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Jonathan Huestis (1122) | asked Aug 24 '09, 1:05 p.m.
Does RTC 2.0 keep a history of who has accessed files, and when they have accessed them?

I know you can restrict who has access to a project area, as indicated here, but there are teams working under requirements to log every access that is made to files in their source repository.

If this is not a built in option, is it possible to extend RTC with this behavior, and how difficult would that be?

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Geoffrey Clemm (30.1k33035) | answered Aug 25 '09, 12:13 a.m.
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No such access history is kept.

And would this be at the granularity of individual files (i.e. a
download of 20,000 files would generate 20,000 read access records)?
Note that a large portion of these read access records would come from
the continuous build accounts, especially if builds are set to "delete
existing files before downloading".

Cheers,
Geoff

kludgeless wrote:
Does RTC 2.0 keep a history of who has accessed files, and when they
have accessed them?

I know you can restrict who has access to a project area, as indicated
here,
but there are teams working under requirements to log every access
that is made to files in their source repository.

If this is not a built in option, is it possible to extend RTC with
this behavior, and how difficult would that be?

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Jean-Michel Lemieux (2.5k11) | answered Aug 26 '09, 9:03 a.m.
JAZZ DEVELOPER
Yes you can log each file access, but because of the large number of
possible access records, it's off by default.

To learn how to enable, see the following:

https://jazz.net/jazz/web/projects/Rational%20Team%20Concert#action=com.ibm.team.workitem.viewWorkItem&id=63105

Comment 8 has details on what lines to uncomment to activate
this very verbose logging.

Cheers,
Jean-Michel


On 8/25/2009 12:13 AM, Geoffrey Clemm wrote:
No such access history is kept.

And would this be at the granularity of individual files (i.e. a
download of 20,000 files would generate 20,000 read access records)?
Note that a large portion of these read access records would come from
the continuous build accounts, especially if builds are set to "delete
existing files before downloading".

Cheers,
Geoff

kludgeless wrote:
Does RTC 2.0 keep a history of who has accessed files, and when they
have accessed them?

I know you can restrict who has access to a project area, as indicated
here,
but there are teams working under requirements to log every access
that is made to files in their source repository.

If this is not a built in option, is it possible to extend RTC with
this behavior, and how difficult would that be?

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Jonathan Huestis (1122) | answered Aug 26 '09, 2:01 p.m.
Excellent. Thanks for the link!

Yes you can log each file access, but because of the large number of
possible access records, it's off by default.

To learn how to enable, see the following:

https://jazz.net/jazz/web/projects/Rational%20Team%20Concert#action=com.ibm.team.workitem.viewWorkItem&id=63105

Comment 8 has details on what lines to uncomment to activate
this very verbose logging.

Cheers,
Jean-Michel

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