About DevOps Code ClearCase activities and record types enabled for UCM
A record type enabled for UCM is a template for Rational® ClearQuest® records. It includes definitions for a set of fields that store information about DevOps Code ClearCase® activities. Your Rational ClearQuest user database may include different record types enabled for UCM for different purposes (such as tracking defects and enhancement requests), and it may include other record types that are not enabled for UCM.
In a project that uses the UCM integration with Rational ClearQuest, records based on a record type enabled for UCM can be linked with DevOps Code ClearCase activity objects.
This link enables the Rational ClearQuest client to display information about the DevOps Code ClearCase activity (such as its change set, its stream, and whether it is currently set in any view). The link also enables policies governing when you can deliver an activity in the DevOps Code ClearCase environment and when you can close an activity in the Rational ClearQuest environment. Because of the close association between linked UCM-enabled records and DevOps Code ClearCase activities, the UCM documentation usually refers to both entities as activities.
At any point in a project, your Rational ClearQuest user database may contain records that are not linked to a DevOps Code ClearCase activity object, but have a record type that is enabled for UCM. For example, a newly created record might not be linked to a DevOps Code ClearCase activity. You must explicitly complete an action (for example, by clicking ) to link such a record to a UCM activity.
However, each DevOps Code ClearCase activity object in a project enabled for Rational ClearQuest must be linked to a Rational ClearQuest record. You cannot create a DevOps Code ClearCase activity object without linking it to a record in a Rational ClearQuest user database.