the ClearCase CTE plugin is installed, the user encounters an internal error occurred during: "Getting toolbar activities" when click a UCM view from ClearTeam Navigator.

Fix: Fix the code where the unnecessary exception was thrown.

PH05893 Problem: ClearCase displays 8.x help on windows.

Fix: ClearCase now displays 9.x help on windows.

PH06198 Problem: The ClearCase CCRC update site located by http://CCRCWANServerIPAddress/ccrc/update contained out-of-date information, including hyperlinks to the ClearCase 8.0 Information Center, instructions for installing the CTE Eclipse plug-in into versions of Eclipse that are no longer supported.

Fix: Revise the site page with up-to-date information.

PH06459 Problem:A new ClearCase UCM activity is not selected when created during checkout/add to source control in ctexplorer

Fix: Previously checkout/add to source control dialogs drop down was not registered for refresh when an activity gets created. Now it is fixed.

PH06465 Problem: Sending Multisite packets from fully-64-bit 9.0.1.5 hosts fails with "no more memory available" errors.

Fix: This problem was caused by using an unititialized u_long in the call getsockopt() rather than an int. getsockopt() returns 4 bytes but the top 4 bytes contain uninitialized junk.

PH06768 Problem: The ClearCase rccbuild application correctly blocks on a version mismatch between a ClearCase build client and the Mainframe Connectors. The version string were being incorrectly maintained.

Fix: The ClearCase Mainframe Connector version string was corrected.

PI33365 Problem: A ClearCase rebase -preview can fail to take overrides into account, rendering it unable to return a list of potentially included activities, even though the actual rebase succeeds.

Fix: A ClearCase rebase -preview will properly assess overrides, allowing it to return a list of potentially included activities.

PI57022 Problem: During a ClearCase rebase a foundation hyperlink may be removed, but if the rebase operation fails for some reason a subsequent rebase then tries to remove the same foundation hyperlink again, but that will fail with a missing hyperlink error.

Fix:Please contact HCL ClearCase support for instructions to enable information collection

PI58773 Problem:You may find that the steps after IKJEFT01, IKJEFT1A and IKJEFT1Bb don't work in JCL scripts. The build may fail with "the system or user abend S047 R=NULL was issued."

Fix: ClearCase Mainframe Connector APF mode was corrected.

PI89037 Problem: ClearCase trigger context isn't always clear. The mkelem command from the integration has no parent-op for check-in that happens during that.

Fix: Checkin and check-out happening during mkelem command will have "mkelem" as parent operation

PI89145 Problem: When working in an Rational ClearCase integration with Microsoft Visual Studio 2015, you may find an unexpected mkbranch operation occurs if your config spec contains an automatic mkbranch rule and you open files that are not in your project.

Fix: CAL was fixed to properly report "owner" and "group" values without corrupting memory.

PI98781 Problem: rcleartool lsproject was requiring a "project:" selector prefix when it should not have been needed.

Fix: Root cause was due to a new undocumented feature (IntelliSense support) added by Microsoft in VS. Now it is handled properly.

PI94091 Problem: DOCUMENTATION SHOULD INCLUDE THAT A DATABASE SCHEMA 12 CC VIEW CANNOT BE USED ON 8.0.1.X

Fix: Added "New view database schema" section to the "what's new" document for ClearCase 9.0. https://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21972269

PI98563 Problem: "RCLEARTOOL -VER" DOESN'T GIVE CORRECT VERSION

Fix: rcleartool returns correct version information.


Fix Pack 5 (9.0.1.5)
Link Date Released Status
Download 9.0.1.5

APAR Description
PH00330 Problem: On Windows Server 2008R2 the installer was incorrectly warning the user that the operating system was not supported. Support for Windows Server 2008R2 was removed in version 9.0.1 but reinstated in 9.0.1.3.

Fix: Since Windows Server 2008R2 is again a supported operating systems the warning has been removed from the installer.

PH01969 Problem: The ClearCase context menu in Windows Explorer is missing after an upgrade to version 9.0.1.4.

Fix: The ClearCase context menu in Windows Explorer has been restored.

PH02405 Problem: Using the UCM/CQ integration Find activities operation unusable on ClearTeam Explorer CCCQ UCM with local views.

Fix: The fix involved adding handling of the login to distinguish properly between the ClearCase and ClearQuest providers at login time.

PH02991 Problem:The ClearCase "cleartool catcs" command, piped to another process (ex: cleartool catcs | head ) may fail.

Fix: The "cleartool catcs" signal handler was repaired.

PI28673 Problem: cleartool mkbl -ddepends can generate a misleading error message if a component being dropped is not in the configuration for the specified stream.

Fix: An additional warning will be printed informing the user that a component can not be found in a baseline.

PI71536 Problem: CAL applications may crash (after ClearCase 9.0) due to memory corruption.

Fix: CAL was fixed to properly report "owner" and "group" values without corrupting memory.

PI81103 Problem: The ClearCase "cleartool catcs" command, piped to another process (ex: cleartool catcs | head ) may fail.

Fix: The "cleartool catcs" signal handler was repaired.

Problem: When you are installing the 9.0.1.1 Eclipse plug-in for Rational ClearTeam Explorer, you may find that the version string displays 9.0.0.xxx instead of 9.0.1.xxxx.

Fix: The version string was fixed.

PI92691 Problem: ClearCase creates R: drive as a network drive, but the network provider did not recognize it as a network resource it manages. Windows Explorer used to receive errors when trying to get the universal name of such a drive and failed to search files on it.

Fix: The network provider was changed to recognize automatic views as a network resource it manages.

PI94816 Problem: Documentation missing on maximum MVFS scaling factor on Windows.

Fix: The online help has been updated to include the maximum value MVFS scaling factor on Windows

PI95497 Problem: The "Make Baseline" dialog in ClearTeam Explorer has a "Scope" tab. This allows the baseline creation to be restricted to "Selected Components". Selecting only a component where no actual changes have been made causes a baseline to be created in a component that has had changes made, but was not selected.

Fix: The fix corrects the method to retrieved selected components in the component list.

PI95977 Problem: If VOB or Component is added outside of CTE then CTE load rules doesn't show newly added VOB or Component unless and until CTE is restarted.

Fix: A "refresh button" has been added in CTE load rules dialog.

PI97865 Problem: CAL applications may crash (after ClearCase 9.0) due to memory corruption.

Fix: CAL was fixed to properly report "owner" and "group" values without corrupting memory.

PI98781 Problem: rcleartool lsproject was requiring a "project:" selector prefix when it should not have been needed.

Fix: The rcleartool lsproject command now works correctly without a "project:" prefix.

PI98888 Problem: cleartool or other client programs using integrations such as Cadence Design Framework or CtCmd perl package could get errors communicating with a VOB database server if the network connection closes unexpectedly or the db_server exits prematurely. Those errors could persist and repeat multiple times.

Fix: ClearCase has been fixed to detect the network errors and, when possible to do safely, restart transactions with the VOB database

PI99148 Problem: Not able to add load rules having spaces in snapshot and web views.

Fix: Load rule having spaces will be added automatically in double quotes.


Fix Pack 4 (9.0.1.4)
Link Date Released Status
Download 9.0.1.4

APAR Description
PM78187 Problem: When an IBM Rational ClearCase Unified Change Management (UCM) deliver is in progress and that view is inaccessible, starting a second deliver from a different view on the same streams will allow you to reset the original deliver but will not give any information about the view that started the original deliver.

Fix: ClearCase UCM deliver will now give information about the view that started the original delivery.

PI05393 Problem: ClearCase triggers firing on deliver_cancel and rebase_cancel are not working as designed in CCRC.

Fix: ClearCase triggers will now work on deliver_cancel and rebase_cancel.

PI99133 Problem: The ClearQuest API GetEnabledEntityDefs can return a null value if there are no entity defs selected by the call. It should return an empty set of entitydefs instead. This can cause performance and other problems for consumers of the API such as CQ Web, especially if the ClearQuest database table ownership was not configured correctly.

Fix: The ClearQuest API GetEnabledEntityDefs now returns an empty set of entitydefs in all cases when there are no entitydefs returned by the call.

PI95367 Problem: On a Solaris 11 system, the ClearCase VOB mount limit was being incorrectly calculated, and so if a very large number of VOBs is concurrently mounted, one of two different symptoms may occur. A cleartool mount command may fail, with the message "mount: file table overflow", or, a system crash may occur, with the error "device number too big for fsid!" in the system messages log.

Fix: The VOB mount limit for Solaris 11 is being correctly calculated.

PI95266 Problem: ClearCase MVFS used the same locking resource to protect the file disposition flag and the cache state. When a process tried to delete a file with its cache enabled, it acquires a lock to set the file disposition and send a call to the view server. The view server will open the cleartext file and cause the cache to become invalid, this would cause the lock to be acquired again to update the cache state, but the lock is never acquired.

Fix: Because file disposition does not deal with the actual file content, an exclusive locking resource has been created to protect the cache state, so that the file disposition can be changed regardless of the cache state.

PI93610 Problem: Corrupted ClearCase view databases could be treated as valid.

Fix: Fixes issues where corrupt view databases could be treated as valid.

PI93110 Problem: When you are working in the Rational ClearCase/Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Integration, you may find that the solution files are not handled correctly.

Fix: The integration was fixed to properly handle solution files.

PI92686 Problem: A ClearCase database incompatibility was introduced for UCM PVOBs on Windows between versions 9.0.1.0 and 9.0.1.1.

Fix: This fixes a database compatibility issue introduced on Windows PVOBs between version 9.0.1.0 and 9.0.1.1. With this fix, databases created on version 9.0.1.0 are now compatible.

PI88267 Problem: In ClearCase ClearTeamExplorer (CTE) the paths shown in the pending changes view may sometimes be incorrect specially when there are major similarities between directory names in the VOB root directory. For example "/vob/a" and "/vob/ab".

Fix: The fix addresses the path display issue in ClearTeam Explorer's Pending Changes view.

PI87042 Problem: Certain sequences of ClearCase UCM baseline operations could cause a segmentation violation.

Fix: This fixes a possible segmentation violation during ClearCase UCM baseline operations.

PI74040 Problem: Under certain circumstances, ClearCase omake does not properly handle memory allocation errors and was not freeing up no longer used memory.

Fix:  ClearCase omake was modified to correct one scenario to now exit in the event of a memory allocation error, and was also modified to free up memory for one scenario when the memory is no longer needed.

PI70376 Problem:ClearCase clearmake, in an automatic view, incorrectly attempts to contact a VOB looking for derived objects to re-use.

Fix: ClearCase clearmake was modified to skip checking for derived objects when an automatic view is used.

PI68209 Problem:ClearCase clearmake may run out of memory when a make file contains a large number of macros.

Fix: Changes were made to do a better job of freeing up memory when the memory was no longer required and this will allow clearmake to better handle makefiles with a large number of macros.

PI65279 Problem: MultiSite syncreplica import will occasionally fail with "Segmentation Fault" for a mkbaseline oplog having a nonzero value for the num_reorder_ents field.

Fix: MultiSite syncreplica import will no longer fail with "Segmentation Fault" for such an oplog.

PI44560 Problem: A MultiSite syncreplica -import may fail on an rmver oplog with the error "string buffer too small."

Fix: Importing an rmver oplog should no longer hit this error.

PI23043 Problem: The Rational Software Architect ClearCase Remote Client extension integration allows model files to be removed using the "Delete" key from the RSA workspace. This should not be allowed in this perspective and is blocked in the GUI context menu.

Fix: With this change when Delete key is pressed with multiple selections, the Delete Action will be triggered only for non-model files. On the GUI context menu, the current functionality is retained. On the context menu of multiple selection, if the selection contains at least one model file, then Remove option is disabled.


Fix Pack 3 (9.0.1.3)
Link Date Released Status
Download 9.0.1.3

APAR Description
PM99702 Problem: ClearCase search's result pane was not getting updated post the SCM operations.

Fix: The fix ensures ClearCase search's result pane is accurately updated post any SCM operation ensuring a correct search result the second time.

PI93710 Problem: CM Server when looking up a view by its uuid was not allowing for case where operation completed successfully but did not find any views.

Fix: CM Server will now correctly return a "not found" status when the error situation is encountered.

PI93635 Problem: System may panic when accessing view-extended pathnames.

Fix: ClearCase's MVFS filesystem was update to handle non-vob view extended pathname.

PI93541 Problem: Automatic views on Windows could be corrupted if they were active at the time of a user logoff or system shutdown.

Fix: Automatic views now cleanly shut down during a user logoff or system shutdown

PI92920 Problem: A bug in the AIX operating system causes call to getgrgid_r()    to incorrectly report status when a group doesn't fit in a 64k buffer.

Fix: Status checking was extended to catch the need to extend the buffer used to contain the members of a large group.

PI91598 Problem: "Create View" dialogue in CTE can indicate incorrect view types as being available for creation. When client and server are on same machine, selection of UCM Vob Tag, UCM Projects and UCM Project under local and server node are not working correctly. I.e If we select Vob Tag under local and then we select the same under server node, selection is not changing.

Fix: Post fix, it will provide right option in create view dialogue, based on node we selected. If It is local, it will provide option of Dynamic and Snapshot, and If It is server node, will provide option of Web and Automatic view(If support is there) option.

PI90814 Problem: ClearCase users running Linux may see EMLINK ("Too many links") errors when trying to access directories.

Fix: The EMLINKS error returned by MVFS was replaced by a preventive code that avoids occurrences of multiple entries.

PI90422 Problem: The 32 and 64 bit Linux versions of ClearCase are intended to be binary database compatible. This is an issue where trigger definitions are not binary compatible. See http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22004783 for more details.

Fix: This fixes the trigger incompatibility between 32 and 64 bit versions of ClearCase.

PI90203 Problem: Failing preop mkbl triggers still allow VOB modification.

Fix: Failing preop mkbl triggers can now properly block VOB modification.

PI80058 Problem: Web view load/update fails with an error: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: null incase ccrcSupportsParallelLoad is enabled and ccrcMaxRequestsPerSession <= 3.

Fix: When ccrcSupportsParallelLoad is enabled and ccrcMaxRequestsPerSession <= 3, parallel operations will be disabled and below mentioned message will be displayed to customer in a message box : "ccrcMaxRequestsPerSession as defined is too low, therefore parallel operations will be disabled. To enable parallel operations for web views, define ccrcMaxRequestsPerSession with a setting of 4 or higher."

PI79794 Problem: Installation of the ClearCase CCRC WAN Server is failing to load into WebSphere on non-English operating systems.

Fix: The installation process was expecting the output of the managesdk command to be in English. This was not the case on a non-English operating system. The installation has been fixed to correctly parse the non-English output.

PI79466 Problem: Certain features in the CTE eclipse update site clash with previously installed features in the desktop products such as IDA and RSA.  This prevents the capability to install CTE via the update site into these eclipse-based products.

Fix: Changes have been made to the update site feature.xml for the CTE IDE feature that will allow the remainder of CTE to be installed if the required features and plugins that support the CTE IDE have already been installed.

PI64581 Problem: Files of size > 2GB, fails to load in web view.

Fix: After fix, files of size >2GB are getting loaded in Web view.

PI35609 Problem: Shortkeys CTRL+C(Copy), CTRL+X(Cut), CTRL+V(Paste) were not functional in ClearTeam Explorer standalone client.

Fix: Post the fix, CTRL+C(Copy), CTRL+X(Cut), CTRL+V(Paste) are supported and functional in ClearTeam Explorer standalone client.

PI25289 Problem: When using the ClearTeam Explorer extension with Rational Application developer the 'Last Modified' and 'Created' fields in the details view will not have valid data.

Fix: The fields now display correct data.

PI88572 Problem: Customer may be seeing the root  ClearCase MVFS(Multi Version File System ) path with a double backslash at the end of the path when using net use command.

Fix: ClearCase Network Provider was changed to avoid this behavior.


Fix Pack 2 (9.0.1.2)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PI59858 Problem: For base ClearCase VOBs using the CMI integration, findmerge -avobs fails when two or more VOBs have elements that require merging.

Fix: The findmerge -avobs command should work properly for multiple VOBs using the CMI integration.

PI63237 Problem: ClearCase reop triggers do not block the request for mastership in synchronous request for mastership checkouts and mkelems.

Fix: Preop triggers on reqmaster will now fire during synchronous request for mastership checkouts and mkelems, and will allow the User to block requests for mastership during those operations.

PI78348 Problem: In ClearTeam Explorer, the graphical version tree would not display the view-selected version correctly if the element name contained @@ (version-extended characters) in the middle of the name.

Fix: ClearTeam Explorer is fixed to display the view-selected version correctly when an element name contains @@ (version-extended characters) in the middle of the name. Note that using the version-extended characters at the end of an element name is not supported in ClearCase.

PI82633 Problem: The scroll bar in missing in ClearCase ClearTeam Explorer (CTE) version tree for some versions of elements that have a large number of labels.

Fix: The missing scrollbar issue has been fixed.

PI86344 Problem: ClearCase users with certain special characters in their password such as: an UMLAUT cannot successfully create an automatic view owing to rview agent failing to log into the server.

Fix: The rview agent now is capable of properly logging into cmserver using the user's credentials even if they have the afore mentioned special characters.

PI86903 Problem: When ClearCase server-side group substitution is enabled, and a user whose UID is not mappable to a username and set of groups attempts to access a view, the view_server emits many log messages about the unmapped user such as "No group list for uid 12345"

Fix: When an unknown user accesses ClearCase, the log messages about their account are classified as warnings and are rate-limited to once per user per cache lifetime interval.

PI87052 Problem: ClearCase Windows clients get errors when communicating with Solaris SPARC VOB or view servers, similar to this: credmap_lookup_whole_string_credentials call failed: RPC: Server can't decode arguments This occurs when both the client and server are running one of these ClearCase releases: 9.0.0.4, 9.0.0.5, 9.0.1, or 9.0.1.1

Fix: The VOB and view servers have been fixed to work correctly with Windows clients

PI87929 Problem: While using a ClearCase dynamic view directory reading operations for directories with many elements may take longer than necessary.

Fix: MVFS was changed to use all the data provided by the view server for directory enumerations.

PI88195 Problem: Attempts to rebuild ClearCase MVFS on Ubuntu 14.04 with kernel 3.13.0-132 result in build error.

Fix: MVFS source code was changed to be compatible with kernel 3.13.0-132.

PI88751 Problem: As a result of changes to simplify the procedure for rebuilding the ClearCase MVFS kernel module on Linux, the instructions in /var/adm/rational/clearcase/mvfs/mvfs_src/README.txt are incorrect.

Fix: The /var/adm/rational/clearcase/mvfs/mvfs_src/README.txt has been updated.

PI88855 Problem: When using ClearCase clients to access a VOB hosted on a different operating system type (one side is Windows, the other is UNIX/Linux), identities for VOB objects may show up with the server's identities instead of being mapped to the client's identities.

Fix: The ClearCase client has been fixed to properly map VOB object identities to the local operating system's identities.

PM97816 Problem: The ClearCase xcleardiff gui does not display color options correctly in ClearCase 8.0.x running on Linux

Fix: Color management has been corrected.

PI57999 Problem: A ClearCase Windows may crash when accessing dynamic views created with -host, -gpath (also PI66371)

Fix: ClearCase was changed to avoid -host, -gpath and -hpath to be used on a non-NAS environment.

PI63928 Problem: When using Visual Studio with projects in an ClearCase automatic view, accessed using a subst'd path in the same way one would with dynamic views, Visual Studio does not recognize the artifacts in the project as being under source control.

Fix: The integration has been enhanced to work with subst'd automatic view roots.  The subst must be of the form: X:\ -> R:\view_tag\

PI85509 Problem: When using the ClearTeam Explorer extension with Rational Application developer the 'Last Modified' and 'Created' fields in the details view will not have valid data.

Fix: The fields now display correct data.

PI85853 Problem: When opening a solution that is under Source Control from Windows Explorer or ClearCase Explorer an error is shown saying "The source control provider associated with this solution could not be found. The projects will be treated as not under source control. Do you want to permanently remove the source control bindings from this project?"

Fix: This issue has been fixed.

PI88572 Problem: Customer may be seeing the root  ClearCase MVFS(Multi Version File System ) path with a  double backslash("\\"") at the end of the path when using net use command.

Fix: ClearCase Network Provider was changed to avoid this behavior.


Fix Pack 1 (9.0.1.1)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PI85611 Problem: File operations on ClearCase dynamic views can cause the appearance of D-state process.

Fix: MVFS was changed to detect and prevent the error condition that makes the D-state process occurrence.

PI83758 Problem: The ClearCase db_server processes can behave erratically if single token lines are placed in the db.conf file.

Fix: The db_server processes properly parse single token lines in the db.conf file.

PI83381 Problem: Checkout and other operations in an automatic view hosted on a Solaris SPARC host could fail with errors similar to this: CRMAP7009: Command "CCW_CCase::checkout_rpc" failed: Error: "CRMAP7009: Command: "rview_agent command" failed: 20001: Operation "ns_readdir_ext" failed: error detected by ClearCase Subsystem." and leave the automatic view corrupted.

Fix: The CCRC WAN server on Solaris SPARC has been fixed to work correctly for checkout and other operations.

PI83215 Problem: ClearCase view private files larger than 4 KB take more time to read on SUSE SLES 12 SP2 when compared to SUSE SLES 11 SP3.

Fix:MVFS was fixed to make the read-ahead work correctly on SUSE SLES 12. logged.

PI82948 Problem: Attempting to connect to the ClearCase CCRC WAN server will fail if the user account is numeric only.

Fix: Numeric only user accounts now correctly connect.

PI82359 Problem: ClearCase processes crash when executed by a Windows account that is a member of a group represented by long Windows SID, such as SIDs for non-domain accounts linked to a Microsoft account 

Fix: ClearCase processes no longer fail with such accounts, but ClearCase will ignore any group (behave as if the user is not a member of the group)  represented by a long Windows SID.

PI82010 Problem: The outdated Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Visual C++ runtimes are distributed with ClearCase and ClearQuest as those products have components that depend on them.

Fix: All dependencies on the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Visual C++ runtimes have been removed from ClearCase and ClearQuest, and those runtimes are no longer installed

PI81810 Problem: When exporting a view and VOB path for non-ClearCase access from a RedHat Linux server, applications on the client side may experience access denied or similar errors.

Fix: Necessary permission override checks were added to properly handle the root user id for access, rather than blocking the remote access for root.

PI81434 Problem: ClearCase clearmrgman dumps core when performing "checkin".

Fix: The clearmrgman cleanup handler has been fixed.

PI81394 Problem: The ClearCase clearmake utility (on UNIX/Linux platforms) could stall waiting for a child build process to complete, even when the child process has actually finished and exited.

Fix: Clearmake now periodically checks for pending child build processes to confirm if they are still running, and to proceed with the remainder of the build if they have completed.

PI81268 Problem: When ClearCase Explorer has been used to access a UCM view, but then gets left idle for a long period of time, then on resumption it hangs for a short period and then gives: "Trouble communicating with VOB database \".

Fix: Users will not encounter such error messages when ClearCase Explorer client is left idle for a long period of time.

PI80609 Problem: ClearCase customers may experience a system crash when accessing MVFS files.

Fix: This issue has been resolved.

PI80487 Problem: A ClearCase Syncreplica -import of the modstream_cspec oplog generated by creating a child stream fails with a segmentation fault in a sibling that has removed the parent stream.

Fix: The replay code has been modified to properly store the modstream_cspec oplog while skipping its replay if the parent stream is not found in the importing replica.

PI79130 Problem: The ClearCase "xclearcase" or "xlsvtree" graphical interfaces (on Linux hosts) will hang when started with an invalid path.

Fix: ClearCase exit handling code was fixed.

PI78918 Problem: A ClearCase "RMSTREAM" of "Feature Level 5" stream after raising VOB to "Feature Level 7" FAILS WITH "ERROR FROM VOB DATABASE" FOR UCM PROJECT VOB.

Fix: Feature Level 7 VOBs now can handle "rmstream" command from Feature Level 5.

PI78636 Problem: An attempt to rebuild the MultiVersion File System kernel module for IBM ClearCase will fail on SUSE SLES12 SP2 and Ubuntu 16.04 systems with the error message: /var/adm/rational/clearcase/mvfs/mvfs_src/mvfs_mdep_linux.c:2764:9: error: implicit declaration of function  inode_capable  [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]

Fix: This problem has been resolved.

PI78498 Problem: When running ClearCase SLES 12 SP2, you may observe repetitive messages such as this in the syslog: systemd[16300]: Failed to get udev device from devnum 253:0: No such device

Fix: The ClearCase MVFS has been updated to provide the information which systemd is querying in this situation, to eliminate the log messages.

PI78319 Problem: ClearCase customers are unable to use dynamic views because MVFS is not loaded on Windows 10 if Device Guard is enabled.

Fix: The ClearCase MVFS driver was changed to adopt the requirements imposed by Device Guard.

PI78185 Problem: When attempting to build the ClearCase MultiVersion Filesystem (MVFS) as part of installing ClearCase on a SuSE 12 SP2 host, the MVFS will not build successfully.

Fix: A problem which caused errors when rebuilding the ClearCase MVFS on SuSE 12 SP2 systems was fixed.

PI77954 Problem:Removing a ClearCase UCM stream while a remote site has a view attached (to the stream) causes the db dumper to fail.

Fix: The db dumper has been fixed.

PI77782 Problem: The ClearCase UCM/ClearQuest integration was creating multiple ClearQuest web sessions when using ClearTeam Explorer with a web-based view.

Fix: The UCM/ClearQuest integration now uses fewer ClearQuest web sessions when using ClearTeam Explorer with a web-based view.

PI77492 Problem: A user is unable to connect to a ClearCase Remote Client WAN server, if the login URL contains a trailing  white space.

Fix: Trailing white space is now removed from URLs in all cases.

PI77042 Problem:ClearCase users cannot create or use automatic views if the "http_proxy" environment variable is set.

Fix: Automatic views now work using direct connections to the CCRC WAN server even when the "http_proxy" environment variable is set. NOTE:  Automatic views do not support proxies, even if ClearTeam Explorer is configured to use proxies.

PI76793 Problem: Intermittently a ClearCase shipping_server may hang after executing a shipping order or during syncreplica -export -fship

Fix: The shipping_server will now complete its actions without hanging.

PI76695 Problem: As documented in ClearCase technote 1259280, accessing non-VOB files using a view-extended pathname on Linux kernels after 2.4.18 is not supported due to kernel limitations.  However, on some kernels, this may cause a system crash.

Fix: The non-VOB pathname access using a view-extended pathname is still not supported, but ClearCase has been updated so that these references will not cause a system crash.

PI76681 Problem: In a relatively rare configuration of NFS (/net not being used for the automounts, but used for view storage)  the ClearCase rmview command will pause for 30 seconds as it waits for all the files in the view_storage to no longer be accessible.  Aggressive NFS directory caching by the AIX OS is responsible for this.

Fix: The NFS cached directory contents are explicitly flushed prior to removing view storage, thus avoiding the 30 second pause on rmview.   This fix is for AIX only.

PI76489 Problem: A ClearCase checkout using the ctcmd.pm module fails with an abort.

Fix: A ClearCase checkout using the ctcmd.pm module no longer aborts.

PI76420 Problem: Rational ClearCase/Cadence integration menu customizations do not load properly after upgrading to ClearCase 8.0.1.13

Fix: The menu customization issue is resolved.

PI75748 Problem: Missing a semi-colon in the moving a view command.

Fix: Help topic updated to include the missing semi-colon in the moving a view command.

PI75470 Problem: ClearTeam Explorer can produce the following error when attempting a directory merge when in a webview: "As a result of a directory merge operation, one or more resources, requiring a merge, have been removed"

Fix: A directory merge in a webview will no longer result in the error.

PI75108 Problem: Users of ClearCase dynamic views may see messages reporting stale transaction ids in the mvfs_log log file. Unexpected application I/O errors or hangs may coincide with these messages.

Fix: The logic for how the MVFS handles certain transient errors in communicating with a view_server process has been corrected.

PI73898 Problem: More detail needed in "Synchronization of identities and permissions information" help topic

Fix: Help topic updated to when include information about a replica exports sync packets.

PI73234 Problem: The ClearCase web-based UCM/ClearQuest integration was unable to work on ClearQuest records that contained security contexts where the user was not a member of one or more of those contexts.

Fix:The web-based UCM/CQ integration can now work on ClearQuest records that contain security contexts where the user is not a member of one or more of those contexts.

PI72025 Problem:Creating or deleting hyperlinks that span VOBs (common in a UCM setup) in IBM Rational ClearCase can lead to a situation where two processes are waiting on each other for a lock on one of the VOB databases. This will lead to the Dead Man Lock Timeout to be triggered, making one of the two operations to fail.

Fix: A ClearCase db transaction will be suspended and restarted for cross vob hlinks.

PI65697 Problem: The ClearCase mkview command creates UCM views with 'SHAREABLE_DOS' property, ignoring the site setting.

Fix: Help topic updated in IBM Knowledge Center.

PI51355 Problem: When searching for files in a ClearCase dynamic view, using the Windows Explorer Search feature, you may not see any results.

Fix: Changes were made on ClearCase Network Provider to return correct path information.

PI29080 Problem: When mounting a ClearCase VOB on some versions of Linux (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x, SUSE Linux 12.x, Ubuntu Linux 16.04), the mount will succeed, but a warning will be displayed: "mount.mvfs: Warning: unable to open mount table".

Fix: The ClearCase VOB mount code has been updated so that the system mount table is updated correctly on versions of Linux where it is virtual, rather than a file /etc/mtab.  With this fix, the warning message is eliminated.

PI25448 Problem: When performing audited builds in IBM Rational ClearCase dynamic views on Microsoft Windows, the audit record may not be complete.

Fix: Changes were made to correct the auditing of non-cached reads.

PI24698 Problem: When using the Rational ClearCase File Service (CCFS) as the interoperability solution to access Unix-hosted VOBS from Windows you may encounter a "Permission denied " error.

Fix: Windows now skips permission denied ports.

PI19733 Problem: When using a makefile to overwrite a file using the move command in a ClearCase Dynamic View you may notice that the source file was not removed.

Fix: ClearCase Multi Version File System was changed to enable winked-in files to be overwritten on move operations.

PI19218 Problem: The ClearCase Unix version tree browser dumps core when the zoom control was used to shrink the version tree.

Fix: The Unix version tree browser has been fixed.


Mod Pack 1 (9.0.1)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PI51355 Problem: When searching for files in a ClearCase dynamic view, using the Windows Explorer Search feature, you not see any results.

Fix: Changes were made on ClearCase Network Provider to return correct path information.

PI65697 Problem: MKVIEW creates UCM views with 'SHAREABLE_DOS' property, ignoring the site setting. .

Fix: Help topic updated in IBM Knowledge Center.

PI72025 Problem: Deleting and walk through cross vob hlink can cause database dead lock. .

Fix: Help topic updated in IBM Knowledge Center.

PI73898 Problem: More detail needed in "Synchronization of identities and permissions information" help topic.

Fix: Help topic updated to when include information about a replica exports sync packets.

PI75748 Problem: Missing a semi-colon in the moving a view command.

Fix: Help topic updated to include the missing semi-colon in the moving a view command.

PI76420 Problem: Menu customizations do not load properly after upgrading to ClearCase 8.0.1.13.

Fix: The menu customization issue is resolved.

PI76489 Problem: ClearCase checkout using the ctcmd.pm module fails with an abort.

Fix: ClearCase checkout using the ctcmd.pm module no longer aborts.

PI76681 Problem: In a relatively rare configuration of NFS (/net not being used for the automounts, but used for view storage) the rmview command will pause for 30 seconds as it waits for all the files in the view_storage to no longer be accessible. Aggressive NFS directory caching by the AIX OS is responsible for this.

Fix: The NFS cached directory contents are explicitly flushed prior to removing view storage, thus avoiding the 30 second pause on rmview. This fix is for AIX only.

PI76695 Problem: As documented in ClearCase technote 1259280, accessing non-VOB files using a view-extended pathname on Linux kernels after 2.4.18 is not supported due to kernel limitations.  However, on some kernels, this may cause a system crash.

Fix: The non-VOB pathname access using a view-extended pathname is still not supported, but ClearCase has been updated so that these references will not cause a system crash.

PI76793 Problem: Intermittently a shipping_server may hang after executing a shipping order or during syncreplica -export -fship

Fix: The shipping_server should complete its actions without hanging.

PI77042 Problem: Users cannot create or use automatic views if the "http_proxy" environment variable is set.

Fix: Automatic views now work using direct connections to the CCRC WAN server even when the "http_proxy" environment variable is set. NOTE:  Automatic views do not support proxies, even if ClearTeam Explorer is configured to use proxies.

PI77492 Problem: Evidently there were code paths where white space was not being trimmed.

Fix: Trailing white space is now removed from URLs in all cases

PI77782 Problem: The UCM/ClearQuest integration was creating multiple ClearQuest web sessions when using ClearTeam Explorer with a web-based view.

Fix: The UCM/ClearQuest integration now uses fewer ClearQuest web sessions when using ClearTeam Explorer with a web-based view.

PI77954 Problem: Removing UCM stream while in remote site there is a view attached. The db dumper will fail.

Fix: Update db dumper to replace the missing stream id to a NULL and continue.

PI78636 Problem: An attempt to rebuild the MultiVersion File System kernel module for IBM ClearCase will fail on SUSE SLES12 SP2 and Ubuntu 16.04 systems with the error message: /var/adm/rational/clearcase/mvfs/mvfs_src/mvfs_mdep_linux.c:2764:9: error: implicit declaration of function  inode_capable  [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]

Fix: This problem has been fixed in ClearCase release 9.0.1.

PI78918 Problem: "RMSTREAM" of "Feature Level 5" stream after raising VOB to "Feature Level 7" fails with "ERROR FROM VOB DATABASE" for UCM project VOB.

Fix: Feature Level 7 VOB now can handle "rmstream" command from Feature Level 5.

PI80487 Problem: Syncreplica -import of the modstream_cspec oplog generated by creating a child stream fails with a segmentation fault in a sibling that has removed the parent stream.

Fix: The replay code has been modified to properly store the modstream_cspec oplog while skipping its replay if the parent stream is not found in the importing replica.

PI80609 Problem: Customers may experience a system crash when accessing MVFS files.

Fix: There was a not initialized structure being released, making the system to crash. The structure is now being appropriately initialized and the issue does not occur anymore.


Note: ClearCase® 9.0.0.6 is the final fix pack for the 9.0.0 modification release. Further ClearCase® updates will be provided in the 9.0.1 release and later.
Fix Pack 6 (9.0.0.6)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PI59858 Problem: For base ClearCase VOBs using the CMI integration, findmerge -avobs fails when two or more VOBs have elements that require merging.

Fix: The findmerge -avobs command should work properly for multiple VOBs using the CMI integration.

PI63237 Problem: ClearCase reop triggers do not block the request for mastership in synchronous request for mastership checkouts and mkelems.

Fix: Preop triggers on reqmaster will now fire during synchronous request for mastership checkouts and mkelems, and will allow the User to block requests for mastership during those operations.

PI78348 Problem: In ClearTeam Explorer, the graphical version tree would not display the view-selected version correctly if the element name contained @@ (version-extended characters) in the middle of the name.

Fix: ClearTeam Explorer is fixed to display the view-selected version correctly when an element name contains @@ (version-extended characters) in the middle of the name. Note that using the version-extended characters at the end of an element name is not supported in ClearCase.

PI82633 Problem: The scroll bar in missing in ClearCase ClearTeam Explorer (CTE) version tree for some versions of elements that have a large number of labels.

Fix: The missing scrollbar issue has been fixed.

PI86344 Problem: ClearCase users with certain special characters in their password such as: an UMLAUT cannot successfully create an automatic view owing to rview agent failing to log into the server.

Fix: The rview agent now is capable of properly logging into cmserver using the user's credentials even if they have the afore mentioned special characters.

PI86903 Problem: When ClearCase server-side group substitution is enabled, and a user whose UID is not mappable to a username and set of groups attempts to access a view, the view_server emits many log messages about the unmapped user such as "No group list for uid 12345"

Fix: When an unknown user accesses ClearCase, the log messages about their account are classified as warnings and are rate-limited to once per user per cache lifetime interval.

PI87052 Problem: ClearCase Windows clients get errors when communicating with Solaris SPARC VOB or view servers, similar to this: credmap_lookup_whole_string_credentials call failed: RPC: Server can't decode arguments This occurs when both the client and server are running one of these ClearCase releases: 9.0.0.4, 9.0.0.5, 9.0.1, or 9.0.1.1

Fix: The VOB and view servers have been fixed to work correctly with Windows clients

PI87929 Problem: While using a ClearCase dynamic view directory reading operations for directories with many elements may take longer than necessary.

Fix: MVFS was changed to use all the data provided by the view server for directory enumerations.

PI88195 Problem: Attempts to rebuild ClearCase MVFS on Ubuntu 14.04 with kernel 3.13.0-132 result in build error.

Fix: MVFS source code was changed to be compatible with kernel 3.13.0-132.

PI88751 Problem: As a result of changes to simplify the procedure for rebuilding the ClearCase MVFS kernel module on Linux, the instructions in /var/adm/rational/clearcase/mvfs/mvfs_src/README.txt are incorrect.

Fix: The /var/adm/rational/clearcase/mvfs/mvfs_src/README.txt has been updated.

PI88855 Problem: When using ClearCase clients to access a VOB hosted on a different operating system type (one side is Windows, the other is UNIX/Linux), identities for VOB objects may show up with the server's identities instead of being mapped to the client's identities.

Fix: The ClearCase client has been fixed to properly map VOB object identities to the local operating system's identities.

PM97816 Problem: The ClearCase xcleardiff gui does not display color options correctly in ClearCase 8.0.x running on Linux

Fix: Color management has been corrected.

PI57999 Problem: A ClearCase Windows may crash when accessing dynamic views created with -host, -gpath (also PI66371)

Fix: ClearCase was changed to avoid -host, -gpath and -hpath to be used on a non-NAS environment.

PI63928 Problem: When using Visual Studio with projects in an ClearCase automatic view, accessed using a subst'd path in the same way one would with dynamic views, Visual Studio does not recognize the artifacts in the project as being under source control.

Fix: The integration has been enhanced to work with subst'd automatic view roots.  The subst must be of the form: X:\ -> R:\view_tag\

PI85509 Problem: When using the ClearTeam Explorer extension with Rational Application developer the 'Last Modified' and 'Created' fields in the details view will not have valid data.

Fix: The fields now display correct data.

PI85853 Problem: When opening a solution that is under Source Control from Windows Explorer or ClearCase Explorer an error is shown saying "The source control provider associated with this solution could not be found. The projects will be treated as not under source control. Do you want to permanently remove the source control bindings from this project?"

Fix: This issue has been fixed.

PI88572 Problem: Customer may be seeing the root  ClearCase MVFS(Multi Version File System ) path with a  double backslash("\\"") at the end of the path when using net use command.

Fix: ClearCase Network Provider was changed to avoid this behavior.


Fix Pack 5 (9.0.0.5)
Link Date Released Status
Download 9.0.0.5

APAR Description
PI85611 Problem: File operations on ClearCase dynamic views can cause the appearance of D-state process.

Fix: MVFS was changed to detect and prevent the error condition that makes the D-state process occurrence.

PI83758 Problem: The ClearCase db_server processes can behave erratically if single token lines are placed in the db.conf file.

Fix: The db_server processes properly parse single token lines in the db.conf file.

PI83381 Problem: Checkout and other operations in an automatic view hosted on a Solaris SPARC host could fail with errors similar to this: CRMAP7009: Command "CCW_CCase::checkout_rpc" failed: Error: "CRMAP7009: Command: "rview_agent command" failed: 20001: Operation "ns_readdir_ext" failed: error detected by ClearCase Subsystem." and leave the automatic view corrupted.

Fix: The CCRC WAN server on Solaris SPARC has been fixed to work correctly for checkout and other operations.

PI83215 Problem: ClearCase view private files larger than 4 KB take more time to read on SUSE SLES 12 SP2 when compared to SUSE SLES 11 SP3.

Fix:MVFS was fixed to make the read-ahead work correctly on SUSE SLES 12. logged.

PI82948 Problem: Attempting to connect to the ClearCase CCRC WAN server will fail if the user account is numeric only.

Fix: Numeric only user accounts now correctly connect.

PI82359 Problem: ClearCase processes crash when executed by a Windows account that is a member of a group represented by long Windows SID, such as SIDs for non-domain accounts linked to a Microsoft account 

Fix: ClearCase processes no longer fail with such accounts, but ClearCase will ignore any group (behave as if the user is not a member of the group)  represented by a long Windows SID.

PI82010 Problem: The outdated Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Visual C++ runtimes are distributed with ClearCase and ClearQuest as those products have components that depend on them.

Fix: All dependencies on the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Visual C++ runtimes have been removed from ClearCase and ClearQuest, and those runtimes are no longer installed

PI81810 Problem: When exporting a view and VOB path for non-ClearCase access from a RedHat Linux server, applications on the client side may experience access denied or similar errors.

Fix: Necessary permission override checks were added to properly handle the root user id for access, rather than blocking the remote access for root.

PI81434 Problem: ClearCase clearmrgman dumps core when performing "checkin".

Fix: The clearmrgman cleanup handler has been fixed.

PI81394 Problem: The ClearCase clearmake utility (on UNIX/Linux platforms) could stall waiting for a child build process to complete, even when the child process has actually finished and exited.

Fix: Clearmake now periodically checks for pending child build processes to confirm if they are still running, and to proceed with the remainder of the build if they have completed.

PI81268 Problem: When ClearCase Explorer has been used to access a UCM view, but then gets left idle for a long period of time, then on resumption it hangs for a short period and then gives: "Trouble communicating with VOB database \".

Fix: Users will not encounter such error messages when ClearCase Explorer client is left idle for a long period of time.

PI80609 Problem: ClearCase customers may experience a system crash when accessing MVFS files.

Fix: This issue has been resolved.

PI80487 Problem: A ClearCase Syncreplica -import of the modstream_cspec oplog generated by creating a child stream fails with a segmentation fault in a sibling that has removed the parent stream.

Fix: The replay code has been modified to properly store the modstream_cspec oplog while skipping its replay if the parent stream is not found in the importing replica.

PI79130 Problem: The ClearCase "xclearcase" or "xlsvtree" graphical interfaces (on Linux hosts) will hang when started with an invalid path.

Fix: ClearCase exit handling code was fixed.

PI78918 Problem: A ClearCase "RMSTREAM" of "Feature Level 5" stream after raising VOB to "Feature Level 7" FAILS WITH "ERROR FROM VOB DATABASE" FOR UCM PROJECT VOB.

Fix: Feature Level 7 VOBs now can handle "rmstream" command from Feature Level 5.

PI78636 Problem: An attempt to rebuild the MultiVersion File System kernel module for IBM ClearCase will fail on SUSE SLES12 SP2 and Ubuntu 16.04 systems with the error message: /var/adm/rational/clearcase/mvfs/mvfs_src/mvfs_mdep_linux.c:2764:9: error: implicit declaration of function  inode_capable  [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]

Fix: This problem has been resolved.

PI78498 Problem: When running ClearCase SLES 12 SP2, you may observe repetitive messages such as this in the syslog: systemd[16300]: Failed to get udev device from devnum 253:0: No such device

Fix: The ClearCase MVFS has been updated to provide the information which systemd is querying in this situation, to eliminate the log messages.

PI78319 Problem: ClearCase customers are unable to use dynamic views because MVFS is not loaded on Windows 10 if Device Guard is enabled.

Fix: The ClearCase MVFS driver was changed to adopt the requirements imposed by Device Guard.

PI78185 Problem: When attempting to build the ClearCase MultiVersion Filesystem (MVFS) as part of installing ClearCase on a SuSE 12 SP2 host, the MVFS will not build successfully.

Fix: A problem which caused errors when rebuilding the ClearCase MVFS on SuSE 12 SP2 systems was fixed.

PI77954 Problem:Removing a ClearCase UCM stream while a remote site has a view attached (to the stream) causes the db dumper to fail.

Fix: The db dumper has been fixed.

PI77782 Problem: The ClearCase UCM/ClearQuest integration was creating multiple ClearQuest web sessions when using ClearTeam Explorer with a web-based view.

Fix: The UCM/ClearQuest integration now uses fewer ClearQuest web sessions when using ClearTeam Explorer with a web-based view.

PI77492 Problem: A user is unable to connect to a ClearCase Remote Client WAN server, if the login URL contains a trailing  white space.

Fix: Trailing white space is now removed from URLs in all cases.

PI77042 Problem:ClearCase users cannot create or use automatic views if the "http_proxy" environment variable is set.

Fix: Automatic views now work using direct connections to the CCRC WAN server even when the "http_proxy" environment variable is set. NOTE:  Automatic views do not support proxies, even if ClearTeam Explorer is configured to use proxies.

PI76793 Problem: Intermittently a ClearCase shipping_server may hang after executing a shipping order or during syncreplica -export -fship

Fix: The shipping_server will now complete its actions without hanging.

PI76695 Problem: As documented in ClearCase technote 1259280, accessing non-VOB files using a view-extended pathname on Linux kernels after 2.4.18 is not supported due to kernel limitations.  However, on some kernels, this may cause a system crash.

Fix: The non-VOB pathname access using a view-extended pathname is still not supported, but ClearCase has been updated so that these references will not cause a system crash.

PI76681 Problem: In a relatively rare configuration of NFS (/net not being used for the automounts, but used for view storage) the ClearCase rmview command will pause for 30 seconds as it waits for all the files in the view_storage to no longer be accessible. Aggressive NFS directory caching by the AIX OS is responsible for this.

Fix: The NFS cached directory contents are explicitly flushed prior to removing view storage, thus avoiding the 30 second pause on rmview.   This fix is for AIX only.

PI76489 Problem: A ClearCase checkout using the ctcmd.pm module fails with an abort.

Fix: A ClearCase checkout using the ctcmd.pm module no longer aborts.

PI76420 Problem: Rational ClearCase/Cadence integration menu customizations do not load properly after upgrading to ClearCase 8.0.1.13

Fix: The menu customization issue is resolved.

PI75470 Problem: ClearTeam Explorer can produce the following error when attempting a directory merge when in a webview: "As a result of a directory merge operation, one or more resources, requiring a merge, have been removed"

Fix: A directory merge in a webview will no longer result in the error.

PI75108 Problem: Users of ClearCase dynamic views may see messages reporting stale transaction ids in the mvfs_log log file.  Unexpected application I/O errors or hangs may coincide with these messages.

Fix: The logic for how the MVFS handles certain transient errors in communicating with a view_server process has been corrected.

PI73234 Problem: The ClearCase web-based UCM/ClearQuest integration was unable to work on ClearQuest records that contained security contexts where the user was not a member of one or more of those contexts.

Fix:The web-based UCM/CQ integration can now work on ClearQuest records that contain security contexts where the user is not a member of one or more of those contexts.

PI72025 Problem:Creating or deleting hyperlinks that span VOBs (common in a UCM setup) in IBM Rational ClearCase can lead to a situation where two processes are waiting on each other for a lock on one of the VOB databases. This will lead to the Dead Man Lock Timeout to be triggered, making one of the two operations to fail.

Fix: A ClearCase db transaction will be suspended and restarted for cross vob hlinks.

PI51355 Problem: When searching for files in a ClearCase dynamic view, using the Windows Explorer Search feature, you may not see any results.

Fix: Changes were made on ClearCase Network Provider to return correct path information.

PI29080 Problem: When mounting a ClearCase VOB on some versions of Linux (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x, SUSE Linux 12.x, Ubuntu Linux 16.04), the mount will succeed, but a warning will be displayed: "mount.mvfs: Warning: unable to open mount table".

Fix: The ClearCase VOB mount code has been updated so that the system mount table is updated correctly on versions of Linux where it is virtual, rather than a file /etc/mtab.  With this fix, the warning message is eliminated.

PI25448 Problem: When performing audited builds in IBM Rational ClearCase dynamic views on Microsoft Windows, the audit record may not be complete.

Fix: Changes were made to correct the auditing of non-cached reads.

PI24698 Problem: When using the Rational ClearCase File Service (CCFS) as the interoperability solution to access Unix-hosted VOBS from Windows you may encounter a "Permission denied " error.

Fix: Windows now skips permission denied ports.

PI19733 Problem: When using a makefile to overwrite a file using the move command in a ClearCase Dynamic View you may notice that the source file was not removed.

Fix: ClearCase Multi Version File System was changed to enable winked-in files to be overwritten on move operations.

PI19218 Problem: The ClearCase Unix version tree browser dumps core when the zoom control was used to shrink the version tree.

Fix: The Unix version tree browser has been fixed.


Fix Pack 4 (9.0.0.4)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PI74251 Problem: File lock operations on ClearCase files when the view storage is NFS4 may result in error EBADF (Bad file number).

Fix: The Linux MVFS driver was modified to set the file access mode that can be accepted by NFS4.

PI73751 Problem: Some xattr operations on ClearCase view or VOB files on SUSE Linux may cause D-STATE (zombies) processes.

Fix: ClearCase MVFS was changed to avoid acquiring the inode mutex for xattr operations.

PI73735 Problem: Users of ClearCase on Oracle Solaris 11 may experience a system crash when using NFS-mounted remote VOB storage.

Fix: A defect in the ClearCase MVFS, which caused corruption of NFS data, has been fixed.

PI73587 Problem: When working in ClearTeam Explorer (CTE) , you may find that the file you just checked out does not appear to be checked out only when the path is accessed through address bar.

Fix: Check out status is displayed as expected in ClearTeam Details pane, even when the file is accessed from the address bar.

PI73356 Problem: ClearCase "chmaster -stream" may not change mastership of timeline objects.

Fix: On schema 80 and feature level 8, "chmaster -stream" will change mastership of timeline objects whether it has timeline folder or not.

PI73135 Problem: ClearCase users may see intermittent Access Denied errors when accessing files using non-ClearCase Access if the VOB root directory does not have execute permissions set.

Fix: Capability checks have been added to the MVFS permission checks to resolve this situation.

PI73132 Problem: On AIX 7.1, using the open() system call with the O_CLOEXEC flag to open a file/dir in the ClearCase MVFS returns EINVAL.

Fix: On AIX 7.1 (and later) the O_CLOEXEC flag can now be used to open a file/dir in the ClearCase MVFS.

PI72644 Problem: In rare situations, ClearCase clearmake could hang when starting a child process to execute a build step.

Fix: ClearCase clearmake has been fixed to continue execution properly when starting child processes.

PI70236 Problem: When a building in a ClearCase dynamic view, you may experience sporadic random read/write errors

Fix: This issue with IBM Rational ClearCase MVFS has been resolved.

PI69005 Problem: The ClearCase binary_delta  type manager may not remove temporary file(s) after a failed type manager operation.

Fix:The ClearCase binary_delta  type manager was fixed to remove temporary files.

PI68851 Problem: When using the ClearCase Remote Client command line interface -- rcleartool -- attempts to use rcleartool mkattr to create or update a string attribute may fail with 'invalid string "{passed string}"'.

Fix: Non-interactive invocations of rcleartool mkattr for string attributes no longer strips the embedded quotes and should apply the attribute properly.

PI67531 Problem: When using the ClearCase Remote Client command line interface -- rcleartool -- attempts to use rcleartool mkattr to create or update a string attribute may fail with 'invalid string "{passed string}"'.

Fix: When automatically re-establishing a login session, a CTE, CMAPI or rcleartool client no longer consumes all the sessions available on a CCRC WAN server.

PI64788 Problem: After writing to a file and closing it, if an application sets its attributes, ClearCase MVFS will change the attributes back to the values the file had when it was closed.

Fix: Before setting attributes after having a file changed and closed, MVFS now checks if the attributes has been set by an application and will persist it if so.

PI161697 Problem: When building in an ClearCase dynamic view, you may experience a hang.

Fix: The lock acquisition rule has been fixed to resolve this specific case.

PI44831 Problem: When using CtCmd with Rational ClearCase "cleartool describe -fmt" the output is truncated by one byte if the first string is 16384 characters and the second the second string is one byte longer than the first.

Fix: Cleartool describe buffer handling was fixed.

PI30193 Problem: When performing audited builds in a ClearCase dynamic view the customer will see an "ACCESS DENIED" error log entry when deleting a derived object, although the delete operation completes successfully.

Fix: When a MVFS file is about to be deleted, MVFS tries to flush any pending change on the cache to its cleartext file, however derived object files are stored on a VOB, which are opened as read-only. Trying to flush files opened as read-only causes the "ACCESS DENIED" error seen on the log. Now MVFS only request a flush on such situation if the cleartext file is stored on a VIEW, and not on a VOB.

PI28582 Problem: In a ClearCase nonpreserving replica with ACLs enabled, syncreplica replay of a mkelem oplog may generate a second "create file element" event in the database, which can cause failures in reformatvob and mkreplica -impor

Fix: The duplicate "create" event will no longer be generated.


Fix Pack 3 (9.0.0.3)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PM98488 Problem: When running the ClearCase cleartool protectvob command against an ClearCase VOB stored over NFS, you may encounter an  error if the hostname of the storage device and the root of the NFS share are greater than 64 characters combined.

Fix: Faulty string manipulation has been corrected.

PM98062 Problem: If a stream in a replicated UCM project VOB has "POLICY_CHSTREAM_UNRESTRICTED" enabled, then users at multiple sites are able to upgrade it to incrementally/fully labeled which causes multiple labels to be created/attached and the label status becomes "unavailable"

Fix: Mastership will be checked if POLICY_CHSTREAM_UNRESTRICTED is enabled.

PI70543 Problem: When working in the ClearCase integration with Visual Studio 2015, you may find that the application crashes if you try to close a view private file that is either a .c or .h file in Visual Studio.

Fix: Faulty string manipulation has been fixed.

PI70333 Problem: When using the Change Management Integration with ClearQuest some CMI provider errors were not appearing in the cmi_log and required tracing to properly debug.

Fix: CMI provider errors that were previously not appearing in the cmi_log are now properly logged.

PI70255 Problem: When using the ClearCase/ClearQuest (CC/CQ) UCM integration through ClearQuest Web, there is a login error when trying to view a change set.

Fix: Change sets can now be viewed in ClearQuest Web using the CC/CQ UCM integration.

PI70235 Problem: When working in the Rational ClearCase ClearTeam Explorer (CTE), you may find that doing a "merge to" in the CTE Version Tree will launch the Diffmerge GUI and will not detect the merge as a "trivial merge".

Fix: A new preference is introduced which will let the user control this behavior. And by default the merges from Version Tree will be done automatically. Preference location: Team->IBM Rational ClearTeam Explorer->Integration->Compare/Merge

PI68935 Problem: ClearCase checkin failure due to a missing source container reports cleartext path.

Fix: The source container is now correctly included in the error message.

PI68289 Problem: When you are working in the ClearCase and Visual Studio 2013 integration, you may find that the ClearCase context menu items are greyed out after performing your first ClearCase operation.

Fix: The CC-VS integration was not installed correctly, that has been fixed.

PI65782 Problem: When using ClearTeam Explorer (CTE) and entering a directory for the first time, it can take a very long time to list the content. This is most visible if there is a huge number of files, symlinks or sub-directories.

Fix: There is improved performance especially when browsing parents with large number of symlinks underneath them.

PI64278 Problem: When performing a distributed or parallel build using the ClearCase clearmake utility, the build may fail with automated build executor (abe) process errors.

Fix: Code that checks automated build executor (abe) process ids has been fixed.

PI59089 Problem: In the ClearCase Knowledge Center, the ClearCase section Administering the CCRC WAN server > Configuring ClearQuest integration with ClearCase UCM topic states that: "A sample ClearQuest database map file that you can use as a template is installed here: clearcase_home/config/ccrc/ClearQuest-db-mapfile.conf.sample."

Fix: The correct statement is: "A sample ClearQuest database map file that you can use as a template is installed here: clearcase_home/config/ccrc/cq-db-mapfile.conf.sample."

PI58632 Problem:When opening a Visual Studio (VS) project created without a solution file, the ClearCase (CC) plugin is not available in Visual Studio 2013-2015.

Fix: The CC-VS integration was not installed correctly, that has been fixed.

PI29080 Problem: When mounting a ClearCase VOB on some versions of Linux (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x, SUSE Linux 12.x, Ubuntu Linux 16.04), the mount will succeed, but a warning will be displayed: "mount.mvfs: Warning: unable to open mount table".

Fix: The ClearCase VOB mount code has been updated so that the system mount table is updated correctly on versions of Linux where it is virtual, rather than a file /etc/mtab.  With this fix, the warning message is eliminated.

PI18297 Problem: After raising a VOB family to Feature Level 8, the ClearCase view_server logs show a warning on chmaster/protect events for new UCM types: "Unexpected vob event on vobserver."

Fix: The view_server will no longer log warnings for these events for the new UCM types.


Fix Pack 2 (9.0.0.2)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PI67531 Problem: In rare cases when automatically re-establishing a login session to an IBM Rational ClearCase CCRC WAN Server, a CTE, CMAPI or rcleartool client might consume all the sessions available on a CCRC WAN Server.

Fix: When automatically re-establishing a login session, a CTE, CMAPI or rcleartool client no longer consumes all the sessions available on a CCRC WAN Server.

PI65421 Problem: The lockmgr documentation for ClearCase 8.0.1 and greater is incorrect.

Fix: The reference page for the lockmgr command has been substantially revised.

PI65078 Problem: A long lived credmap_server process on an IBM Rational ClearCase will slowly consume additional process memory and will eventually crash.

Fix: The credmap_server memory leak has been fixed.

PI64629 Problem: IBM Rational ClearCase Explorer may become unresponsive if the server authentication expires and the user has the preferences set to store and reuse the login credentials.

Fix: Fixes a problem in Rational ClearCase Explorer where it might previously become unresponsive if the server authentication expired and the user had the preferences set to store and reuse the login credentials.

PI64193 Problem: When using IBM Rational ClearCase Explorer as an Eclipse plug-in, running in an Eclipse shell executing on an Oracle Java runtime environment, version 6, CTE fails to connect to the CCRC WAN Server with an error: CRMAP7009: Command "login" failed: Java.lang.Illegal StateException: null"

Fix: ClearCase Explorer running with the Oracle Java Runtime, version 6 now correctly connects to a CCRC WAN Server.

PI64067 Problem: If the ClearQuest Web session time-out is set to a higher value than the license time-out, licenses for inactive CQ Web sessions are only released when the CQ session time-out occurs and not after the (earlier) license time-out. This could cause CQ Web users to consume too many licenses during busy times of the day.

Fix: Rational Common Licensing has been fixed so that inactive CQ Web sessions licenses are now released correctly according to the license time-out value as opposed to the higher web session time-out value.

PI64012 Problem: The UCM/CQ integration was erroneously preventing deliver and other operations that involve CQ hooks from being performed in a CQ Web environment. An error would appear stating to use the "ClearQuest OSLC REST interface with ClearCase" even when that interface was already in use.

Fix: The UCM/CQ integration now allows deliver and other operations that involve CQ hooks to be performed in a CQ Web environment.

PI63410 Problem: When working with the ClearCase Explorer integrated with RDz, the CLEARCASE_COMMENT variable entry is empty when the user adds an element of a logical model to source control.

Fix: Fixes a problem in ClearCase Explorer integrated with RDz to ensure that the CLEARCASE_COMMENT variable is properly set when the user adds an element of a logical model to source control.

PI63100 Problem: If the ClearCase MVFS logging severity level is increased to "stale" on a Solaris 10 or 11 system running IBM Rational ClearCase, the occurrence of an NFS ESTALE error which triggers a logging event may cause a system panic.

Fix: A logging format error has been corrected, eliminating the chance for a null pointer reference.

PI62956 Problem: In rare circumstances, when using an IBM ClearCase VOB with ACLs enabled, a heavily loaded view server process may crash due to invalid references to memory that has been reused.

Fix: view_server has been fixed to use properly allocated ACL data at all times.

PI62729 Problem: When you are working in an IBM Rational ClearCase dynamic view, you may experience a Microsoft STOP error (blue screen crash).

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase has been updated to fix a defect which caused an incorrect data to be accessed.

PI62701 Problem: IBM Rational ClearCase rcleartool was assuming that a JSESSIONID would always be available to save with cached session data.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase rcleartool now checks that JSESSIONID is present before storing the current settings and writes the default value if it is not.

PI62646 Problem: The ClearCase V9.0 knowledge center contained information about WebSphere that is applicable to ClearCase V8.0.x

Fix: The information has been updated to apply to ClearCase V9.0

PI61718 Problem: When using the ClearCase Explorer Extension with RDz, you may find that the perference to decorate project names with view tags does not always work.

Fix: When using the ClearCase Explorer Extension with RDz the project names are now always decorated with view tags if the appropriate preference is set.

PI61619 Problem: When working in an IBM Rational ClearCase dynamic view, you may experience a Microsoft STOP error (blue screen crash).

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase has been updated to fix a defect which caused incorrect data to be accessed.

PI61359 Problem: When using IBM Rational ClearTeam Explorer (CTE), there is a refreshing error when performing checkout or checkin of a file element if there is another checked out element that has been removed from the web view copyarea path.

Fix: The property that provides this information now skips files that cannot be found

PI59651 Problem: Users of ClearCase dynamic views on MicroSoft Windows 10 may experience a Windows STOP error (blue screen), with bugcheck code "MULTIPLE_IRP_COMPLETE_REQUESTS"(44)"

Fix: The problem with incorrect IRP completion during I/O operations in ClearCase dynamic views on Microsoft Windows 10 is fixed by a Windows patch which is available in the patch rollup https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3176493

PI59178 Problem: IBM ClearCase cleartool manpages for ACL administration commands (mkrolemap, chrolemap, lsrolemap, rmrolemap, mkpolicy, chpolicy, lspolicy and rmpolicy) are unable.

Fix: The cleartool man command displays manpages for ACL administration commands.

PI59063 Problem: IBM Rational ClearCase automatic views mounted VOB tags (on a per-view basis) were handled in a case sensitive manner on Windows regardless of the setting of the MVFS case insensitive flag.

Fix: The MVFS case insensitive flag is now used when handling mounted VOB tags in automatic views on Windows.

PI58795 Problem: In IBM Rational ClearCase ClearTeamExplorer (CTE) sub-directories of the VOBs are not shown in the "Apply Label" wizard GUI

Fix: Sub-directories of the VOBs will now be listed in "Apply Label" wizard and available for selection.

PI51867 Problem: If an IBM ClearCase "rmstream" operation fails in the process of removing the foundation baselines from the configuration of the stream, then the STREAM record in the VOB is left in a corrupted state.

Fix: After the failure, some internal objects are deleted but the pointers are kept in the stream record. This fix checks internal objects existence before trying to delete it again on the next rmstream command.

PI47621 Problem: IBM ClearCase rcleartool error handling failed to increment the argument counter for failed checkins, causing subsequent messages to be off my one.

Fix: Error handling has been corrected so that output element names are now synched with actual behaviour.

PI45519 Problem: A locked IBM ClearCase pvob can cause "rebase -comp" to fail.

Fix: A new routine is used to remove broken hyperlinks caused by locked pvob, so "rebase-comp" can continue to create a new hype

PI12363 Problem: In the IBM Rational ClearCase Cadence Integration, MultiSite SRFM operations do not show enough information for failures arising from checkouts at the remote sibling.

Fix: This fix improves the error message in the case where a checkout at a remote sibling blocks fulfillment of a SRFM operation.

PI05605 Problem: IBM Rational ClearCase Windows dynamic views in case sensitve mode, case preserving mode was not respected. Names were always entered in lower-case.

Fix: On Windows, in case sensitive mode (not the common default which is case insensitive) the case preserving flag is now set correctly so names keep the case they were entered with.


Fix Pack 1 (9.0.0.1)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PM79307 Problem: Performing a checkout using a dynamic view in IBM Rational ClearCase ClearTeam Explorer (CTE) with a configuration specification (config spec) which selects a version other than LATEST on the branch results in a checkout of LATEST on that branch. Although a setting exists to allow web views to checkout the view selected version (Window > Preferences > IBM Rational ClearTeam Explorer > Dialogs > Checkout > "Checkout the version that is loaded even if it is not the latest", this setting does not change the behavior of dynamic views.

Fix: When performing a checkout in a dynamic view and the view-selected version is not the latest on the branch, the user is now allowed to choose whether to checkout the view-selected version or the latest version on the branch. A new set of preferences have been added for dynamic views: Window > Preferences > IBM Rational ClearTeam Explorer > Dialogs > Checkout >"Checkout the view-selected version even if it is not the latest on the branch" and "Checkout the latest version on the branch".

PI60070 Problem: When working in Rational Developer for Z Systems with ClearTeam Explorer extension, you may find that the preference to decorate project names with view tags does not work in the HLL view.

Fix: When working in Rational Developer for Z Systems with ClearTeam Explorer extension, the preference to decorate project names with view tags now works correctly in all RDz views, including in the HLL view.

PI60065 Problem: When working in Rational Developer for Z Systems with ClearTeam Explorer extension, you may find that the Team menu options are not correctly enabled in the HLL view.

Fix: When working in Rational Developer for Z Systems with ClearTeam Explorer extension, the Team menu options are now enabled correctly in the HLL view.

PI59905 Problem: IBM ClearCase cleartool commands using "-fmt %[dstreams]Xp" may overflow its output buffer.

Fix: The "-fmt %[dstreams]Xp" option has been modified to expand its output buffer as needed.

PI59748 Problem: When an Automatic view database attempts to reformat via the view db_dumper and db_loader, this can fail.  This leaves the view in an unusable state.

Fix: Automatic view reformat has been fixed.

PI58916 Problem: When working in an IBM Rational ClearCase dynamic view, you may receive a Microsoft STOP error of BAD_POOL_HEADER (19).

Fix: IBM Rational Clearcase was changed to avoid this crash.

PI57857 Problem: IBM Rational ClearCase cleartool command could crash if an excessively long string is passed as the -type argument

Fix: cleartool has been fixed to work properly with any length input string for the -type argument

PI57453 Problem: When working in an IBM Rational ClearCase dynamic view and running the gnuwin32 cp.exe command, you may find that the file is not truncated correctly.

Fix: MVFS now notifies cache manager appropriately when changing the file allocation information removing the race condition.

PI57204 Problem: Running the IBM Rational ClearCase command: "cleartool chmaster" on a read-only stream may result in an internal error.

Fix: The internal error is no longer reported.

PI56714 Problem: After upgrade to update 3 of Solaris 11, starting IBM Rational ClearCase in any non-global zone on that system will cause a system crash.

Fix: The MVFS initialization code has been updated to work correctly on Solaris 11 update 3.

PI56221 Problem: In some cases IBM Rational ClearCase users would find that they could not access views and vobs exported using non-ClearCase access and would receive STALE NFS FILE HANDLE errors.

Fix: STALE NFS FILE HANDLE errors when accessing views and VOB exported using non-ClearCase access have been resolved.

PI55768 Problem: When using a tool such as kdiff to compare file differences between versions in two different ClearCase dynamic views on Microsoft Windows, the user may experience a Microsoft STOP error DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (d1)

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase has been updated to fix a defect which caused I/O data structures to be incorrect.

PI54375 Problem: IBM Rational ClearCase "cleartool merge" or "cleartool diff" with the flags "-tiny" or "-window" on Linux may fail.

Fix: The xterm path location on Linux is correctly used.

PI53844 Problem: When working in a ClearCase dynamic view in Microsoft Visual Studio, users may experience a Microsoft STOP error of BAD_POOL_HEADER (19) when opening a large project.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase has been updated to fix a defect which caused I/O data structures to be corrupted.

PI53747 Problem: When performing a highly parallel build in an IBM ClearCase dynamic view, you may experience a system hang.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase MVFS was modified to avoid synchronization issues that was causing a system hang.

PI53155 Problem: In IBM Rational ClearTeam Explorer the compare baselines OK button is grayed out and cannot be selected.

Fix: The OK button can now be selected.

PI52979 Problem: When describing a file element version in an IBM Rational Clearcase Versioned Object Base (VOB), the output will be truncated at 153097 bytes when formatting the describe to only return labels. (-fmt %Nl)

Fix: The output buffer used by -fmt %Nl now expands as needed to include all labels.

PI50990 Problem: When using Microsoft Visual Studio and searching within a large project in an IBM ClearCase dynamic view, you may experience a Windows STOP error (BSOD) when opening a file found during the search.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase has been updated to fix a defect which caused I/O data structures to be incorrect.

PI50577 Problem: When performing a highly parallel build in an IBM ClearCase dynamic view, you may experience a Microsoft Windows STOP error (blue screen crash) with the status  DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (d1).

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase has been updated to fix a defect which caused I/O data structures to be incorrect.

PI48197 Problem: In IBM Rational ClearCase, when creating an integration view from the "join project" dialogue in ClearTeam Explorer, the "Finish" button is greyed out.

Fix: In the problem case, the "Finish" button can now be selected.

PI45760 Problem: When performing container recovery/repair in an IBM Rational ClearCase Versioned Object Base (VOB) the checkvob command may fail while processing damaged UTF16 or UTF32 elements.

Fix: The checkvob command is now able to process UTF16 and UTF32 elements.

PI45746 Problem: When attempting to repair missing/corrupt source containers in an IBM Rational ClearCase Versioned Object Base (VOB), the checkvob tool may incorrectly determine the storage format of the potential replacement container when the element type manager is one of the more-recently introduced element types: Rose/xde/Unicode, etc.

Fix: The correct element type is now detected and used.

PI43668 Problem: IBM ClearCase cleartool commands using "-fmt %[CONFIG_SPEC]P" may overflow its output buffer.

Fix: The "-fmt %[CONFIG_SPEC]P" option has been modified to expand its output buffer as needed.

PI43174 Problem: When you are running the following command against an IBM Rational ClearCase Access Control List (ACLS) enabled vob, you may receive an error: cleartool lspolicy policy:PolicyName@\VOB tag cleartool: Error: Policy not found: "policy:PolicyName".

Fix: Both formats of the lspolicy command (""  "policy:") are now accepted.

PI41762 Problem: IBM ClearCase clearmake on a unix platform may crash with a segmentation fault for a specific clearmake case where a target has multiple dependencies, and in the building of the target, one or more of the dependencies are specifically removed.

Fix: Clearmake has been updated to properly handle this specific case.

PI40960 Problem: Incorrect user is identified as checking in a file in ClearTeam Explorer if a merge is required due to a previous checkin.

Fix: The correct owner will be now be reported in the message.

PI36172 Problem: When IBM ClearCase clearmake is executed with the environment variable MAKEFLAGS set to a name/value pair of a specific length, clearmake may crash with a segment fault.

Fix: Clearmake has been modified to not crash under the specific name/value pair length situation.

PI31561 Problem: When attempting to checkin a large directory/element set with the aggregated checkin function, the operation will appear to hang and never complete.

Fix: List of checkouts is now only fetched once when get aliases.

PI15110 Problem: When working in an IBM Rational ClearCase UCM Multisite environment having mutiple pvobs, it is possible that oplogs generated by running "cleartool rebase -dbaseline" may not be replayed properly in sibling replicas, causing subsequent failures at those siblings when running "mkreplica -export" or "reformatvob" commands.

Fix: This fix causes the oplogs to be replayed properly at sibling replicas.

PI11830 Problem: A ClearCase Windows client using a Unix/Linux view to access an ACL enabled VOB may get access denied even though the client's primary group matches the owner group of the VOB.  One manifestation could be a "dir /acl-enabled-vob-name" command would show no contents in the VOB with no other apparent error.

Fix: ClearCase was modified to check the primary group as well as the grouplist when looking for a matching group during ACL checks.


Initial release (9.0)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PI07939 Problem: UCM MULTISITE: REBASE INFORMATION NOT PROPAGATED TO SIBLING REPLICAS

Fix: New oplog is created to propagate "sideway" rebase operation to sibling replicas. 

PI25198 Problem: When performing an rcleartool diff vs predecessor, the predecessor version was being fetched without taking the view text mode into consideration. This could cause all lines to show as different due to mis-matched line termination.

Fix: The underlying RPC which supports the fetch of non-loaded versions for rcleartool diff now supports communication of the view being used for the operation so that the server can use the correct text mode for constructing the cleartext.

PI41354 Problem: When using the ClearTeam Explorer, the Pending Changes view does not show the changes incoming from a view update

Fix: Fixes a problem in the ClearTeam Explorer where the Pending Changes view does not show the changes incoming from a view update

PI45746 Problem: When attempting to repair missing/corrupt source containers in an IBM Rational ClearCase Versioned Object Base (VOB), the checkvob tool may incorrectly determine the storage format of the potential replacement container when the element type manager is one of the more-recently introduced element types: Rose/xde/Unicode, etc.

Fix: The correct element type is now detected and used.

PI45760 Problem: When performing container recovery/repair in an IBM Rational ClearCase Versioned Object Base (VOB) the checkvob command may fail while processing damaged UTF16 or UTF32 elements.

Fix: The checkvob command is now able to process UTF16 and UTF32 elements.

PI46457 Problem: When using the IBM Rational ClearCase xcleardiff tool to merge files on Ubuntu 14.04, the following error occurs: /opt/rational/clearcase/lib/mgrs/text_file_delta/xmerge: symbol lookup error: /opt/rational/clearcase/lib/mgrs/text_file_delta/xmerge: undefined symbol: XmRedisplayWidget

Fix: The xcleardiff tool has been repaired so that it works correctly on Ubuntu 14.04

PI49353 Problem: If you are working in an IBM Rational ClearCase dynamic view on Microsoft Windows, you may experience a  hang on operations accessing file objects in a view or VOB.

Fix: There is a scenario in which MVFS was trying to acquire a lock with no need that would lead to a dead lock. The lock acquisition was removed on that specific scenario.

PI53364 Problem: On all UNIX platforms, performance of "ls -l" at the VOB mount point is very slow after some period of inactivity. Additionally, the performance of commands that issue a getcwd() library can be slow on some UNIX platforms if the getcwd() obtains metadata for all mounted VOBS at the VOB mount point.

Fix: As a performance optimization, the last vobrpc_server for a VOB will never exit for all UNIX platforms.

PI54384 Problem: ClearCase MultiSite documentation does not explain that when the VOB family feature level of a replica is 8, changing a replica from non-preserving to preserving is blocked to prevent inconsistent notions of identities and permissions among members of the VOB family.

Fix: The following topic have been updated to address the omission: the overview of feature levels in MultiSite administration documentation, the reference pages for the multitool chreplica command, and the reference page for the cleartool chflevel command.


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Fix Pack 25 (8.0.1.25)
Link Date Released Status
Download 8.0.1.25


Fix Pack 24 (8.0.1.24)
Link Date Released Status
Download 8.0.1.24

APAR Description
PH25682 Problem: A segmentation fault may occur when running an executable built within a ClearCase dynamic view on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.8 system.

Fix: Running an executable built within a ClearCase dynamic view no longer seg faults.


Fix Pack 23 (8.0.1.23)
Link Date Released Status
Download 8.0.1.23

APAR Description
PI49720 Problem: Customer may experience a crash when building using code composer IDE.

Fix: ClearCase was changed to avoid -host, -gpath and -hpath to be used on a non-NAS environment.

PM96191 Problem: "Operation Not permitted" error on Windows XP/2003 when starting a view stored on Netap 8.2 cDOT.

Fix: ClearCase views stored on Netap 8.2 cDOT no longer experience this issue.


Fix Pack 22 (8.0.1.22)
Link Date Released Status
Download 8.0.1.22

APAR Description
PI97362 Problem: ClearCase and ClearQuest installs the Microsoft VC++ 2008 run-time to support the IBM GSKit library. The Microsoft VC++ 2008 run-time has gone out of support and needs to be updated.

Fix: The GSKit has been updated to version 8.0.55.9 which depends on the Microsoft VC++ 2013 run-time instead of the Microsoft VC++ 2008 run-time. With this update ClearCase and ClearQuest will no longer install the Microsoft VC++ 2008 run-time.


Fix Pack 21 (8.0.1.21)
Link Date Released Status
Download 8.0.1.21

APAR Description
PH06211 Problem: ClearCase users on Oracle Solaris systems sporadically experience extremely slow performance of a particular dynamic view, accompanied by a series of error messages of the form: "View server for not responding still trying (st=5 er=145).

Fix: Sporadic slow performance of a dynamic view on Oracle Solaris occurs when there is a conflict between kernel services using the same udp port for RPCs. This is fixed in ClearCase 8.0.1.21 and 9.0.1.7.


Fix Pack 20 (8.0.1.20)
Link Date Released Status

Fix Pack 19 (8.0.1.19)
Link Date Released Status

APAR Description
PH00330 Problem: On Windows Server 2008R2 the installer was incorrectly warning the user that the operating system was not supported. Support for Windows Server 2008R2 was removed in version 9.0.1 but reinstated in 9.0.1.3.

Fix: Since Windows Server 2008R2 is again a supported operating systems the warning has been removed from the installer.

PH01969 Problem: The ClearCase context menu in Windows Explorer is missing after an upgrade to version 9.0.1.4.

Fix: The ClearCase context menu in Windows Explorer has been restored.

PH02405 Problem: Using the UCM/CQ integration Find activities operation unusable on ClearTeam Explorer CCCQ UCM with local views.

Fix: The fix involved adding handling of the login to distinguish properly between the ClearCase and ClearQuest providers at login time.

PH02991 Problem:The ClearCase "cleartool catcs" command, piped to another process (ex: cleartool catcs | head ) may fail.

Fix: The "cleartool catcs" signal handler was repaired.

PI28673 Problem: cleartool mkbl -ddepends can generate a misleading error message if a component being dropped is not in the configuration for the specified stream.

Fix: An additional warning will be printed informing the user that a component can not be found in a baseline.

PI71536 Problem: CAL applications may crash (after ClearCase 9.0) due to memory corruption.

Fix: CAL was fixed to properly report "owner" and "group" values without corrupting memory.

PI81103 Problem: The ClearCase "cleartool catcs" command, piped to another process (ex: cleartool catcs | head ) may fail.

Fix: The "cleartool catcs" signal handler was repaired.

Problem: When you are installing the 9.0.1.1 Eclipse plug-in for Rational ClearTeam Explorer, you may find that the version string displays 9.0.0.xxx instead of 9.0.1.xxxx.

Fix: The version string was fixed.

PI92691 Problem: ClearCase creates R: drive as a network drive, but the network provider did not recognize it as a network resource it manages. Windows Explorer used to receive errors when trying to get the universal name of such a drive and failed to search files on it.

Fix: The network provider was changed to recognize automatic views as a network resource it manages.

PI94816 Problem: Documentation missing on maximum MVFS scaling factor on Windows.

Fix: The online help has been updated to include the maximum value MVFS scaling factor on Windows

PI95497 Problem: The "Make Baseline" dialog in ClearTeam Explorer has a "Scope" tab. This allows the baseline creation to be restricted to "Selected Components". Selecting only a component where no actual changes have been made causes a baseline to be created in a component that has had changes made, but was not selected.

Fix: The fix corrects the method to retrieved selected components in the component list.

PI95977 Problem: If VOB or Component is added outside of CTE then CTE load rules doesn't show newly added VOB or Component unless and until CTE is restarted.

Fix: A "refresh button" has been added in CTE load rules dialog.

PI97865 Problem: CAL applications may crash (after ClearCase 9.0) due to memory corruption.

Fix: CAL was fixed to properly report "owner" and "group" values without corrupting memory.

PI98781 Problem: rcleartool lsproject was requiring a "project:" selector prefix when it should not have been needed.

Fix: The rcleartool lsproject command now works correctly without a "project:" prefix.

PI98888 Problem: cleartool or other client programs using integrations such as Cadence Design Framework or CtCmd perl package could get errors communicating with a VOB database server if the network connection closes unexpectedly or the db_server exits prematurely. Those errors could persist and repeat multiple times.

Fix: ClearCase has been fixed to detect the network errors and, when possible to do safely, restart transactions with the VOB database.

PI99148 Problem: Not able to add load rules having spaces in snapshot and web views.

Fix: Load rule having spaces will be added automatically in double quotes.


Fix Pack 1 (8.0.1.18)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PI88393 Problem: ClearCase dynamic views may not have the element change date updated when saving a file.

Fix: The fix ensures ClearCase search's result pane is accurately updated post any SCM operation ensuring a correct search result the second time.

PI23043 Problem: The Rational Software Architect ClearCase Remote Client extension integration allows model files to be removed using the "Delete" key from the RSA workspace. This should not be allowed in this perspective and is blocked in the GUI context menu.

Fix: With this change when Delete key is pressed with multiple selections, the Delete Action will be triggered only for non-model files. On the GUI context menu, the current functionality is retained. On the context menu of multiple selection, if the selection contains at least one model file, then Remove option is disabled.


Fix Pack 1 (8.0.1.17)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PM99702 Problem: ClearCase search's result pane was not getting updated post the SCM operations.

Fix: The fix ensures ClearCase search's result pane is accurately updated post any SCM operation ensuring a correct search result the second time.

PI93710 Problem: CM Server when looking up a view by its uuid was not allowing for case where operation completed successfully but did not find any views.

Fix: CM Server will now correctly return a "not found" status when the error situation is encountered.

PI93541 Problem: Automatic views on Windows could be corrupted if they were active at the time of a user logoff or system shutdown.

Fix: Automatic views now cleanly shut down during a user logoff or system shutdown

PI91598 Problem: "Create View" dialogue in CTE can indicate incorrect view types as being available for creation. When client and server are on same machine, selection of UCM Vob Tag, UCM Projects and UCM Project under local and server node are not working correctly. I.e If we select Vob Tag under local and then we select the same under server node, selection is not changing.

Fix: Post fix, it will provide right option in create view dialogue, based on node we selected. If It is local, it will provide option of Dynamic and Snapshot, and If It is server node, will provide option of Web and Automatic view(If support is there) option.

PI90814 Problem: ClearCase users running Linux may see EMLINK ("Too many links") errors when trying to access directories.

Fix: The EMLINKS error returned by MVFS was replaced by a preventive code that avoids occurrences of multiple entries.

PI90203 Problem: Failing preop mkbl triggers still allow VOB modification.

Fix: Failing preop mkbl triggers can now properly block VOB modification.

PI80058 Problem: Web view load/update fails with an error: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: null incase ccrcSupportsParallelLoad is enabled and ccrcMaxRequestsPerSession <= 3.

Fix: When ccrcSupportsParallelLoad is enabled and ccrcMaxRequestsPerSession <= 3, parallel operations will be disabled and below mentioned message will be displayed to customer in a message box : "ccrcMaxRequestsPerSession as defined is too low, therefore parallel operations will be disabled. To enable parallel operations for web views, define ccrcMaxRequestsPerSession with a setting of 4 or higher."

PI64581 Problem: Files of size > 2GB, fails to load in web view.

Fix: After fix, files of size >2GB are getting loaded in Web view.

PI35609 Problem: Shortkeys CTRL+C(Copy), CTRL+X(Cut), CTRL+V(Paste) were not functional in ClearTeam Explorer standalone client.

Fix: Post the fix, CTRL+C(Copy), CTRL+X(Cut), CTRL+V(Paste) are supported and functional in ClearTeam Explorer standalone client.

PI25289 Problem: When using the ClearTeam Explorer extension with Rational Application developer the 'Last Modified' and 'Created' fields in the details view will not have valid data.

Fix: The fields now display correct data.


Fix Pack 16 (8.0.1.16)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PI24698 Problem: When using the Rational ClearCase File Service (CCFS) as the interoperability solution to access Unix-hosted VOBS from Windows you may encounter a "Permission denied" error.

Fix: Windows now skips permission denied ports.

PI29080 Problem: When mounting a ClearCase VOB on some versions of Linux (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x, SUSE Linux 12.x, Ubuntu Linux 16.04), the mount will succeed, but a warning will be displayed: "mount.mvfs: Warning: unable to open mount table".

Fix: The ClearCase VOB mount code has been updated so that the system mount table is updated correctly on versions of Linux where it is virtual, rather than a file /etc/mtab.  With this fix, the warning message is eliminated.

PI59858 Problem: For base ClearCase VOBs using the CMI integration, findmerge -avobs fails when two or more VOBs have elements that require merging.

Fix: The findmerge -avobs command should work properly for multiple VOBs using the CMI integration.

PI63237 Problem: ClearCase reop triggers do not block the request for mastership in synchronous request for mastership checkouts and mkelems.

Fix: Preop triggers on reqmaster will now fire during synchronous request for mastership checkouts and mkelems, and will allow the User to block requests for mastership during those operations.

PI76695 Problem: As documented in ClearCase technote 1259280, accessing non-VOB files using a view-extended pathname on Linux kernels after 2.4.18 is not supported due to kernel limitations.  However, on some kernels, this may cause a system crash.

Fix: The non-VOB pathname access using a view-extended pathname is still not supported, but ClearCase has been updated so that these references will not cause a system crash.

PI77492 Problem: A user is unable to connect to a ClearCase Remote Client WAN server, if the login URL contains a trailing  white space.

Fix: Trailing white space is now removed from URLs in all cases.

PI77782 Problem: The ClearCase UCM/ClearQuest integration was creating multiple ClearQuest web sessions when using ClearTeam Explorer with a web-based view.

Fix: The UCM/ClearQuest integration now uses fewer ClearQuest web sessions when using ClearTeam Explorer with a web-based view.

PI78348 Problem: In ClearTeam Explorer, the graphical version tree would not display the view-selected version correctly if the element name contained @@ (version-extended characters) in the middle of the name.

Fix: ClearTeam Explorer is fixed to display the view-selected version correctly when an element name contains @@ (version-extended characters) in the middle of the name. Note that using the version-extended characters at the end of an element name is not supported in ClearCase.

PI81434 Problem: ClearCase clearmrgman dumps core when performing "checkin".

Fix: The clearmrgman cleanup handler has been fixed.

PI81810 Problem: When exporting a ClearCase view and VOB path for non-ClearCase access from a RedHat Linux server, applications on the client side may experience access denied or similar errors.

Fix: Necessary permission override checks were added to properly handle the root user id for access, rather than blocking the remote access for root.

PI82633 Problem: The scroll bar in missing in ClearCase ClearTeam Explorer (CTE) version tree for some versions of elements that have a large number of labels.

Fix: The missing scrollbar issue has been fixed.

PI86344 Problem: ClearCase users with certain special characters in their password such as: an UMLAUT cannot successfully create an automatic view owing to rview agent failing to log into the server.

Fix: The rview agent now is capable of properly logging into cmserver using the user's credentials even if they have the afore mentioned special characters.

PI87929 Problem: While using a ClearCase dynamic view directory reading operations for directories with many elements may take longer than necessary.

Fix: MVFS was changed to use all the data provided by the view server for directory enumerations.

PI88195 Problem: Attempts to rebuild ClearCase MVFS on Ubuntu 14.04 with kernel 3.13.0-132 result in build error.

Fix: MVFS source code was changed to be compatible with kernel 3.13.0-132.

PM97816 Problem: The ClearCase xcleardiff gui does not display color options correctly in ClearCase 8.0.x running on Linux

Fix: Color management has been corrected.


Fix Pack 15 (8.0.1.15)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PI85611 Problem: File operations on ClearCase dynamic views can cause the appearance of D-state process.

Fix: MVFS was changed to detect and prevent the error condition that makes the D-state process occurrence.

PI83215 Problem: ClearCase view private files larger than 4 KB take more time to read on SUSE SLES 12 SP2 when compared to SUSE SLES 11 SP3.

Fix:MVFS was fixed to make the read-ahead work correctly on SUSE SLES 12. logged.

PI82359 Problem: ClearCase processes crash when executed by a Windows account that is a member of a group represented by long Windows SID, such as SIDs for non-domain accounts linked to a Microsoft account 

Fix: ClearCase processes no longer fail with such accounts, but ClearCase will ignore any group (behave as if the user is not a member of the group)  represented by a long Windows SID.

PI82010 Problem: The outdated Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Visual C++ runtimes are distributed with ClearCase and ClearQuest as those products have components that depend on them.

Fix: All dependencies on the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Visual C++ runtimes have been removed from ClearCase and ClearQuest, and those runtimes are no longer installed

PI80609 Problem: ClearCase customers may experience a system crash when accessing MVFS files.

Fix: This issue has been resolved.

PI80487 Problem: A ClearCase Syncreplica -import of the modstream_cspec oplog generated by creating a child stream fails with a segmentation fault in a sibling that has removed the parent stream.

Fix: The replay code has been modified to properly store the modstream_cspec oplog while skipping its replay if the parent stream is not found in the importing replica.

PI78918 Problem: A ClearCase "RMSTREAM" of "Feature Level 5" stream after raising VOB to "Feature Level 7" FAILS WITH "ERROR FROM VOB DATABASE" FOR UCM PROJECT VOB.

Fix: Feature Level 7 VOBs now can handle "rmstream" command from Feature Level 5.

PI78636 Problem: An attempt to rebuild the MultiVersion File System kernel module for IBM ClearCase will fail on SUSE SLES12 SP2 and Ubuntu 16.04 systems with the error message: /var/adm/rational/clearcase/mvfs/mvfs_src/mvfs_mdep_linux.c:2764:9: error: implicit declaration of function  inode_capable  [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]

Fix: This problem has been resolved.

PI78498 Problem: When running ClearCase SLES 12 SP2, you may observe repetitive messages such as this in the syslog: systemd[16300]: Failed to get udev device from devnum 253:0: No such device

Fix: The ClearCase MVFS has been updated to provide the information which systemd is querying in this situation, to eliminate the log messages.

PI78319 Problem: ClearCase customers are unable to use dynamic views because MVFS is not loaded on Windows 10 if Device Guard is enabled.

Fix: The ClearCase MVFS driver was changed to adopt the requirements imposed by Device Guard.

PI77954 Problem:Removing a ClearCase UCM stream while a remote site has a view attached (to the stream) causes the db dumper to fail.

Fix: The db dumper has been fixed.

PI76420 Problem: Rational ClearCase/Cadence integration menu customizations do not load properly after upgrading to ClearCase 8.0.1.13

Fix: The menu customization issue is resolved.

PI75108 Problem: Users of ClearCase dynamic views may see messages reporting stale transaction ids in the mvfs_log log file.  Unexpected application I/O errors or hangs may coincide with these messages.

Fix: The logic for how the MVFS handles certain transient errors in communicating with a view_server process has been corrected.

PI72025 Problem:Creating or deleting hyperlinks that span VOBs (common in a UCM setup) in IBM Rational ClearCase can lead to a situation where two processes are waiting on each other for a lock on one of the VOB databases. This will lead to the Dead Man Lock Timeout to be triggered, making one of the two operations to fail.

Fix: A ClearCase db transaction will be suspended and restarted for cross vob hlinks.

PI51355 Problem: When searching for files in a ClearCase dynamic view, using the Windows Explorer Search feature, you may not see any results.

Fix: Changes were made on ClearCase Network Provider to return correct path information.

PI19218 Problem: The ClearCase Unix version tree browser dumps core when the zoom control was used to shrink the version tree.

Fix: The Unix version tree browser has been fixed.


Fix Pack 14 (8.0.1.14)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PI74251 Problem: File lock operations on ClearCase files when the view storage is NFS4 may result in error EBADF (Bad file number).

Fix: The Linux MVFS driver was modified to set the file access mode that can be accepted by NFS4.

PI73751 Problem: Some xattr operations on ClearCase view or VOB files on SUSE Linux may cause D-STATE (zombies) processes.

Fix: ClearCase MVFS was changed to avoid acquiring the inode mutex for xattr operations.

PI73735 Problem: Users of ClearCase on Oracle Solaris 11 may experience a system crash when using NFS-mounted remote VOB storage.

Fix: A defect in the ClearCase MVFS, which caused corruption of NFS data, has been fixed.

PI73587 Problem: When working in ClearTeam Explorer (CTE) , you may find that the file you just checked out does not appear to be checked out only when the path is accessed through address bar.

Fix: Check out status is displayed as expected in ClearTeam Details pane, even when the file is accessed from the address bar.

PI73356 Problem: ClearCase "chmaster -stream" may not change mastership of timeline objects.

Fix: On schema 80 and feature level 8, "chmaster -stream" will change mastership of timeline objects whether it has timeline folder or not.

PI73135 Problem: ClearCase users may see intermittent Access Denied errors when accessing files using non-ClearCase Access if the VOB root directory does not have execute permissions set.

Fix: Capability checks have been added to the MVFS permission checks to resolve this situation.

PI73132 Problem: On AIX 7.1, using the open() system call with the O_CLOEXEC flag to open a file/dir in the ClearCase MVFS returns EINVAL.

Fix: On AIX 7.1 (and later) the O_CLOEXEC flag can now be used to open a file/dir in the ClearCase MVFS.

PI70236 Problem: When a building in a ClearCase dynamic view, you may experience sporadic random read/write errors

Fix: This issue with IBM Rational ClearCase MVFS has been resolved.

PI69005 Problem: The ClearCase binary_delta  type manager may not remove temporary file(s) after a failed type manager operation.

Fix:The ClearCase binary_delta  type manager was fixed to remove temporary files.

PI68851 Problem: When using the ClearCase Remote Client command line interface -- rcleartool -- attempts to use rcleartool mkattr to create or update a string attribute may fail with 'invalid string "{passed string}"'.

Fix: Non-interactive invocations of rcleartool mkattr for string attributes no longer strips the embedded quotes and should apply the attribute properly.

PI64788 Problem: After writing to a file and closing it, if an application sets its attributes, ClearCase MVFS will change the attributes back to the values the file had when it was closed.

Fix: Before setting attributes after having a file changed and closed, MVFS now checks if the attributes has been set by an application and will persist it if so.

PI61697 Problem: When building in an ClearCase dynamic view, you may experience a hang.

Fix: The lock acquisition rule has been fixed to resolve this specific case.

PI44831 Problem: When using CtCmd with Rational ClearCase "cleartool describe -fmt" the output is truncated by one byte if the first string is 16384 characters and the second the second string is one byte longer than the first.

Fix: Cleartool describe buffer handling was fixed.

PI30193 Problem: When performing audited builds in a ClearCase dynamic view the customer will see an "ACCESS DENIED" error log entry when deleting a derived object, although the delete operation completes successfully.

Fix: When a MVFS file is about to be deleted, MVFS tries to flush any pending change on the cache to its cleartext file, however derived object files are stored on a VOB, which are opened as read-only. Trying to flush files opened as read-only causes the "ACCESS DENIED" error seen on the log. Now MVFS only request a flush on such situation if the cleartext file is stored on a VIEW, and not on a VOB.

PI28582 Problem: In a ClearCase nonpreserving replica with ACLs enabled, syncreplica replay of a mkelem oplog may generate a second "create file element" event in the database, which can cause failures in reformatvob and mkreplica -impor

Fix: The duplicate "create" event will no longer be generated.


Fix Pack 13 (8.0.1.13)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PM98488 Problem: When running the ClearCase cleartool protectvob command against an ClearCase VOB stored over NFS, you may encounter an  error if the hostname of the storage device and the root of the NFS share are greater than 64 characters combined.

Fix: Faulty string manipulation has been corrected.

PM98062 Problem: If a stream in a replicated UCM project VOB has "POLICY_CHSTREAM_UNRESTRICTED" enabled, then users at multiple sites are able to upgrade it to incrementally/fully labeled which causes multiple labels to be created/attached and the label status becomes "unavailable"

Fix: Mastership will be checked if POLICY_CHSTREAM_UNRESTRICTED is enabled.

PI70543 Problem: When working in the ClearCase integration with Visual Studio 2015, you may find that the application crashes if you try to close a view private file that is either a .c or .h file in Visual Studio.

Fix: Faulty string manipulation has been fixed.

PI70333 Problem: When using the Change Management Integration with ClearQuest some CMI provider errors were not appearing in the cmi_log and required tracing to properly debug.

Fix: CMI provider errors that were previously not appearing in the cmi_log are now properly logged.

PI70255 Problem: When using the ClearCase/ClearQuest (CC/CQ) UCM integration through ClearQuest Web, there is a login error when trying to view a change set.

Fix: Change sets can now be viewed in ClearQuest Web using the CC/CQ UCM integration.

PI70235 Problem: When working in the Rational ClearCase ClearTeam Explorer (CTE), you may find that doing a "merge to" in the CTE Version Tree will launch the Diffmerge GUI and will not detect the merge as a "trivial merge".

Fix: A new preference is introduced which will let the user control this behavior. And by default the merges from Version Tree will be done automatically. Preference location: Team->IBM Rational ClearTeam Explorer->Integration->Compare/Merge

PI68935 Problem: ClearCase checkin failure due to a missing source container reports cleartext path.

Fix: The source container is now correctly included in the error message.

PI68289 Problem: When you are working in the ClearCase and Visual Studio 2013 integration, you may find that the ClearCase context menu items are greyed out after performing your first ClearCase operation.

Fix: The CC-VS integration was not installed correctly, that has been fixed.

PI65782 Problem: When using ClearTeam Explorer (CTE) and entering a directory for the first time, it can take a very long time to list the content. This is most visible if there is a huge number of files, symlinks or sub-directories.

Fix: There is improved performance especially when browsing parents with large number of symlinks underneath them.

PI64278 Problem: When performing a distributed or parallel build using the ClearCase clearmake utility, the build may fail with automated build executor (abe) process errors.

Fix: Code that checks automated build executor (abe) process ids has been fixed.

PI58632 Problem:When opening a Visual Studio (VS) project created without a solution file, the ClearCase (CC) plugin is not available in Visual Studio 2013-2015.

Fix: The CC-VS integration was not installed correctly, that has been fixed.

PI29080 Problem: When mounting a ClearCase VOB on some versions of Linux (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x, SUSE Linux 12.x, Ubuntu Linux 16.04), the mount will succeed, but a warning will be displayed: "mount.mvfs: Warning: unable to open mount table".

Fix: The ClearCase VOB mount code has been updated so that the system mount table is updated correctly on versions of Linux where it is virtual, rather than a file /etc/mtab.  With this fix, the warning message is eliminated.

PI18297 Problem: After raising a VOB family to Feature Level 8, the ClearCase view_server logs show a warning on chmaster/protect events for new UCM types: "Unexpected vob event on vobserver."

Fix: The view_server will no longer log warnings for these events for the new UCM types.


Fix Pack 12 (8.0.1.12)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PI67531 Problem: In rare cases when automatically re-establishing a login session to an IBM Rational ClearCase CCRC WAN Server, a CTE, CMAPI or rcleartool client might consume all the sessions available on a CCRC WAN Server.

Fix: When automatically re-establishing a login session, a CTE, CMAPI or rcleartool client no longer consumes all the sessions available on a CCRC WAN Server.

PI64629 Problem: IBM Rational ClearCase Explorer may become unresponsive if the server authentication expires and the user has the preferences set to store and reuse the login credentials.

Fix: Fixes a problem in Rational ClearCase Explorer where it might previously become unresponsive if the server authentication expired and the user had the preferences set to store and reuse the login credentials.

PI64193 Problem: When using IBM Rational ClearCase Explorer as an Eclipse plug-in, running in an Eclipse shell executing on an Oracle Java runtime environment, version 6, CTE fails to connect to the CCRC WAN Server with an error: CRMAP7009: Command "login" failed: Java.lang.Illegal StateException: null"

Fix: ClearCase Explorer running with the Oracle Java Runtime, version 6 now correctly connects to a CCRC WAN Server.

PI64067 Problem: If the ClearQuest Web session time-out is set to a higher value than the license time-out, licenses for inactive CQ Web sessions are only released when the CQ session time-out occurs and not after the (earlier) license time-out. This could cause CQ Web users to consume too many licenses during busy times of the day.

Fix: Rational Common Licensing has been fixed so that inactive CQ Web sessions licenses are now released correctly according to the license time-out value as opposed to the higher web session time-out value.

PI63410 Problem: When working with the ClearCase Explorer integrated with RDz, the CLEARCASE_COMMENT variable entry is empty when the user adds an element of a logical model to source control.

Fix: Fixes a problem in ClearCase Explorer integrated with RDz to ensure that the CLEARCASE_COMMENT variable is properly set when the user adds an element of a logical model to source control.

PI63100 Problem: If the ClearCase MVFS logging severity level is increased to "stale" on a Solaris 10 or 11 system running IBM Rational ClearCase, the occurrence of an NFS ESTALE error which triggers a logging event may cause a system panic.

Fix: A logging format error has been corrected, eliminating the chance for a null pointer reference.

PI62956 Problem: In rare circumstances, when using an IBM ClearCase VOB with ACLs enabled, a heavily loaded view server process may crash due to invalid references to memory that has been reused.

Fix: view_server has been fixed to use properly allocated ACL data at all times.

PI62729 Problem: When you are working in an IBM Rational ClearCase dynamic view, you may experience a Microsoft STOP error (blue screen crash).

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase has been updated to fix a defect which caused an incorrect data to be accessed.

PI62701 Problem: IBM Rational ClearCase rcleartool was assuming that a JSESSIONID would always be available to save with cached session data.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase rcleartool now checks that JSESSIONID is present before storing the current settings and writes the default value if it is not.

PI61718 Problem: When using the ClearCase Explorer Extension with RDz, you may find that the perference to decorate project names with view tags does not always work.

Fix: When using the ClearCase Explorer Extension with RDz the project names are now always decorated with view tags if the appropriate preference is set.

PI61619 Problem: When working in an IBM Rational ClearCase dynamic view, you may experience a Microsoft STOP error (blue screen crash).

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase has been updated to fix a defect which caused incorrect data to be accessed.

PI61359 Problem: When using IBM Rational ClearTeam Explorer (CTE), there is a refreshing error when performing checkout or checkin of a file element if there is another checked out element that has been removed from the web view copyarea path.

Fix: The property that provides this information now skips files that cannot be found

PI59651 Problem: Users of ClearCase dynamic views on MicroSoft Windows 10 may experience a Windows STOP error (blue screen), with bugcheck code "MULTIPLE_IRP_COMPLETE_REQUESTS"(44)"

Fix: The problem with incorrect IRP completion during I/O operations in ClearCase dynamic views on Microsoft Windows 10 is fixed by a Windows patch which is available in the patch rollup https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3176493

PI59063 Problem: IBM Rational ClearCase automatic views mounted VOB tags (on a per-view basis) were handled in a case sensitive manner on Windows regardless of the setting of the MVFS case insensitive flag.

Fix: The MVFS case insensitive flag is now used when handling mounted VOB tags in automatic views on Windows.

PI58795 Problem: In IBM Rational ClearCase ClearTeamExplorer (CTE) sub-directories of the VOBs are not shown in the "Apply Label" wizard GUI

Fix: Sub-directories of the VOBs will now be listed in "Apply Label" wizard and available for selection.

PI51867 Problem: If an IBM ClearCase "rmstream" operation fails in the process of removing the foundation baselines from the configuration of the stream, then the STREAM record in the VOB is left in a corrupted state.

Fix: After the failure, some internal objects are deleted but the pointers are kept in the stream record. This fix checks internal objects existence before trying to delete it again on the next rmstream command.

PI47621 Problem: IBM ClearCase rcleartool error handling failed to increment the argument counter for failed checkins, causing subsequent messages to be off my one.

Fix: Error handling has been corrected so that output element names are now synched with actual behaviour.

PI45519 Problem: A locked IBM ClearCase pvob can cause "rebase -comp" to fail.

Fix: A new routine is used to remove broken hyperlinks caused by locked pvob, so "rebase-comp" can continue to create a new hype

PI40960 Problem: In the IBM Rational ClearCase Cadence Integration, MultiSite SRFM operations do not show enough information for failures arising from checkouts at the remote sibling.

Fix: This fix improves the error message in the case where a checkout at a remote sibling blocks fulfillment of a SRFM operation.

PI05605 Problem: IBM Rational ClearCase Windows dynamic views in case sensitve mode, case preserving mode was not respected. Names were always entered in lower-case.

Fix: On Windows, in case sensitive mode (not the common default which is case insensitive) the case preserving flag is now set correctly so names keep the case they were entered with.


Fix Pack 11 (8.0.1.11)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PM79307 Problem: Performing a checkout using a dynamic view in IBM Rational ClearCase ClearTeam Explorer (CTE) with a configuration specification (config spec) which selects a version other than LATEST on the branch results in a checkout of LATEST on that branch. Although a setting exists to allow web views to checkout the view selected version (Window > Preferences > IBM Rational ClearTeam Explorer > Dialogs > Checkout > "Checkout the version that is loaded even if it is not the latest", this setting does not change the behavior of dynamic views.

Fix: When performing a checkout in a dynamic view and the view-selected version is not the latest on the branch, the user is now allowed to choose whether to checkout the view-selected version or the latest version on the branch. A new set of preferences have been added for dynamic views: Window > Preferences > IBM Rational ClearTeam Explorer > Dialogs > Checkout >"Checkout the view-selected version even if it is not the latest on the branch" and "Checkout the latest version on the branch".

PI60070 Problem: When working in Rational Developer for Z Systems with ClearTeam Explorer extension, you may find that the preference to decorate project names with view tags does not work in the HLL view.

Fix: When working in Rational Developer for Z Systems with ClearTeam Explorer extension, the preference to decorate project names with view tags now works correctly in all RDz views, including in the HLL view.

PI60065 Problem: When working in Rational Developer for Z Systems with ClearTeam Explorer extension, you may find that the Team menu options are not correctly enabled in the HLL view.

Fix: When working in Rational Developer for Z Systems with ClearTeam Explorer extension, the Team menu options are now enabled correctly in the HLL view.

PI59905 Problem: IBM ClearCase cleartool commands using "-fmt %[dstreams]Xp" may overflow its output buffer.

Fix: The "-fmt %[dstreams]Xp" option has been modified to expand its output buffer as needed.

PI59748 Problem: When an Automatic view database attempts to reformat via the view db_dumper and db_loader, this can fail.  This leaves the view in an unusable state.

Fix: Automatic view reformat has been fixed.

PI58916 Problem: When working in an IBM Rational ClearCase dynamic view, you may receive a Microsoft STOP error of BAD_POOL_HEADER (19).

Fix: IBM Rational Clearcase was changed to avoid this crash.

PI57857 Problem: IBM Rational ClearCase cleartool command could crash if an excessively long string is passed as the -type argument

Fix: cleartool has been fixed to work properly with any length input string for the -type argument

PI57453 Problem: When working in an IBM Rational ClearCase dynamic view and running the gnuwin32 cp.exe command, you may find that the file is not truncated correctly.

Fix: MVFS now notifies cache manager appropriately when changing the file allocation information removing the race condition.

PI57204 Problem: Running the IBM Rational ClearCase command: "cleartool chmaster" on a read-only stream may result in an internal error.

Fix: The internal error is no longer reported.

PI56714 Problem: After upgrade to update 3 of Solaris 11, starting IBM Rational ClearCase in any non-global zone on that system will cause a system crash.

Fix: The MVFS initialization code has been updated to work correctly on Solaris 11 update 3.

PI56221 Problem: In some cases IBM Rational ClearCase users would find that they could not access views and vobs exported using non-ClearCase access and would receive STALE NFS FILE HANDLE errors.

Fix: STALE NFS FILE HANDLE errors when accessing views and VOB exported using non-ClearCase access have been resolved.

PI55768 Problem: When using a tool such as kdiff to compare file differences between versions in two different ClearCase dynamic views on Microsoft Windows, the user may experience a Microsoft STOP error DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (d1)

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase has been updated to fix a defect which caused I/O data structures to be incorrect.

PI54375 Problem: IBM Rational ClearCase "cleartool merge" or "cleartool diff" with the flags "-tiny" or "-window" on Linux may fail.

Fix: The xterm path location on Linux is correctly used.

PI53844 Problem: When working in a ClearCase dynamic view in Microsoft Visual Studio, users may experience a Microsoft STOP error of BAD_POOL_HEADER (19) when opening a large project.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase has been updated to fix a defect which caused I/O data structures to be corrupted.

PI53747 Problem: When performing a highly parallel build in an IBM ClearCase dynamic view, you may experience a system hang.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase MVFS was modified to avoid synchronization issues that was causing a system hang.

PI53155 Problem: In IBM Rational ClearTeam Explorer the compare baselines OK button is grayed out and cannot be selected.

Fix: The OK button can now be selected.

PI52979 Problem: When describing a file element version in an IBM Rational Clearcase Versioned Object Base (VOB), the output will be truncated at 153097 bytes when formatting the describe to only return labels. (-fmt %Nl)

Fix: The output buffer used by -fmt %Nl now expands as needed to include all labels.

PI50990 Problem: When using Microsoft Visual Studio and searching within a large project in an IBM ClearCase dynamic view, you may experience a Windows STOP error (BSOD) when opening a file found during the search.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase has been updated to fix a defect which caused I/O data structures to be incorrect.

PI50577 Problem: When performing a highly parallel build in an IBM ClearCase dynamic view, you may experience a Microsoft Windows STOP error (blue screen crash) with the status  DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (d1).

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase has been updated to fix a defect which caused I/O data structures to be incorrect.

PI48197 Problem: In IBM Rational ClearCase, when creating an integration view from the "join project" dialogue in ClearTeam Explorer, the "Finish" button is greyed out.

Fix: In the problem case, the "Finish" button can now be selected.

PI45760 Problem: When performing container recovery/repair in an IBM Rational ClearCase Versioned Object Base (VOB) the checkvob command may fail while processing damaged UTF16 or UTF32 elements.

Fix: The checkvob command is now able to process UTF16 and UTF32 elements.

PI45746 Problem: When attempting to repair missing/corrupt source containers in an IBM Rational ClearCase Versioned Object Base (VOB), the checkvob tool may incorrectly determine the storage format of the potential replacement container when the element type manager is one of the more-recently introduced element types: Rose/xde/Unicode, etc.

Fix: The correct element type is now detected and used.

PI43668 Problem: IBM ClearCase cleartool commands using "-fmt %[CONFIG_SPEC]P" may overflow its output buffer.

Fix: The "-fmt %[CONFIG_SPEC]P" option has been modified to expand its output buffer as needed.

PI43174 Problem: When you are running the following command against an IBM Rational ClearCase Access Control List (ACLS) enabled vob, you may receive an error: cleartool lspolicy policy:PolicyName@\VOB tag cleartool: Error: Policy not found: "policy:PolicyName".

Fix: Both formats of the lspolicy command (""  "policy:") are now accepted.

PI41762 Problem: IBM ClearCase clearmake on a unix platform may crash with a segmentation fault for a specific clearmake case where a target has multiple dependencies, and in the building of the target, one or more of the dependencies are specifically removed.

Fix: Clearmake has been updated to properly handle this specific case.

PI40960 Problem: Incorrect user is identified as checking in a file in ClearTeam Explorer if a merge is required due to a previous checkin.

Fix: The correct owner will be now be reported in the message.

PI36172 Problem: When IBM ClearCase clearmake is executed with the environment variable MAKEFLAGS set to a name/value pair of a specific length, clearmake may crash with a segment fault.

Fix: Clearmake has been modified to not crash under the specific name/value pair length situation.

PI31561 Problem: When attempting to checkin a large directory/element set with the aggregated checkin function, the operation will appear to hang and never complete.

Fix: List of checkouts is now only fetched once when get aliases.

PI15110 Problem: When working in an IBM Rational ClearCase UCM Multisite environment having mutiple pvobs, it is possible that oplogs generated by running "cleartool rebase -dbaseline" may not be replayed properly in sibling replicas, causing subsequent failures at those siblings when running "mkreplica -export" or "reformatvob" commands.

Fix: This fix causes the oplogs to be replayed properly at sibling replicas.

PI11830 Problem: A ClearCase Windows client using a Unix/Linux view to access an ACL enabled VOB may get access denied even though the client's primary group matches the owner group of the VOB.  One manifestation could be a "dir /acl-enabled-vob-name" command would show no contents in the VOB with no other apparent error.

Fix: ClearCase was modified to check the primary group as well as the grouplist when looking for a matching group during ACL checks.


Fix Pack 10 (8.0.1.10)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PM77414 Problem: When using IBM Rational ClearCase and accessing or executing a program in a dynamic view via a Windows symbolic link, Windows may crash with a BSOD in the MVFS. This is when using Microsoft NTFS symbolic link NOT ClearCase symbolic link.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase was modified to avoid BSOD when using Windows Symbolic Link.

PI50590 Problem: When setting the Microsoft prompt to show the remote name on IBM Rational ClearCase Dynamic View,  you may receive an "unknown", instead of the remote name for the drive.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase was modified to show the correct remote name.

PI50567 Problem: When you are using an IBM Rational ClearCase Automatic view, you may find that you do not see an error as expected in the update log when some files do not load using the load rules.

Fix: During an automatic view load or update operation, failures to retrieve loaded files are now reported in the update log file.

PI50303 Problem: If you checkout a file in an IBM Rational ClearTeam Explorer web view before connecting to ClearCase and then try to connect, you will find that ClearTeam Explorer hangs and is unresponsive.

Fix: Fixes a problem in the ClearTeam Explorer that causes the application to hang when the user navigates to a folder within a view without connecting to the server.

PI48860 Problem: If you are running an audited build in an IBM Rational ClearCase dynamic view, you may receive a Microsoft STOP error (BSOD).

Fix: A race condition in the IBM Rational ClearCase MVFS which caused reference to incorrect audit structures has been fixed.

PI48834 Problem: Users of IBM Rational ClearCase may experience a kernel crash or applications may appear to hang when using pt_shell.

Fix: MVFS was changed to handle file creation options appropriately.

PI46585 Problem: IBM Rational ClearCase CCRC Wan Server process consumes 14mb memory when it is started up, but over time the memory it consumes keeps increasing steadily.

Fix: Memory leaks have been fixed.

PI48531 Problem: When running a UCM deliver in ClearTeam Explorer, automatic merges may not occur and it would appear that a manual merge must happen. A manual merge is not actually required in this case and the deliver will appear to stop.

Fix: Fixes a problem in the ClearTeam Explorer, where automatic merges sometimes don't occur during a UCM Deliver operation.

PI47193 Problem: A Windows system crash may occur during IBM Rational ClearCase dynamic views with Symantec 12.1.6 and cache manager enabled.

Fix: A memory leak condition in ClearCase, which could cause a system crash, was corrected.

PI45450 Problem: Running a .Net 4.x executable in a IBM ClearCase dynamic view (either as a view private file or under source control) you may encounter a runtime error.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase was modified to avoid the runtime error.

PI45420 Problem: A synchronization problem in IBM Rational ClearCase MVFS may cause inconsistent time-stamp values for view private files.

Fix: The way MVFS validates and sets time-stamps was improved. Additionally, the resolution of view private files time-stamps will never be better than the resolution of the view storage file-system.

PI45277 Problem: When using the Perl-based integration between IBM Rational ClearCase and IBM Rational ClearQuest on Microsoft Windows, the user's ClearQuest login credentials may be intermittently invalidated if the user name used to log in to Windows is not an exact case-match for the user name stored on the domain.

Fix: The Windows version of the integration now performs a case insensitive comparison of the user's ClearQuest login credentials.

PI44788 Problem: When using the IBM Rational ClearCase Remote Client command line interface -- rcleartool -- attempts to use rcleartool mkattr to create or update a string attribute may fail.

Fix: Fix made to rcleartool to be sensitive to escape characters that must be preserved for subsequent processing.

PI44668 Problem: When you are in an IBM Rational ClearCase dynamic view and cd'd into the vob tag, you may receive an error when running the net use M: command in a view/vob context.

Fix: IBM Rational Clearcase was modified to show the correct information.

PI27347 Problem: Unexpected Microsoft Windows STOP errors (BSOD) may occur during audited builds on IBM Rational ClearCase.  These errors are more likely to occur if the MVFS parameter UseCacheManager is set to 1.

Fix: A race condition which allowed process audit data to be read incorrectly has been corrected.

PI21997 Problem: Unexpected Microsoft Windows STOP errors (BSOD) may occur during audited builds on IBM Rational ClearCase.  These errors are more likely to occur if the MVFS parameter UseCacheManager is set to 1.

Fix: A race condition which allowed process audit data to be read incorrectly has been corrected.

PI18072 Problem: When running the IBM Rational ClearCase command "rcleartool lsact" on a Unified Change Management (UCM) stream, you may see a performance issue when there are a large number of activities on the stream.

Fix: Incorrect initialization code in the sub command that fetch the full activity list for a stream, even when explicit activities were specified, has been removed.

PI15885 Problem: When using IBM Rational ClearCase 8.0.1.x and there are more than 30 VOBs hosted on a VOB host, for some platforms (such as 32 bit Solaris),  the vob_scrubber will print "too many open file" errors in the vob_scrubber log.

Fix: With this change, the file descriptor leak in the vob_scrubber has been corrected.

PI12483 Problem: When you are working in the IBM Rational ClearCase/Cadence integration, you may find that when you delete a library in the Cadence Library Manager, the library directory is not removed as expected.

Fix: The fix ensures library directory also gets deleted along with its contents.

PI05128 Problem: IBM ClearCase Perl applications do not properly report new versions of Windows operating systems.

Fix: The Win32. perl module was updated to properly report new versions of Windows operating systems.

PI05061 Problem: When you attempt to remove an IBM Rational ClearCase Unified Change Management (UCM) composite baseline, cleartool.exe may  crash with an application error.

Fix: Cleartool no longer tries to remove a non-exist baseline from the baseline hash table.


Fix Pack 9 (8.0.1.9)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PI45421 Problem: When you are copying between two IBM Rational ClearCase dynamic views, you may receive an error that access is denied.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase was modified to remove the read-only attribute avoiding access denied messages.

PI45351 Problem: IBM ClearCase db_server processes accessing a Unified Change Management Process VOB (UCM PVOB) at schema 80 and feature level 6 or lower may consume large amounts of memory on the VOB server host

Fix: The db_server process has been fixed to manage its memory correctly.

PI45346 Problem:IBM ClearTeam Explorer does not always recognize a custom element type based on copy merge type during Merge operations

Fix: ClearTeam Explorer now recognizes a custom element type based on copy merge type during Merge operations.

PI44916 Problem: When building using IBM Rational ClearCase dynamic views, build output may be corrupted if the MVFS is configured to use the Windows cache manager.

Fix: A defect in the MVFS has been fixed so that file truncation occurs correctly when the Windows cache manager is enabled.

PI44432 Problem: When you are working in the IBM Rational ClearCase Z (Mainframe Connectors) client, you may receive an error message when trying to checkout a file that begins with a $.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase Z (Mainframe Connectors) client checkout has been fixed.

PI44062 Problem: When an IBM Rational ClearCase VOB database has created 2,147,483,648  (2**31) records of versions labels and / or MultiSite oplogs, attempts to create more of these record types will fail.

Fix: A VOB can now be enabled to use a version-based counter for label records that is distinct from the counter used for oplog records.

PI44052 Problem: In non interactive mode, IBM ClearCase rcleartool waits on prompt for login when previous login failed.  In this mode, rcleartool should report an error and not prompt the user.

Fix: In non interactive mode, rcleartool login failure will report an error and exit.

PI43802 Problem: IBM Rational ClearCase audited builds in dynamic views may cause Solaris 11 systems to crash.

Fix: An uninitialized variable in an I/O path has been corrected, to eliminate system crashes.

PI43158 Problem: IBM Rational ClearCase incorrectly processes the 'read-only' bit in dynamic views, resulting in access denied messages.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase was modified to correctly honor the 'read-only' bit.

PI42663 Problem: When using the IBM Rational ClearCase cmi_migrate.pl script to migrate from a base ClearCase-ClearQuest V2 integration, you may receive an error if the script is not run in a mapped view drive.

Fix: The script has been changed to always use a view-extended pathname so the search for hyperlinks has the correct path.

PI41997 Problem: When running IBM Rational ClearCase on an AIX dynamic view client, if one user creates a view and another user does a "ls -l" of a VOB using a view-extended pathname using that view, the system may panic.

Fix: The fix is to correctly recognize an internal MVFS structure and not use a NULL pointer from one of its fields.

PI41513 Problem: When using IBM Rational ClearCase Unified Change Management (UCM), in rare cases timeline entries can be corrupted by mkbl and rebase operations.

Fix: The timeline corruption has been prevented.

PI40328 Problem: IBM Rational ClearCase File Server (CCFS) client fails to transfer files larger than 2GB.

Fix: IBM Rational CCFS client has been updated to support transfer of files larger than 2GB.

PI39924 Problem: Attempting to install IBM ClearCase 8.0.x on an un-patched Solaris 10 machine or Solaris 10 Update 1 machine will not install the MVFS. The installation will appear to be successful but the MVFS will be missing and dynamic views will be unusable.

Fix: Install of IBM ClearCase 8.0.x on an un-patched Solaris 10 or Solaris 10 Update 1 machine will now successfully install the MVFS.

PI35312 Problem: When working with a ClearQuest record in IBM Rational ClearTeam Explorer, History tab data is not correctly displayed. Also, after selecting the modify action the add, remove and create buttons are not enabled.

Fix: Working with a ClearQuest record in ClearTeam Explorer, History tab's data is now correctly displayed.  Also, the control and its associated buttons are enabled after selecting the modify action.

PI31026 Problem:When you are working in a remote Unix/Linux IBM Rational ClearCase dynamic view in an interop environment and are using a Network File System (NFS) client on a Microsoft Windows machine, you may experience an error that the file has been modified outside of the editor when you are saving view private files in UltraEdit, Eclipse or Microsoft Visual Studio.NET.

Fix: This issue has been resolved.

PI29343 Problem: The cleartool lock reference page fails to mention the effects of a locked branch.

Fix: The cleartool lock reference page has been updated with information about locked branches.

PI29360 Problem: IBM Rational ClearTeam Explorer will consider files to merge that are not selected by Merge Search wizard.

Fix: The issue has been resolved.

PI29258 Problem: When working in an IBM Rational ClearCase web view in ClearTeam Explorer, you may receive an error when renaming a file where only the case differs, for example, renaming test.txt to Test.txt.

Fix: ClearTeam Explorer client now preserves case of destination file/directory.

PI24981 Problem: When working in IBM Rational ClearTeam Explorer: submitting a new Record, or when modifying an existing record in ClearQuest Database, Static Text form control does not display.

Fix: Fixed the problem in ClearTeam Explorer and now the Static Text form control displays correctly.

56777 Problem: IBM Rational ClearCase documentation in the Knowledge Center incorrectly states "After making the adjustments to your account, Rational License Key Center sends you a license key file that contains updated license key information."  The license key actually can be down-loaded from License Key Center and it will not be delivered via email.

Fix: The following IBM Knowledge Center topic has been corrected. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSSH27_8.0.1/com.ibm.rational.clearcase.cc_ms_install.doc/topics/r_return_move_admin_keys.htm?lang=en


Fix Pack 8 (8.0.1.8)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PI41731 Problem: Running certain perl scripts including /usr/tools/bin/ClearQuest/ALMWorkFlowAutomation/alm_integrator.pl can fail with the error: CRMUD0082E Execution of a hook failed during the action Activate Data::Dumper object version 2.154 does not match $Data::Dumper::VERSION 2.121

Fix: There is an conflicting (older) version of the file  /opt/IBM/RationalSDLC/common/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/aix4_power//Data/Dumper.pm which has been removed to fix the error.

PI40363 Problem: When configuring the IBM Rational CM WAN server, you may find that new settings do not take effect.

Fix: IBM Rational CM WAN server now correctly uses new settings.

PI39558 Problem: Due to a bug in the IBM Rational ClearCase MVFS, a process may not receive proper notification when a NFS lock it is waiting for is released.  This may cause multiple ClearCase processes to hang as they try to access locks held by the first process.

Fix: Processing had been changed so that ClearCase processes will be properly notified when NFS locks are released.

PI37557 Problem: The IBM Rational ClearCase Remote Client (CCRC) client does not sync eclipse workspace resources with their disk equivalent post a state change operation. Using the preference "Automatic Refresh" shows the update, however, a noticeable delay is observed post a state change operation and the refresh.

Fix: CCRC client now keeps eclipse workspace resources in sync with their disk equivalents.

PI37361 Problem: After upgrading the Linux kernel on Ubuntu 12.04 or 14.04 with kernel version 3.2.0 or 3.13.0, the IBM Rational ClearCase mvfs module does not build correctly.

Fix: The MVFS was modified to make it compatible with the changes introduced by the kernel revision.

PI37295 Problem: When working in IBM Rational ClearTeam Explorer, CTE may hang when trying to do a merge operation between branches within a web or a dynamic view.

Fix: ClearTeam Explorer no longer hangs.

PI36011 Problem: IBM Rational ClearCase Linux builds in dynamic views (audited builds) may encounter performance degradation after upgrade to 8.0.0.6 or 8.0.1 in certain configurations.

Fix: The audit subsystem was modified for a performance improvement.

PI34193 Problem: The IBM Rational ClearCase CCz may fail when performing a rccbuild due to a short job name. If &USERID is used as job name when RCCMVS is customized, a build request may end with errors when the length of requester's user id is less than the one of '&USERID'. 

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase CCz was modified to handle short job names.

PI31209 Problem: You may receive the following error when working in the IBM Rational ClearCase (CC) - Rational Team Concert (RTC) bridge and adding a file to source control: CRMAP7009: CCRC command "BulkMkelemDynamic" failed.

Fix: The CMI-layer code now provides the CMI Task Selection GUI for mkelem.

PI31112 Problem: When using IBM Rational ClearCase and performing "cleartool mkelem -ci -master -mkpath -cq `find " the command ends with an internal error if the current working directory is not checkedout when the command is run and evil_twin protection is enabled on the VOB.

Fix: The internal error has been resolved.

PI29525 Problem: IBM ClearCase installer exposes server passwords in memory (See http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21688450)

Fix: IBM ClearCase installer has been modified to handle the server password securely, preventing further exposure in memory.

PI28310 Problem: The IBM Rational ClearTeam Explorer Eclipse plugin will hang when an attempt to hijack a .classpath file is made in a web view.

Fix: This problem has been resolved.

PI24282 Problem: When working in the IBM Rational ClearCase/Cadence integration, you may not see an error message stating you are creating an evil twin directory or element.

Fix: Error messages are now fixed to accurately report evil twin as the reason if it indeed caused mkelem to fail.


Fix Pack 7 (8.0.1.7)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PM74054 Problem: Rarely, rebooting a Solaris-based machine with IBM Rational ClearCase installed leads to a crash characterized by the message "mvfs: LOCK: recursive lock".

Fix: The synchronization facilities surrounding MVFS unload have been improved to eliminate the issue.

PI32551 Problem: Users of IBM Rational ClearCase might encounter system crashes in xdr_string when looking up pathnames with an @@ in them.

Fix: Users will no longer encounter panics in xdr_string in ClearCase versions 8.0.0.14 or later and 8.0.1.07 or later.

PI31607 Problem: Oracle Solaris 11 supports NFS exports from non-global zones, but exporting an IBM Rational ClearCase dynamic view for non-clearcase access from a  NGZ as superuser fails with "Not owner" error message.

Fix: The ClearCase export_mvfs feature has been corrected to allow exports from a non-global zone on Solaris 11.

PI30677 Problem: Users in "other" groups get "permission denied" errors accessing a sub-directory in a IBM Rational ClearCase VOB if it's parent has 771 permissions.

Fix: The view_server component now correctly checks the execute bit (when ACLs are not enforced), or checks the lookup-dir permission (when ACLs are enforced), when looking up child objects.

PI29895 Problem: When working in IBM Rational ClearTeam Explorer (CTE) Extension integrated with Rational Software Architect RealTime Edition(RSA RTE), you may find that the model is not refreshed after you cancel the checkout of a model fragment.

Fix: The model is now refreshed after cancel of a checkout of a model fragment.

PI29042 Problem: If you have checked out a file in IBM Rational ClearCase and then opened the Version Tree Browser, you may find that the contents of the file are zeroed out if you do a CTRL+S in the Version Tree.

Fix: CTRL+S in the Version Tree no longer alters the contents of files.

PI19788 Problem: When running ClearCase on a Microsoft Windows system, the system may encounter a STOP error (blue screen) while an application is opening a file.

Fix: A race condition in the ClearCase MVFS driver for Windows, which could allow an uninitialized pointer to be referenced, has been fixed.

PI09145 Problem: IBM Rational ClearCase "cleartool lsprivate -l" takes significantly longer to run than "cleartool lsprivate -short".

Fix: When in a dynamic view "cleartool lsprivate -l" no longer looks for "view.dat" files and minimizes opens of the "clearcase_specdev" file.


Fix Pack 6 (8.0.1.6)
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APAR Description
PM95042 Problem: cleartool: Warning: Unable to get explicit composite baseline While rebasing an IBM Rational ClearCase stream which has foundations on multiple composite baselines, the user may receive multiple occurrences of the message "cleartool: Warning: Unable to get explicit composite baseline" which has unclear meaning and makes the other command output extremely difficult to read.

Fix: More detailed error reporting can be enabled by setting a special environment variable, CCASE_EXPANDED_MSGS to any non-empty string. If CCASE_EXPANDED_MSGS is empty or non-existent, the behavior and messages are unchanged.

PI26867 Problem: While working in the IBM Rational ClearCase/Cadence integration, you may find that the label dialog box is empty when attempting to label a hierarchy. This is caused when your Cadence environment has customized the Virtuoso menu options and are calling functions in the ClearCase/Cadence menu items.

Fix: This change corrects the scenario and the all of the appropriate cells will show up in the Label Dialog box.

PI25327 Problem:In IBM Rational ClearTeam Explorer, Default Deliver operation repeatedly complains about the integration view that is no longer available, even after the user creates a new integration view to be used for the Default Deliver operation.

Fix: When the user creates a new integration view during a Default Deliver operation in IBM Rational ClearTeam Explorer, the new view is recorded as the default integration view for the subsequent Default Deliver operations.

PI24097 Problem: When working in an IBM Rational ClearCase dynamic view, customers would see build errors.

Fix: The problem was caused by reads beyond the end of file. The file read was modified to prevent that condition.

PI21647 Problem: When running a parallel build in an IBM Rational ClearCase dynamic view, you may experience a Microsoft STOP error (BSOD).

Fix:This issue with IBM Rational ClearCase MVFS has been resolved.

PI21092 Problem: When opening a Visual Studio.NET 2010 or Visual Studio.NET 2012 solution or project, IBM Rational ClearCase 8.0.x may automatically check out the solution and project files.

Fix: The solution and project files are no longer automatically checked out.

PI20000 Problem: When you are trying to copy (CTRL+C) and then paste (CTRL+V), the properties of a file in IBM Rational ClearCase ClearTeam Explorer (CTE), you will find that it does not work.

Fix: The Edit menu needed to have the copy/pate/cut/select_all enabled in the plugin/plugin.xml.

PI19022 Problem: The ClearCase cleartool relocate command may stop processing with a bus error or segmentation fault under certain scenarios where attributes are placed on other meta data types.

Fix: The cleartool relocate command now properly handles attributes placed on other meta data types.

PI18999 Problem:When working in IBM Rational ClearTeam Explorer (CTE), options at the bottom of the CTE checkin preferences dialog window are not visible because the dialog window is truncated and the scroll bar will not scroll to the bottom of the dialog window.

Fix: The CTE checkin preferences dialog window now functions properly.

PI19022 Problem: When working in the IBM Rational ClearTeam Explorer, when you select an Rational ClearQuest activity and then select "Show Change Set", a version that has been checked out by another user may show as "Pending".

Fix: A fix has been made to handle when a file is check out in a view that can't be accessed from the client machine.

PI08318 Problem: Under some circumstances, error messages from  the IBM Rational ClearCase/Cadence integration may be displayed a character(s) at a time, and the error messages may be broken up across multiple lines in the Library Manager window.  The error  messages may also contain control characters in them.

Fix: The Integration has been changed so that messages are now printed out in their entirety.  The integration also was modified to remove the control characters ("bold" and "unbold") in the error messages.


Fix Pack 5 (8.0.1.5)
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APAR Description
PI22822 Problem: When using IBM Rational ClearCase remote dynamic and remote NFS4 view storage, customers would see EPERM errors on checkout.

Fix: The problem was caused by an extra open attempt being sent to the NFS4 server. The cleartext file creation was modified to prevent that condition.

PI22401 Problem: When you are using the IBM Rational ClearCase elem-owner-check.pl script to change any invalid or unknown users of directories or elements to the vob owner, you may find that they are changed to Nobody if the owner of the vob is Nobody.

Fix: The IBM Rational ClearCase elem-owner-check.pl script has been modified to detect and stop when a VOB is owned by Nobody.

PI22258 Problem: When integrating IBM Rational ClearCase Unified Change Management (UCM) with IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC) via the Change Management Integration, multiple UCM activities cannot be associated with a single RTC Work Item.

Fix: The Change Management Integration (CMI) will now allow multiple activities on the same stream to be associated with an RTC Work Item or ClearQuest record.

PI20520 Problem: IBM Rational CCRC Server and CCRC clients with locale (LANG) set to non-ASCII on both (e.g: EN_US.UTF-8 or EN_GB.GB18030) generate an error.

Fix: The fix resolves the encoding issue on the CCRC WAN server side and it is transparent to customers (there is no additional effort required by customers).

PI19793 Problem: Users of  ClearCase views exported from a Linux system may see an error when mounting or accessing the view using NFS4, due to a problem with the Linux NFS4 implementation.

Fix: ClearCase has been modified to return certain values in the attribute information for exported directories in a way which is consistent with what is expected by the Linux NFS4 implementation.

PI18840 Problem: When IBM Rational ClearTeam Explorer users disconnect from the IBM Rational CCRC WAN Server, the corresponding user session is not terminated on the server.

Fix: Disconnecting from a CCRC WAN Server in ClearTeam Explorer will now terminate the user session on the server in under five minutes.

PI11015 Problem: When using IBM Rational ClearTeam Explorer rcleartool, nested version selection rules and comments in webview config spec do not work.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearTeam Explorer rcleartool has been fixed to properly read/use nested version selection rules. Comments in web view config spec are not supported.

PI08075 Problem: When working in an IBM Rational ClearCase dynamic view, privileged users were not able to remove the read-only attribute from view-private files they did  not own.

Fix: A repair tool is available which can be used by a privileged user to remove the read-only attribute from view-private files.  Please contact IBM Rational Customer Support for more information.


Fix Pack 4 (8.0.1.4)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PM86857 Problem: IBM Rational ClearCase users may  encounter STOP errors when building using dynamic views on Microsoft Windows(R) platforms

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase has been modified to prevent STOP errors while building.

PM86765 Problem: Rational ClearCase / Visual Studio 2012 integration freezes on 'Add as link' operation.

Fix: 'Add as link' operation no longer causes Visual Studio to freeze.

PM78205 Problem: ClearTeam Explorer does not display merge arrows if you start with partial version tree, then double click on the ... box/branch to expand to full version tree.

Fix: ClearTeam Explorer has been fixed to show merge arrows in a partial version tree.

PI17288 Problem: When using Rational ClearCase MVFS and renaming a file or directory through a view-extended name to a name in the viewroot, AIX may panic, even for an unprivileged user.  For instance, doing "mv /view/test-view/var /view/var" will cause a panic.

Fix: ClearCase MVFS was fixed to avoid the panic in these rename situations.

PI16366 Problem: Customers using Rational ClearCase dynamic views may have their builds interrupted with an error about not being able to write to a given file. The ClearCase MVFS driver was incorrectly handling an error condition when trying to lock user buffer memory pages.

Fix: ClearCase MVFS now forwards the new request to the storage file system without locking the user buffer. The underlying file system will take the necessary steps  as it would do without having MVFS installed.

PI15615 Problem: ClearCase does not properly fail a checkin when an RPC times out trying to communicate with ClearCase remote server.

Fix: Error processing has been corrected in ClearCase versions 8.0.0.5 and 8.0.1

PI15508 Problem: When working in IBM Rational ClearCase Z (CCz), the build server may fail to parse procedures and terminate a build  (due to Linux/Windows use of '\n').

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase Z (CCz) now properly parses BCL which is stored on MVS.

PI15411 Problem: Rational ClearCase rcleartool -graphical fails if the full ClearCase client is not installed.

Fix: Rational ClearCase rcleartool -graphical now use the ClearCase native diff/merge tools which are part of the Rational ClearCase Remote Client (CCRC) package.

PI14691 Problem: Saving a file from the Rational ClearTeam Explorer version tree using the "save as" function adds null characters to the file.  This is reproducible from both a web and dynamic view.

Fix: The "save as" function has been corrected.

PI14640 Problem: Users of Rational ClearCase MVFS may see corrupted files containing zeros if the use of the cache manager is turned on. The issue is caused because the view server may send stale information about the file size and makes the file smaller than it actually is in the cache. Later MVFS updates the file size to the correct value, but the file data has already been lost.

Fix: Rational ClearCase MVFS now ignores file size updates for files opened for write if the use of the cache manager is turned on. This prevents the file size to be updated with stale information preserving its data on the local cache.

PI14606 Problem: Using the Rational ClearCase-Cadence integration, there are times when a user may select a Cadence object in the Hierarchy Manager, or the ClearCase Work Area Manager (WAM), and select a ClearCase operation (e.g. Label, checkout, and others) and the resulting dialog box may not show any items that were selected.  The user would then not be able to perform the desired operation.

Fix: The ClearCase-Cadence integration has been changed to properly address this situation and the objects selected in the WAM or the Hierarchy Manager will now be properly displayed in the desired operation dialog box.

PI14582 Problem: Using URLs that contain non-ASCII characters with the OSLC-based Rational UCM/CQ Integration (SQUID) or the Rational Change Management Integration (CMI) causes the integrations to malfunction.

Fix: URLs that contain non-ASCII characters are now properly encoded.

PI14475 Problem: Rational CM API CcProvider.doLogout() was not correctly clearing cached data which was causing incorrect authentication information to be re-used in subsequent logins in the same process.

Fix: Rational CM API CcProvider.doLogout()  now correctly clears cached data.

PI14065 Problem: When a Rational ClearCase VOB root directory element is protected so a user cannot read the directory, ClearCase could intermittently fail on "ls -l" and similar commands that attempt to access the metadata of the VOB root.

Fix: ClearCase is fixed so all users can get metadata on the VOB root directory.  Permission to read the contents of the directory are still properly enforced.

PI12880 Problem: When using IBM Rational ClearCase views with a large cache (e.g.32MB) the view_server process may become 100% busy when 'cleartool setcs -current' is run, if the views object cache is 100% full.

Fix: Performance was improved for cache full situations.

PI12750 Problem: When working in the IBM Rational ClearCase/Cadence integration, it is not showing the correct title bar of the Editor windows with the correct Library/Cell/Cellview/Version information, when descending into the design hierarchy.

Fix: Title bar of the cellview editor will now be appropriately updated with the title of the sub block when opened in the same tab.

PI12579 Problem: When you are working in the IBM Rational ClearCase/Sybase PowerBuilder integration, you may see the following error when adding files to source control: "Error loading PowerBuilder Orca library, PBORC15.DLL". The files are added to source control correctly and there seems to be no impact due to the error.  You can clear the error by selecting the OK button.

Fix: The "Version Libraries" option is no longer available in the IBM Rational ClearCase/Sybase PowerBuilder integration after version 8.  Please read  http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21258623

PI12531 Problem: In documentation about configuring the ClearQuest integration with ClearCase UCM, the ClearQuest CM Server URI for the ClearQuest web server hosting the user database was incorrectly identified as CLEARQUEST-TEAM-URI.

Fix: The correct value is CQ-TEAM-URI; instances of CLEARQUEST-TEAM-URI have been fixed.

PI12482 Problem: In Rational ClearTeam Explorer, the user is unable to select a label as a merge source in the Merge Search Wizard if the label is locked.

Fix: The user is now able to select a label as a merge source in the Merge Search Wizard even if the label is locked.

PI12302 Problem: If you are logged in with a user name that contains a space, you may see the following error: "Failed to create the Java Virtual Machine" when comparing UTF8* or UTF16* files when you are are working in IBM Rational ClearCase Explorer or another native graphical user interface (GUI), such as the version tree browser. You may also see the same error when running cleartool diff -g -pred utf8filename.xxx.

Fix: User names are now enclosed in quotes to be able to handle user names containing spaces.

PI11635 Problem: Users of IBM Rational ClearCase on Linux could periodically see checked-out and view-private files having all their file size set to 0 and the creation date set to January 1, 1970.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase on Linux will now return the correct file information in all cases.

PI10990 Problem: In the System Requirements for IBM Rational ClearCase 8.x, it states that Sybase PowerBuilder is supported for use with the ClearCase Remote Client (CCRC).

Fix: System Requirements for the IBM Rational ClearCase 8.x / Sybase PowerBuilder integration have been corrected.

PI10723 Problem: ClearTeam Explorer fails to show any stream views if the list includes views with missing view tags.

Fix: ClearTeam Explorer now displays valid stream views and skips the views that are missing view tags in the ClearCase registry.

PI05069 Problem: IBM Rational ClearCase fails to remove remote views using a Microsoft Windows 8 client and a Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 server.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase rmview has been fixed.

PM98666 Problem: In the Rational ClearCase Change Management Integration for UCM, cleartool setactivity and cleartool mkactivity can fail with a segmentation fault if the stream's Change Management Integration configuration is missing the "validate" keyword.

Fix: The Integration will now use the default value for "validate" if the Admin has not explicitly configured it on the stream.


Interim Fix 1 (8.0.1.3_iFix01)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
-- This interim fix addresses a vulnerability in OpenSSL. Review Security Bulletins CVE-2014-0076 and CVE-2014-0160 for more information.

Fix Pack 3 (8.0.1.3)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PM98666 Problem: In the Rational ClearCase Change Management Integration for UCM, cleartool setactivity and cleartool mkactivity can fail with a segmentation fault if the stream's Change Management Integration configuration is missing the "validate" keyword.

Fix: The Integration will now use the default value for "validate" if the Admin has not explicitly configured it on the stream.

PM95981 Problem: Rational ClearTeam Explorer users are not able to create a baseline when the project uses a baseline naming template that does not include a basename.

Fix: The user is now able to create a baseline using ClearTeam Explorer if the project uses a baseline naming template that does not include a basename.

PM93034 Problem: Using the Rational ClearTeam Explorer Eclipse plugin does not populate all modules of an importing Maven project with the importing view tag.

Fix: The unusual nested structure of Maven projects was not being accounted for.  This has been fixed.

PM90375 Problem: The reference manual page for "multitool lsepoch" is missing from the "/opt/rational/clearcase/doc/man/cat1/" directory after installing IBM Rational ClearCase Multisite. WORKAROUND: Use the online manual on infocenter.
PM894314 Problem: The following environment variables are not set during a merge operation in ClearTeam Explorer. CLEARCASE_FXPN CLEARCASE_PN CLEARCASE_TXPN CLEARCASE_XPN

Fix: The client was not passing view-context information making it impossible to calculate the necessary path information.  This has been corrected.

PM71719 Problem: Rational ClearCase view_server process consumes 100% CPU when its cache fills up.

Fix: Cache management was improved to fix this issue.

PI12106 Problem: Rational ClearCase checkout of non-existent element or symbolic link will result in internal error.

Fix: Checkout error processing was corrected.

PI11919 Problem: During Rational ClearCase builds customers may experience a system crash due to a race condition.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase MVFS has been modified to avoid this system crash.

PI11193 Problem: Rational ClearCase Remote Client does not allow user to opt out of SP300-181 compliance, that causes connections from the Jenkin-HPI plugin to IBM Rational ClearCase to fail.

Fix: A configuration option has been included in this release of IBM Rational ClearCase. Please contact Rational ClearCase support for further details.

PI11080 Problem: During Rational ClearCase builds customers may experience a system crash due to a race condition.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase MVFS has been modified to avoid this system crash.

PI09946 Problem: Rational ClearCase Clearmake may cause BSOD.

Fix: Memory management was corrected and resolves this issue.

PI09673 Problem: When logging into IBM Rational ClearQuest from within the IBM Rational ClearTeam Explorer interface, the error "Incorrect username or password for schema repository XXXXXX" is thrown.

Fix: A fix for this defect is available in this release of IBM Rational ClearCase. This fix is required on Windows platforms only.

PI09606 Problem: During Rational ClearCase builds customers may experience a system crash due to a race condition.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase MVFS has been modified to avoid this system crash.

PI09398 Problem: A system on which a parallel audited build is running in IBM Rational ClearCase may hang due to a locking deadlock in the file system.

Fix: The order of locking file system resources when writing audit records during a parallel audited build was modified to avoid a potential deadlock.

PI09243 Problem: In some instances you may receive a Null Pointer Exception when working in the IBM Rational ClearTeam Explorer (CTE) extension in Rational Software Architect Real Time Edition (RSARTE). This would occur when you are importing a Team Project Set that contained a project that has been rmnamed. The CTE-pfs importer would crash with the Null Pointer.

Fix: The exception is now caught and a dialog is presented with the missing project(s) in a details section.  The user has the option to proceed (importing the found projects, skipping those not found) or aborting the psf import gracefully.

PI08881 Problem: Using Rational ClearCase clearmake in Gnu compatibility mode may produce an incorrect result for an 'if' clause when processing a makefile that has a tab character immediately following an 'else' clause.

Fix: This fix resolves the issue so the 'if' clause is properly evaluated when there is a tab character after the 'else' clause.

PI08503 Problem: Users of IBM Rational ClearCase might encounter spurious "File not found" errors during large parallel builds.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase has been modified to no longer return spurious "File not found errors" during builds.

PI08336 Problem: A Rational ClearQuest WAN server URL  of the form: http://ccrc.... is not usable.

Fix: Parsing of the URL has been fixed.

PI08315 Problem: When working in the IBM Rational ClearCase/Cadence integration, adding binary Cadence files (*.dm and *.oa) to source control that do not exist in the default magic file will fail.

Fix: Added entries to the default.magic file for *.dm and *.oa files so that these files get created as binary files.

PI07655 Problem: Rational ClearCase cleartool mkbl may fail with internal error: dbid not found in database.

Fix: Foundation hyperlink management was corrected to resolve this issue. 

PI07642 Problem: IBM Rational ClearCase Mainframe Connectors may fail when pressing enter on the main panel (without inputting anything).

Fix: The problem has been resolved.

PI07640 Problem: IBM Rational ClearCase Mainframe Connectors may fail after inputting user name and password on the authenticate panel.

Fix: The problem has been resolved.

PI06981 Problem: IBM Rational ClearCase Mainframe Connectors fails when submitting a job with jobcard skipped and an incorrect account.

Fix: The problem has been resolved.

PI06133 Problem: While running Rational Clearcase on AIX the customer may experience a system panic with a stack trace that resembles this (the key MVFS function in the trace is mvfs_aix_lookup_component): CRASH INFORMATION: CPU 0 CSA F000000030019600 at time of crash, error code for LEDs: 70000000 pvthread+014A00 STACK: WARNING: bad IAR: 00000000, display stack from LR: 04936EC8 [04936EC8]aix2onc_hold+000048 (F1000A02007C1038 [??]) [005A019C]vnop_hold+00003C (??) [00014F50].kernel_add_gate_cstack+000030 () [049EE98C]nfs3_root+00004C (??, ??) [04AC1784]aix2onc_root+000044 (??, ??, ??) [005A5094]vfs_root+000034 (??, ??, ??) [00014F50].kernel_add_gate_cstack+000030 () [F1000000C0376588]mvfs_aix_lookup_component+0002C8 (F1000A0200358050, F0000000300189D0,    F000000030018650, 0000000000000000, 0000000000000000, F1000A0100422C7C) [F1000000C03D6FF0]mvfs_lookup_ctx+000510 (F1000A01000E3F10, F0000000300189D0,    F000000030018868, 0000000000000000, 0000008200000082, 0000000000000000,    F1000A0100422C7C, 0000000000000000) [F1000000C03D84B0]mfs_lookup+000050 (F1000A01000E3F10, F0000000300189D0,    F000000030018868, 0000000000000000, 0000008200000082, 0000000000000000,    F1000A0100422C7C) [F1000000C03EA4E0]mfs_aix_lookup+000080 (F1000A01000E3F10, F0000000300189C8,    F0000000300189D0, 0000000000000082, 0000000000000000, F1000A0100422C7C) [00014D70].hkey_legacy_gate+00004C () [0059F6E4]vnop_lookup+000184 (??, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??) [005617C4]lookuppn+000A04 (??, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??) [00561F80]lookupname_internal+0000A0 (??, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??) [005620A4]lookupname_cur+000024 (??, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??) [005B7514]statx+0001D4 (??, ??, ??, ??) [00003850]ovlya_addr_sc_flih_main+000130 () [kdb_get_virtual_memory] no real storage @ 2FF07608 [D0131FF4]D0131FF4 () [kdb_read_mem] no real storage @ FFFFFFFFFFF5A90

Fix: Rational ClearCase MVFS code was changed to use an AIX kernel interface that avoids the panic.

PI05830 Problem: Rational ClearCase CLMUTIL utility cannot remove task links to objects which no longer exist.

Fix: CLMUTIL utility is now able to remove the task links.

PI04959 Problem: ClearCase native diff tool fails to run when invoked from ClearTeam Explorer on Windows.  The native tool is invoked from Java using Runtime.exec(). The problem appears to be due to changes in Java such that Runtime.exec() will not correctly parse a single command string when the main command has spaces without embedded quote marks.

Fix: The code has been changed to use the deprecated ProcessBuilder calls.  This will prevent problems when paths with spaces are used.


Fix Pack 2 (8.0.1.2)
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APAR Description
PI04987 Problem: On some Unix and Linux platforms, IBM Rational ClearCase installed incorrect symlinks for ccase-home-dir/etc/rsh and ccase-home-dir/etc/abe_starter, which prevented distributed clearmake builds from starting properly.

Fix: The symlinks for rsh and abe_starter are handled correctly by the installation code, and will be maintained correctly across upgrades as well.

PM99780 Problem: The "cleartool mkbl -clone" command in IBM Rational ClearCase may fail with a core dump. Similarly, the IBM Rational MultiSitemultitool synch import operation may fail on replay of a mkbl -clone command.

Fix: The cleartool mkbl -clone and the replay of mkbl -clone by multitool synch will no longer crash on a memory overflow condition.

PM99612 Problem: The IBM Rational ClearCase Remote Client may fail with a Null Pointer Exception when field names contain multibyte characters.

Fix: Multibyte characters in field names will no longer cause an exception.

PM99453 Problem: Under certain circumstances, a distributed build in IBM Rational ClearCase may incorrectly invalidate the MultiVersion Filesystem cache when building on the local host, which can cause a small performance degradation during builds.

Fix: The distributed build will now correctly determine if the build is done on the local host and not invalidate the cache.

PM99221 .Problem: The IBM Rational ClearTeam Explorer integration with Rational Software Architect RealTime Edition (RSA-RTE) may display a model's members in the checkouts view incorrectly after a model mutation.

Fix: The ClearTeam Explorer / RSA-RTE integration will now correctly display a model's members after a model mutation.

PM99147 Problem: IBM Rational ClearCase users would encounter occasional system panics during large builds on Microsoft Windows(R) systems

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase has been modified to prevent system panics during large builds on Microsoft Windows(R) systems.

PM99099 Problem: The IBM Rational ClearCase Logical Model Merge may undo a checkout with merge results.

Fix: Logical Model Merge has been fixed to  not incorrectly undo checkouts with merge results.

PM99093 Problem: The IBM Rational ClearTeam Explorer integration with Rational Software Architect RealTime Edition (RSA-RTE) may not be able to perform a checkin after removing a fragment from a model.

Fix: A check-in can now be performed in after removing a fragment from a model.

PM99090 Problem:The IBM Rational ClearCase Command Line Logical Model Merge provides insufficient information about versions being fetched for merge,

Fix: Command Line Logical Model Merge now provides sufficient information about versions being fetched for merge.

PM98666 Problem:In the Change Management Integration for UCM, cleartool setactivity and cleartool mkactivity can fail with a segmentation fault if the stream's Change Management Integration configuration is missing the "validate" keyword.

Fix: The Integration will now use the default value for "validate" if the Admin has not explicitly configured it on the stream.

Problem: During some merges done using the IBM Rational ClearCase Command Line Logical Model Merge, unnecessary branches are created, due to the lack of support for an option to undo backwards merges.

Fix: Command Line Logical Model Merge now supports a flag to undo backwards merges to avoid creating unnecessary branches.

PM98277 Problem: The problem is caused by two ClearCase dialogs, one open and one about to open, running simultaneously.  This does not normally occur, unless: 1) The .settings folder and it's content does not exist in the project. 2) The user has more than one transformation config and changes which is the default. 3) The user *quickly* attempts to refactor a model object after changing the default transformation configuration.

Fix: The ClearCase dialogs have listeners for change events within the dialogs and the add to source listener fires when the checkout dialog is about to open due to the refactor operation.  The listeners now filter on the event source so that the listeners will only respond to the correct event source.

PM97900 Problem: The IBM Rational ClearCase Command Line Logical Model Merge exits prematurely, before all the extraneous checkouts performed during the merge are undone.

Fix: Command Line Logical Model Merge now waits for all the extraneous checkouts to be undone before completing the merge command.

PM97895 Problem: The IBM Rational ClearCase ClearTeam Explorer should print all logging information to the Eclipse log, but it is being displayed on the console.

Fix: ClearTeam Explorer will now print exceptions and log information to the Eclipse workspace log.

PM92769 Problem: ClearTeam Explorer Logical Model Merge incorrectly identifies contributor versions when changes are made to fragments only with no changes to the model file

Fix: ClearTeam Explorer has been modified so that it will now corrrectly  identifiy contributor versions when performing Logical Model Merges.

PM97784 Problem: The IBM Rational ClearCase ClearTeam Explorer had not been updated to support the latest improvements to the CLI Closure Merge feature of the IBM Rational Software Architect RealTime Edition (RSARTE).

Fix: ClearTeam Explorer now fully supports the latest improvements to RSARTE CLI Closure Merge

PM97194 Problem: In the IBM Rational ClearTeam Explorer integration with Rational Software Architect RealTime Edition (RSARTE), there is no Checkin option in the right click menu of CTE Checkouts view if model root directory is chosen.

Fix: The context menu in the ClearTeam Explorer Checkouts view is now the same regardless of the selection in the view, and includes the Checkin option.

PM97192 Problem: In the IBM Rational ClearCase ClearTeam Explorer, if you rename the file of a logical model fragment while there is an open checkouts view, and then attempt to check in the model, the checkin will attempt to check in the old name because CTE's internal model did not get updated for the rename.

Fix: On certain refactor operations on logical models, the CTE move/delete operations now correctly update the CTE internal model so that checkin will function correctly.

PM97072 Problem: In the IBM Rational ClearCase ClearTeam Explorer, the lack of a Show Checkouts action on the ClearCase toolbar makes it difficult for the user to open the Checkouts view.

Fix: The main toolbar in ClearTeam Explorer now includes the Show Checkouts action to allow the user to quickly open the Checkouts view.

PM96863 Problem: The IBM Rational ClearCase Command Line Logical Model Merge unnecessarily fetches all the active dynamic views on startup, causing delay in performing the merge.

Fix: Command Line Logical Model Merge no longer fetches all the active dynamic views on startup which allows the merge operation to commence quickly.

PM95985 Problem: The IBM Rational ClearCase UCM/ClearQuest OSLC integration will generate an error to the user for view tags or stream names longer than 50 characters for entry into ClearQuest records.

Fix: The ClearCase UCM/ClearQuest OSLC integration truncates view tags and stream names when they are longer than 50 characters.

PM95898 Problem: Wildcard specifications in Rational ClearCase lsview may incorrectly report "no matching entries".

Fix: Wildcard specifications in Rational ClearCase lsview no longer report the error message when views exists and match the wildcard pattern.

PM95740 Problem: Processes could hang if they attempted to access a file in the IBM Rational ClearCase Multi-Version File System that was in the process of being deleted.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase has been modified to eliminate a race condition so that processes will not hang while accessing files that are in the process of being deleted.

PM95273 Problem: If you have the Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2012 with Microsoft Team Explorer for Visual Studio 2012 plugin and IBM Rational ClearCase Remote Client plugin installed, devenv.exe will crash when you are saving a Microsoft Team Foundation Server work item.

Fix:Visual Studio crash during a Team Foundation Server workitem save  had been resolved.

PM94448 Problem: When attempting to use the rcleartool portion of the ClearCase ClearTeam Explorer plugin for Eclipse, the setup will fail because it is unable to locate the launcher script.

Fix: Rcleartool script now configures correctly for the first time use in Clear Team Explorer Eclipse Plugin.

PM91211 Problem: The IBM Rational ClearCase integration with Microsoft Visual Studio(R) 2012 may show performance degradation as compared with previous versions of Microsoft Visual Studio. This performance degradation can be seen when using MultiVersion File System (MVFS) dynamic views, when scrolling through the items in the solution explorer when the solution is very large, or when displaying files in a large directory.

Fix: A performance problem in operations within large directories in the IBM Rational ClearCase integration with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 has been fixed.

PM90880 Problem: When stopping IBM Rational ClearCase services on an HP-UX system which had been running a substantial load, it was possible to receive errors unmounting some VOBs, and that in turn prevented successful unmount of the viewroot.

Fix: Changes were made in the ClearCase Multi Version File System (MVFS) file inactivation code to correctly release all resources on the last close of a file which had been opened by multiple processes.

PM90878 Problem: Large multiprocessor build servers running HP-UX 11.31 would experience sporadic system crashes during periods of high activity.

Fix: Locking around the vnode reference count in the IBM Rational ClearCase Multi Version File System (MVFS)  was corrected, to prevent race conditions between threads deactivating and reactivating the same file object.

PM90373 Problem: When running the IBM Rational ClearCase Multisite command "multitool lsepoch" from the command line with multiple replicas given as options, the command will abort if it encounters a failure contacting one of the replicas. It then does not continue processing the command and so does not attempt to access the subsequent replicas.

Fix: The command now continues processing and attempts to access the subsequent replicas.

PM90370 Problem: When running IBM Rational ClearCase Multisite command "multitool lsepoch -actual replica1 replica2 ...", if replica1 has not yet been imported on the remote site or the replica hostname is incorrect, then the command should produce an error of the type "unable to retrieve epoch row for remote replica". At this time there is no error or message indicating any issues with replica1 as long at there is connectivity to the remote site and the VOB server host exists.

Fix: If replica1 has not yet been imported on the remote site or the replica hostname is incorrect, then the command now produces an error.

PM90176 Problem: In the ClearCase Information Center step 6 of the instructions for moving a VOB within a domain is incorrect, the target host is specified in a command where the source host is required.

Fix: The incorrect hostname in the example has been fixed.

PM90121 Problem: IBM Rational Clearcase on Microsoft Windows 7 may encounter a system hang when performing parallel builds within a dynamic view.

Fix: The IBM Rational Clearcase Multi-Version File System code has been modified to alleviate hangs during parallel builds.

PM88679 Problem: When Symantec 12.1.2.x is installed on a Microsoft(R) Windows system running the IBM Rational ClearCase client, applications which write to a temporary file in a scratch directory could trigger a Windows STOP error when that temporary file is renamed as a view-private file.

Fix: The MVFS filesystem has been updated to be compatible with the filter drivers in Symantec 12.1.x.

PM88248 Problem: In the Rational ClearCase integration with Cadence Design Framework II, attempting to apply a label for which the ClearCase label type was not defined would generate an error, rather than creating the label type.

Fix: The integration now properly creates the ClearCase label type correctly in the appropriate VOB(s).

PM88109 Problem: IBM Rational ClearCase UCM/ClearQuest integration actions that delete a ClearQuest record (e.g. trivial rebase) fail on AIX.

Fix: ClearCase UCM/ClearQuest integration actions that delete a ClearQuest record now succeed on AIX.

PM87962 Problem: If Microsoft Security Client is installed on an IBM Rational ClearCase client system, running an executable which was winked in during the build process can cause a Windows STOP error.

Fix: The ClearCase Multi Version File System (MVFS) has been modified to be compatible with Microsoft Security Client.

PM87725 Problem: The ClearCase Infocenter lists the wrong default value for the CCASE_ABE_PN environment variable.

Fix: The default paths for CCASE_ABE_PN and CLEARCASE_ABE_PN have been corrected for Unix, Linux, and Windows.

PM87538 Problem: ClearTeam Explorer (CTE) may not show the current checkout comments for a checked-out version.  Modifications made by CTE to checkout comments through a property sheet are lost when the version is checked in.

Fix: ClearTeam Explorer (CTE) has been fixed to correctly display and modify comments on checked-out versions.

PM85153 Problem: When applying a label in am IBM Rational ClearCase view, you may find that not all labels are applied or that some elements report errors but the labels have been applied.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase has been modified so that labels will now be applied properly.

PM84238 Problem: A Micorosoft Windows(R) system running IBM Rational ClearCase and Symantec Endpoint Protection can encounter a system panic when moving a file from a local disk into a dynamic view.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase has been modified so that Symantic Endpoint Protection will no longer cause a system panic moving files into a dynamic view.

PM83938 Problem: Under fmt_ccase command reference page, the %[label_status]p format mention only 3 status: full, incremental, or unlabeled. There are two other status values missing: No Versions to Label, Initially Labeled

Fix: The missing status values have been added to the reference page.

PM79463 Problem: During the apply label operation in ClearTeam Explorer, a comment that is intended to be attached to the label event, is incorrectly being applied to the labelled version itself.  This can also result in an incorrect error message being shown to the user.       

Fix: The handling of label event comments in CleartTeam Explorer has been fixed and no error message will be shown.

PM77345 Problem: When the view storage path for an IBM Rational ClearCase view on UNIX or Linux approached 255 characters, some operations such as checkout could fail, even though the user-visible view tag and VOB tag are short enough for fully qualified pathnames to be within supported limits.

Fix: ClearCase will now successfully handle view storage path names that are longer than 255 characters.

PM76839 Problem: Setting the Registry Key MvfsViewAttachMup can cause IBM Rational ClearCase users to receive permission denied errors when using robocopy.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase has been modified so that the MvfsViewAttachMup is no longer needed and robocopy now works correctly.

PM75360 Problem: The Perl stat() function performs slowly when accessing files in remote dynamic views under IBM Rational ClearCase.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase has been modified so that the stat() function in perl will perform better.

PM73548 Problem: When both ccrcUseViewHostPathForGlobalPath and ccrcUserRegionMapFile are explicitly specified in the server.conf configuration file of the IBM Rational ClearCase 8.0.x WAN Server, the WAN server is unable to locate the region map even though the path is set correctly.

Fix: The ClearCase WAN server has been fixed to correctly parse the configuration options.

PM65457 Problem: Rational ClearCase documentation about how the CLEARCASE_MKELEM_USE_GRPLIST environment variable functions for the mkdir command is incorrect.

Fix: The documentation of the CLEARCASE_MKELEM_USE_GRPLIST environment variable has been corrected with regard to the way a new element's group is determined.

PM49774 Problem: Messages from the IBM Rational ClearCase CM API are printed to the console rather than to a log file.

Fix: CM API has been changed to write messages to a log file, rather than to the developer's console.

PM49773 Problem: The IBM Rational ClearCase ClearTeam Explorer should print all logging information to the Eclipse log, but it is being displayed on the console.

Fix: ClearTeam Explorer will now print exceptions and log information to the Eclipse workspace log.

PM87942 Problem: IBM Rational ClearCase cleartool describe -aliases may not properly list all of the visible aliases of a clearcase hard link if one of the links is in a directory that is not visible in the current view.

Fix: cleartool describe -aliases now properly lists all visible aliases of a hard link.

PM48668 Problem: The IBM Rational ClearTeam Explorer may hang intermittently when many views are started.

Fix: Fixed a problem where the ClearTeam Explorer hangs when many views are started.

PM35859 Problem: A system panic could occur on Microsoft Windows(R) 7 systems running java under IBM Rational Clearcase.

Fix: Fixed a problem where the ClearTeam Explorer hangs when many views are started.

PM26284 Problem: The "config_spec" page of the IBM Rational ClearCase reference manual incorrectly states that the view server recompiles a config spec at startup. This causes confusion when time rules specifty nonabsolute values (e.g., "today").

Fix: The config_spec reference page for has been corrected and includes advice to run  cleartool setcs -current.

PI18831 Problem: When you execute a program that is stored as a view private file in a dynamic view in IBM Rational ClearCase on Microsoft Windows(R) 7 the task manager may list the name of the program as the name of the cleartext file in the view storage directory and not the name of the executable.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase will now cause the task manager to display the name of an executable file properly.

PM18005 Problem: IBM Rational ClearCase builds on Microsoft Windows(R) XP systems will not always list executable programs created as derived objects in the audit files for subsequent steps in the build.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase will now list executable files created as derived objects in audit files.

PM13349 Problem: Executing a program out of an IBM Rational ClearCase Versioned Object Base (VOB) can cause a system panic on a Microsoft Windows(R) system if certain anti-virus programs are enabled.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase has been modified to work properly in the presence of anti-virus software.

PK67686 Problem: Applications running in a ClearCase dynamic view context cannot make TCP calls on systems running Microsoft Windows(R) Vista or later operating systems.

Fix: Applications running in a ClearCase dynamic view can now make TCP calls correctly.

PI05748 Problem: The IBM Rational ClearCase mvfsstat utility can report an incorrect value for maximum RPC delay time on multi-processor systems.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase has been modified to report the maximum RPC delay time correctly

PI05125 Problem: In the IBM Rational ClearTeam Explorer, expanding the "Add to source" dialogue to show details may hide the resource selection field, making it impossible to select or de-select individual artifacts to add to source control.

Fix: Individual artifacts can now be selected when using the details of the "Add to source" dialog.

PI04926 Problem: In the Rational ClearCase integration with Cadence Design Framework II, when expanding nodes in the Work Area Manager, comments containing a pattern that matches regular expression "_.," caused syntax errors in Virtuoso.

Fix: Comments containing a "_.," pattern will no longer cause a syntax error.

PI04691 Problem: You may see a BCL syntax error when running an rccbuild in IBM Rational ClearCase Mainframe Connectors if the string 'MEMBER=' is included in the parameters.

Fix: This syntax error has been resolved.


Fix Pack 1 (8.0.1.1)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PM82355 Problem: IBM Rational ClearCase documentation is incomplete and needs to provide clarifying information for a smoother installation of IBM WebSphere Application Server and IBM Rational ClearCase Remote Clients (CCRC) WAN server components that work with ClearCase Change Management (CM)Server.

Fix: The IBM Rational ClearCase 8.0.1 Information Center has been updated to clarify the installation process.

PM95725 Problem: Users of the IBM Rational ClearCase/Cadence integration  may find an 'Invalid state of file...'  error message at random times.

Fix: The IBM Rational ClearCase/Cadence integration has been modified to correctly display the 'operation name' in the error message 'Invalid state of file...'

PM95460 Problem: Symantec PGP Desktop e-mail encryption service causes problems with the Atria Location Broker Demon(ALBD) service startup during install or upgrade operations. The ALBD service is prevented from starting, locking the operation.

Fix: The IBM Rational ClearCase installer has been modified to create an interface for selectively disabling the service's final startup sequence, thus preventing PGP Desktop and other third party programs from interfering with the startup operation and causing irrecoverable lock situations.

PM95234 Problem: IBM Rational ClearCase users would see the the output of cleartool commands truncated if they used the -fmt option and specified options with the form '%[hlink]p\n'. Rational ClearCase output use of '%[hlink]p\n' truncates -fmt output.

Fix: Cleartool now dynamically allocates its output buffer and reports a buffer overflow error if there is insufficient memory.

PM95160 .Problem: Using ClearTeam Explorer, the Undo Checkout dialog shows an incorrect number of artifacts when invoked on the root of a Logical Model.

Fix: Fixes a problem in ClearTeam Explorer where the Undo Checkout dialog shows incorrect number of artifacts when invoked on the root of a Logical Model.

PM94950 Problem: A user of IBM Rational ClearCase is, in some cases, unable to open a checked out 2 gigabyte file without the O_LARGEFILE option on AIX.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase has been modified to allow opening of 2 gigabyte files on AIX without explicitly setting the O_LARGEFILE in those cases.

PM94626 Problem: ClearTeam Explorer does not list loaded VOBs in the list in the Apply Label wizard.

Fix: ClearTeam explorer now lists both loaded and unloaded VOBs and elements in the Apply Label wizard.

PM94093 Problem: When running the IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC) bridge connection to IBM Rational ClearCase and using the Microsoft Visual Studio integration pressing the "ClearCase Explorer" button in visual studio results in IBM Rational ClearTeamExplorer (CTE) being launched instead of the expected Rational Team Concert (RTC) explorer.

Fix: The Visual Studio integration with ClearCase has been modified so that when the IBM Rational Team Concert bridge connection is being used, pressing the "ClearCase Explorer" button will launch the Rational Team Concert explorer.

PM94071 Problem: The command supplied in the IBM Rational ClearCase Information Center to migrate the CM Server MBEANs to CCRC WAN Server is incorrect.

Fix: In the ClearCase 8.0.1 Information Center,  the  "Migrating from Change Management (CM) Server to CCRC WAN Server" topic has been updated to include the correct command for backing up the CM Server configuration for ClearCase V7.1.x releases.

PM93875 Problem: A Rational ClearCase VOB database server may run out of file descriptors after multiple down-revision clients attempt to access a VOB that does not accept old clients. The database log file may have errors such as: Error: Process not running on registry specified hostname or other errors resulting from running out of file descriptors.

Fix: The VOB database code now closes database files after rejecting connections from old client software, so that it will not run out of file descriptors

PM93856 Problem: Logical Model Merge in ClearTeam Explorer makes extraneous checkouts during merge making results hard to understand

Fix: Fixes a problem in ClearTeam Explorer so that Logical Model Merge operations no longer makes extraneous checkouts.

PM93334 Problem: In ClearTeam Explorer, the find checkout operation can take a considerable amount of time and there is no way to cancel the operation.

Fix: ClearTeam Explorer has been modified to provide a mechanism to cancel find checkout operations and to improve the performance of painting the checkout table.

PM93012 Problem: When performing a Logical Model Merge in ClearTeam Explorer, a remotely renamed model fragment appears as a view-private file after the merge completes.

Fix: ClearTeam Explorer has been modified so that remotely renamed model fragments are properly checked in during the completion of a directory merge.

PM92791 Problem: IBM ClearCase will generate an error message in the form "Unknown host '27000@licenseserver" if it cannot contact a remote view server process and Rational Common Licensing or FlexLM licensing is being used.

Fix: IBM ClearCase has been modified so that it will no longer generate this error message.

PM92769 Problem: ClearTeam Explorer Logical Model Merge incorrectly identifies contributor versions when changes are made to fragments only with no changes to the model file

Fix: ClearTeam Explorer has been modified so that it will now corrrectly  identifiy contributor versions when performing Logical Model Merges.

PM92249 Problem: When merging IBM Rational Software Architect RealTime Edition (RSARTE) models that have more than 100 fragments the performance seen in Logical Model Merge (CLILMM) from the command line is very bad.

Fix: Fixes a problem with ClearTeam Explorer where Logical Model Merge takes a long time when the model has a large number of fragments (more than 100).

PM91851 Problem: When the user performs a logical model merge from a view and the model has checkouts in the source view, Rational ClearTeam Explorer displays too many error messages about this unsupported use case.

Fix: Fixes a problem in ClearTeam Explorer,  where multiple error messages are displayed when the user tries to perform a logical model merge from a view and the model has checkouts in that view.

PM91781 Problem: During a Rational ClearTeam Explorer merge on checkin, the user may get the following error: "Objects being compared or merged must be versions of the same element" if any of the folders containing the file being checkin is a symbolic link.

Fix: Fixes a problem in ClearTeam Explorer where during a merge on checkin, the user may get the following error: "Objects being compared or merged must be versions of the same element" if any of the folders containing the file being checkin is a symbolic link

PM91539 Problem: Rational ClearTeam Explorer Show Checkouts incorrectly displays no checkouts for view

Fix: Fixes the problem in ClearTeam Explorer, where the Show Checkouts view incorrectly displays no checkouts for the view

PM91504 Problem: Rational ClearTeam Explorer Version Tree throws an exception after the user does an undo checkout of a version and there is a trigger to remove an empty branch.

Fix: Fixes a problem in ClearTeam Explorer, where Version Tree throws an exception after the user does an undo checkout of a version and there is a trigger to remove an empty branch

PM91398 Problem: Rational ClearTeam Explorer  "Advanced Deliver Preview" sheet, when delivering by baseline is selected, it is possible for the user-input option to have an enabled "Ok" button which allows the deliver to be attempted without any actual user input into the text area.

Fix: Steps now taken to a) disallow the Ok button to be enabled for empty user input text area, and b) ensure correct enable state for the Ok button when switching between tabs on the baseline-deliver sheet of the Deliver Preview Dialog.

PM90882 Problem: In IBM Rational ClearCase 8.0.1, a user will receive the following error when running 'cleartool lsco -cview -avobs' for any mounted VOB whose VOB root directory element is unreadable to the user, even if that VOB has no checkouts: lsco: cleartool: Error: Unable to determine view for "": Permission denied

Fix: cleartool will not emit an error for a VOB with an unreadable VOB root directory element, if that VOB has no checkouts in the view. If there are checkouts in such a VOB in the view, they will be listed with a notation that no pathname can be found for the checkout. Any VOB that cannot be opened by the user (for example, the VOB enforces ACLs and the VOB ACL does not permit the user to open the VOB) will result in an error message, whether or not there are checkouts in the VOB (the user without access does not have permission to determine the presence of checkouts).

PM90756 Problem: "Encountered an improper argument" error on invocation of Rational ClearCase Version Tree of a file.  Same error is seen when the file is accessed from Rational ClearCase Explorer.

Fix: The "Encountered an improper argument" error condition has been resolved.

PM90635 Problem: When certain ClearCase properties (such as a config spec) are changed, some of the ClearCase properties such as "config spec rule", never update when viewed in the ClearCase properties sheet.

Fix: Some of the ClearCase properties for a versioned file or folder were being retrieved from a cached location so that the property sheet would never show any change.  This has been remedied.

PM89935 Problem: Rational ClearCase omake -L does not properly handle rebuilds of the entire dependency tree.

Fix: A fix to omake resolves this issue and now the entire dependency tree is rebuilt properly.

PM89867 Problem: If multiple Rational ClearCase users missed entering the "BASE NAME" in edit baseline dependency, blank baselines are getting created.

Fix: Baseline Dependency Editor now checks for empty pathname when no template is used and prompts for a pathname.

PM89632 Problem: In ClearCase, the cleartool rmview -uuid command could fail to remove view records from a VOB when multiple VOBs on the same server host are owned by different accounts.

Fix: In ClearCase, the cleartool rmview -uuid command now works properly when removing view records from a VOB even when multiple VOBs on the same server host are owned by different accounts

PM86099 Problem: When browsing ClearQuest records from within CCRC on a Korean locale, CQ UCM field labels have a slighter larger font size.  This sometimes leads to truncation of some label names.

Fix: On Korean locales, ClearQuest field labels now have uniform font sizes when viewed from within CCRC.

PM85271 Problem: ClearTeam Explorer is not displaying a Merge arrow in the ClearCase version tree after a merge using the vtree context menu merge action.

Fix: ClearTeam Explorer has been modified to properly display Merge arrows after a merge.

PM85196 Problem: When a user of ClearTeam Explorer refactors or renames  a file containing a Rational Software Architect model  fragment, never renames the file.

Fix: ClearTeam Explorer has been modified to properly handle the renaming and refactoring of Rational Software Architect model fragments.

PM84917 Problem: Rational ClearCase db.conf '-deadman' value is only upward tunable.

Fix: The -deadman option only took values of 1 minute and higher. The solution was to allow any positive value.

PM82644 Problem: When you are running a build in an IBM Rational ClearCase dynamic view, you may experience a STOP Error, system crash, or BSOD (Blue Screen of Death).

Fix: The Multi Version File System(MVFS) in ClearCase was modified so that these errors no longer occur.

PM81644 Problem: ClearTeam Explorer  login fails when password has a ":" in it.

Fix: ClearTeam Explorer will now properly handle logins when the password contains a ":".

PM72109 Problem: Using a keybinding shortcut for version tree or history in ClearTeam Explorer produces an empty view.

Fix: ClearTeam Explorer has been modified to provide keybindings for the commands in the ClearCase category  found in Windows->Preferences->General->Keys.

PM37696 Problem: The number of connections to the IBM Information Center exceeded the number permitted for concurrent printing of topics.

Fix: Users can now print content from the Information Center.

IC85479 Problem: Rational ClearCase Infocenter documentation does not warn about backing up and restoring the albd.conf when upgrading to ClearCase 8.x

Fix: In the ClearCase 8.0 and 8.0.1 Information Centers, the upgrade instructions in the "Backing up your environment resources" topic have been revised.


Release (8.0.1)
Link Date Released Status
Defect ID APAR Description
-- -- 8.0.1 contains a cumulative list of fixes from 8.0 - 8.0.0.6.

Fix Pack 21 (8.0.0.21)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
security fixes This release only includes some security fixes.


Fix Pack 20 (8.0.0.20)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
security fixes This release only includes some security fixes.

Fix Pack 19 (8.0.0.19)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
security fixes This release only includes some security fixes.

Fix Pack 18 (8.0.0.18)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PI59905 Problem: IBM ClearCase cleartool commands using "-fmt %[dstreams]Xp" may overflow its output buffer.

Fix: The "-fmt %[dstreams]Xp" option has been modified to expand its output buffer as needed.

PI58916 Problem: When working in an IBM Rational ClearCase dynamic view, you may receive a Microsoft STOP error of BAD_POOL_HEADER (19).

Fix: IBM Rational Clearcase was changed to avoid this crash.

PI57857 Problem: IBM Rational ClearCase cleartool command could crash if an excessively long string is passed as the -type argument

Fix: cleartool has been fixed to work properly with any length input string for the -type argument

PI57453 Problem: When working in an IBM Rational ClearCase dynamic view and running the gnuwin32 cp.exe command, you may find that the file is not truncated correctly.

Fix: MVFS now notifies cache manager appropriately when changing the file allocation information removing the race condition.

PI56714 Problem: After upgrade to update 3 of Solaris 11, starting IBM Rational ClearCase in any non-global zone on that system will cause a system crash.

Fix: The MVFS initialization code has been updated to work correctly on Solaris 11 update 3.

PI56221 Problem: In some cases IBM Rational ClearCase users would find that they could not access views and vobs exported using non-ClearCase access and would receive STALE NFS FILE HANDLE errors.

Fix: STALE NFS FILE HANDLE errors when accessing views and VOB exported using non-ClearCase access have been resolved.

PI55768 Problem: When using a tool such as kdiff to compare file differences between versions in two different ClearCase dynamic views on Microsoft Windows, the user may experience a Microsoft STOP error DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (d1)

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase has been updated to fix a defect which caused I/O data structures to be incorrect.

PI53844 Problem: When working in a ClearCase dynamic view in Microsoft Visual Studio, users may experience a Microsoft STOP error of BAD_POOL_HEADER (19) when opening a large project.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase has been updated to fix a defect which caused I/O data structures to be corrupted.

PI52979 Problem: When describing a file element version in an IBM Rational Clearcase Versioned Object Base (VOB), the output will be truncated at 153097 bytes when formatting the describe to only return labels. (-fmt %Nl)

Fix: The output buffer used by -fmt %Nl now expands as needed to include all labels.

PI50990 Problem: When using Microsoft Visual Studio and searching within a large project in an IBM ClearCase dynamic view, you may experience a Windows STOP error (BSOD) when opening a file found during the search.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase has been updated to fix a defect which caused I/O data structures to be incorrect.

PI50577 Problem: When performing a highly parallel build in an IBM ClearCase dynamic view, you may experience a Microsoft Windows STOP error (blue screen crash) with the status  DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (d1).

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase has been updated to fix a defect which caused I/O data structures to be incorrect.

PI45760 Problem: When performing container recovery/repair in an IBM Rational ClearCase Versioned Object Base (VOB) the checkvob command may fail while processing damaged UTF16 or UTF32 elements.

Fix: The checkvob command is now able to process UTF16 and UTF32 elements.

PI45746 Problem: When attempting to repair missing/corrupt source containers in an IBM Rational ClearCase Versioned Object Base (VOB), the checkvob tool may incorrectly determine the storage format of the potential replacement container when the element type manager is one of the more-recently introduced element types: Rose/xde/Unicode, etc.

Fix: The correct element type is now detected and used.

PI43668 Problem: IBM ClearCase cleartool commands using "-fmt %[CONFIG_SPEC]P" may overflow its output buffer.

Fix: The "-fmt %[CONFIG_SPEC]P" option has been modified to expand its output buffer as needed.

PI40960 Problem: Incorrect user is identified as checking in a file in ClearTeam Explorer if a merge is required due to a previous checkin.

Fix: The correct owner will be now be reported in the message.

PI15110 Problem: When working in an IBM Rational ClearCase UCM Multisite environment having mutiple pvobs, it is possible that oplogs generated by running "cleartool rebase -dbaseline" may not be replayed properly in sibling replicas, causing subsequent failures at those siblings when running "mkreplica -export" or "reformatvob" commands.

Fix: This fix causes the oplogs to be replayed properly at sibling replicas.


Fix Pack 17 (8.0.0.17)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PM77414 Problem: When using IBM Rational ClearCase and accessing or executing a program in a dynamic view via a Windows symbolic link, Windows may crash with a BSOD in the MVFS. This is when using Microsoft NTFS symbolic link NOT ClearCase symbolic link.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase was modified to avoid BSOD when using Windows Symbolic Link.

PI50590 Problem: When setting the Microsoft prompt to show the remote name on IBM Rational ClearCase Dynamic View,  you may receive an "unknown", instead of the remote name for the drive.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase was modified to show the correct remote name.

PI50303 Problem: If you checkout a file in an IBM Rational ClearTeam Explorer web view before connecting to ClearCase and then try to connect, you will find that ClearTeam Explorer hangs and is unresponsive.

Fix: Fixes a problem in the ClearTeam Explorer that causes the application to hang when the user navigates to a folder within a view without connecting to the server.

PI48860 Problem: If you are running an audited build in an IBM Rational ClearCase dynamic view, you may receive a Microsoft STOP error (BSOD).

Fix: A race condition in the IBM Rational ClearCase MVFS which caused reference to incorrect audit structures has been fixed.

PI48834 Problem: Users of IBM Rational ClearCase may experience a kernel crash or applications may appear to hang when using pt_shell.

Fix: MVFS was changed to handle file creation options appropriately.

PI48655 Problem: IBM Rational ClearCase CCRC Wan Server process consumes 14mb memory when it is started up, but over time the memory it consumes keeps increasing steadily.

Fix: Memory leaks have been fixed.

PI48531 Problem: When running a UCM deliver in ClearTeam Explorer, automatic merges may not occur and it would appear that a manual merge must happen. A manual merge is not actually required in this case and the deliver will appear to stop.

Fix: Fixes a problem in the ClearTeam Explorer, where automatic merges sometimes don't occur during a UCM Deliver operation.

PI47193 Problem: A Windows system crash may occur during IBM Rational ClearCase dynamic views with Symantec 12.1.6 and cache manager enabled.

Fix: A memory leak condition in ClearCase, which could cause a system crash, was corrected.

PI45420 Problem: A synchronization problem in IBM Rational ClearCase MVFS may cause inconsistent time-stamp values for view private files.

Fix: The way MVFS validates and sets time-stamps was improved. Additionally, the resolution of view private files time-stamps will never be better than the resolution of the view storage file-system.

PI45277 Problem: When using the Perl-based integration between IBM Rational ClearCase and IBM Rational ClearQuest on Microsoft Windows, the user's ClearQuest login credentials may be intermittently invalidated if the user name used to log in to Windows is not an exact case-match for the user name stored on the domain.

Fix: The Windows version of the integration now performs a case insensitive comparison of the user's ClearQuest login credentials.

PI27347 Problem: Unexpected Microsoft Windows STOP errors (BSOD) may occur during audited builds on IBM Rational ClearCase.  These errors are more likely to occur if the MVFS parameter UseCacheManager is set to 1.

Fix: A race condition which allowed process audit data to be read incorrectly has been corrected.

PI21997 Problem: Unexpected Microsoft Windows STOP errors (BSOD) may occur during audited builds on IBM Rational ClearCase.  These errors are more likely to occur if the MVFS parameter UseCacheManager is set to 1.

Fix: A race condition which allowed process audit data to be read incorrectly has been corrected.

PI05061 Problem: When you attempt to remove an IBM Rational ClearCase Unified Change Management (UCM) composite baseline, cleartool.exe may  crash with an application error.

Fix: Cleartool no longer tries to remove a non-exist baseline from the baseline hash table.


Fix Pack 8 (8.0.0.16)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PI45351 Problem: IBM ClearCase db_server processes accessing a Unified Change Management Process VOB (UCM PVOB) at schema 80 and feature level 6 or lower may consume large amounts of memory on the VOB server host

Fix: The db_server process has been fixed to manage its memory correctly.

PI45346 Problem:IBM ClearTeam Explorer does not always recognize a custom element type based on copy merge type during Merge operations

Fix: ClearTeam Explorer now recognizes a custom element type based on copy merge type during Merge operations.

PI44916 Problem: When building using IBM Rational ClearCase dynamic views, build output may be corrupted if the MVFS is configured to use the Windows cache manager.

Fix: A defect in the MVFS has been fixed so that file truncation occurs correctly when the Windows cache manager is enabled.

PI43802 Problem: IBM Rational ClearCase audited builds in dynamic views may cause Solaris 11 systems to crash.

Fix: An uninitialized variable in an I/O path has been corrected, to eliminate system crashes.

PI42663 Problem: When using the IBM Rational ClearCase cmi_migrate.pl script to migrate from a base ClearCase-ClearQuest V2 integration, you may receive an error if the script is not run in a mapped view drive.

Fix: The script has been changed to always use a view-extended pathname so the search for hyperlinks has the correct path.

PI40328 Problem: IBM Rational ClearCase File Server (CCFS) client fails to transfer files larger than 2GB.

Fix: IBM Rational CCFS client has been updated to support transfer of files larger than 2GB.

PI39924 Problem: Attempting to install IBM ClearCase 8.0.x on an un-patched Solaris 10 machine or Solaris 10 Update 1 machine will not install the MVFS. The installation will appear to be successful but the MVFS will be missing and dynamic views will be unusable.

Fix: Install of IBM ClearCase 8.0.x on an un-patched Solaris 10 or Solaris 10 Update 1 machine will now successfully install the MVFS.

http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PI35312" TARGET="_blank">PI35312 Problem: When working with a ClearQuest record in IBM Rational ClearTeam Explorer, History tab data is not correctly displayed. Also, after selecting the modify action the add, remove and create buttons are not enabled.

Fix: Working with a ClearQuest record in ClearTeam Explorer, History tab's data is now correctly displayed.  Also, the control and its associated buttons are enabled after selecting the modify action.

http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PI31026" TARGET="_blank">PI31026 Problem:When you are working in a remote Unix/Linux IBM Rational ClearCase dynamic view in an interop environment and are using a Network File System (NFS) client on a Microsoft Windows machine, you may experience an error that the file has been modified outside of the editor when you are saving view private files in UltraEdit, Eclipse or Microsoft Visual Studio.NET.

Fix: This issue has been resolved.

http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PI29258" TARGET="_blank">PI29258 Problem: When working in an IBM Rational ClearCase web view in ClearTeam Explorer, you may receive an error when renaming a file where only the case differs, for example, renaming test.txt to Test.txt.

Fix: ClearTeam Explorer client now preserves case of destination file/directory.

http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PI24981" TARGET="_blank">PI24981 Problem: When working in IBM Rational ClearTeam Explorer: submitting a new Record, or when modifying an existing record in ClearQuest Database, Static Text form control does not display.

Fix: Fixed the problem in ClearTeam Explorer and now the Static Text form control displays correctly.

56777 Problem: IBM Rational ClearCase documentation in the Knowledge Center incorrectly states "After making the adjustments to your account, Rational License Key Center sends you a license key file that contains updated license key information."  The license key actually can be down-loaded from License Key Center and it will not be delivered via email.

Fix: The following IBM Knowledge Center topic has been corrected. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSSH27_8.0.1/com.ibm.rational.clearcase.cc_ms_install.doc/topics/r_return_move_admin_keys.htm?lang=en


Fix Pack 15 (8.0.0.15)
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APAR Description
PI41731 Problem: Running certain perl scripts including /usr/tools/bin/ClearQuest/ALMWorkFlowAutomation/alm_integrator.pl can fail with the error: CRMUD0082E Execution of a hook failed during the action Activate Data::Dumper object version 2.154 does not match $Data::Dumper::VERSION 2.121

Fix: There is an conflicting (older) version of the file  /opt/IBM/RationalSDLC/common/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/aix4_power//Data/Dumper.pm which has been removed to fix the error.

PI40363 Problem: When configuring the IBM Rational CM WAN server, you may find that new settings do not take effect.

Fix: IBM Rational CM WAN server now correctly uses new settings.

PI39558 Problem: Due to a bug in the IBM Rational ClearCase MVFS, a process may not receive proper notification when a NFS lock it is waiting for is released.  This may cause multiple ClearCase processes to hang as they try to access locks held by the first process.

Fix: Processing had been changed so that ClearCase processes will be properly notified when NFS locks are released.

PI37557 Problem: The IBM Rational ClearCase Remote Client (CCRC) client does not sync eclipse workspace resources with their disk equivalent post a state change operation. Using the preference "Automatic Refresh" shows the update, however, a noticeable delay is observed post a state change operation and the refresh.

Fix: CCRC client now keeps eclipse workspace resources in sync with their disk equivalents.

PI37361 Problem: After upgrading the Linux kernel on Ubuntu 12.04 or 14.04 with kernel version 3.2.0 or 3.13.0, the IBM Rational ClearCase mvfs module does not build correctly.

Fix: The MVFS was modified to make it compatible with the changes introduced by the kernel revision.

PI37295 Problem: When working in IBM Rational ClearTeam Explorer, CTE may hang when trying to do a merge operation between branches within a web or a dynamic view.

Fix: ClearTeam Explorer no longer hangs.

PI36011 Problem: IBM Rational ClearCase Linux builds in dynamic views (audited builds) may encounter performance degradation after upgrade to 8.0.0.6 or 8.0.1 in certain configurations.

Fix: The audit subsystem was modified for a performance improvement.

PI34193 Problem: The IBM Rational ClearCase CCz may fail when performing a rccbuild due to a short job name. If &USERID is used as job name when RCCMVS is customized, a build request may end with errors when the length of requester's user id is less than the one of '&USERID'. 

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase CCz was modified to handle short job names.

PI31209 Problem: You may receive the following error when working in the IBM Rational ClearCase (CC) - Rational Team Concert (RTC) bridge and adding a file to source control: CRMAP7009: CCRC command "BulkMkelemDynamic" failed.

Fix: The CMI-layer code now provides the CMI Task Selection GUI for mkelem.

PI31112 Problem: When using IBM Rational ClearCase and performing "cleartool mkelem -ci -master -mkpath -cq `find " the command ends with an internal error if the current working directory is not checkedout when the command is run and evil_twin protection is enabled on the VOB.

Fix: The internal error has been resolved.

PI29525 Problem: IBM ClearCase installer exposes server passwords in memory (See http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21688450)

Fix: IBM ClearCase installer has been modified to handle the server password securely, preventing further exposure in memory.

PI28310 Problem: The IBM Rational ClearTeam Explorer Eclipse plugin will hang when an attempt to hijack a .classpath file is made in a web view.

Fix: This problem has been resolved.

PI24282 Problem: When working in the IBM Rational ClearCase/Cadence integration, you may not see an error message stating you are creating an evil twin directory or element.

Fix: Error messages are now fixed to accurately report evil twin as the reason if it indeed caused mkelem to fail.


Fix Pack 14 (8.0.0.14)
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APAR Description
PM74054 Problem: Rarely, rebooting a Solaris-based machine with IBM Rational ClearCase installed leads to a crash characterized by the message "mvfs: LOCK: recursive lock".

Fix: The synchronization facilities surrounding MVFS unload have been improved to eliminate the issue.

PI32551 Problem: Users of IBM Rational ClearCase might encounter system crashes in xdr_string when looking up pathnames with an @@ in them.

Fix: Users will no longer encounter panics in xdr_string in ClearCase versions 8.0.0.14 or later and 8.0.1.07 or later.

PI31607 Problem: Oracle Solaris 11 supports NFS exports from non-global zones, but exporting an IBM Rational ClearCase dynamic view for non-clearcase access from a  NGZ as superuser fails with "Not owner" error message.

Fix: The ClearCase export_mvfs feature has been corrected to allow exports from a non-global zone on Solaris 11.

PI29895 Problem: When working in IBM Rational ClearTeam Explorer (CTE) Extension integrated with Rational Software Architect RealTime Edition(RSA RTE), you may find that the model is not refreshed after you cancel the checkout of a model fragment.

Fix: The model is now refreshed after cancel of a checkout of a model fragment.

PI29042 Problem: If you have checked out a file in IBM Rational ClearCase and then opened the Version Tree Browser, you may find that the contents of the file are zeroed out if you do a CTRL+S in the Version Tree.

Fix: CTRL+S in the Version Tree no longer alters the contents of files.

PI19788 Problem: When running ClearCase on a Microsoft Windows system, the system may encounter a STOP error (blue screen) while an application is opening a file.

Fix: A race condition in the ClearCase MVFS driver for Windows, which could allow an uninitialized pointer to be referenced, has been fixed.

PI09145 Problem: IBM Rational ClearCase "cleartool lsprivate -l" takes significantly longer to run than "cleartool lsprivate -short".

Fix: When in a dynamic view "cleartool lsprivate -l" no longer looks for "view.dat" files and minimizes opens of the "clearcase_specdev" file.


Fix Pack 13 (8.0.0.13)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PM95042 Problem: cleartool: Warning: Unable to get explicit composite baseline While rebasing an IBM Rational ClearCase stream which has foundations on multiple composite baselines, the user may receive multiple occurrences of the message "cleartool: Warning: Unable to get explicit composite baseline" which has unclear meaning and makes the other command output extremely difficult to read.

Fix: More detailed error reporting can be enabled by setting a special environment variable, CCASE_EXPANDED_MSGS to any non-empty string. If CCASE_EXPANDED_MSGS is empty or non-existent, the behavior and messages are unchanged.

PI26867 Problem: While working in the IBM Rational ClearCase/Cadence integration, you may find that the label dialog box is empty when attempting to label a hierarchy. This is caused when your Cadence environment has customized the Virtuoso menu options and are calling functions in the ClearCase/Cadence menu items.

Fix: This change corrects the scenario and the all of the appropriate cells will show up in the Label Dialog box.

PI25327 Problem:In IBM Rational ClearTeam Explorer, Default Deliver operation repeatedly complains about the integration view that is no longer available, even after the user creates a new integration view to be used for the Default Deliver operation.

Fix: When the user creates a new integration view during a Default Deliver operation in IBM Rational ClearTeam Explorer, the new view is recorded as the default integration view for the subsequent Default Deliver operations.

PI24097 Problem: When working in an IBM Rational ClearCase dynamic view, customers would see build errors.

Fix: The problem was caused by reads beyond the end of file. The file read was modified to prevent that condition.

PI21647 Problem: When running a parallel build in an IBM Rational ClearCase dynamic view, you may experience a Microsoft STOP error (BSOD).

Fix:This issue with IBM Rational ClearCase MVFS has been resolved.

PI21092 Problem: When opening a Visual Studio.NET 2010 or Visual Studio.NET 2012 solution or project, IBM Rational ClearCase 8.0.x may automatically check out the solution and project files.

Fix: The solution and project files are no longer automatically checked out.

http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PI20000" TARGET="_blank">PI20000 Problem: When you are trying to copy (CTRL+C) and then paste (CTRL+V), the properties of a file in IBM Rational ClearCase ClearTeam Explorer (CTE), you will find that it does not work.

Fix: The Edit menu needed to have the copy/pate/cut/select_all enabled in the plugin/plugin.xml.

PI19022 Problem: The ClearCase cleartool relocate command may stop processing with a bus error or segmentation fault under certain scenarios where attributes are placed on other meta data types.

Fix: The cleartool relocate command now properly handles attributes placed on other meta data types.

http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PI18999" TARGET="_blank">PI18999 Problem:When working in IBM Rational ClearTeam Explorer (CTE), options at the bottom of the CTE checkin preferences dialog window are not visible because the dialog window is truncated and the scroll bar will not scroll to the bottom of the dialog window.

Fix: The CTE checkin preferences dialog window now functions properly.

PI19022 Problem: When working in the IBM Rational ClearTeam Explorer, when you select an Rational ClearQuest activity and then select "Show Change Set", a version that has been checked out by another user may show as "Pending".

Fix: A fix has been made to handle when a file is check out in a view that can't be accessed from the client machine.

PI08318 Problem: Under some circumstances, error messages from  the IBM Rational ClearCase/Cadence integration may be displayed a character(s) at a time, and the error messages may be broken up across multiple lines in the Library Manager window.  The error  messages may also contain control characters in them.

Fix: The Integration has been changed so that messages are now printed out in their entirety.  The integration also was modified to remove the control characters ("bold" and "unbold") in the error messages.


Fix Pack 12 (8.0.0.12)
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APAR Description
PI22822 Problem: When using IBM Rational ClearCase remote dynamic and remote NFS4 view storage, customers would see EPERM errors on checkout.

Fix: The problem was caused by an extra open attempt being sent to the NFS4 server. The cleartext file creation was modified to prevent that condition.

http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PI22401" TARGET="_blank">PI22401 Problem: When you are using the IBM Rational ClearCase elem-owner-check.pl script to change any invalid or unknown users of directories or elements to the vob owner, you may find that they are changed to Nobody if the owner of the vob is Nobody.

Fix: The IBM Rational ClearCase elem-owner-check.pl script has been modified to detect and stop when a VOB is owned by Nobody.

PI22258 Problem: When integrating IBM Rational ClearCase Unified Change Management (UCM) with IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC) via the Change Management Integration, multiple UCM activities cannot be associated with a single RTC Work Item.

Fix: The Change Management Integration (CMI) will now allow multiple activities on the same stream to be associated with an RTC Work Item or ClearQuest record.

PI20520 Problem: IBM Rational CCRC Server and CCRC clients with locale (LANG) set to non-ASCII on both (e.g: EN_US.UTF-8 or EN_GB.GB18030) generate an error.

Fix: The fix resolves the encoding issue on the CCRC WAN server side and it is transparent to customers (there is no additional effort required by customers).

PI19793 Problem: Users of  ClearCase views exported from a Linux system may see an error when mounting or accessing the view using NFS4, due to a problem with the Linux NFS4 implementation.

Fix: ClearCase has been modified to return certain values in the attribute information for exported directories in a way which is consistent with what is expected by the Linux NFS4 implementation.

PI18840 Problem: When IBM Rational ClearTeam Explorer users disconnect from the IBM Rational CCRC WAN Server, the corresponding user session is not terminated on the server.

Fix: Disconnecting from a CCRC WAN Server in ClearTeam Explorer will now terminate the user session on the server in under five minutes.

PI11015 Problem: When using IBM Rational ClearTeam Explorer rcleartool, nested version selection rules and comments in webview config spec do not work.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearTeam Explorer rcleartool has been fixed to properly read/use nested version selection rules. Comments in web view config spec are not supported.

PI08075 Problem: When working in an IBM Rational ClearCase dynamic view, privileged users were not able to remove the read-only attribute from view-private files they did  not own.

Fix: A repair tool is available which can be used by a privileged user to remove the read-only attribute from view-private files.  Please contact IBM Rational Customer Support for more information.


Fix Pack 11 (8.0.0.11)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PM86857 Problem: IBM Rational ClearCase users may  encounter STOP errors when building using dynamic views on Microsoft Windows(R) platforms

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase has been modified to prevent STOP errors while building.

PM86765 Problem: Rational ClearCase / Visual Studio 2012 integration freezes on 'Add as link' operation.

Fix: 'Add as link' operation no longer causes Visual Studio to freeze.

PM78205 Problem: ClearTeam Explorer does not display merge arrows if you start with partial version tree, then double click on the ... box/branch to expand to full version tree.

Fix: ClearTeam Explorer has been fixed to show merge arrows in a partial version tree.

PI17288 Problem: When using Rational ClearCase MVFS and renaming a file or directory through a view-extended name to a name in the viewroot, AIX may panic, even for an unprivileged user.  For instance, doing "mv /view/test-view/var /view/var" will cause a panic.

Fix: ClearCase MVFS was fixed to avoid the panic in these rename situations.

PI16366 Problem: Customers using Rational ClearCase dynamic views may have their builds interrupted with an error about not being able to write to a given file. The ClearCase MVFS driver was incorrectly handling an error condition when trying to lock user buffer memory pages.

Fix: ClearCase MVFS now forwards the new request to the storage file system without locking the user buffer. The underlying file system will take the necessary steps  as it would do without having MVFS installed.

PI15615 Problem: ClearCase does not properly fail a checkin when an RPC times out trying to communicate with ClearCase remote server.

Fix: Error processing has been corrected in ClearCase versions 8.0.0.5 and 8.0.0.11.

PI15411 Problem: Rational ClearCase rcleartool -graphical fails if the full ClearCase client is not installed.

Fix: Rational ClearCase rcleartool -graphical now use the ClearCase native diff/merge tools which are part of the Rational ClearCase Remote Client (CCRC) package.

PI14691 Problem: Saving a file from the Rational ClearTeam Explorer version tree using the "save as" function adds null characters to the file.  This is reproducible from both a web and dynamic view.

Fix: The "save as" function has been corrected.

PI14640 Problem: Users of Rational ClearCase MVFS may see corrupted files containing zeros if the use of the cache manager is turned on. The issue is caused because the view server may send stale information about the file size and makes the file smaller than it actually is in the cache. Later MVFS updates the file size to the correct value, but the file data has already been lost.

Fix: Rational ClearCase MVFS now ignores file size updates for files opened for write if the use of the cache manager is turned on. This prevents the file size to be updated with stale information preserving its data on the local cache.

PI14606 Problem: Using the Rational ClearCase-Cadence integration, there are times when a user may select a Cadence object in the Hierarchy Manager, or the ClearCase Work Area Manager (WAM), and select a ClearCase operation (e.g. Label, checkout, and others) and the resulting dialog box may not show any items that were selected.  The user would then not be able to perform the desired operation.

Fix: The ClearCase-Cadence integration has been changed to properly address this situation and the objects selected in the WAM or the Hierarchy Manager will now be properly displayed in the desired operation dialog box.

PI14582 Problem: Using URLs that contain non-ASCII characters with the OSLC-based Rational UCM/CQ Integration (SQUID) or the Rational Change Management Integration (CMI) causes the integrations to malfunction.

Fix: URLs that contain non-ASCII characters are now properly encoded.

PI14475 Problem: Rational CM API CcProvider.doLogout() was not correctly clearing cached data which was causing incorrect authentication information to be re-used in subsequent logins in the same process.

Fix: Rational CM API CcProvider.doLogout()  now correctly clears cached data.

PI12880 Problem: When using IBM Rational ClearCase views with a large cache (e.g.32MB) the view_server process may become 100% busy when 'cleartool setcs -current' is run, if the views object cache is 100% full.

Fix: Performance was improved for cache full situations.

PI12750 Problem: When working in the IBM Rational ClearCase/Cadence integration, it is not showing the correct title bar of the Editor windows with the correct Library/Cell/Cellview/Version information, when descending into the design hierarchy.

Fix: Title bar of the cellview editor will now be appropriately updated with the title of the sub block when opened in the same tab.

PI12579 Problem: When you are working in the IBM Rational ClearCase/Sybase PowerBuilder integration, you may see the following error when adding files to source control: "Error loading PowerBuilder Orca library, PBORC15.DLL". The files are added to source control correctly and there seems to be no impact due to the error.  You can clear the error by selecting the OK button.

Fix: The "Version Libraries" option is no longer available in the IBM Rational ClearCase/Sybase PowerBuilder integration after version 8.  Please read  http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21258623

PI12482 Problem: In Rational ClearTeam Explorer, the user is unable to select a label as a merge source in the Merge Search Wizard if the label is locked.

Fix: The user is now able to select a label as a merge source in the Merge Search Wizard even if the label is locked.

PI12302 Problem: If you are logged in with a user name that contains a space, you may see the following error: "Failed to create the Java Virtual Machine" when comparing UTF8* or UTF16* files when you are are working in IBM Rational ClearCase Explorer or another native graphical user interface (GUI), such as the version tree browser. You may also see the same error when running cleartool diff -g -pred utf8filename.xxx.

Fix: User names are now enclosed in quotes to be able to handle user names containing spaces.

PI11635 Problem: Users of IBM Rational ClearCase on Linux could periodically see checked-out and view-private files having all their file size set to 0 and the creation date set to January 1, 1970.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase on Linux will now return the correct file information in all cases.

PI10990 Problem: In the System Requirements for IBM Rational ClearCase 8.x, it states that Sybase PowerBuilder is supported for use with the ClearCase Remote Client (CCRC).

Fix: System Requirements for the IBM Rational ClearCase 8.x / Sybase PowerBuilder integration have been corrected.

PI10723 Problem: ClearTeam Explorer fails to show any stream views if the list includes views with missing view tags.

Fix: ClearTeam Explorer now displays valid stream views and skips the views that are missing view tags in the ClearCase registry.

PI05069 Problem: IBM Rational ClearCase fails to remove remote views using a Microsoft Windows 8 client and a Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 server.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase rmview has been fixed.


Interim Fix 1 (8.0.0.10_iFix01)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
-- This interim fix addresses a vulnerability in OpenSSL. Review Security Bulletins CVE-2014-0076 and CVE-2014-0160 for more information.

Fix Pack 10 (8.0.0.10)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PM98666 Problem: In the Rational ClearCase Change Management Integration for UCM, cleartool setactivity and cleartool mkactivity can fail with a segmentation fault if the stream's Change Management Integration configuration is missing the "validate" keyword.

Fix: The Integration will now use the default value for "validate" if the Admin has not explicitly configured it on the stream.

PM95981 Problem: Rational ClearTeam Explorer users are not able to create a baseline when the project uses a baseline naming template that does not include a basename.

Fix: The user is now able to create a baseline using ClearTeam Explorer if the project uses a baseline naming template that does not include a basename.

PM93034 Problem: Using the Rational ClearTeam Explorer Eclipse plugin does not populate all modules of an importing Maven project with the importing view tag.

Fix: The unusual nested structure of Maven projects was not being accounted for.  This has been fixed.

PM894314 Problem: The following environment variables are not set during a merge operation in ClearTeam Explorer. CLEARCASE_FXPN CLEARCASE_PN CLEARCASE_TXPN CLEARCASE_XPN

Fix: The client was not passing view-context information making it impossible to calculate the necessary path information.  This has been corrected.

PM71719 Problem: Rational ClearCase view_server process consumes 100% CPU when its cache fills up.

Fix: Cache management was improved to fix this issue.

PI12106 Problem: Rational ClearCase checkout of non-existent element or symbolic link will result in internal error.

Fix: Checkout error processing was corrected.

PI11919 Problem: During Rational ClearCase builds customers may experience a system crash due to a race condition.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase MVFS has been modified to avoid this system crash.

PI11193 Problem: Rational ClearCase Remote Client does not allow user to opt out of SP300-181 compliance, that causes connections from the Jenkin-HPI plugin to IBM Rational ClearCase to fail.

Fix: A configuration option has been included in this release of IBM Rational ClearCase. Please contact Rational ClearCase support for further details.

PI11080 Problem: During Rational ClearCase builds customers may experience a system crash due to a race condition.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase MVFS has been modified to avoid this system crash.

PI09946 Problem: Rational ClearCase Clearmake may cause BSOD.

Fix: Memory management was corrected and resolves this issue.

PI09673 Problem: When logging into IBM Rational ClearQuest from within the IBM Rational ClearTeam Explorer interface, the error "Incorrect username or password for schema repository XXXXXX" is thrown.

Fix: A fix for this defect is available in this release of IBM Rational ClearCase. This fix is required on Windows platforms only.

PI09606 Problem: During Rational ClearCase builds customers may experience a system crash due to a race condition.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase MVFS has been modified to avoid this system crash.

PI09398 Problem: A system on which a parallel audited build is running in IBM Rational ClearCase may hang due to a locking deadlock in the file system.

Fix: The order of locking file system resources when writing audit records during a parallel audited build was modified to avoid a potential deadlock.

PI09243 Problem: In some instances you may receive a Null Pointer Exception when working in the IBM Rational ClearTeam Explorer (CTE) extension in Rational Software Architect Real Time Edition (RSARTE). This would occur when you are importing a Team Project Set that contained a project that has been rmnamed. The CTE-pfs importer would crash with the Null Pointer.

Fix: The exception is now caught and a dialog is presented with the missing project(s) in a details section.  The user has the option to proceed (importing the found projects, skipping those not found) or aborting the psf import gracefully.

PI08881 Problem: Using Rational ClearCase clearmake in Gnu compatibility mode may produce an incorrect result for an 'if' clause when processing a makefile that has a tab character immediately following an 'else' clause.

Fix: This fix resolves the issue so the 'if' clause is properly evaluated when there is a tab character after the 'else' clause.

PI08503 Problem: Users of IBM Rational ClearCase might encounter spurious "File not found" errors during large parallel builds.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase has been modified to no longer return spurious "File not found errors" during builds.

PI08336 Problem: A Rational ClearQuest WAN server URL  of the form: http://ccrc.... is not usable.

Fix: Parsing of the URL has been fixed.

PI08315 Problem: When working in the IBM Rational ClearCase/Cadence integration, adding binary Cadence files (*.dm and *.oa) to source control that do not exist in the default magic file will fail.

Fix: Added entries to the default.magic file for *.dm and *.oa files so that these files get created as binary files.

PI07655 Problem: Rational ClearCase cleartool mkbl may fail with internal error: dbid not found in database.

Fix: Foundation hyperlink management was corrected to resolve this issue. 

PI07642 Problem: IBM Rational ClearCase Mainframe Connectors may fail when pressing enter on the main panel (without inputting anything).

Fix: The problem has been resolved.

PI07640 Problem: IBM Rational ClearCase Mainframe Connectors may fail after inputting user name and password on the authenticate panel.

Fix: The problem has been resolved.

PI06981 Problem: IBM Rational ClearCase Mainframe Connectors fails when submitting a job with jobcard skipped and an incorrect account.

Fix: The problem has been resolved.

PI06133 Problem: While running Rational Clearcase on AIX the customer may experience a system panic with a stack trace that resembles this (the key MVFS function in the trace is mvfs_aix_lookup_component): CRASH INFORMATION: CPU 0 CSA F000000030019600 at time of crash, error code for LEDs: 70000000 pvthread+014A00 STACK: WARNING: bad IAR: 00000000, display stack from LR: 04936EC8 [04936EC8]aix2onc_hold+000048 (F1000A02007C1038 [??]) [005A019C]vnop_hold+00003C (??) [00014F50].kernel_add_gate_cstack+000030 () [049EE98C]nfs3_root+00004C (??, ??) [04AC1784]aix2onc_root+000044 (??, ??, ??) [005A5094]vfs_root+000034 (??, ??, ??) [00014F50].kernel_add_gate_cstack+000030 () [F1000000C0376588]mvfs_aix_lookup_component+0002C8 (F1000A0200358050, F0000000300189D0,    F000000030018650, 0000000000000000, 0000000000000000, F1000A0100422C7C) [F1000000C03D6FF0]mvfs_lookup_ctx+000510 (F1000A01000E3F10, F0000000300189D0,    F000000030018868, 0000000000000000, 0000008200000082, 0000000000000000,    F1000A0100422C7C, 0000000000000000) [F1000000C03D84B0]mfs_lookup+000050 (F1000A01000E3F10, F0000000300189D0,    F000000030018868, 0000000000000000, 0000008200000082, 0000000000000000,    F1000A0100422C7C) [F1000000C03EA4E0]mfs_aix_lookup+000080 (F1000A01000E3F10, F0000000300189C8,    F0000000300189D0, 0000000000000082, 0000000000000000, F1000A0100422C7C) [00014D70].hkey_legacy_gate+00004C () [0059F6E4]vnop_lookup+000184 (??, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??) [005617C4]lookuppn+000A04 (??, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??) [00561F80]lookupname_internal+0000A0 (??, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??) [005620A4]lookupname_cur+000024 (??, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??) [005B7514]statx+0001D4 (??, ??, ??, ??) [00003850]ovlya_addr_sc_flih_main+000130 () [kdb_get_virtual_memory] no real storage @ 2FF07608 [D0131FF4]D0131FF4 () [kdb_read_mem] no real storage @ FFFFFFFFFFF5A90

Fix: Rational ClearCase MVFS code was changed to use an AIX kernel interface that avoids the panic.

PI05830 Problem: Rational ClearCase CLMUTIL utility cannot remove task links to objects which no longer exist.

Fix: CLMUTIL utility is now able to remove the task links.

PI04959 Problem: ClearCase native diff tool fails to run when invoked from ClearTeam Explorer on Windows.  The native tool is invoked from Java using Runtime.exec(). The problem appears to be due to changes in Java such that Runtime.exec() will not correctly parse a single command string when the main command has spaces without embedded quote marks.

Fix: The code has been changed to use the deprecated ProcessBuilder calls.  This will prevent problems when paths with spaces are used.


Fix Pack 9 (8.0.0.9)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PI04987 Problem: On some Unix and Linux platforms, IBM Rational ClearCase installed incorrect symlinks for ccase-home-dir/etc/rsh and ccase-home-dir/etc/abe_starter, which prevented distributed clearmake builds from starting properly.

Fix: The symlinks for rsh and abe_starter are handled correctly by the installation code, and will be maintained correctly across upgrades as well.

PM99780 Problem: The "cleartool mkbl -clone" command in IBM Rational ClearCase may fail with a core dump. Similarly, the IBM Rational MultiSitemultitool synch import operation may fail on replay of a mkbl -clone command.

Fix: The cleartool mkbl -clone and the replay of mkbl -clone by multitool synch will no longer crash on a memory overflow condition.

PM99612 Problem: The IBM Rational ClearCase Remote Client may fail with a Null Pointer Exception when field names contain multibyte characters.

Fix: Multibyte characters in field names will no longer cause an exception.

PM99453 Problem: Under certain circumstances, a distributed build in IBM Rational ClearCase may incorrectly invalidate the MultiVersion Filesystem cache when building on the local host, which can cause a small performance degradation during builds.

Fix: The distributed build will now correctly determine if the build is done on the local host and not invalidate the cache.

PM99221 .Problem: The IBM Rational ClearTeam Explorer integration with Rational Software Architect RealTime Edition (RSA-RTE) may display a model's members in the checkouts view incorrectly after a model mutation.

Fix: The ClearTeam Explorer / RSA-RTE integration will now correctly display a model's members after a model mutation.

PM99147 Problem: IBM Rational ClearCase users would encounter occasional system panics during large builds on Microsoft Windows(R) systems

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase has been modified to prevent system panics during large builds on Microsoft Windows(R) systems.

PM99099 Problem: The IBM Rational ClearCase Logical Model Merge may undo a checkout with merge results.

Fix: Logical Model Merge has been fixed to  not incorrectly undo checkouts with merge results.

PM99093 Problem: The IBM Rational ClearTeam Explorer integration with Rational Software Architect RealTime Edition (RSA-RTE) may not be able to perform a checkin after removing a fragment from a model.

Fix: A check-in can now be performed in after removing a fragment from a model.

PM99090 Problem:The IBM Rational ClearCase Command Line Logical Model Merge provides insufficient information about versions being fetched for merge,

Fix: Command Line Logical Model Merge now provides sufficient information about versions being fetched for merge.

PM98666 Problem:In the Change Management Integration for UCM, cleartool setactivity and cleartool mkactivity can fail with a segmentation fault if the stream's Change Management Integration configuration is missing the "validate" keyword.

Fix: The Integration will now use the default value for "validate" if the Admin has not explicitly configured it on the stream.

PM98558 Problem: During some merges done using the IBM Rational ClearCase Command Line Logical Model Merge, unnecessary branches are created, due to the lack of support for an option to undo backwards merges.

Fix: Command Line Logical Model Merge now supports a flag to undo backwards merges to avoid creating unnecessary branches.

PM98277 Problem: The problem is caused by two ClearCase dialogs, one open and one about to open, running simultaneously.  This does not normally occur, unless: 1) The .settings folder and it's content does not exist in the project. 2) The user has more than one transformation config and changes which is the default. 3) The user *quickly* attempts to refactor a model object after changing the default transformation configuration.

Fix: The ClearCase dialogs have listeners for change events within the dialogs and the add to source listener fires when the checkout dialog is about to open due to the refactor operation.  The listeners now filter on the event source so that the listeners will only respond to the correct event source.

PM97900 Problem: The IBM Rational ClearCase Command Line Logical Model Merge exits prematurely, before all the extraneous checkouts performed during the merge are undone.

Fix: Command Line Logical Model Merge now waits for all the extraneous checkouts to be undone before completing the merge command.

PM97895 Problem: The IBM Rational ClearCase ClearTeam Explorer should print all logging information to the Eclipse log, but it is being displayed on the console.

Fix: ClearTeam Explorer will now print exceptions and log information to the Eclipse workspace log.

PM92769 Problem: ClearTeam Explorer Logical Model Merge incorrectly identifies contributor versions when changes are made to fragments only with no changes to the model file

Fix: ClearTeam Explorer has been modified so that it will now corrrectly  identifiy contributor versions when performing Logical Model Merges.

PM97784 Problem: The IBM Rational ClearCase ClearTeam Explorer had not been updated to support the latest improvements to the CLI Closure Merge feature of the IBM Rational Software Architect RealTime Edition (RSARTE).

Fix: ClearTeam Explorer now fully supports the latest improvements to RSARTE CLI Closure Merge

PM97194 Problem: In the IBM Rational ClearTeam Explorer integration with Rational Software Architect RealTime Edition (RSARTE), there is no Checkin option in the right click menu of CTE Checkouts view if model root directory is chosen.

Fix: The context menu in the ClearTeam Explorer Checkouts view is now the same regardless of the selection in the view, and includes the Checkin option.

PM97192 Problem: In the IBM Rational ClearCase ClearTeam Explorer, if you rename the file of a logical model fragment while there is an open checkouts view, and then attempt to check in the model, the checkin will attempt to check in the old name because CTE's internal model did not get updated for the rename.

Fix: On certain refactor operations on logical models, the CTE move/delete operations now correctly update the CTE internal model so that checkin will function correctly.

PM97072 Problem: In the IBM Rational ClearCase ClearTeam Explorer, the lack of a Show Checkouts action on the ClearCase toolbar makes it difficult for the user to open the Checkouts view.

Fix: The main toolbar in ClearTeam Explorer now includes the Show Checkouts action to allow the user to quickly open the Checkouts view.

PM96863 Problem: The IBM Rational ClearCase Command Line Logical Model Merge unnecessarily fetches all the active dynamic views on startup, causing delay in performing the merge.

Fix: Command Line Logical Model Merge no longer fetches all the active dynamic views on startup which allows the merge operation to commence quickly.

PM95985 Problem: The IBM Rational ClearCase UCM/ClearQuest OSLC integration will generate an error to the user for view tags or stream names longer than 50 characters for entry into ClearQuest records.

Fix: The ClearCase UCM/ClearQuest OSLC integration truncates view tags and stream names when they are longer than 50 characters.

PM95898 Problem: Wildcard specifications in Rational ClearCase lsview may incorrectly report "no matching entries".

Fix: Wildcard specifications in Rational ClearCase lsview no longer report the error message when views exists and match the wildcard pattern.

PM95740 Problem: Processes could hang if they attempted to access a file in the IBM Rational ClearCase Multi-Version File System that was in the process of being deleted.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase has been modified to eliminate a race condition so that processes will not hang while accessing files that are in the process of being deleted.

PM95273 Problem: If you have the Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2012 with Microsoft Team Explorer for Visual Studio 2012 plugin and IBM Rational ClearCase Remote Client plugin installed, devenv.exe will crash when you are saving a Microsoft Team Foundation Server work item.

Fix:Visual Studio crash during a Team Foundation Server workitem save  had been resolved.

PM94448 Problem: When attempting to use the rcleartool portion of the ClearCase ClearTeam Explorer plugin for Eclipse, the setup will fail because it is unable to locate the launcher script.

Fix: Rcleartool script now configures correctly for the first time use in Clear Team Explorer Eclipse Plugin.

PM91211 Problem: The IBM Rational ClearCase integration with Microsoft Visual Studio(R) 2012 may show performance degradation as compared with previous versions of Microsoft Visual Studio. This performance degradation can be seen when using MultiVersion File System (MVFS) dynamic views, when scrolling through the items in the solution explorer when the solution is very large, or when displaying files in a large directory.

Fix: A performance problem in operations within large directories in the IBM Rational ClearCase integration with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 has been fixed.

PM90880 Problem: When stopping IBM Rational ClearCase services on an HP-UX system which had been running a substantial load, it was possible to receive errors unmounting some VOBs, and that in turn prevented successful unmount of the viewroot.

Fix: Changes were made in the ClearCase Multi Version File System (MVFS) file inactivation code to correctly release all resources on the last close of a file which had been opened by multiple processes.

PM90878 Problem: Large multiprocessor build servers running HP-UX 11.31 would experience sporadic system crashes during periods of high activity.

Fix: Locking around the vnode reference count in the IBM Rational ClearCase Multi Version File System (MVFS)  was corrected, to prevent race conditions between threads deactivating and reactivating the same file object.

PM90373 Problem: When running the IBM Rational ClearCase Multisite command "multitool lsepoch" from the command line with multiple replicas given as options, the command will abort if it encounters a failure contacting one of the replicas. It then does not continue processing the command and so does not attempt to access the subsequent replicas.

Fix: The command now continues processing and attempts to access the subsequent replicas.

PM90370 Problem: When running IBM Rational ClearCase Multisite command "multitool lsepoch -actual replica1 replica2 ...", if replica1 has not yet been imported on the remote site or the replica hostname is incorrect, then the command should produce an error of the type "unable to retrieve epoch row for remote replica". At this time there is no error or message indicating any issues with replica1 as long at there is connectivity to the remote site and the VOB server host exists.

Fix: If replica1 has not yet been imported on the remote site or the replica hostname is incorrect, then the command now produces an error.

PM90121 Problem: IBM Rational Clearcase on Microsoft Windows 7 may encounter a system hang when performing parallel builds within a dynamic view.

Fix: The IBM Rational Clearcase Multi-Version File System code has been modified to alleviate hangs during parallel builds.

PM88679 Problem: When Symantec 12.1.2.x is installed on a Microsoft(R) Windows system running the IBM Rational ClearCase client, applications which write to a temporary file in a scratch directory could trigger a Windows STOP error when that temporary file is renamed as a view-private file.

Fix: The MVFS filesystem has been updated to be compatible with the filter drivers in Symantec 12.1.x.

PM88248 Problem: In the Rational ClearCase integration with Cadence Design Framework II, attempting to apply a label for which the ClearCase label type was not defined would generate an error, rather than creating the label type.

Fix: The integration now properly creates the ClearCase label type correctly in the appropriate VOB(s).

PM88109 Problem: IBM Rational ClearCase UCM/ClearQuest integration actions that delete a ClearQuest record (e.g. trivial rebase) fail on AIX.

Fix: ClearCase UCM/ClearQuest integration actions that delete a ClearQuest record now succeed on AIX.

PM87962 Problem: If Microsoft Security Client is installed on an IBM Rational ClearCase client system, running an executable which was winked in during the build process can cause a Windows STOP error.

Fix: The ClearCase Multi Version File System (MVFS) has been modified to be compatible with Microsoft Security Client.

PM87538 Problem: ClearTeam Explorer (CTE) may not show the current checkout comments for a checked-out version.  Modifications made by CTE to checkout comments through a property sheet are lost when the version is checked in.

Fix: ClearTeam Explorer (CTE) has been fixed to correctly display and modify comments on checked-out versions.

PM85153 Problem: When applying a label in am IBM Rational ClearCase view, you may find that not all labels are applied or that some elements report errors but the labels have been applied.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase has been modified so that labels will now be applied properly.

PM84238 Problem: A Micorosoft Windows(R) system running IBM Rational ClearCase and Symantec Endpoint Protection can encounter a system panic when moving a file from a local disk into a dynamic view.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase has been modified so that Symantic Endpoint Protection will no longer cause a system panic moving files into a dynamic view.

PM79463 Problem: During the apply label operation in ClearTeam Explorer, a comment that is intended to be attached to the label event, is incorrectly being applied to the labelled version itself.  This can also result in an incorrect error message being shown to the user.       

Fix: The handling of label event comments in CleartTeam Explorer has been fixed and no error message will be shown.

PM77345 Problem: When the view storage path for an IBM Rational ClearCase view on UNIX or Linux approached 255 characters, some operations such as checkout could fail, even though the user-visible view tag and VOB tag are short enough for fully qualified pathnames to be within supported limits.

Fix: ClearCase will now successfully handle view storage path names that are longer than 255 characters.

PM76839 Problem: Setting the Registry Key MvfsViewAttachMup can cause IBM Rational ClearCase users to receive permission denied errors when using robocopy.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase has been modified so that the MvfsViewAttachMup is no longer needed and robocopy now works correctly.

PM75360 Problem: The Perl stat() function performs slowly when accessing files in remote dynamic views under IBM Rational ClearCase.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase has been modified so that the stat() function in perl will perform better.

PM73548 Problem: When both ccrcUseViewHostPathForGlobalPath and ccrcUserRegionMapFile are explicitly specified in the server.conf configuration file of the IBM Rational ClearCase 8.0.x WAN Server, the WAN server is unable to locate the region map even though the path is set correctly.

Fix: The ClearCase WAN server has been fixed to correctly parse the configuration options.

PM49774 Problem: Messages from the IBM Rational ClearCase CM API are printed to the console rather than to a log file.

Fix: CM API has been changed to write messages to a log file, rather than to the developer's console.

PM49773 Problem: The IBM Rational ClearCase ClearTeam Explorer should print all logging information to the Eclipse log, but it is being displayed on the console.

Fix: ClearTeam Explorer will now print exceptions and log information to the Eclipse workspace log.

PM87942 Problem: IBM Rational ClearCase cleartool describe -aliases may not properly list all of the visible aliases of a clearcase hard link if one of the links is in a directory that is not visible in the current view.

Fix: cleartool describe -aliases now properly lists all visible aliases of a hard link.

PM48668 Problem: The IBM Rational ClearTeam Explorer may hang intermittently when many views are started.

Fix: Fixed a problem where the ClearTeam Explorer hangs when many views are started.

PM35859 Problem: A system panic could occur on Microsoft Windows(R) 7 systems running java under IBM Rational Clearcase.

Fix: Fixed a problem where the ClearTeam Explorer hangs when many views are started.

PM18831 Problem: When you execute a program that is stored as a view private file in a dynamic view in IBM Rational ClearCase on Microsoft Windows(R) 7 the task manager may list the name of the program as the name of the cleartext file in the view storage directory and not the name of the executable.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase will now cause the task manager to display the name of an executable file properly.

PM18005 Problem: IBM Rational ClearCase builds on Microsoft Windows(R) XP systems will not always list executable programs created as derived objects in the audit files for subsequent steps in the build.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase will now list executable files created as derived objects in audit files.

PM13349 Problem: Executing a program out of an IBM Rational ClearCase Versioned Object Base (VOB) can cause a system panic on a Microsoft Windows(R) system if certain anti-virus programs are enabled.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase has been modified to work properly in the presence of anti-virus software.

PK67686 Problem: Applications running in a ClearCase dynamic view context cannot make TCP calls on systems running Microsoft Windows(R) Vista or later operating systems.

Fix: Applications running in a ClearCase dynamic view can now make TCP calls correctly.

PI05748 Problem: The IBM Rational ClearCase mvfsstat utility can report an incorrect value for maximum RPC delay time on multi-processor systems.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase has been modified to report the maximum RPC delay time correctly

PI05125 Problem: In the IBM Rational ClearTeam Explorer, expanding the "Add to source" dialogue to show details may hide the resource selection field, making it impossible to select or de-select individual artifacts to add to source control.

Fix: Individual artifacts can now be selected when using the details of the "Add to source" dialog.

PI12363 Problem: In the Rational ClearCase integration with Cadence Design Framework II, when expanding nodes in the Work Area Manager, comments containing a pattern that matches regular expression "_.," caused syntax errors in Virtuoso.

Fix: Comments containing a "_.," pattern will no longer cause a syntax error.

PI04691 Problem: You may see a BCL syntax error when running an rccbuild in IBM Rational ClearCase Mainframe Connectors if the string 'MEMBER=' is included in the parameters.

Fix: This syntax error has been resolved.


Fix Pack 8 (8.0.0.8)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PM95725 Problem: Users of the IBM Rational ClearCase/Cadence integration  may find an 'Invalid state of file...'  error message at random times.

Fix: The IBM Rational ClearCase/Cadence integration has been modified to correctly display the 'operation name' in the error message 'Invalid state of file...'

PM95460 Problem: Symantec PGP Desktop e-mail encryption service causes problems with the Atria Location Broker Demon(ALBD) service startup during install or upgrade operations. The ALBD service is prevented from starting, locking the operation.

Fix: The IBM Rational ClearCase installer has been modified to create an interface for selectively disabling the service's final startup sequence, thus preventing PGP Desktop and other third party programs from interfering with the startup operation and causing irrecoverable lock situations.

PM95234 Problem: IBM Rational ClearCase users would see the the output of cleartool commands truncated if they used the -fmt option and specified options with the form '%[hlink]p\n'. Rational ClearCase output use of '%[hlink]p\n' truncates -fmt output.

Fix: Cleartool now dynamically allocates its output buffer and reports a buffer overflow error if there is insufficient memory.

PM94950 Problem: A user of IBM Rational ClearCase is, in some cases, unable to open a checked out 2 gigabyte file without the O_LARGEFILE option on AIX.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase has been modified to allow opening of 2 gigabyte files on AIX without explicitly setting the O_LARGEFILE in those cases.

PM92791 Problem: IBM ClearCase will generate an error message in the form "Unknown host '27000@licenseserver" if it cannot contact a remote view server process and Rational Common Licensing or FlexLM licensing is being used.

Fix: IBM ClearCase has been modified so that it will no longer generate this error message.

PM91504 Problem: Rational ClearTeam Explorer Version Tree throws an exception after the user does an undo checkout of a version and there is a trigger to remove an empty branch

Fix: Fixes a problem in ClearTeam Explorer, where Version Tree throws an exception after the user does an undo checkout of a version and there is a trigger to remove an empty branch.

PM89867 Problem: If multiple Rational ClearCase users missed entering the "BASE NAME" in edit baseline dependency, blank baselines are getting created.

Fix: Baseline Dependency Editor now checks for empty pathname when no template is used and prompts for a pathname.

PM89632 Problem: In ClearCase, the cleartool rmview -uuid command could fail to remove view records from a VOB when multiple VOBs on the same server host are owned by different accounts.

Fix: In ClearCase, the cleartool rmview -uuid command now works properly when removing view records from a VOB even when multiple VOBs on the same server host are owned by different accounts

PM88940 Problem: Due to an Mullti Version File System (MVFS) problem Rational ClearCase users running on Linux can encounter kernel panics in the function in_group_p called from acl_permission_check.

Fix: The Multi Version File System for Linux has been modified so that these kernel panics no longer occur.

PM88779 Problem: Rational ClearCase db_server string file errors do not contain enough information.

Fix: The error messages now report helpful information.

PM86857 Problem: Windows 7 users of IBM Rational Clearcase would encounter fatal system errors when building their programs using a dynamic view.

Fix: The IBM Rational Clearcase Multi-Version File System code has been modified to no longer cause these fatal system errors.

PM86241 Problem: Rational ClearCase Mainframe Connector rccbuild.exe can not upload @filename with pathname (such as c:\\\dir1\dir2\@filelist.lst) to mainframe. A syntax error is displayed.

Fix: rccbuild.exe can  upload @filename with pathname (such as c:\\\dir1\dir2\@filelist.lst) to mainframe successfully.

PM84917 Problem: Rational ClearCase db.conf '-deadman' value is only upward tunable.

Fix: The -deadman option only took values of 1 minute and higher. The solution was to allow any positive value.

PM82644 Problem: When you are running a build in an IBM Rational ClearCase dynamic view, you may experience a STOP Error, system crash, or BSOD (Blue Screen of Death).

Fix: The Multi Version File System(MVFS) in ClearCase was modified so that these errors no longer occur.


Fix Pack 7 (8.0.0.7)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PM89545 Problem: In ClearTeam Explorer plugin for Eclipse, Compare operations in Version Tree fail on a checked out version

Fix: Fixes a problem in ClearTeam Explorer plugin for Eclipse where Compare operations in Version Tree fail on a checked out version

PM86120 Problem: When you are using linked resources with the IBM Rational ClearCase SCM adapter with Rational Software Architect, linked resource paths containing artifacts to be checked out will show the artifact in the checkout dialog multiple times.

Fix: The fix prevents confusing multiple entries of single artifacts in checkout/checkin dialogs.

PM85587 Problem: When accessing a workitem in Microsoft Team Foundation Server, devenv.exe may crash if you have the IBM Rational ClearCase Visual Studio integration enabled. This crash is due to the fact that Team Foundation Server is not supported for use with ClearCase and is sending information to our plugin that we do not understand.

Fix: Non source-controlled artifacts no longer cause devenv.exe to crash.

PM85562 Problem: Reformatting a VOB or making a new replica on ClearCase 7.1.2 and later may fail with an out-of-memory error

Fix: The ClearCase db_dumper program was fixed to manage memory more efficiently.

PM85232 Problem: Using IBM Rational ClearTeam Explorer from a view context the option to Rebase > "Rebase to the latest baselines" will select the latest baselines for the current foundations on the rebasing stream.

Fix: The child will now be rebased to match the latest configuration of the parent stream and any overriding (if at all) in child's foundation will be cleared if it is not present in parent's latest configuration.

PM85221 Problem: BSOD was caused by a compatibility issue with NAS.

Fix: Clearcase MVFS was updated to support NAS as a host.

PM84929 Problem: Rational ClearTeam Explorer has an issue where Merge throws a NoSuchMethodException.

Fix: ClearTeam Explorer fixes an issue where Merge throws a NoSuchMethodException

PM84918 Problem: In ClearCase, a cleartool rebase -complete may fail with deadman lock timeouts in a UCM environment with multiple project VOBs.

Fix: This fix ensures that cleartool does not open read transactions in multiple VOBs at the same time, thus preventing deadlocks.

PM84848 Problem: The Rational ClearTeam Explorer / Rational Software Architect RealTime Edition (RSARTE) integration, intermittently shows blank file names.

Fix: ClearTeam Explorer fixes an issue where blank file names appear when using the Rational Software Architect RealTime Edition integration.

PM84648 Problem: After checked in of an element via the IBM Rational Base ClearCase/ClearQuest V2 integration, you may receive and error: Tk::Error: element "Name/A and B (all)" already exists

Fix: IBM Rational Base ClearCase/ClearQuest V2 Integration does a refresh of the query name list to resolve the issue.

PM84056 Problem: The ClearTeam Explorer has an issue where checking in a target file that has an alias present in the workspace, the SCM decoration state of the alias is not updated.

Fix: Fixes an issue in the ClearTeam Explorer, enabling an aliased file's SCM state to be updated when the target is checked in.

PM83363 Problem: When using the ClearTeam Explorer / RSARTE integration, it takes a long time for the context menu to come up on a logical model when using the 'only include physical files' logical resource preference.

Fix: ClearTeam Explorer improves performance when bringing up the context menu on a logical model when using the 'only include physical files' logical resource preference.

PM83360 Problem: The ClearTeam Explorer /  Rational Software Architect RealTime Edition (RSARTE) integration takes a long time to update the icon decoration after a SCM operation, for example, checkout

Fix: The ClearTeam Explorer fixes a performance issue where decorating a model resource after a SCM operation takes a long time.

PM83353 Problem: When using the ClearTeam Explorer / RSARTE integration, with dynamic views, after an undo checkout is performed, files that are not in an open editor in a dynamic view will be out of sync with the file system owing to a reversion of the time stamp.

Fix: The eclipse artifact representing the file is now updated after the undo checkout operation, effectively re-synchronizing the artifact.

PM82892 Problem: ClearCase primary group setting in server.conf for CCRC WAN Server is not used.

Fix: ClearCase primary group setting in server.conf is now used as the default primary group for CCRC users logging into this server. This group setting is overridden by the group name set in the ClearTeam Explorer preference for each client.

PM82764 Problem: Applications may crash with an access violation within ccasenp.dll on machines with IBM Rational ClearCase installed.

Fix: Use of a NULL pointer has been corrected.

PM81826 Problem: When you run "lsof /proc/locks" on a Suse Linux Enterprise System 10 server with IBM Rational ClearCase MVFS installed, you experience a kernel panic.

Fix: This release fixes a problem in which the Linux kernel would panic when running lsof on /proc/locks.

PM81532 Problem: The ClearCase installation instructions for installing WebSphere Application Server and IBM HTTP Server and configuring WebSphere Application Server web server plugins for ClearCase deployments include incorrect and ambiguous information about installing on Linux or UNIX systems. In the topic Installing WebSphere Application Server V8.0 web components, step 13 is an optional step when installing ClearCase on Windows systems. However, the documentation did not indicate that this step is required only for Windows platforms. In the topic, Configuring a web plug-in for IBM HTTP server version 8, the default location for the web server plugin directory was incorrectly specified, and the instructions for specifying the host server name or IP address for the web server plugins did not clarify that the host is typically the same server where you are configuring the web server plugin.

Fix: The ClearCaser version 8.0 information center has been updated with the corrected information. See the following topics: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/cchelp/v8r0m0/topic/com.ibm.rational.clearcase.cc_ms_install.doc/topics/was_install/t_install_was8_components.htm http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/cchelp/v8r0m0/topic/com.ibm.rational.clearcase.cc_ms_install.doc/topics/was_install/t_config_web_plugin_ihs8.htm

PM80982 Problem: Rational ClearTeam Explorer incorrectly handles cases in which a user removes the data for a particular version (using "cleartool rmver -force -data -ver ") and then tries to open that version in ClearTeam Explorer (for instance, from the vtree). Under these circumstances, the local copy of the latest version loaded into the view ends up renamed, and appears hijacked.  The user must run an update with the "replace hijacked files" option to recover.

Fix: ClearTeam Explorer now correctly handles the situation in which version data has been removed by the user.  A message is displayed to the user, and the latest version in the view is not modified.

PM80910 Problem: A merge from Version Tree Browser to UCM branch is allowed with an inappropriate Activity in ClearCase

Fix: Checks were added to ClearCase to ensure the stream guarding the branch is the ancestor of the current activity.

PM80884 Problem: ClearCase cleartool relocate is not duplicating attributes that are being stored on branch types and label types.

Fix: ClearCase cleartool relocate now duplicates attributes that are placed on branch and label types.

PM60652 Problem: When opening a Microsoft Excel file in an IBM Rational ClearCase dynamic view, you may receive the error: "Microsoft Excel cannot open or save any more documents because there is not enough available memory or disk space."

Fix: A change made in the tracking of MVFS I/O request status has eliminated this error.

PM50668 Problem: On ClearCase installs, the cache folder was not being added the everyone group, causing performance impact and erros on the Albd service.

Fix: Implemented a function to setup correctly the folders and their permissions on ClearCase installs.

PM47546 Problem: When performing highly parallel builds using the IBM Rational ClearCase "clearmake" tool, a build session or system hang may occur when under heavy loads on multicore hosts.

Fix: This fix corrects a deadlock condition hit during parallel building.

PM26019 Problem: Microsoft Windows 7 removed the  'open with' context menu when you right click on an executable file. This is described in Microsoft Article KB259908. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/259908 IBM Rational ClearCase Explorer context menu incorrectly allows  'open with' on executable files.

Fix: For Windows Vista and above, IBM Rational ClearCase Explorer context menu no longer allows  'open with' on executable files (.exe, .bat, .cmd and .com files).

PM15837 Problem: When browsing ClearQuest records from within CCRC on a Korean locale, CQ UCM field labels have a slighter larger font size.  This sometimes leads to truncation of some label names.

Fix: On Korean locales, ClearQuest field labels now have uniform font sizes when viewed from within CCRC.


Fix Pack 6 (8.0.0.6)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PM82316 Problem: ClearTeam Explorer exhibits extremely bad performance when typing a comment into a checkout dialog when there are a large number of fragment files in a model, even when the tree is expanded.

Fix: Logical model sensitive Dialogs will update comment fields in a separate thread, rather than in real time, after typing into the comment field stops for large models.

PM82315 Problem: Refresh ClearCase status is slow on Model elements in ClearTeam Explorer

Fix: Fixes a problem in ClearTeam Explorer where ClearCase status refresh is slow on Model elements.

PM82312 Problem: When using the ClearTeam Explorer with the 'only include physical file' preference for SCM dialogs, model enablement is not correct.

Fix: The ClearTeam Explorer corrected an issue whereby using the 'only include physical file preference' for SCM dialogs, presents incorrect SCM status for models.

PM81776 Problem: Cannot check out files that are linked resources in ClearTeam Explorer.

Fix: Fixes a problem in ClearTeam Explorer where users can not checkout files that are linked resources.

PM81594 Problem: When running the The ClearTeam Explorer in a set view context on *nix platforms, opening a workspace resource from certain ClearTeam Explorer views including the 'Checkouts View', fails to open the resource in the proper editor. In some cases, the editor e.g the TC Editor opens with an error.

Fix: The ClearTeam Explorer fixes a problem where workspace resources failed to open.

PM80966 Problem: Using clearfsimport to import files from a ClearCase copyarea (view directory structure containing the following files .copyarea.dat, .copyarea.db and/or .copyarea.lck) can cause havoc with the ClearCase environment.

Fix: clearfsimport has been modified so that copyarea files will be skipped during the import process into a ClearCase VOB and a warning message will be displayed.

PM80799 Problem: ClearTeam Explorer version tree browser should enable compare operations on checked out versions

Fix: Fixes a problem in ClearTeam Explorer where Version Tree Browser disables compare operation on a version checked out to a view other than the view in context.

PM80724 Problem: New shared library libatriacmi.so causes segmentation fault in CtCmd

Fix: CtCmd was re-linked with the new shared library.

PM80693 Problem: A ClearCase UCM posted deliver activated by other than the stream owner will cause permission denial error on 8.0.0.x with schema 80 and feature level 7.

Fix: A special no permission check flag was implemented for UCM posted deliver to avoid permission denial error.

PM80290 Problem: ClearTeam Explorer Aggregated Undo Checkout should ignore "physical file" preference

Fix: Aggregated Undo Checkout operation has been fixe

PM80289 Problem: Incorrect menu options available when selecting multiple fragments in ClearTeam Explorer

Fix: Action enablement is made aware of logical resources containing multiple selected fragments underneath them.

PM80254 Problem: A Linux system would panic if a remote user accessed files in a vob using non-ClearCase access.

Fix: Fixes a problem in which a Linux system would panic if a remote user accessed files in a vob using non-ClearCase access.

PM80146 Problem: Multiple checkouts of RSARTE model fragments should be prevented in ClearTeam Explorer.

Fix: ClearTeam Explorer no longer allows multiple checkouts of RSARTE model fragments.

PM80145 Problem: The ClearTeam Explorer when in logical model mode, incorrectly always shows the root element as a check mark.

Fix: The ClearTeam Explorer will show a check mark icon when all logical model elements are selected and a '-' icon when only a subset of logical model elements are selected when using the checkin and undo checkout dialogs

PM80139 Problem: The ClearTeam Explorer has a problem where the Model Checkout Dialog shows check mark icon on root folder even when only a subset is selected

Fix: The ClearTeam Explorer will show a check mark icon when all logical model elements are selected and a '-' icon when only a subset of logical model elements are selected when using the ClearTeam Explorer.

PM80135 Problem: ClearTeam Explorer operations on multiple fragments incorrectly considers selections in multiple eclipse views

Fix: Operations on multiple fragments now correctly consider selections in multiple eclipse views.

PM80134 Problem: ClearTeam Explorer checkout menu is available on a checkedout fragment

Fix: Fixed action enablement for Logical Models.

PM80132 Problem: ClearTeam Explorer checkin/checkout operations on the version tree node run on the last selected navigator tree node

Fix: The fix clears the previous selection in any other ClearTeam Explorer view and honors the current selection in Version Tree

PM80098 Problem: Files with the same name can not be added to source control into different libraries using ClearCase Mainframe Connectors.

Fix: Files with the same name can now be added to source control into different libraries using ClearCase Mainframe Connectors.

PM79987 Problem: Abe processes may crash when idle for too long and it gets timed out.

Fix: File I/O is now properly handled.

PM79401 Problem: ClearCase using Flex/LM licensing does not properly handle user-names containing upper-case characters.

Fix: ClearCase licensing code has been fixed to properly handle user-names containing upper-case characters.

PM79344 Problem: UCM/CQ performance bad through CCRC using OSLC.

Fix: The fix better manages cookies in the HTTP response header in OSLC communication with ClearQuest Web.

PM78954 Problem: ClearTeam Explorer plugin for Eclipse can cause the Progress indicator to linger on builds when the projects are outside of source control.

Fix: ClearTeam Explorer has been modified to better handle builds of projects outside of source control.

PM78659 Problem: The ClearTeam Explorer has a bug where if a user checks out a model, then checks it in, an attempt to check it out once more results in an out of sync message.

Fix: The ClearTeam Explorer fixes a bug where if a user checks out a model, then checks it in, then checks it out once more, no errors are displayed.

PM78656 Problem: The performance of the ClearTeam Explorer when integrated with RSARTE degrades greatly as the number of model fragments increases.

Fix: The ClearTeam Explorer has improved performance for models that contains large numbers of fragments.

PM78401 Problem: You may see the following error when running an rccbuild in IBM Rational ClearCase Mainframe Connectors: The DDName for the extension 'BCL.T³ Í' could not be determined

Fix: ClearCase Mainframe Connectors file extension name parsing has been corrected

PM77639 Problem: When IBM-273 code page is used, file whose name includes $ can not be added to source control via ClearCase Mainframe Connectors.

Fix: This code page conversion error has been resolved.

PM77634 Problem: After TSC.LOG was removed ClearCase Mainframe Connectors fail when user enters VL to see the log.

Fix: ClearCase Mainframe Connectors VL no longer fails after TSC.LOG is removed.

PM77379 Problem: ClearCase users would see occasional blue screens when building in a high load environment with MVFS cache values set too large.

Fix: A data storage/management issue has been corrected.

PM77255 Problem: Rational ClearCase Explorer shows owner/group of view private files within the MVFS to be NOBODY/NOBODY.

Fix: ClearCase Explorer now shows correct owner/group of view private files.

PM77148 Problem: ClearCase Mainframe Connectors exhibits poor performance while listing files and locating files on z/OS z1.11 (and before) when not using IBM-1047 server code page.

Fix: A single handler converting from IBM-1047 to specified server code page is now used.

PM77095 Problem: An error is received while opening version tree of a symbolically linked file from ClearCase Explorer

Fix: ClearCase Explorer now converts the symbolic link target path from relative to absolute and the version tree is correctly opened.

PM76790 Problem: ClearQuest-enabling a ClearCase UCM Project must be done by the project VOB owner.

Fix: ClearQuest-enabling a ClearCase UCM Project no longer must be done by the project VOB owner.

PM76613 Problem: Within ClearTeam Explorer, you will see that the right-click context menu does not show the "New" option when the current VOB directory has a symbolic link to this location. Following the directory tree down to the non-symbolically linked version of the directory does show the context menu.

Fix:

  1. For Dynamic view if the folder happens to be a symbolic link 'New' menu will not appear in details view.
  2. For Web views, in connected mode if the folder is identified as a symbolic link in ClearTeam Explorer client (refreshed and in its most recent state) 'New' menu will not appear in details view for this folder.
  3. For rest of the cases including the case where in web views, folder proxy is a symbolic link but we are not sure of the symbolic link's property value because user is operating in disconnected mode, or even if connected but folder state is not refreshed to correctly identify it as a symbolic link, creation of 'New' menu will happen.
PM76509 Problem: Rational MultiSite shipping server failed to send packet file due to the "deferred behavior" introduced from MicroSoft Windows 2008 server OS. Even if with a "good" binding port, socket connection could still fail for WSAEADDRINUSE error.

Fix: MultiSite shipping server can now handle the "deferred bind on connect" behavior introduced in MicroSoft Windows 2008 server OS.

PM76505 Problem: When the Rational MultiSite shipping server encounters a connection or other TCP/IP socket error on Microsoft Windows, an incorrect error message is printed in the shipping server logs.

Fix: Rational MultiSite shipping server now correctly logs (in the shipping server logs) connection and other TCP/IP socket errors on Microsoft Windows.

PM76376 Problem: In ClearCase, when using $filelist for a multiple selection in a customized Context menu the filenames will be truncated when a file/pathname contains "&"

Fix: The paths are now correctly quoted when forming the command to be executed.

PM75831 Problem: "cleartool ln -s" does not report an existing view private link as an error. ClearCase creates the symbolic link and it is eclipsed by the view private one.

Fix: An error will now be displayed indicating that the file already exists.

PM75236 Problem: Eclipse re-factor functions (rename and move) fail on directories with ClearTeam Explorer.

Fix: The invalidation of the elements of the cache has been corrected.

PM74104 Problem: clearimport will crash or have a segmentation fault when metadata is imported that contains new line characters.

Fix: clearimport now handles metadata that contains new line characters.

PM70037 Problem: In some cases, the ClearTeam Explorer throws a NullPointerException, after certain selection in the IDE workspace

Fix: ClearTeam Explorer no longer issues a NullPointerException on certain selections in the IDE workspace

PM70008 Problem: When output of 'cleartool desc -fmt' exceeds 153kb, output is truncated and customer is not aware of the truncation.

Fix: The buffer is now expanded as needed so that all data is returned/displayed.

PM68068 Problem: When using ClearCase to access cleartext files over NFSv4 on RHEL6.3 systems, the user would receive ENOTDIR errors.

Fix: ClearCase MVFS file opens are now correctly handled over NFSv4.

PM64749 Problem: ClearQuest "Invalid Credentials" error from ClearTeam Explorer reported after login onto CCRC WAN server with "Store Credentials" checked.

Fix: Log onto CCRC WAN server with "Store Credentials" checked has been fixed.

PM48938 Problem: When a time out occurs in a communication from ClearCase dynamic view client to the view server, then there might be EIO errors in the system log on the client and performance of the view server process could degrade.

Fix: Fixes a problem in ClearCase which leads to degraded performance of the view server process and EIO errors in the system log of the ClearCase dynamic view client machine.

PM35112 Problem: When accessing "\\view" on a Windows machine running Microsoft Terminal Services, you may receive the error "\\view is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. "

Fix: Corrected permission assigned to certain internal ClearCase resources.


Fix Pack 5 (8.0.0.5)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PM48938 Problem: When a time out occurs in a communication from ClearCase dynamic view client to the view server, then there might be EIO errors in the system log on the client and performance of the view server process could degrade.

Fix: Fixes a problem in ClearCase which leads to degraded performance of the view server process and EIO errors in the system log of the ClearCase dynamic view client machine.

PM56094 Problem: Changing the Extended Naming Suffix was not working on 64-bit Windows machines. So, the default suffix (@@) is still in effect.

Fix: Corrects a problem where the Windows system registry key which stores a non-default value for the ClearCase extended naming suffix was redirected on 64-bit Windows systems, so it was invisible to MVFS. The registry key was changed to a nonredirected location. 

PM59537 Problem: ClearCase and ClearQuest removed the original MSI packages used to install 3rdParty components, upon cleanning up the Windows MSI cache, the packages had problems to perform Installation Manager Operations.

Fix: Updated the ClearCase / ClearQuest to keep a copy of the original MSI packages inside the Install directory in case the machine's MSI cache is cleared, in this situation the MSI system will have the original MSI path and prevent problems on the Installation Manager Operations.

PM66907 Problem: mklbtype -acquire -global allows you to acquire a lbtype that is locked The end result is a unlocked global lbtype with a locked local copy

Fix: An inconsistency in the handling of locked label types was fixed; if the client type is locked, it is reported as not acquirable, and the operation continues with other types.

PM67147 Problem: When attempting to create a Managed Code "wrapper" for the CCPolicy put_value() method, there seems to be no way to get Visual C++ 2010 to accept the CCPolicy::put_value method.

Fix: The definition of the CCPolicy put_value variable was changed from BSTR* to BSTR, to correct a problem with use of that method with some compilers.

PM67399 Problem: ClearCase Automation library crashes when called from Multi-threaded code

Fix: A race condition caused by incorrect locking was fixed in the ClearCase Automation Library.

PM67792 Problem: User could not determine how to create a key binding to navigate to the ClearCase Details view.

Fix: Added a section on Accessibility features to the "Developing -> Developing software with Rational ClearTeam Explorer -> Team software development with ClearCase" Help topic and used the case of creating a key binding to navigate to the ClearCase Details window as a specific example.

PM68052 Problem: The ClearCase registry may contain files with .new and .old extensions.

Fix: This fix attempts to clean up these .new and .old registry files when the albd_server is starting, by restoring the registry file corresponding to the .new or .old file, and then removing the .old and .new files.

PM68213 Problem: The IBM Rational ClearCase type manager for text files (text_file_delta) can handle individual lines up to 8000 bytes or characters in length. Normally if a user attempts to check in a text file containing a line over 8000 characters an error will be presented and the checkin will fail. In a case where a text file is checked in containing only 7998 bytes and no newline character the checkin will also fail.

Fix: A problem in an edge case when calculating line length in the text_file_delta type manager has been corrected.

PM68658 Problem: ClearCase online help might fail to launch properly after being used once, the system will throw back an error about library relocation.

Fix: Updated the underlying runtime to a version that correctly handles the library relocation.

PM68896 Problem: User will see label of type "label_name" already on element error when mklabel recursively if some branch is locked with -nuser while the user is not in the -nuser list.

Fix: A change was made in the transaction handling of certain use cases of cleartool mklabel, to prevent incorrect error messages.

PM69279 Problem: Lock manager tables can become corrupt and non-recoverable without manual intervention.

Fix: Certain system-level error conditions can trigger this defect; sanity checking was added in the code to avoid the possible deadlock.

PM69330 Problem: In older versions of the IBM Rational ClearCase cleartool man page for protectvob it states, "Execute this command only while a VOB is quiescent (no active users); it stops and restarts the associated vob_server process, which prevents access to storage pools." The man page in version 7.x and 8.x do not clearly state this.  Since this is not stated clearly some customer have attempted to run the command on a VOB being accessed and protectvob failures are seen with errors such as: vob_server.exe(2644): Error: Temporarily unavailable, admin process running as pid 65535 Albd(2284): Error: Server vob_server.exe (pid=2644) on "C:\vobs\VOB1.vbs" died on startup; marking it as "down". vobrpc_server.exe(3292): Error: Problem starting vob_server for vob vobserver1.company.com:C:\vobs\VOB1.vbs vobrpc_server.exe(3292): Error: See albd or vob error logs on host vobserver1.company.com

WORKAROUND: Run the protectvob command only on a VOB which is not being accessed at all by any user or process.

Fix: The following text has been restored: The protectvob command is used to change various properties of a VOB. Before executing this command, log in to the host where the VOB storage directory resides with the following credentials:  

  • UNIX system or Linux: root
  •  
    • Windows: local administrator, VOB owner, or member of the ClearCase group
    Execute this command only when there are no active users of the VOB; it stops and restarts the vob_server process, which prevents access to the storage pools.
PM69503 Problem: After manually selecting one or more file/folder elements in the "ClearTeam Details" tab in the ClearCase Remote Client (CCRC)/ClearTeam Explorer (CTE), and then changing the sort criteria, results in the selected elements being different ones from the initial ones.

Fix: In CCRC/CTE, the current selection in the Details view is now maintained when the columns are resorted.

PM70374 Problem: Clearmake failures occur when the view_db_crs file grows past 2 GB.

Fix: The maximum size of the view_server's configuration record file was increased from 2Gb to 4Gb.

PM70385 Problem: ClearCase 8.0 Information Center does not document IHS 8.0 SSL configuration.

Fix: Documentation pertaining to IHS 8.0 SSL configuration has been updated in the ClearCase Information Center.

PM70878 Problem: Cleartool crashes when using ct describe -fmt '%{versions}p' on an activity with a very large changeset

Fix: A segmentation fault in certain use cases of cleartool commands describe and lsactivity has been fixed.

PM70970 Problem: ClearCase primary and auxiliary groups not honored correctly on Windows platforms in the ClearCase Remote Client (CCRC) WAN Server.

Fix: A change was made to to ensure that the environment variables related to the groups specified, are updated earlier in the processing of the command.

PM70972 Problem: When specifying groups within ClearTeam Explorer, 770 permissions within a VOB cause permission denied when not owner

Fix: A change was made to ensure that the environment variables related to the groups specified, are updated earlier in the processing of the command.

PM71714 Problem: When running an IBM Rational ClearCase server on Microsoft Windows 2008 or 2008 R2, a sporadic port allocation failure may occur.

Fix: Logic was added to correctly interpret winsock errors in certain conditions on Windows 2008 and 2008 R2.

PM72176 Problem: Users experience "dead connection" error in ClearQuest when attempting to deliver ClearCase activities in a ClearQuest enabled project, using the ClearTeam Explorer, CTE.  This was caused by too many ClearQuest sessions and subsequent database connections being created during CCRC operations involving integration with ClearQuest.

Fix: A change was made to ensure that the ClearQuest sessions do not increase with each operation by correctly including the JSESSIONID in request headers.

PM72260 Problem: SQUID tracing does not work through the CCBE.

Fix: A problem with the logging calls used in the server code was corrected.  Review technote 1127287: Not a publish complete doc for additional details on correctly enabling tracing.

PM72918 Problem: In ClearTeam Explorer, when the selection state of a folders' contents were modified, the resource tree did not correctly update the selection state of the folders.

Fix: Folder nodes in the tree correctly reflect when their contained resources are unselected, partially selected, or fully selected in ClearTeam Explorer.

PM72979 Problem: Using the IBM Rational ClearCase Remote Client (CCRC) plugin to migrate to Rational Application Developer (RAD) 8.x from Rational Software Architect (RSA) 7.5.x succeeds, but a blocking dialog showing a property error and requiring additional user intervention appears.

Fix: The property is now being fetched when needed resulting in no blocking error dialog.

PM73326 Problem: In the ClearTeam Explorer, an RSA model comparison results in an incorrect diff.

Fix: The ClearTeam Explorer has been corrected to order contributors according to Eclipse ordering, not the standard ClearCase ordering. This results in a correct RSA model diff, but the contributors are now displayed in a different order from ClearCase.

PM73432 Problem: When using the ClearCase UCM/ClearQuest Web Integration, and a record is transitioned to the complete state by the integration, the order of operations is incorrect.

Fix: The order of operations has been corrected when the ClearCase UCM/ClearQuest Web Integration does an automatic transition to complete on a record.

PM73586 Problem: The ClearTeam Explorer slows down an Eclipse build of an uncontrolled project on a machine that does not have MVFS installed

Fix: Fixes a problem in ClearTeam Explorer (CTE) configuration validation which was adding overhead to certain operations in CTE.

PM74114 Problem: RCleartool (a.k.a. ClearCase Remote Client (CCRC) CLI) takes more time to complete a load of many directories and files than the ClearTeam Explorer GUI.

Fix: RCleartool has been fixed to have equal or better performance than the ClearTeam Explorer GUI.

PM74428 Problem: The Checkouts view in ClearTeam Explorer (CTE) may show files as checked in if they are checked out outside of CTE.

Fix: Fixes a problem in ClearCase where the Checkouts view in CTE may show files as checked in if they are checked out outside of CTE.

PM75101 Problem: In the ClearTeam Explorer, users cannot deliver in a stream context when the stream has web views attached

Fix: Fixes a problem in ClearTeam Explorer where users cannot deliver in a stream context when the stream has web views attached

PM75238 Problem: The IBM Installation Manager panel was not displaying the correct version for non-English operating systems.

Fix: The code has been updated to have a generic extraction of the correct version on the IBM Installation Manager panel independently of the Operating System language.

PM75306 Problem: The Rational ClearTeam Explorer (CTE) is unable to delete a IBM Rational Software Architect RealTime Edition (RSARTE) model fragment during an 'absorb' operation if the fragment has checkouts on any branch.

Fix: Fixes a problem in ClearCase where The Rational ClearTeam Explorer (CTE) is unable to delete a IBM Rational Software Architect RealTime Edition (RSARTE) model fragment during an 'absorb' operation if the fragment has checkouts on any branch.

PM75703 Problem: Creating a stream from CLI or ClearTeam Explorer may result in unexpected errors with VOBs at feature level 7.

Fix: Fixes issues surrounding creation of streams in feature level 7 VOBs.

PM76372 Problem: When a user intends to start ClearCase Mainframe Connectors (CCz) rccTSOServer in certain environment where more than one network adapters are configured, sometimes addrinfo list returned from  getaddrinfo() has IPV4 address as the first one and IPV6 address as the second one. But if IPV6 network is not configured well, socket creation will fail using IPV6 protocol and exception is thrown. And then rccTSOServer has no opportunity to create socket using IPV4 protocol. So at last rccTSOServer will fail to start.

Fix: When socket creation  fails using IPV6 protocol, CCz rccTSOServer does not throw exception any more while we return with an error code and then  rccTSOServer can have an opportunity to create socket using IPV4 protocol.

PM13994 Problem: In ClearCase running on AIX, when there are a large number of VOBs mounted (e.g., hundreds in some customer cases) and the user is cd'd into a view-extended directory pathname and uses the getwd() call to find the current directory pathname (e.g., the /bin/pwd command), they may experience a long delay (many seconds) before getting the current directory pathname (e.g., seeing the pathname from /bin/pwd).

Fix: Changes were made in both Clearcase MVFS and the AIX kernel to improve the performance of getwd() in a working directory with a view-extended path. Previously, getwd() had to do stat() syscalls on each mounted VOB as part of generating the working directory pathname. Each stat() call might take a fraction of a second (or even a second or more), so with many VOBs the total time could be many seconds, or even minutes. With these changes, the stat() calls are no longer needed and the entire pathname generation is speeded up. The AIX change and the Clearcase change can be installed independently, but the performance improvement won't be seen until both changes are installed. The AIX kernel APARs containing the AIX changes are: IV22023 and IV31361 and

PM50079 Problem: When using the shared library libatriagetcwd_interposer.so on Solaris 10 as documented in Technote 1501830: ClearCase on Solaris 10, error "pwd: cannot determine current directory!", some instances of the find or df commands would fail.

Fix: A patch to the Solaris operating system is now available which eliminates the need for the libatriagetcwd_interposer library.  This patch is 147440-24 for SPARC systems, or 147441-24 for x86 systems.

PM52778 Problem: A performance degradation was observed for many cleartool commands running on HP-UX.  This was traced to inefficient handling of a message catalog while loading a shared library.

Fix: HP-UX patch PHCO_42265 and any of its successors include a change to the strerror(3C) function to improve performance.  This patch is recommended for all ClearCase installations on HP-UX 11.31.

PM62982 Problem: crmregister generates core when connection file is 0 byte

Fix: Fixed the handling of some edge cases of the connection configuration file for crmregister.

PM64312 Problem: A Linux user who mounts a disk or partition and attempts to access a file in that partition using view-extened pathnames might be unable to unmount that disk or partition.

Fix: A problem with incorrect use counts on dentries in certain kernel versions was corrected.

PM70152 Problem: A ClearCase user on Linux could encounter Linux kernel panics in the kmem_ptr_validate kernel function.

Fix: There is a problem in some versions of the Linux kernel function d_validate; a change was made to ClearCase to eliminate use of this function.

PM71119 Problem: Unless setgroup-swap is called either from the directory where it resides or with the full path to the utility, it returns 'Error with stat() call on file setgroup-swap'.

Fix: The logic for checking for suid permission was corrected, allowing the setgroup-swap utility to be started from any directory.

PM72354 Problem: When you use a cleartool find command in an IBM Rational ClearCase snapshot view where there is a cross-VOB symbolic link, which points to a target element in another VOB, certain variations of the find command produce the following error: cleartool: Error: Not a vob object.

Fix: A problem which caused an invalid oid to be returned for a symbolic link in a ClearCase snapshot view has been corrected.

PM76801 Problem: ClearCase Mainframe Connectors (CCz) RccTSOServer mode 2 authentication fails with LDAP on Redhat Linux.

Fix: Added LDAP authentication support in RccTSOServer for Mainframe Connectors on Redhat Linux.


Fix Pack 4 (8.0.0.4)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PM23142 Problem: The cleartool 'ls' command will occasionally report an error, "cleartool: Error: Trouble reading directory", when issued within a directory under the control of the ClearCase MVFS.

Fix: ClearCase's caching and synchronization logic was modified to more quickly detect and adapt to remote changes of directory versions.

PM34445 Problem: db_server unnecessarily calls sysutl_nfs_flush twice for each read transaction

Fix: A fix is available in ClearCase versions 7.1.2.8 and 8.0.0.4

PM41812 Problem: Windows VOB servers may time out attempting to lock the vista.taf file.

Fix: Allow the ability to modify the delays between lock attempts, and the number of attempts before aborting the lock attempt.

PM49234 Problem: Under consistent heavy load on a given ClearCase dynamic view client, "xid mismatch" errors are encountered in MVFS and is logged accordingly in mvfs_log.

Fix: Fixes a problem in ClearCase and resolves the "xid mismatch" error.

PM52249 Problem: xclearcase on UNIX fails to merge elements with merge type set to 'copy'

Fix: xclearcase correctly supports to merge element with element type's merge type set to 'copy'.

PM52447 Problem: In UCM if the user has created baselines on a stream and rebases to a composite baseline which is the original foundation baseline of the stream or in other words at the '0'th index of the timeline for that component , then lsbl -component will not display the baseline created by stream on the master site and will give INTERNAL ERROR on the other replica sites.

Fix: The lsbl -component display now shows the UCM baseline properly at the replica sites.

PM52732 Problem: Modifying the mvfs_ctxt_atime_refresh within mvfs_tunables.c and rebuilding the MVFS will not change the value.

Fix: Fix a problem with the tunable parameter mvfs_ctxt_atime_refresh being always the default value instead of the value set.

PM55266 Problem: ClearCase upgrades overwrote the exports.mvfs file during the upgrade process, removing customizations.

Fix: ClearCase now correctly preserves custom exports.mvfs files across upgrades.
Review technote 1596035: Upgrading IBM Rational ClearCase causes the file /etc/exports.mvfs to be overwritten to avoid the issue.

PM55490 Problem: customer may have VOB access issue at the time when an element with a large number of branches and/or versions.

Fix: a clear warning message with good info is provided and customer is encouraged to manually remove some branches/versions before finally destroying the element to avoid VOB access issue.

PM59550 Problem: /etc/init.d/clearcase fails to stop or start ClearCase service within Solaris Non-global zone of server-only installation.

Fix: /etc/init.d/clearcase correctly start and stop ClearCase services within Solaris non-global zone of server-only installation.

PM60069 Problem: crmregister -gui option does not work with the -url option when user credentials are not specified on the command line.

Fix: crmregister correctly supports the prompting for user credentials when -url and -gui options are used together.

PM60259 Problem: Wildcard registry lookups don't scale for registries with a large number of objects

Fix: A fix is available in ClearCase versions 7.1.2.8 and 8.0.0.4

PM60302 Problem: Occasionally, system facilities such as the 'pwd' command and the 'getcwd' function and its equivalents will fail when executed from within a newly created directory under control of the ClearCase MVFS.

Fix: The ClearCase MVFS's cache and synchronization logic has been corrected to prevent the caching of invalid directory entry information during periods of heavy load.

PM60644 Problem: When using IBM Rational ClearCase's makefile based build utility Clearmake, it throws "clearmake: Error: Unable to place marker in MVFS audit - Invalid argument" error for the recursive builds where parent make is invoked with .NO_CONFIG_REC target and there is no fresh build happening in the child make. This behaviour is seen in ClearCase 7.1.2.7 or 8.0.0.3 or prior versions.

Fix: After the fix, for the recursive make builds where parent build audit is not getting audited and there is no fresh build happening in the child make, the error "clearmake: Error: Unable to place marker in MVFS audit - Invalid argument" will not be thrown.

PM60858 Problem: ClearCase Project Explorer crashes when obtaining Policies of a CQ-enabled UCM project with certain schemas.

Fix: Resolves an issue in the UCM ClearCase integration with ClearQuest where certain UCM schemas would cause the ClearCase Project Explorer to crash when obtaining CQ Policies.

PM62396 Problem: When running in an interactive cleartool shell, after executing a cleartool command that modifies ClearCase environment variables, and then executing a shell command (!), there are some ClearCase environment variables that remain set in the new shell environment, which may affect future Cleartool commands.

Fix: When executing a shell command (!) while in an interactive cleartool command, the ClearCase environment variables are cleared.

PM62894 Problem: ClearCase operations such as checkout of UTF8 type files fails with CCRC WAN Server crash.

Fix: UTF8 type files are now checked out successfully without a CCRC WAN Server crash

PM63804 Problem: Lock obsolete a foundation baseline of a child stream results in all baselines on that stream not being displayed in the base. If a component baseline that happens to be also a foundation baseline of a stream is locked-obsolete, then the component tree browser with the "Show obsolete baselines" tick-box unset, hides not only that baseline, but also and incorrectly *all* the baselines of the stream of which the just locked-obsoleted baseline is the foundation baseline.

Fix: The fix ensures that If you have an obsolete baseline which is the foundation baseline for other stream, after unselecting the option for "Show obsolete baselines", the display should only hide the obsolete baseline and not any other nodes (other streams and non-obsolete baselines). If any node is made invisible, the connection line is drawn between its adjacent visible nodes.

PM64202 Problem: In a very specific scenario, multiple requests to db_server process will make lockmgr keeping incorrect signal handler for SIGALRM. Then db_server will core dump after receiving SIGALRM.

Fix: db_server no longer core dumps after receiving SIGALRM.

PM64329 Problem: A large number of such failed CCRC login attempts in a short period of time may cause CCRC WAN Server to reach the ccrcMaxSessionsOverall limit (200 by default), preventing other legitimate users from logging in.

Fix: Failed logins are no longer counted against the max sessions overall limit, which keeps the server sessions free for normal use.

PM64431 Problem: CCz takes some of Chinese characters in comments as invalid.

Fix: A fix is available in 7.1.2.8 and 8.0.0.4.

PM64899 Problem: Some operations with webviews in IBM Rational ClearTeam Explorer 8.0 may be slower than IBM Rational ClearCase Remote Client (CCRC).  Examples include mkelem and checkin.

Fix: A fix for the performance issue is available in Rational ClearCase release 8.0.0.4.

PM65457 Problem: SUMMARY: Documentation of how the CLEARCASE_MKELEM_USE_GRPLIST environment variable functions, common code, for two different commands is different.  Specifically, the documentation for under the 'mkdir' command is simply wrong and should duplicate the correct information as documented under the 'mkelem' command.

Fix: Fixed as directed.

PM65546 Problem: ClearCase Remote Client RCP does not exist on Solaris x86 but Installation Manager attempts to to install it. Only the CCRC Eclipse plugin is supported on Solaris x86.

Fix: Corrected the situation so that CCRC RCP is only allowed to be install on the supported platforms.
The IBM Installation Manager will report back an error as: "Package IBM Rational ClearCase Remote Client cannot be installed on the current platform (operating system: solaris, architecture: x86)."

PM65573 Problem: UCM GUIs (such as clearprojexp.exe) issue multiply redundant identical RPCs to the db_server, thus reducing overall performance.

Fix: The number of RPCs sent from the client to the server has been reduced due to a more intelligent caching scheme as well as a rework of some of the RPCs used in retrieving information about ClearCase objects.

PM65832 Problem: Login to CCRC WAN server (Rational ClearCase v 8) fails with the following error when the name of the host where CCRC WAN server is installed starts with the characters "ccrc" (e.g. ccrc-test or ccrctest). CRMAP7009: CCRC command "Login" failed: Error:"Malformed server response. The server at "http://ccrc" is not a correctly configured ClearCase Web Server."

Fix: The CCRC client code has been modified to correctly handle CCRC WAN Server URLs which have the characters "ccrc" in their host name

PM65979 Problem: When a new file element is added to a VOB using the command line(cleartool mklem) that was first added as view private file using IBM Rational ClearTeam Explorer (CTE) most of the file element context menu options such as checkout etc  are greyed out in the right click menu even after refresh(from context menu) is done on the file element. After CTE is restarted the menu options are available in the right click context menu.

Fix: The IBM Rational Clear Team Explorer code has been modified to re-fetch the relevant property of the file element when the user selects the refresh option from the right click context menu options

PM65981 Problem: In the reference page for the rmstgloc command, the "Description" section of page contradicts information in the "Restrictions" section.

Fix: The Description section of rmstgloc has been updated as follows: " ...  Once a storage location is unregistered, you cannot create views or VOBs using mkview –stgloc or mkvob –stgloc. However, you can create views and VOBs at that storage location using the –host, –hpath and –gpath options. ... " The Restrictions section has been updated to note that there are no restrictions.

PM66323 Problem: The ClearTeam Explorer performs poorly when using large model projects

Fix: Fixes a performance problem in the ClearTeam Explorer that hindered logical model usage.

PM66577 Problem: Directory merge not working in CTE

Fix: Fixes a problem with ClearCase where CTE fails to automatically merge the project directory following a Logical Model Merge.

PM66596 Problem: Closing the Logical Model Merge Editor via the 'Close' or 'X' button, will lose the merge result

Fix: Fixes a problem in ClearCase where closing the Logical Model Merge Editor via the "Close" or "X" button will lose the merge result.

PM66764 Problem: User can log into ClearCase CM Server on Linux with expired DES-encrypted password

Fix: ClearCase CM Server will check password expiration on Linux.

PM66796 Problem: The ClearTeam Explorer versoin tree truncates the label name by default, thus not allowing a user to see the full name. This is problematic when the most significant characters are at the end of the string.

Fix: The ClearTeam Explorer provides a button that allows a user to toggle between truncated names and full names. The last state of the button is persisted for the workspace or until changed.

PM66857 Problem: In the reference page for the clearfsimport command, the descriptions of the -filter and -mklabel options are incorrect.

Fix: The descriptions have been updated as follows:
-filter
Determines which elements need to be checked out for the import to succeed and checks out only those elements. When this option is specified with --mklabel , the label is applied to newly created directory versions only.


-mklabel label
Attaches the specified label instance to each element that matches the name of an imported file or directory, whether or not a new version is created. If the label type does not exist, it is created. If the label is already attached to an existing element version, it is moved.

PM66878 Problem: Remotely added model elements become view private after merge in target view

Fix: Fixes a problem in ClearCase where remotely added model elements become view private in the target view after Logical Model Merge.

PM66879 Problem: When model aware checkouts are enabled in the ClearTeam Explorer, the checkout dialog opens with all elements participating in the logical resource selected for checkout. Customer requires that only those elements selected by the user are selected by default.

Fix: The ClearTeam Explorer provides a new preference that enables the checkout dialog to open with all logical resource elements selected or only those logical resource elements selected by the user.

PM66880 Problem: The ClearTeam Explorer version tree does not allow the ability to sort labels in the order in which they were applied with the most recent displayed first.

Fix: The ClearTeam Explorer version tree provides a button that allows a user to toggle between label names sorted alphanumerically and label names sorted by the time they were applied (most recent first). The last state of the button is persisted for the workspace or until changed.

PM67191 Problem: Aggregated checkin not showing dialog with checked-out files in views with checkouts in non-mounted VOBs.

Fix: The server no longer returns checkouts in umounted VOBs to clients, which allows the dialog to display without issue.

PM67670 Problem: The ClearTeam Explorer does not provide any means to copy a label name as text from the Version Tree.

Fix: The ClearTeam Explorer now provides the user the ability to select a label name from the version tree, right click and copy the label's name.

PM67890 Problem: CTE should show model checkouts in a model-friendly way and allow navigation from a checked out file to them model element in the Project Explorer.

Fix: Support for this feature available in Rational ClearTeam Explorer v 8.0.0.4.

PM67970 Problem: The install code for Rational ClearCase was not detecting correctly the solaris x86 platform. Thus the file delayed_export was not created

Fix: Corrected the checking for solaris x86 systems, the file is now correctly installed.

PM68273 Problem: AIX ClearCase WAN Server mishandles cached credentials when authenticating with LAM on AIX

Fix: This AIX authentication problem has been fixed.

PM68415 Problem: Refactoring not working in the Modelling perspective

Fix: Fixes a problem in CTE where refactoring was not working in the Modelling perspective because the Checkout dialog was inaccessible.

PM68416 Problem: Resource->Refresh does not work for logical resources in the Details view

Fix: Fixes a problem in CTE where Resource->Refresh in the Details view does not work for logical resources

PM68431 Problem: Rational ClearCase ClearTeam Explorer does not show the size of both controlled and view private file elements in the ClearTeam details view in the size column

Fix: The Rational ClearCase ClearTeam Explorer code has been modified to correctly display the size of controlled and view private file elements in the ClearTeam Details view

PM68514 Problem: Performing a WorkOn action on a ClearQuest Record from a ClearQuest Eclipse client on Solaris results in an error and the action is not completed.

Fix: Fixes a problem on Solaris where performing a WorkOn action on a ClearQuest Record from a ClearQuest Eclipse client would result in an error.

PM69506 Problem: GSkit V8 links are broken when installing ClearQuest or ClearCase on Linux x86 after doing the following: (1) Install the latest version of GSkit V8, (2) Install ClearCase or ClearQuest and (3) Configure SSL with LDAP for CQWeb. Trying to access CQWeb using valid LDAP credentials will fail due to the broken links.

Fix: The GSkit V8 links are now integrated correctly in the Linux x86 ClearCase and ClearQuest Install Manager. LDAP CQWeb users will no longer see failures.

PM70037 Problem: The ClearTeam Explorer throws a NullPointerException during decoration.

Fix: Fixed a ClearTeam Explorer problem that can result in a NullPointerException during decoration

PM70472 Problem: Non-global zone installations of ClearCase with MVFS installed prevent global zone from being upgraded

Fix: Starting updates from 7.1.2.8 and 8.0.0.4 IBM Rational ClearCase on Global Zones where IBM Rational ClearCase is Also installed in the non-global zones will succeed since the verification of the scenario has been changed to support it.

PM70580 Problem: When a rebase backward/sideways is done for a rootless component it causes the removal of a Foundation hyperlink.
The Foundation hyperlink is always FROM a baseline TO the "timeline". There is a reference to the hyperlink in the "Activity timeline" string of the timeline object, which gets removed when the timeline gets removed.
However, when the baseline and the timeline exist in different UCM project VOBs, then while an oplog entry is generated for both project VOBs, the processing to remove the entry from the "Activity timeline" string of the timeline object does not occur when the oplog entries are replayed.

Fix: After the fix when a rebase backward/sideways is done , the existing Foundation hyperlink is not deleted.

PM71611 Problem: When using dynamic views, the ClearTeam Explorer intermittently performs UI blocking operations in the IDE workspace, that causes the user to wait.

Fix: Addresses an optimization issue in the ClearTeam Explorer and enables better performance when interacting with ClearCase.

PM71680 Problem: ClearCase MultiSite syncreplica imports fail between VOB servers running ClearCase 7.1.2.x and ClearCase 8.0.0.x for replicas in a Feature Level 6 VOB family, because of packet header mismatch in ClearCase 8.0.0.x.

Fix: This change restores the ability to correctly generate and read syncreplica packets in Feature Level 6 replicas in ClearCase 8.0.0.x.

PM71693 Problem: The ClearTeam Explorer display contributors in the incorrect order why using Model compare

Fix: Fixes an issue in the ClearTeam Explorer where compare contributors are not displayed in the correct order when using Model compare.


Fix Pack 3 (8.0.0.3)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PM15552 Fixes a ClearCase CM Server problem encountered when running ClearTeam Explorer on UNIX platforms where temporary files created not automatically being cleaned up.
PM23022 Corrects a ClearCase documentation issue where a notice to back up scheduler tasks before upgrading was omitted from the ClearCase installation documentation.
PM29587 Investigates a reference count issue between MVFS mnode and NFS vnode that causes a panic on release of an mnode with a bad vnode reference. The original issue was a refcnt problem, but it is no longer reproducible.
PM37382 Fixes a Rational Common Licensing documentation issue where Linux System z/OS was omitted from a list of unsupported platforms.
PM42012 Addresses a ClearCase issue on Solaris platforms where, in the Solaris 8 Branded Zones environment, a setview operation on a newly created dynamic view fails with the error "cleartool: Error: Couldn't set view tag : unknown error in MVFS file system". The root cause of the problem has not been clearly determined and a transient error in the reported environment is suspected. The diagnostic fix introduces additional debug logging to aid the investigation if the problem is encountered again.
PM42270 Addresses a ClearCase UCM issue on UNIX and Windows platforms where a "chbl" command or a "mkbl" command fails to report the reason when incremental labeling fails.
PM44290 Investigates a ClearCase MVFS performance issue on Windows 7 platforms where users may experience performance degradation when running an executable in a dynamic view. This behavior is particularly noticeable in a directory that contains thousands of cross-VOB symbolic links. The performance may further decrease if the user’s config spec for the view limits the number of links that are visible. However, this processing overhead can be eliminated by using the group policy editor, gpedit.msc, to disable the Windows Application Compatibility Engine.
PM45246 Fixes a ClearCase UCM problem where creating a new composite component using the Baseline Dependency Editor can result in new baselines in the rooted components it depends on which do not capture the change sets of earlier baselines in the stream.
PM50735 Investigates a ClearCase MVFS issue on RedHat Linux platforms where compiling in a dynamic view that is navigated to by using the view-extended name produces a failed stat() system call with an EOVERFLOW error. The problem is not seen while set into view. The problem is due to an older compiler and does not occur with more current compilers.
PM51187 Fixes a ClearCase UCM problem where the "cleartool rmbl" command incorrectly allows the deletion of a baseline that is member of a composite baseline.
PM52252 Fixes a ClearTeam Explorer problem on Linux platforms where the Version Tree incorrectly invokes manual merges for elements with a merge-type of 'copy'.
PM53709 Fixes a problem in the ClearTeam Explorer integration with Rational Software Architect RealTime Edition where the logical model merge tool does not display when performing an operation that requires a merge from source view to target view if the model that is present in the UML perspective is not that of the target view. In this case, the merges proceed as if they were trivial and the models become potentially corrupt.
PM54068 Fixes a ClearTeam Explorer problem on HP-UX 11.31/IA64 platforms where piping a 'cleartool ls -recurse -view_only' command to 'xargs rm-rf' produces a segmentation fault error in fileutl_make_abs_pn.
PM55142 Investigates a ClearCase MVFS issue on RedHat Enterprise Linux 6 platforms where the kernel panics when executing an "ls" or "find" command from within a view-extended path and not within a VOB. The issue could not be reproduced.
PM56680 Corrects a ClearCase MVFS defect on Windows 7 and Windows 2008 Server platforms which caused the mvfsstat and mvfstime programs invoked with the -A or -I options to produce the following error message: "Unknown/Unsupported NT version 6.1 skipping irp stats".
PM56750 Fixes a ClearTeam Explorer issue on Windows and UNIX platforms where selecting a problematic dynamic view returns an error message that reads, "ClearCase: Error: View tag '': ClearCase object not found" and ClearTeam Explorer fails to display any other dynamic views.
PM57541 Fixes a defect in the ClearTeam Explorer running on Windows platforms where sorting a change set by the 'Created Date' column incorrectly sorts by the string representation of the date for some locales.
PM57652 Investigates a ClearCase diff/merge issue on Windows platforms where a "Compare to previous version" operation results in an internal error message for XML files. The problem was that the input file contained erroneous spaces and TABs.
PM57870 Fixes a ClearCase MultiSite error where removing an unlabeled baseline in a VOB that is mod_master enabled fails with the following error: "db_obj_delete_V3: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection reset by peer."
PM57898 Fixes an IBM Installation Manager problem where attempting to install ClearCase Remote Client 7.1.2.x and the Rational License Key Administrator 8.1.1 at the same time produces the following error message: "The IBM Rational License Key Administrator and IBM Rational ClearCase Remote Client 7.1.2 packages cannot coexist on the same package group."
PM59649 Fixes a ClearCase MultiSite problem where a "syncreplica import" operation fails with the message "multitool: Error: Error from VOB database: ‘\sources’. "
PM59761 Investigates a ClearCase UCM issue on Windows platforms where a rebase operation fails to propagate a new baseline dependency hierarchy and the hierarchy matches the most recent "Edit Baseline Dependency window" and not the most recent "Stream Configuration." This behavior is expected, but users can have the hierarchy match the most recent "Stream Configuration" by editing the Baseline Dependencies in the child stream and making the required change there.
PM60045 Fixes a problem in the ClearTeam Explorer running on Windows platforms where comment changes made to a checked out version of an element are lost upon checkin.
PM60151 Fixes a problem in ClearTeam Explorer running on Windows platforms when a file compare operation fails when using the ClearCase External Compare/Merge tool.
PM60200 Fixes a ClearCase defect on UNIX platforms where installing the product into a non-default location that contains a directory path name ending in either "rational" or "clearcase" can cause some ClearCase processes to fail to start.
PM60516 Investigates a ClearCase issue on Windows XP-Professional platforms where double-byte characters appear corrupted when running a cleartool command if your advanced locale settings in the Microsoft Windows Control Panel are set to Japanese on your English operating system. View-private files and files on the local file system both appear correctly. To avoid corrupting the files, open them after you have specified the Advanced setting in Regions and Locale in the Microsoft Control Panel.
PM60949 Fixes a ClearCase UCM defect in the Typemanager found on Windows platforms where a merge performed during a deliver operation can copy from a version that is not one of the contributing versions.
PM61035 Fixes a ClearCase view server problem on all UNIX platforms where the view server remains active and writes continuous error messages to the log when a root user executes a "cleartool mkview" command on a remote host while lacking the correct permissions to the network access storages.
PM61095 Fixes a problem in the ClearCase UCM integration with ClearQuest where canceling a rebase or deliver operation when using a WAN ClearQuest connection produces errors and does not remove the ClearQuest activity.
PM61730 Fixes a ClearCase problem on Windows XP platforms where running a "cleartool annotate -rm" command incorrectly displays a text file output if the text file does not have a new line character at the end of the file.
PM61813 Fixes a problem in the ClearTeam Explorer integration with Rational Software Architect RealTime Edition on Red Hat Linux x86 platforms where the export of a team project set produces projects that use vob-tag roots (instead of view-extended path names) causing the project set file export to fail with an "internal error".
PM61814 Fixes a problem in the ClearTeam Explorer integration with Rational System Architect RealTime on UNIX platforms where having cross-VOB symbolic links can produce the following error when attempting to open the model in the GUI: "CcException: CRMAP7009: CCRC command 'ReadProperties' failed: ClearCase: Error: CRMSV2008."
PM62113 Fixes a CCRC WAN server problem on UNIX platforms where the server fails to authenticate users when the WebSphere profile hosting the server is not running as root. The same error occurs if the profile is not installed within an existing profile, and the /opt/rational/common/ccrcprofile is changed to run as a non-root user (per WebSphere instructions to change the ownership of a profile).
PM62115 Remedies a CCRC WAN sever documentation issue where the steps for running within a non-root application server profile were omitted from technote 1506940: Administering CCRC WAN server
PM62116 Investigates a ClearCase MVFS issue on SUSE 11 Linux platforms where running a ls -al command within a view-extended path can cause a Stale NFS File Handle on directories. However, this is because the VOB is not mounted and ClearCase does not support accessing files using view-extended pathnames on unmounted VOBs.
PM62492 Fixes a ClearCase problem on Windows 7 platforms where a reserved checkout operation on a locally mastered branch invoked via ClearCase Explorer or Windows Explorer results in an unreserved, nonmastered checkout.
PM62520 Investigates a ClearCase MVFS issue on SUSE 11 Linux platforms where the kernel panics on vnode_dop_revalidate through a view-extended path. This appears to have been a defect in SUSE Linux itself which has been fixed by Novell.
PM62669 Fixes a problem in the ClearTeam Explorer for Eclipse client on Windows XP platforms where non-trivial text file merges fail to start the built-in merge manager in Eclipse 3.7.x and the merge operation fails.
PM63090 Addresses a ClearCase MultiSite performance issue on Linux SUSE 64 platforms where a "multitool syncreplica -export" process can produce delays while waiting to read from the TCP buffer. To suppress this behavior, set up an environment variable called "CLEARCASE_SUPPRESS_NODELAY" before running the "multitool syncreplica -export" command.
PM63612 Fixes a problem in the ClearTeam Explorer integration with Rational Software Architect RealTime Edition on Windows and UNIX platforms where ClearTeam Explorer selects only the first model file in the selection containing logical resources, instead of all user-selected model files in the selection, when running a ClearCase Merge Search operation.
PM63615 Fixes a problem in the ClearTeam Explorer integration with Rational Software Architect RealTime Edition on Windows and UNIX platforms where attempting to checkin when using the "ptime" option within a dynamic view when the "Refresh automatically" preference is enabled produces out-of-sync pop-ups. In addition, the "Preserve modification time" preference setting was not honored on restart when using dynamic views.
PM63775 Fixes a ClearCase installation problem encountered when installing the ClearCase integration with VS.NET on Windows platforms where using a batch file with a name that contains multiple periods (such as register-com.ibm.rational.cmdotnet.cc-wan-vs2008.bat) produces the following error message: "ERROR CreateProcess: C:\Program Files\IBM\RationalSDLC\ClearCase\bin\register- com.ibm.rational.cmdotnet.cc-wan-vs2008.bat error=5."
PM63779 Addresses a ClearTeam Explorer issue encountered on UNIX and Linux platforms where starting a Merge Search operation in a setview context fails.
PM64069 Fixes a performance issue in the ClearTeam Explorer integration with Rational System Architect RealTime Edition on Linux platforms where building transformations in Rational System Architect RealTime Edition for projects in the same VOB runs normally the first time but is significantly delayed each time thereafter.
PM64072 Fixes a problem in the ClearTeam Explorer integration with Rational Software Architect RealTime Edition on Linux platforms where an import project set operation fails to import the projects when it is invoked through the command line.
PM64075 Fixes a problem in the ClearTeam Explorer integration with Rational Software Architect RealTime Edition on Linux platforms where the Find Merge Wizard 'Select Elements' page does not pre-select all files participating in a logical resource.
PM64102 Fixes a problem in the ClearTeam Explorer integration with Rational Software Architect RealTime Edition on Linux platforms where aggregate checkin or uncheckout operations involving logical resources could cause model corruption.
PM64181 Fixes a problem in the ClearTeam Explorer integration with Rational Software Architect on Linux platforms where the ClearTeam Explorer fails to automatically merge the project directory after a successful Logical Model Merge.
PM64443 Fixes a problem in the ClearTeam Explorer integration with Rational Software Architect RealTime Edition on Linux platforms where the ClearTeam Explorer does not support both selective and non-selective undo checkout of logical resources.
PM64563 Fixes a problem in the ClearTeam Explorer integration with Rational Software Architect RealTime Edition on Linux platforms where ClearTeam Explorer fails to automatically merge the project directory after a successful Logical Model Merge operation.
PM64565 Fixes a ClearTeam Explorer problem on Linux platforms where the Merge Search Results view does not update the checked-out state of elements after a check-in procedure.
PM65054 Fixes a problem in the ClearTeam Explorer integration with Rational System Architect RealTime Edition on Linux platforms where the ClearTeam Explorer did not automatically add any view-private model elements to source control during a logical model checkin.
PM65080 Fixes a ClearTeam Explorer problem on Linux platforms where importing two project sets through consecutive imports of two .psf files in which each .psf file has a reference to the same project causes the import to fail and the workspace to become unusable.
RATLC01338822 Investigates a ClearCase MVFS reference count defect on AIX systems that causes NFS to panic. The issue is no longer reproducible.
RATLC01344509 Addresses a ClearCase issue on z/OS platforms where a file filter by state in the 'View file list' panel was not supported in TSOC.

Fix Pack 2 (8.0.0.2)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PM08241 Fixes a ClearTeam Explorer problem where symbolic links are returned as candidates for an aggregate checkout operation when a wild card filter is used (such as, for example, *.txt). In these cases, the aggregate checkout operation does not differentiate between the source or the target of a symbolic link and it returns the following error message: "CRVAP0087E CCRC command 'checkout' failed: Version discordance detected for "C:\ccweb\user\view_tage\VOB\Directory\link.txt". Symbolic links are also no longer considered as candidates for aggregate checkin and undo checkout operations.
PM26027 Fixes a ClearCase problem on all platforms where enabling the "Preserve version creation time when files are updated or loaded from the server" preference setting and using a preop checkin trigger that performs a modification produces the following error message: "CRVAP0087E CCRC command 'checkin' failed: Error: java.io.IOException: Unable to set last modified time on "{Path to file}": Unknown error..".
PM40676 Resolves a ClearCase Explorer issue encountered on Windows platforms by users of the ClearCase UCM integration with ClearQuest where the username field in the ClearQuest Login dialog box contains incorrect characters.
PM41099 Fixes a ClearCase problem where the MVFS tab does not appear on the ClearCase control panel applet after a test fix is installed on Windows 2008 32- and 64-bit. The difficulty is due to missing dependencies between the code to install/uninstall MVFS and the InstallConfiguration Registry code.
PM42173 Fixes a ClearCase Extension on z/OS issue where too many RB steps are included in single BCL which produces a a system abend S0C4 error.
PM46650 Fixes a ClearCase problem where ClearCase Explorer crashes when creating a new ClearQuest-integrated UCM activity as the user toggles between applications.
PM48760 Fixes a ClearTeam Explorer problem where the process of delivering a full set of independent activities to an alternate target stream, even if the project policy allows it, fails with the following error: "ClearCase CM Server: Error: Selected activity deliver from stream {source-stream} to {alternate-target-stream} is not supported. "
PM50175 Fixes a ClearCase problem where the wrong file size displays in the ClearCase Explorer for files that are larger than 4GB.
PM50668 Fixes a ClearCase installation problem on Windows platforms where upgrading using the IBM Installation Manager produces severe performance issues and other errors due to the removal of the 'Everyone' group from the {installation directory}\ClearCase\var\cache directory.
PM50868 Resolves a ClearCase problem where, after performing a directory merge with clearmrgman and checking in the directory after the merge, the clearmrgman gui crashes with a SIGBUS error and generates a coredump.
PM51409 Fixes a ClearCase problem where the online documentation contains an incorrect link to information about 'config_spec'.
PM51764 Fixes a ClearCase MVFS problem encountered on Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 platforms where builds were hanging when they were run in a local dynamic view.
PM51799 Addresses an issue encountered when using ClearQuest in ClearTeam Explorer where hook scripts on a ClearQuest record that display messages using a Visual Basic script with a carriage return/line feed would not display properly. The messages were being erroneously truncated.
PM51875 Addresses a ClearCase upgrade documentation issue where the online Help for installing and upgrading did not explicitly state that users need to reformat their VOB schemas to schema version 8.0 before upgrading to feature level 7.
PM51956 Fixes a ClearCase problem where a "cleartool deliver -resume" command causes sporadic segmentation faults on multiple UNIX and Linux platforms.
PM52309 Fixes a ClearTeam Explorer problem where undelivered activities in the Deliver from Stream dialog box no longer appear after selecting a view in the "Deliver from view" option.
PM52325 Fixes a problem in the ClearTeam Explorer UCM integration with ClearQuest where ClearTeam Explorer throws a null pointer exception if the ClearQuest schema has been incorrectly modified to make the Headline field optional and the Headline is blank.
PM53315 Fixes a problem with ClearTeam Explorer where no component properties are displayed if the component belongs to a multi-component VOB.
PM53431 Fixes a ClearCase problem where ClearTeam Explorer does not indicate an operation failure when a user changes the checkout of an element from unreserved to reserved by clearing the 'Reserved' check box in the Show Properties dialog and the element is already checked out reserved in another view.
PM53623 Addresses a ClearCase documentation issue by clarifying the usage of the sync_receive -sclass command.
PM54197 Fixes a situation where a ClearCase cleartool catcr command fails with a segmentation fault when a user attempts to print MVFS dependencies with long paths.
PM54324 Addresses a ClearCase command line issue where the command "cleartool lsstream -ancestor -in PROJECT SELECTOR" incorrectly cascades the output.
PM54504 Fixes a ClearCase problem where a "cleartool merge" command can fail with a Segmentation Fault error under certain conditions when the flag "-opt" is used.
PM54519 Fixes a ClearCase problem on Windows platforms where a scheduled job running a task labeled "Standard ClearCase Weekly Tasks" fails with the following error: "The system cannot find the path specified."
PM54690 Fixes a ClearCase Team Explorer problem where files that contained lines in excess of 8,000 bytes would fail with the following error: "The object being compared contains line(s) exceeding 8000 bytes." The maximum line size is now 32,000 bytes.
PM54779 Fixes a performance issue in the ClearTeam Explorer for Eclipse where having an open ClearCase tabbed property sheet and selecting the 'Preview Only' option in the Update from Repository dialog box causes an apparent lock-up in ClearTeam Explorer for more than 10-30 seconds. The problem is only apparent when the user selects an artifact that is not loaded but is marked as "needs update".
PM54867 Fixes a problem in the CCRC WAN Server where setting the variable "ccrcUserRegionMapFile" in the server.conf file has no effect.
PM55006 Fixes a ClearCase issue on Windows platform where the ClearTeam Explorer does not honor 'setsite view_interop_text_mode' settings for dynamic views.
PM55152 Fixes a ClearCase MultiSite problem where sync_export_list.bat is invoked with "-poll" and fails to send a shipping_order but logs a false message stating that "temporary errors were encountered, but all packets were successfully exported."
PM55154 Fixes a ClearCase Mainframe Connectors problem on the IBM z/OS platform where a remote build work job produces an Abend when certain large Chinese files are downloaded from MVS to AIX with "-k IBM-5488 -r IBM-1388".
PM55177 Addresses a ClearCase issue on Solaris platforms where attempting to exceed the limit of 16 groups that may be added to a VOB group list produces an error message that incorrectly states that more groups may be added. The "cleartool protectvob -add_group" message has been corrected so that it accurately indicates how many groups may still be added to a VOB group list.
PM55178 Fixes a ClearCase issue in the Unicode type manager for cleartool file types 'utf16le_file' and 'utf16be_file'. Without this fix, every create version operation for these types appends an extra BOM character, these files are not added to source control during a mkelem operation, and the contents of these files change when the files are checked in.
PM55212 Fixes a ClearTeam Explorer problem where loading a view produces the following error message in the ClearCase error log: "ClearCase CM Server: Error: Unable to commit item" even though the view loads as expected. The error message for failed commits now writes to the ClearCase error log only if trace is enabled to level 1. Failed commit issues are resolved transparently by the ClearTeam Explorer.
PM55257 Fixes a ClearQuest MultiSite problem on Linux platforms that occurs after upgrading a ClearCase MultiSite shipping_server Linux host and specifying a port range in either shipping.conf or albd_rt_params.conf. In this case, intermittent transmission failures may occur with error messages stating either "Connection timed out" or "Connection refused."
PM56026 Fixes a ClearCase installation problem where installing ClearCase with CM Server fails on zSeries Linux SUSE 10 platforms with the following error message: "Conflict detected on port 12880." During the installation, the IBM Install Manager attempts to start CM Server twice, thus the associated ports are in use and the second attempt fails with the reported error.
PM56362 Fixes a ClearCase problem where Project Explorer becomes unresponsive when multiple error messages are displayed during baseline creation.
PM56891 Fixes a ClearCase Scheduler problem encountered on Solaris 10 platforms where running the scheduled job 'cleanlogs.sh' in a non-global zone configuration produces the following error message: "mvfslog: Error: Unable to set log info: Not owner."
PM56988 Fixes a ClearCase problem encountered on multiple UNIX platforms where ClearCase VOBs fail to mount and the mntrpc_server_log contains the following error message: "Error: An error occurred mounting".
PM56994 Fixes a problem encountered when the ClearTeam Explorer is run from a setview context on Linux platforms. Under these conditions, the 'Show History' and 'Show Version Tree' operations fail silently.
PM57276 Resolves a ClearCase MultiSite issue where attempting to perform an 'Add to Source Control' operation fails silently if the user is trying to create the element in a replicated VOB.
PM57508 Fixes a ClearCase problem with the CCRC WAN Server where the MBEAN for ClearCase Primary Group was not honored. In the absence of a client setting for ClearCase primary group, the value of this MBEAN is used for all CCRC users accessing this server. A client setting takes precedence over this MBEAN value.
PM57892 Fixes a problem in the ClearCase Remote Client UCM integration with ClearQuest where ClearQuest users who upgraded their version of the ClearQuest Web client received a NULLPointerException and were unable to view change set information if there was no active view on the target stream.
PM58408 Fixes a ClearCase MVFS problem on HP_UX platforms where a memory leak causes builds to eventually fail.
RATLC01337421 Corrects a defect in ClearCase where running a "cleartool lstype" command produces an error and terminates the listing if the command is run in a VOB with an AdminVOB hyperlink when the AdminVOB is unavailable or run in a MultiSite environment where the AdminVOB is out of sync with the child VOB. This fix changes the behavior so that if an error occurs due to the AdminVOB, the command now lists all of the local type information.
RATLC01341539 Addresses an issue in the ClearTeam Explorer where the default process of creating a dynamic view cannot be completed unless the user modifies the config spec.

Fix Pack 1 (8.0.0.1)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PK87432 Resolves a ClearCase issue in the ClearTeam Explorer Command Line Interface where an exclamation point character is interpreted incorrectly when it is used in a login password
PK91581 Fixes a problem with rcleartool lsview command displays an error when the specified view is not owned or created by the user
PK97793 Addresses a ClearCase MVFS issue where a user applies a defect fix and processes hang for several minutes because of RPC calls to the VOB and view servers as MVFS attempts a close process
PM07212 Fixes a a ClearCase problem in the ClearTeam Explorer Command Line Interface with 'rcleartool lsview': when listing a view with many files, the command times out after 60 minutes
PM08225 Corrects errors in the ClearCase documentation about the obsolete_rgy_entries file
PM08320 Corrects errors in ClearCase documentation concerning backup and upgrade procedures
PM08374 Fixes a ClearCase problem in the ClearTeam Explorer Command Line Interface where the 'rcleartool lsco' command reported incorrect user names in output on a file that is checked out
PM15369 Fixes a ClearCase MVFS problem on Windows platforms where the system crashes intermittently when performing a clearmake build in a dynamic view.
PM16277 Addresses a ClearCase MultiSite performance issue on UNIX platforms where a "multitool mkreplica -import" process attempts to reset cleartext permissions on files that do not exist
PM16892 Fixes a ClearCase MultiSite problem where mkhlink incorrectly created administrative VOB hyperlinks to non-mastered objects
PM17289 Fixes a problem where CTE was not displaying the "Chinese character" in Naming service correctly for element/version creator information
PM20112 Addresses a ClearCase issue where logging into ClearQuest from the ClearTeam Explorer used an additional license for an admin session that was not always needed and was not properly released
PM20136 Fixes a ClearCase problem in the ClearTeam Explorer Command Line Interface where 'rcleartool mkelem' failed to update the parent directory of the new elements
PM23354 Fixes a problem in the ClearCase UCM integration with ClearQuest on Linux systems where multiple cqintsvr_main processes consume multiple ClearQuest licenses
PM24637 Fixes a ClearCase Credmap server problem where, under very heavy load conditions, db_server processes die with a SEGV
PM28616 Fixes a ClearCase problem where copying label type information from an adminVOB to a clientVOB incorrectly opens transactions in both VOBs concurrently
PM29320 Fixes a ClearCase MultiSite problem where a multitool syncreplica import process fails on XDR decoding when the operating system has no available memory
PM29995 Fixes a ClearCase problem in the ClearTeam Explorer where copying and pasting a resource from an Eclipse project that is not under ClearCase source control over another version of the same resource which is under ClearCase source control where the target is hijacked fails
PM30615 Fixes a ClearCase error on Windows 7 clients where executing creds produces a "Can't get group info for current process group SID" error message.
PM30721 Fixes a ClearCase problem on Solaris 8 platforms where the process of scrubbing logs in a branded zone returned the following error: "mvfslog: Error: Unable to set log info: Not owner."
PM31405 Fixes a CCRC problem where, if a user logs into Windows CM Server with mixed case username, checkin operations failed
PM33801 Fixes a problem in the ClearCase integration with ClearQuest where the ClearCase Project explorer crashes with a memory reference error when attempting to open a ClearQuest-enabled UCM stream
PM33853 Addresses a ClearCase UCM issue where canceling a rebase operation in a different view from the one where the rebase was started, when the views do not share a region, does not delete the rebase activity and leaves the original view still set to this activity
PM34898 Fixes a ClearCase problem in the ClearTeam Explorer Command Line Interface where 'rcleartool rmname -force' did not uncatalog elements that had checkouts
PM35456 Fixes a problem where CCRC WAN server cannot handle user logins whose password starts or ends with a space
PM35535 Fixes a ClearCase problem where VOB and View storage on a loopback virtual file system will cause commands such as "cleartool space" to fail
PM35802 Addresses a ClearCase issue where the albd_server does not cleanup all associated sockets when it encounters errors on the creation of a forked process
PM36058 Fixes a ClearCase problem on Windows 7 platforms where running a build process and attempting to make a baseline is fails due to a deadman lock timeout which is possibly caused by a cleartool.exe crash
PM36409 Fixes a ClearCase Scheduler problem where a 'cleartool space -update' command hangs on the Daylight Savings Time transition day
PM36722 Fixes a ClearCase performance problem in ClearTeam Explorer that occurs when a large number of files are added to source control
PM36831 Addresses a ClearCase Team Explorer issue where the value of a Resource Type for a Preprocessor is ignored if it is in the format of a type manager (such as %text_file_delta)
PM37211 Fixes a ClearCase issue on UNIX and Linux platforms where executing nmap against a VOB server while a clearmake build is running causes both the build and server processes to fail
PM38123 Fixes a ClearCase albd_server problem where starting ClearCase can cause an error initiating the registry service which results in a core dump
PM38145 Addresses a ClearCase issue on Windows platforms where error codes are overwritten during the process of logging internal messages so that users may receive a misleading "errno == ‘Bad file descriptor’" value in Raima library error messages
PM38183 Fixes a CearCase problem in the ClearTeam Explorer where performing a "Compare with Predecessor" or "Compare with Another Version" operation on directories that are symlinks produces an error
PM38721 Fixes a ClearCase problem in the ClearTeam Explorer where a deliver operation, in which the contents of the development stream has had a rename operation performed on it, results in an error indicating the renamed object was not recognized as such
PM38965 Addresses a ClearCase issue where the ClearTeam Explorer produces a "Could not initialize class com.ibm.rational.team.client.ui.model.common.ImageManager" error intermittently when performing various operations
PM39043 Fixes a ClearCase problem where db_server prints "Ok" instead of "Error" for many Raima database errors
PM39659 Fixes a ClearCase problem with clearmake -n where, if the build script in a child make is a single line, clearmake appears to ignore the -n option.
PM40042 Fixes a ClearCase performance problem observed on Solaris: using cleartool ls to list a nonexistent version of an (existing) element ran for an unacceptably long time
PM40598 Fixes a ClearCase performance problem on Linux platforms where the ClearTeam Explorer was incorrectly deleting the .copyarea.db file.
PM41203 Fixes a ClearCase Mainframe Connectors problem where typing the option "=x" to escape the menu at ClearCase menu 2.2 causes the TSO client to hang
PM41223 Fixes a problem on AIX where cleartool umount became unresponsive and hung
PM41779 Fixes a ClearCase UCM problem where attempting to rebase a development stream from a foundation on the "INITIAL" baseline of a component to a baseline created in a different project produces the following error: "Internal Error detected in '\atria\lib\sum\sum_stream.cxx' line 605".
PM41833 Addresses a ClearCase documentation issue where the information contained in the rgy_switchover reference page was incomplete
PM42062 Resolves a ClearCase issue where a "cleartool ls" command was incorrectly returning an " Error: Pathname is not within a VOB " message when resolving symlinks
PM42134 Fixes a ClearCase Mainframe Connectors problem where running RCCBUILD when no log directory already exists results in missing log data
PM42345 Fixes a ClearCase problem on Linux Red Hat systems where a VOB shared memory mutex never recovers and database processes loop with a "db_VISTA -926 timed out waiting for lock" error
PM42464 Fixes a ClearCase problem where cleartool operations are querying the license server during database transactions which can cause a deadman lock time-out
PM42563 Fixes a ClearCase problem where the cleartool diff option "-blank_ignore" did not report the differences correctly under certain conditions
PM43171 Fixes a ClearCase problem where the .ccase_svreg file grows without limit on snapshot view updates
PM43420 Fixes a ClearCase issue encountered on UNIX platforms where mntrpc_server does not correctly handle user elevation and demotion when checking VOB storage prior to mount
PM43423 Fixes a ClearCase problem on UNIX platforms where a "cleartool mkattr" with an attribute value of 4230 characters or greater causes a cleartool shell stack corruption and produces a segmentation fault
PM44312 Fixes a problem where ccrc.net was incorrectly performing mass checkout/unco of files after exclude from project
PM44767 Fixes a ClearCase MultiSite problem where performing a "syncreplica -import " fails with an "Error from VOB database" message when attempting to import a rename baseline oplog when modmaster is enabled at the importing replica
PM44878 Fixes a ClearCase problem on Linux RedHat platforms where albd_server registry files stop writing to the permanent registry files when a child process terminates and interrupts the journaling process
PM45298 Fixes a ClearCase MVFS problem where Visual Studio 2005 silently fails to embed the correct manifest when using incremental linking in a dynamic view.
PM45563 Addresses a ClearCase Team Explorer performance issue where "Select all" operations performed on the returned results of a "ClearCase Search" operation are slow and can sometimes make the client unresponsive.
PM45755 Addresses an issue in the ClearCase integration with Visual Studio where the content of .ccexclude files created by the integration differs between Windows 7 and Windows XP systems.
PM46236 Fixes a problem in ClearCase Project Explorer, where creating a composite baseline could cause the application to crash with the error "MFC application has stopped working."
PM46288 Fixes a ClearCase MultiSite problem with type-creation operations where -global -acquire does not propagate the changed globalness flag of acquired types
PM46419 Fixes a ClearCase MultiSite problem where ClearCase operations (such as describe and lsepoch) fail with a time out error when mkreplica -export is running
PM46585 Fixes a ClearCase Mainframe Connectors problem where synchronizing ClearCase element versions from zOS to AIX converts some special Chinese characters, such as "$", into double question marks ("??").
PM46621 Fixes a ClearCase problem where the ClearTeam Explorer version tree showed the wrong version of an element when an unloaded version was opened
PM46724 Fixes a problem where, when clearaudit is used to audit non-clearmake builds, cleartool catcr prints the versioned derived object ID twice
PM46876 Fixes a CCRC problem where "Automatically check for view updates" failed to run
PM47364 Fixes a ClearCase problem where rebasing a very long list of baselines in the ClearCase Project Explorer causes the application to crash
PM47434 Addresses a ClearCase licensing issue where users who have mixed-case UNIX usernames may consume multiple licenses when using ClearCase with Rational Common Licensing in an interop configuration
PM47600 Fixes a problem where, if an admin VOB has a large number of types, creating a hyperlink takes a long time
PM47792 Improves performance of Windows Project Explorer rebase -recommended; performance is now comparable to cleartool rebase performance
PM47994 Address a ClearCase performance issue where db_server loops in usercount() and consumes system resources
PM48088 Fixes a ClearCase problem where post-op triggers on "rebase_complete" fail to populate some ClearCase environment variables
PM48507 Addresses a ClearCase MultiSite performance issue where the process of importing a non-ownership preserving large replica into ClearCase using a "multitool mkreplica -import" command takes a long time to complete.
PM48595 Fixes a ClearCase documentation issue where information related to "mvfsstat" has been removed from the ClearCase information center
PM49260 Fixes a ClearCase problem on Linux platforms where a time delay or a deadlock on /etc/mtab occurs if the VOB is stored on NFS and the underlying NFS storage is not yet mounted
PM49457 Resolves a ClearCase MVFS issue where the MVFS specdev will not unload when ClearCase is stopped if the ODMDIR environment variable is not set
PM49538 Fixes a ClearCase UCM problem in the ClearTeam Explorer where a deliver operation fails when the "Automatically remove integration view's load rules before Deliver" preference setting is enabled
PM50010 Fixes a ClearCase Scheduler problem where using Japanese characters in scheduled job notifications fails with an “Error converting input to Unicode” message.
PM50459 Fixes a problem in the Base ClearCase integration with ClearQuest version 2 where a user attempts to check out multiple files at the same time, but in different directories, through Windows Explorer and receives an error stating that the record "is already being edited by this session."
PM50931 Fixes a ClearCase MultiSite error where a syncreplica import process produces a "Nonsequential oplog ids detected" error even though the oplog exists and is in the correct order
PM51013 Fixes a ClearCase problem in the ClearTeam Explorer where the conversion of a hijacked resource (non-latest version) to a checked out resource after a view update operation checks out an incorrect version of the resource
PM51210 Fixes a ClearCase problem with 'cleartool chtype' which failed when changing an element type with consecutive identical versions
PM51608 Fixes a problem where ClearTeam Explorer did not display all component VOBs in a composite baseline
PM52198 Fixes a ClearCase UCM problem where the 'mkbl ' command created identical composite baselines
PM52601 Fixes a ClearCase UCM problem of excessive memory consumption that was seen when running a sequence of cleartool commands in the interactive shell
PM52652 Fixes a ClearCase UCM problem where moving a project VOB from a Windows VOB server to a Linux VOB server could corrupt change set data
PM53060 Fixes a ClearCase MultiSite problem where syncreplica import skipped replays of mklabel operations
RATLC01338114 Fixes a ClearCase problem in the clearmake utility where clearmake fails to wait and retry when a VOB is locked during a build in a shareable_dos view
RATLC01341024 Fixes a problem with MVFS on AIX, where opening the root of the AFS filesystem caused a panic

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Fix Pack 19 (7.1.2.19)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
-- For details about these security fixes, go to www.ibm.com/support/entry/portal, enter the product, and then when prompted, the base version. On the resulting page, under Product support content, click "Flashes, alerts, and bulletins". Then filter by release and the document type of "Security bulletins".For details about these security fixes, go to www.ibm.com/support/entry/portal, enter the product, and then when prompted, the base version. On the resulting page, under Product support content, click "Flashes, alerts, and bulletins". Then filter by release and the document type of "Security bulletins"

Fix Pack 18 (7.1.2.18)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
-- This is a maintenance release. This fixpack addresses GSKit, Java Runtime, and OpenSSL vulunerabilities. Review the Security Bulletins CVE-2015-0138 (GSKit), CVE-2015-0138 and CVE-2014-6593, CVE-2015-0383, CVE-2015-0410 (Java Runtime), and CVE-2014-3570, CVE-2014-3572, CVE-2015-0204 (OpenSSL) for more information. It also contain fixes for client-reported and internally found defects.

Fix Pack 17 (7.1.2.17)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
-- For details about these security fixes, go to www.ibm.com/support/entry/portal, enter the product, and then when prompted, the base version. On the resulting page, under Product support content, click "Flashes, alerts, and bulletins". Then filter by release and the document type of "Security bulletins".For details about these security fixes, go to www.ibm.com/support/entry/portal, enter the product, and then when prompted, the base version. On the resulting page, under Product support content, click "Flashes, alerts, and bulletins". Then filter by release and the document type of "Security bulletins"

Fix Pack 16 (7.1.2.16)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
This fixpack addresses vulnerability in SSLv3 (that has been referred to as the Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption (POODLE) attack). Review Security bulletin CVE-2014-3566 for more information.

Fix Pack 15 (7.1.2.15)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
This fixpack addresses vulnerability in XML entity expansion. Review Security bulletin CVE-2014-3090 for more information.

Fix Pack 14 (7.1.2.14)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
-- This fixpack addresses vulnerabilities in OpenSSL, XML external entities, GSKit, and Java SSL/CCRC. Review the Security bulletins CVE-2014-0224 and CVE-2014-3470 (OpenSSL), CVE-2014-0931 (XML external entities), CVE-2014-0076 (GSKit), and CVE-2014-0411 (Java SSL/CCRC) for more information.

Interim Fix 1 (7.1.2.13_iFix01)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
-- This interim fix addresses a vulnerability in OpenSSL. Review the Security bulletins CVE-2014-0076 and CVE-2014-0160 for more information.

Fix Pack 13 (7.1.2.13)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
-- This fixpack addresses a vulnerability in Rational ClearCase with potential for privilege escalation. Review the Security bulletins CVE-2013-5415 and CVE-2013-5416, & CVE-2013-4353 and CVE-2013-6450 and CVE-2013-6449 & CVE-2014-0829 & CVE-2013-6747 for more information.
[PI05748 Problem: The IBM Rational ClearCase mvfsstat utility can report an incorrect value for maximum RPC delay time on multi-processor systems.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase has been modified to report the maximum RPC delay time correctly.
PI06133 Problem: While running Rational Clearcase on AIX the customer may experience a system panic with a stack trace that resembles this (the key MVFS function in the trace is mvfs_aix_lookup_component):

CRASH INFORMATION:
CPU 0 CSA F000000030019600 at time of crash, error code for LEDs: 70000000
pvthread+014A00 STACK:
WARNING: bad IAR: 00000000, display stack from LR: 04936EC8
[04936EC8]aix2onc_hold+000048 (F1000A02007C1038 [??])
[005A019C]vnop_hold+00003C (??)
[00014F50].kernel_add_gate_cstack+000030 ()
[049EE98C]nfs3_root+00004C (??, ??)
[04AC1784]aix2onc_root+000044 (??, ??, ??)
[005A5094]vfs_root+000034 (??, ??, ??)
[00014F50].kernel_add_gate_cstack+000030 ()
[F1000000C0376588]mvfs_aix_lookup_component+0002C8 (F1000A0200358050, F0000000300189D0,
F000000030018650, 0000000000000000, 0000000000000000, F1000A0100422C7C)
[F1000000C03D6FF0]mvfs_lookup_ctx+000510 (F1000A01000E3F10, F0000000300189D0,
F000000030018868, 0000000000000000, 0000008200000082, 0000000000000000,
F1000A0100422C7C, 0000000000000000)
[F1000000C03D84B0]mfs_lookup+000050 (F1000A01000E3F10, F0000000300189D0,
F000000030018868, 0000000000000000, 0000008200000082, 0000000000000000,
F1000A0100422C7C)
[F1000000C03EA4E0]mfs_aix_lookup+000080 (F1000A01000E3F10, F0000000300189C8,
F0000000300189D0, 0000000000000082, 0000000000000000, F1000A0100422C7C)
[00014D70].hkey_legacy_gate+00004C ()
[0059F6E4]vnop_lookup+000184 (??, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??)
[005617C4]lookuppn+000A04 (??, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??)
[00561F80]lookupname_internal+0000A0 (??, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??)
[005620A4]lookupname_cur+000024 (??, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??)
[005B7514]statx+0001D4 (??, ??, ??, ??)
[00003850]ovlya_addr_sc_flih_main+000130 ()
[kdb_get_virtual_memory] no real storage @ 2FF07608
[D0131FF4]D0131FF4 ()
[kdb_read_mem] no real storage @ FFFFFFFFFFF5A90

Fix: Rational ClearCase MVFS code was changed to use an AIX kernel interface that avoids the panic.
PI08503 Problem: Users of IBM Rational ClearCase might encounter spurious "File not found" errors during large parallel builds

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase has been modified to no longer return spurious "File not found errors" during builds.
PI09398 Problem: A system on which a parallel audited build is running in IBM Rational ClearCase may hang due to a locking deadlock in the file system.

Fix: The order of locking file system resources when writing audit records during a parallel audited build was modified to avoid a potential deadlock.
PM90878 Problem: Large multiprocessor build servers running HP-UX 11.31 would experience sporadic system crashes during periods of high activity.

Fix: Locking around the vnode reference count in the IBM Rational ClearCase Multi Version File System (MVFS) was corrected, to prevent race conditions between threads deactivating and reactivating the same file object.
PM90880 Problem: When stopping IBM Rational ClearCase services on an HP-UX system which had been running a substantial load, it was possible to receive errors unmounting some VOBs, and that in turn prevented successful unmount of the viewroot.

Fix: Changes were made in the ClearCase Multi Version File System (MVFS) file inactivation code to correctly release all resources on the last close of a file which had been opened by multiple processes.
PM95740 Problem: Processes could hang if they attempted to access a file in the IBM Rational ClearCase Multi-Version File System that was in the process of being deleted.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase has been modified to eliminate a race condition so that processes will not hang while accessing files that are in the process of being deleted.
PI05748 Problem: The IBM Rational ClearCase mvfsstat utility can report an incorrect value for maximum RPC delay time on multi-processor systems.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase has been modified to report the maximum RPC delay time correctly.
PI07723 Problem: IBM Rational ClearCase users might encounter STOP errors when using Cygwin version 1.7.25 or 1.7.26 inside a dynamic view.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase has been modified to eliminate the STOP errors when using Cygwin in a dynamic view.
PI09606 Problem: During Rational ClearCase builds customers may experience a system crash due to a race condition.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase MVFS has been modified to avoid this system crash.
PI09946 Problem: Rational ClearCase Clearmake may cause BSOD.

Fix: Memory management was corrected and resolves this issue.
PI11080 Problem: During Rational ClearCase builds customers may experience a system crash due to a race condition.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase MVFS has been modified to avoid this system crash.
PI11919 Problem: During Rational ClearCase builds customers may experience a system crash due to a race condition.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase MVFS has been modified to avoid this system crash.
PK67686 Problem: Applications running in a ClearCase dynamic view context cannot make TCP calls on systems running Microsoft Windows(R) Vista or later operating systems.

Fix: Applications running in a ClearCase dynamic view can now make TCP calls correctly.
PM13349 Problem: Executing a program out of an IBM Rational ClearCase Versioned Object Base (VOB) can cause a system panic on a Microsoft Windows(R) system if certain anti-virus programs are enabled.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase has been modified to work properly in the presence of anti-virus software.
PM18005 Problem: IBM Rational ClearCase builds on Microsoft Windows(R) XP systems will not always list executable programs created as derived objects in the audit files for subsequent steps in the build.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase will now list executable files created as derived objects in audit files.
PM18831 Problem: When you execute a program that is stored as a view private file in a dynamic view in IBM Rational ClearCase on Microsoft Windows(R) 7 the task manager may list the name of the program as the name of the cleartext file in the view storage directory and not the name of the executable.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase will now cause the task manager to display the name of an executable file properly.
PM35859 Problem: A system panic could occur on Microsoft Windows(R) 7 systems running java under IBM Rational Clearcase.

Fix: The Multi Version File System (MVFS) of IBM Rational ClearCase has been modified to prevent these system panics.
PM68899 Problem: IBM Rational ClearCase users might sometimes encounter STOP errors when making large builds using dynamic views on Microsoft Windows(R) platforms

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase has been modified to prevent STOP errors while doing large builds.
PM75360 Problem: The Perl stat() function performs slowly when accessing files in remote dynamic views under IBM Rational ClearCase.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase has been modified so that the stat() function in perl will perform better.
PM76839 Problem: Setting the Registry Key MvfsViewAttachMup can cause IBM Rational ClearCase users to receive permission denied errors when using robocopy.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase has been modified so that the MvfsViewAttachMup is no longer needed and robocopy now works correctly.
PM84238 Problem: A Micorosoft Windows(R) system running IBM Rational ClearCase and Symantec Endpoint Protection can encounter a system panic when moving a file from a local disk into a dynamic view.

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase has been modifies so that Symantic Endpoint Protection will no longer cause a system panic moving files into a dynamic view.
PM87962 Problem: If Microsoft Security Client is installed on an IBM Rational ClearCase client system, running an executable which was winked in during the build process can cause a Windows STOP error.

Fix: The ClearCase Multi Version File System (MVFS) has been modified to be compatible with Microsoft Security Client.
PM88679 Problem: When Symantec 12.1.2.x is installed on a Microsoft(R) Windows system running the IBM Rational ClearCase client, applications which write to a temporary file in a scratch directory could trigger a Windows STOP error when that temporary file is renamed as a view-private file.

Fix: The MVFS filesystem has been updated to be compatible with the filter drivers in Symantec 12.1.x.
PM90121 Problem: IBM Rational Clearcase on Microsoft Windows 7 may encounter a system hang when performing parallel builds within a dynamic view

Fix: The IBM Rational Clearcase Multi-Version File System code has been modified to alleviate hangs during parallel builds.
PM90880 Problem: When stopping IBM Rational ClearCase services on an HP-UX system which had been running a substantial load, it was possible to receive errors unmounting some VOBs, and that in turn prevented successful unmount of the viewroot.

Fix: Changes were made in the ClearCase Multi Version File System (MVFS) file inactivation code to correctly release all resources on the last close of a file which had been opened by multiple processes.
PM99147 Problem: IBM Rational ClearCase users would enounter occasional system panics during large builds on Microsoft Windows(R) systems

Fix: IBM Rational ClearCase has been modified to prevent system panics during large builds on Microsoft Windows(R) systems.


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