1.1 Install Clearcase on Windows

As default, you need not to install Clearcase Windows client, because mostly, you will work in the server that running Linux and have installed Clearcase. If you insist to install, you should follow the steps below.

1.  After installed, Navigate to “Control Panel”

2. Modify the settings;

1.2 Using an view on Windows

According the documents provided by Rational, It is easy to create a new view on Windows client, but I got an error message box. I don’t know why.

So, I will describe how to use the existed views which created on Linux to Windows client.

1. Open the menu that implied by the picture below:

2. Check the check-box “View Tags”, we will get all views stored in the server.

3. Select the view which you want to use on Windows, and click button “import…”

4. You might get a error box:

Just click OK, you will be promoted to input Global Storage Path of this view, we can get this from the Linux.

Navigate to you PuTTY, and run command “cleartool lsview <view_name>”, you may get a result like this:

The marked text is the view’s Global Storage Path in Linux style; you must change the path into URL style, such as “\\cdlinn01\viewstg_oss\jeazhao\jeazhao_oss5.1_remote.vws”, and then input it into the text-box.

Now, you can press “OK” to import this view to Windows.

5. Open the Clearcase explorer.

6. In the Clearcase explorer, press Alt+F5 or click the menu in the menu bar to refresh views.

7. Navigate to the tab “Views” and right click in the panel, select “Add new shortcut” in the pop-up menu.

8. Select the properties of the view.

9. OK, switch your current task to Windows Explorer, you might have default Network Drive labeled “view on view (Z :)”.

10. Right click the driver, it will pop up a menu, select “ClearCase”-“Mount VOB”

11. Select the VOBs that you want to retrieve data.

12. Then, you can navigate and modify data on Windows.