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Administering
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Administering Rational® ClearQuest®
Learn how to administer the Rational® ClearQuest®.
Managing databases
Describes the different types of databases that the administrator can create and manage
Code pages and national language support
Preparing to configure national language support
Configuration considerations

IBM ClearQuest 10.0.9
Overview
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Installing
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Upgrading and migrating
Learn how to upgrade and migrate data for the product.
Administering
Learn how to administer the product.
- Administering Rational® ClearQuest®
  Learn how to administer the Rational® ClearQuest®.
  - Reconfiguring ClearQuest® to use a different JRE
    When you change the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) for Rational® ClearQuest®, you must reconfigure the product to make it work with the new JRE.
  - Managing databases
    Describes the different types of databases that the administrator can create and manage
    - Tools for managing databases
    - Database backup procedures and schedules
    - Vendor databases
    - Schemas and schema repositories
    - User databases
    - Connections and database sets
    - Connection profiles
    - Modifiable master properties
      You can modify several master properties in a Rational® ClearQuest® database set if your account has the Super User privilege.
    - Code pages and national language support
      - About national language support
      - Preparing to configure national language support
        Configuration considerations
        About the Rational® ClearQuest® data code page
        Rational® ClearQuest® integrations and data code pages
        Rational® ClearQuest® integrates with a number of applications. If the application can pass and receive Unicode data, all data passed from Rational ClearQuest is transferred correctly regardless of the local character set or language setting on the client that runs the integration. Rational ClearQuest always verifies that data passed to one of its applications can be stored correctly in the database set.
        MultiSite and the Rational® ClearQuest® data code page value
        Code Pages on the Rational® ClearQuest® Web client
        When using the Rational® ClearQuest® Web client, configure all browsers to use a language compatible with the code page of the Web server operating system.
        Selecting the Rational® ClearQuest® data code page
      - Working with Rational® ClearQuest® data code pages
        After you determine the appropriate Rational® ClearQuest® data code page and create a vendor database instance with the corresponding vendor database character set, you can perform the tasks outlined in this topic.
  - Managing user accounts
    Use the User Administration tool to set up and administer users and user groups. Rational® ClearQuest® stores information about users and user groups in the user database and schema repository.
  - Configuring query limits on result sets
    You can configure query limits on the size of result sets to improve system performance, availability, and scalability.
  - Using LDAP with Rational® ClearQuest®
    Overview of user authentication methods available with Rational® ClearQuest®.
  - Workspace folder permissions overview
    Rational® ClearQuest® uses a role-based access control (RBAC) model for enforcing workspace folder permissions. The workspace folder permissions feature requires that your schema repository and user databases are at feature level 6 or later.
  - Optimistic and pessimistic record locking
    Overview of optimistic and pessimistic locking implementations in Rational® ClearQuest®.
  - Configuring ClearQuest® core logging and tracing
    This section describes how to configure logging and tracing for ClearQuest® core.
- Administering Rational® ClearQuest® Web
  This section discusses how to administer Rational® ClearQuest® Web.
- Administering Rational® ClearQuest® Multisite
  Administering Rational® ClearQuest® Multisite
Reporting
Learn how to generate reports for the product.
Developing
Learn how to develop schemas by using the Rational® ClearQuest® Designer.
Managing change and releases
Learn how to manage change and release in the product.
Integrating
You can integrate Rational® ClearQuest® with other software by adding packages to existing schema.
Extending product function
Learn how to extend the product.
Reference
Review reference information for the product.
Tutorials

Configuration considerations

How you configure and use national language support in Rational® ClearQuest® depends on how you plan to use the product:

Are you configuring Rational® ClearQuest® for the first time, or upgrading an existing installation?
Do you intend to use Rational® ClearQuest® in a mixed character set deployment?
Are you using Rational® ClearQuest® MultiSite?
Are you using Rational® ClearQuest® with another Rational® product integration?
Which Rational® ClearQuest® client application will users access, Rational® ClearQuest® Client or Rational® ClearQuest® Web client?