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Pravin Patil
(104●1●46●134) Mar 04 '15, 2:14 a.m.
We have an existing system in place for defect and change management. Is it possible to make RTC point to this database so that the existing defects, change requests, can be used via RTC? And terminate the existing system?

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Abraham Sweiss
Mar 04 '15, 9:35 a.m.

Hi pravin,
Please provide details of the old defect tracking system and the version of RTC

Pravin Patil
Mar 05 '15, 12:13 a.m.

 Hi Abraham, the old defect tracking system is "Merant Tracker". All the defects and Change Requests from this system are to be migrated to RTC.

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Geoffrey Clemm
FORUM ADMINISTRATOR / FORUM MODERATOR / JAZZ DEVELOPER (30.1k●3●30●35) Mar 05 '15, 12:24 a.m.
You would need to export the defect and change request records from the old defect tracking system, and then use a script to massage the resulting file into the CSV (common separated value) format that RTC can import.  For details on this format, search for "importing work items" in your RTC on-line help.  For example, in 5.0:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSCP65_5.0.0/com.ibm.team.workitem.doc/topics/t_importing_work_items_csv_file.html?cp=SSCP65_5.0.0

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Abraham Sweiss
(2.4k●13●31) Mar 05 '15, 10:06 a.m.
Hi pravin,
Short answer.  No, RTC can not point to the other defect database.

There are possibly two options in addition to Geoffrey's
1. See if there is a third party tool that will sync the two repos
2. Create an application using the API from both RTC and merrit to sync the repos


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