Find information about installing and deploying Rational® ClearQuest® client and server software

To plan a Rational® ClearQuest® upgrade, identify prerequisite requirements for hardware and software, choose an upgrade strategy, select Rational ClearQuest features to install, understand how to upgrade Rational ClearQuest server components, and prepare your environment.

Review the upgrade information and complete optional and required tasks for upgrading Rational® ClearQuest®.

After upgrading Rational® ClearQuest® and installing any new components, there are series of tasks to perform both to verify a successful upgrade, and to configure new or upgraded components.

Learn how to administer the Rational® ClearQuest®.

This section discusses how to administer Rational® ClearQuest® Web.

Administering Rational® ClearQuest® Multisite

Rational® ClearQuest® provides a flexible reporting solution to design and test reports with Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) and SAP Crystal reports that are configured with the ClearQuest Reporting Driver. Users can share ClearQuest reports with the Report Launcher for ClearQuest or access reports from Rational Team Concert to facilitate Agile planning.

Rational® ClearQuest® lets you customize your deployment to support data-pull reports with BIRT reporting tools.

You can develop or modify schemas with the Rational® ClearQuest® Designer.

Rational® ClearQuest® Web is a browser-based interface to Rational ClearQuest that runs on Windows, the UNIX system, and Linux. You can track defects and change requests in Rational ClearQuest Web through this interface. When a session times out, you can re-authenticate and continue where you left off because the state of the user interface is retained.

Use the Rational® ClearQuest® Client to submit, modify, and track change requests and to analyze project progress.

Welcome to the Rational® ClearQuest® for Windows® client; the Microsoft™ Windows interface to Rational ClearQuest. You can use Rational ClearQuest to perform daily activities after the schema developer and administrator define and set up the schema, schema repository, and user database.

The application lifecycle management (ALM) packages and ALM schema provide out-of-the-box solutions for ensuring ALM best practices in your new or existing Rational® ClearQuest® change management system.

Collaborative Lifecycle Management integrations provide a common approach to artifact linking, dashboards, security, and user interface frameworks. Cross-product links support traceability, web-like navigation, commenting, and status tracking across project repositories.

You can integrate Rational® ClearQuest® with other software by adding packages to existing schema.

Learn how to use ClearQuest® CM REST API that supports both, OSLC v1 and v2.

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