Version 7.0 of
Rational® ClearQuest® introduces
new features and extends existing ones in these areas:
- New support for storing non-English, non-ASCII data in Rational ClearQuest schema
repositories and user databases on Linux and the UNIX system, as well as extended
support for these features on Windows systems.
- Support for using the product in mixed character-set deployments.
- Localization for additional languages. For details, see National language support in Rational ClearQuest Version 7.0 .
- Extended graphical user interface (GUI) support to configure and use code
pages in the Maintenance Tool, Designer, Export Tool, Package Wizard, and
User Administration Tool.
Beginning in version 7.0, Rational ClearQuest processes
data in Unicode, and its applications use the Rational ClearQuest data
code page to write to its databases. In previous versions, data was processed
using the local character set. Even when the Rational ClearQuest data
code page does not match the local character set, Rational ClearQuest applications
can now connect to the Rational ClearQuest database in read/write mode. In
previous versions, write operations were not allowed unless the local character
set matched the Rational ClearQuest data
code page.
Support for additional code pages
This version of Rational ClearQuest provides
support for additional languages and locales. Specifically, the product now
includes support for the following Microsoft Windows code pages on all supported
platforms:
- 932 (Japanese SJIS)
- 936 (Simplified Chinese)
- 949 (Korean)
- 950 (Traditional Chinese)
- 1250 (Eastern Europe)
- 1251 (Cyrillic)
- 1252 (Latin-1)
- 1253 (Greek)
- 1254 (Turkish)
- 1255 (Hebrew)
- 1257 (Baltic)
- 20127 (ASCII)
In addition, there is also support for safe ShiftJIS. For details
on supported languages and locales, see Supported Rational ClearQuest data code pages and Locales associated with supported Rational ClearQuest data code pages .
New national language support for Linux and the UNIX system
In
this version of Rational ClearQuest,
full national language support has been extended to the Linux and the UNIX
system. In previous versions of the product, only ASCII data could be written
to Rational ClearQuest databases
and schema repositories located on Linux or the UNIX system. This version
allows data using any supported data code page to be written to databases
and repositories on any supported platform.
Extended GUI support
New options are available in
the Rational ClearQuest applications
to:
- Use the Maintenance Tool to set or change the ClearQuest Data
Code Page setting for a schema repository or connection to any
of the 13 supported Rational ClearQuest data
code pages.
- Use the User Administration tool to specify file encoding when exporting
user and group information,
- Use the Designer to create a new user database, selecting from all schemas
defined in the schema repository. Newly created schema repositories that use
data code pages 932 or 60932 (Japanese), or 936 (Simplified Chinese) contain
matching localized versions as well as ASCII versions of every schema included
with Rational ClearQuest.
Other schema repositories contain only ASCII schema versions. Localized schema
version names reflect the language and the package version numbers.
- Use the Package Wizard to install packages in a schema, or use the Package
Upgrade Wizard to upgrade packages in a schema, selecting from a list of the
latest available packages compatible with the Rational ClearQuest data
code page of the schema repository. In a schema repository whose data code
page is 932 or 60932 (Japanese), or 936 (Simplified Chinese), the Wizard displays
the latest matching localized versions and ASCII versions, of every package.
In all other schema repositories, the Wizard displays only ASCII package versions.
- Use the Export tool to select the file encoding when exporting the results
of a query.
- Select the file encoding when exporting a profile.