Here is some background info for the CC Bridge and the SCM Adapter.

The CC Bridge supports two GUI's: the CCRC GUI and the SCM Adapter GUI
(CCRC for web views, and the SCM Adapter for snapshot and dynamic views).

The MVFS plugin is packaged with the SCM Adapter plugin, but only the
SCM Adapter plugin is required for use of the CC Bridge.

You currently need to to use the 7.5.0.beta SCM Adapter:

http://www3.software.ibm.com/ibmdl/pub/software/rationalsdp/clearcase/75Beta/update/windows/

http://www3.software.ibm.com/ibmdl/pub/software/rationalsdp/clearcase/75Beta/update/unix/

This beta of the SCM Adapter will be officially released as version
7.5.0.v201102110950 with the next release of "Constellation" (version
8.0.2 of the Rational desktop products, coming out soon).

Note that there are no CC Bridge changes between the 7.5.0.beta and the
7.5.0.v201102110950 of the SCM Adapter, so the beta version provides all
the CC Bridge support that the final release will have.

To get Bridge support for base (non-UCM) ClearCase, you need at least
CC-7.2 for the CCRC and at least CC-7.0.1 for the SCM Adapter.

Answers to Fredrik's specific questions below:

On 2/24/2011 1:53 PM, fredrikg wrote:

I'm trying to install the ClearCase SCM Adapter that offers bridge
support using dynamic views as of RTC 3.0.

I've learnt that the ClearCase SCM Adapter 7.5
(http://www3.software.ibm.com/ibmdl/pub/software/rationalsdp/clearcase/60/update/windows/)
has a newer version called 7.5 Beta (!)
(http://www3.software.ibm.com/ibmdl/pub/software/rationalsdp/clearcase/75Beta/update/windows/)
that must be used to have this working.

When installing on a fresh RTC 3.0 installation, I only get the
ClearCase SCM Adapter. I'm missing the ClearCase MVFS Support that
used to be there in the 7.5 version so I've proceeded to install only
that using the 7.5 installation area.

The SCM Adapter plug-in is all you need for the CC Bridge. There was no
need to install the ClearCase MVFS plugin (but it shouldn't do any harm).

So my configuration is:
RTC 3.0
ClearCase SCM Adapter 7.5 Beta
ClearCase MVFS Support 7.5
ClearCase 7.1.2

That looks fine. The only difference with what I have been using is
that I didn't bother installing the MVFS Support plug-in, so if things
are acting strangely, you might want to configure your Eclipse without
the MVFS Support plug-in, just to check.

When setting a current work item in RTC and checking out/in a file I
expect a ClearCase version link to be created for that WI, but in my
case no link is created and no error message either.

Note that auto-assocation at checkout between a version and the current
work item only applies to Base (not-UCM) ClearCase, so make sure you are
working in a Base ClearCase context.

For a UCM context, the auto-association is between a CC activity and the
current work item, and it occurs when the CC activity is created.

When trying to manually create this association using the
Team->Associate Work Items ... a
pop-up window appear stating:

Information
The chosen operation is not enabled.
After this the Associate Work Items ...
link is greyed out.
How do I proceed?

That probably means that you are working in the package or project
explorer on a project in a UCM view. You cannot perform
Team->Associate_Work_Items in a UCM view ... you must be in a non-UCM view.

By using a beta version of the ClearCase SCM Adapter, is the bridge
using dynamic views in RTC 3.0 supported?

Yes.

I was also trying to read up on the difference between ClearCase
7.1.1.2 and 7.1.2 regarding bridge support but couldn't find any
details. If anyone has more information on what functionality doesn't
work when using 7.1.1.2 it would be helpful.

See the intro above for the general version requirements for the CC
Bridge. Since you are using the CC Adapter, CC version 7.0.1 and later
are fine.

Cheers,
Geoff

I checked, and the version number of the 7.5 Beta is not the cause of
the IM problem, but there are some constraints on how you install the
SCM Adapter plug-in if you have a previous version of the SCM Adapter
already installed. I'm working with the developer in charge of the SCM
Adapter to determine what exactly those constraints are (will post a
follow-up when I have the details). I personally used "Help -> Install
New Software" to install my version of the 7.5 Beta into an IM-installed
RTC-3.0 Eclipse client.

And yes, I meant "CC-7.1.2", not "CC-7.2" as the version of ClearCase
you need to use for base (non-UCM) ClearCase support in CCRC.

Cheers,
Geoff

On 2/28/2011 4:22 PM, fredrikg wrote:

Thanks Geoff,

I got it to work now when installing from the zip-file distribution
and then adding ClearCase SCM Adapter 7.5 Beta via Eclipse install.
What messed it up was that I tried to use the Installation Manager,
and I believe that it was traces from earlier (or current/parallel)
installations that remained in the IM shared folder that prevented
the ClearCase SCM Adapter to work properly.
I've also verified by using a clean installation of IM (no other IBM
applications installed) and then installed RTC 3.0/ClearCase SCM
Adapter, and then it works fine.
Could it be that IM gets confused about the ClearCase SCM Adapter
version number?

More comments/questions below:

gmclemmwrote:
The MVFS plugin is packaged with the SCM Adapter plugin, but only the

SCM Adapter plugin is required for use of the CC Bridge.


Thanks, and yes, I've now verified that the ClearCase SCM Adapter 7.5
Beta has merged in the MVFS Support.

gmclemmwrote:
This beta of the SCM Adapter will be officially released as version
7.5.0.v201102110950 with the next release of
"Constellation" (version
8.0.2 of the Rational desktop products, coming out soon).


Regarding the ClearCase SCM Adapter version naming I would like to
suggest that the next release use a later version than 7.5.0.
If it's released as 7.5.0 we would have an old 7.5.0 official release,
a 7.5.0 beta release and a new 7.5.0 official release.
I believe 7.5.1, 7.6.0 or 8.0.0 would fit better depending on the
change actually introduced since the first 7.5.0 official release.

gmclemmwrote:
To get Bridge support for base (non-UCM) ClearCase, you need at least

CC-7.2 for the CCRC and at least CC-7.0.1 for the SCM Adapter.


Do you mean ClearCase 7.1.2 for CCRC?

gmclemmwrote:

When trying to manually create this association
using the
Team->Associate Work Items ... a pop-up window appear stating:

Information
The chosen operation is not enabled.

After this the Associate Work Items ...
link is greyed out.
How do I proceed?

That probably means that you are working in the package or project
explorer on a project in a UCM view. You cannot perform
Team->Associate_Work_Items in a UCM view ... you must be in a
non-UCM view.

No, this was not within a UCM context (view or VOB). I used the same
setup after reinstalling RTC 3.0 from a zip-file and then it worked
fine so it must have to do with the IM install problems.

Thanks
Fredrik