configuration management Questions

I am interested in starting a discussion on how to perform "SCM/CM Assessments".

I would like to develop a plan and set of activities that can help review and assess any existing processes and providing improvement suggestions to the cause. I am not aware of any documents that can give me this insight, and I am looking for a deep set of information to support this cause.

I have a query that works as I expect only on some projects. (This is with Harvest r7.1 using an Oracle 10g database.):

SELECT En.EnvironmentName, ST.Statename,
PF.PathFullName || '\' ||IT.ItemName AS "Pathname",
VR.MappedVersion,
TO_CHAR(VR.CreationTime, 'YYYY/MM/DD HH24:MI:SS') AS "Created",
U.Username as "UserID", U.Realname as "Name"
FROM HarEnvironment EN,
HarState ST,
HarView VW, HarVersionInView VV,
HarVersions VR, HarItems IT,
HarPathFullName PF,
Harallusers U
WHERE IT.ItemType = 1
AND EN.EnvironmentName = 'EMERALD3'
AND ST.Statename in ('Coding','Development')
AND EN.EnvObjId = VW.EnvObjId
AND VW.ViewObjId = VV.ViewObjId
AND ST.ViewObjID = VW.ViewObjId
AND VV.VersionObjId = VR.VersionObjId
AND VR.ItemObjId = IT.ItemObjId
AND IT.ParentObjId = PF.ItemObjId
AND U.Usrobjid = VR.Creatorid
order by EN.Environmentname, VR.CreationTime ;

The intent was to list all file versions in the specified project and states in order of VR.CreationTime. However, it seems to always get zero results when the only versions are the BASE (0) versions. Apparently a project newly baselined from a snapshot will show zero results.

How should I change the query to show these BASE versions now being skipped?

Thanks,
Tom

I'm running windows 7 and i install CA SCM version 12.1 but every time i click on New Broker connection nothing happens. The window never pops up to enter the server information. I've tried using the menu ->connection -> New broker connection but same things happens. I've now reinstalled 4 times any ideas????

I am a IT Compliance Auditor. Can anyone direct me as to where I might find an audit program for both of these CA products?

I need to perform a security health check and assessment for Endeavor and for Harvest.

I have a tool that checks out files and I want to check if there are any parallel versions before doing the actual check out in a workarea (e.g. d:\ccm_wa\test-1\test\dummy.txt) .

The idea I had was to run a query and check for is_hist_leaf().

But before that I need to get a unique "objectname" from the filename to feed to ccm query. I can get attributes from "ccm attr -s filename", but how can I get the unique objectname attribute from a filename?

Best regards
Henrik

Running "si.exe viewproject" in a shell I get the error message

"No MDI GUI window up!"

This happens only with parameter viewproject - other si command are working.

The System is:

MS Windows XP 2002 SP3
MKS Integrity Client 2009 4.10.0.9049, SP 006-01

Any Idea why this happens?

Best Regard, Sebastian.

By iangreen - October 4, 201112 Answers

All.

I was hoping if someone could give me some advise regarding PVCS Tracker which keeps hanging. The issue started around the beginning of the year but wasn't a major issue as only occured maybe once a week or so. Since then however the problem has got gradually worse until now the system hangs maybe 4-5 times per day

We are using PVCS Tracker version 7.1.00 [build 632]

Any help, advise or direction regarding this will be much appreciated.

regards.
Ian.

We are using Telelogic Synergy Release 6.5.4096.

Some users have had repeated problems of Updating a Synergy project, but not getting the latest versions of files, even when no apparent file version conflict exists. For example, a folder with changes in it does not get revised to the next folder version with the new files in it.

The Update hasn't failed (no failed message in the "Messages" window), but the user's copy of the project is still not up-to-date with regard to that folder and its files.

Normally, our method has been to use "Sync Work Area", handle that set of files, then do the "Update" on the project.

It has been suggested that we should do the "Update" first, then the Sync. But, I think, the order doesn't matter because Synergy will not update files that have been changed by the user, for whatever reason.

Any idea of what's going on with the updates?

Is there something simple we should be doing to avoid projects not having current file versions when an update seems to work?

Thanks, Mike

If a project is migrating to a shared COTS/ERP tool, how would CM go about identifying the various computer software components and units of that application?

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