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Status Future consideration
Categories Source Control
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 7, 2021

Spilit "Require Workspaces to Be Caught Up Before Delivery" preconditon

Stream and workspace two distinct concepts/objects in RTC.
Streams are long lived and where as workspaces are short lived used by each developer for personal work which is delivered to team stream.

The existing precondition "Require Workspaces to Be Caught Up Before Delivery" is producing misleading error message, IBM have already acknowledged it and created APAR PH37905, for more details refer to work item link, https://jazz.net/jazz/web/projects/Rational%20Team%20Concert#action=com.ibm.team.workitem.viewWorkItem&id=535736.

The existing pre-condition "Require flow targets to be caught up..." should be split up (because it affects both workspaces and streams)
with following names for clear distinction between the concept of "stream" and "workspace". streams are long lived objects relative to workspaces which are temporary and disposable objects.

a) Require Workspaces to Be Caught Up Before Delivery (this covers user case for workspace to stream) -> similar to IBM ClearCase UCM pre-condition "Rebase before delivery" as shown on attachment
b) Require Stream to Be Caught Up Before Delivery (this covers user case for stream to stream)

Related defect:
https://jazz.net/jazz/web/projects/Rational%20Team%20Concert#action=com.ibm.team.workitem.viewWorkItem&id=535736.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Jun 16, 2021

    - The EWM RFE Review board looked at this and decided to keep it on the Backlog as an uncommitted candidate for a future release.

  • Guest
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    Jun 7, 2021

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