Tuesday, May 6, 2008

New Features in IBM Rational ClearQuest 7.0

New Features in CQ 7.0

    1. Platform-independent client
    2. Enhancements to existing clients
    3. Enhancements to Rational Web Platform
    4. Rational ClearQuest Test Manager
    5. Deployment tracking packages
    6. This release includes a Deployment tracking feature, which enables you to use Rational CC and CQ to track software assets in your specific software testing environment throughout the deployment lifecycle. Highlights of deployment tracking,

      . Rational CC deployment units that track which versioned artifacts in your VOB are being deployed

      . Rational CQ deployment tracking records that implement a role-based approval process for your deployment

      . Traceability between build artifacts and deployment records which provides audit trails for your artifacts that satisfy regulatory compliance requirement

                    Three new packages enable deployment tracking: 

                   . DeploymentTracking

                   . BuildTracking

                   . IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager

          f. Enhancements to Record ID limitation

      In previous release, the maximum number of database records IDs was approximately 16 million. For stateless records, the new limit is approximately 2 billion, for stateful records, it is approximately 100 million.

    g.      SSL support for LDAP authentication
    h.      Rational ClearQuest Web request manager recycling
    i.      Rational ClearQuest Diagnostics utility
    j.      Extended code page support



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