Question

I was wondering if sombody has developed a plugin to interface with the "Clearquest" to query/present the defect database via twiki.

I did find plugins for mozila, but couldn't find any references for clearquest. The only note I found was in the "SuccesStories" for "Motorola", where it is mentioned that they have integrated the clearquest with twiki.

Is there anyone who has the "Clearquest/Twiki" integration plugin.??

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-- SrikanthKrishnamachary - 06 May 2008

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Haven't done it, but I would be interessed to see how it works. Here are some ideas / guidelines :

• Without clearcase plugin, a workaround could rely on DatabasePlugin, and the perl db2 driver ( see http://www.ibm.com/software/data/db2/perl/ ) to access the db2 database. However note that this DatabasePlugin provides "select", and some basic "update" feature. You would then be able to print some reports, which seems to be what you need. There used to be some bugs related to the insert/update feature of DatabasePlugin. See the plugin page for details. Consider using a read-only account to access the database, because using DatabasePlugin will allow modification of the Sql code in the topic. If you need to update contents in the database, use the clearcase's API's instead of direct access to the database : see below..
• In order to develop a real clearcase plugin, I suggest clearcase's perl API such as described in http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/4711.html

-- OlivierThompson - 07 Jul 2008