Schema Repository

Creating a schema repository

A schema repository is a database used to store and manage a group of schemas including all versions of those schemas, and their associated user databases.

Before you create a schema repository, you must create an empty database container with tools provided by the database vendor. For information about configuring vendor databases, see the IBM Rational ClearQuest and ClearQuest MultiSite Installation and Upgrade Guide.

To create a schema repository:

1. Start the Maintenance Tool. Then click Schema Repository > Create.
2. In the Existing Connections pane, enter a name for the schema repository connection in the highlighted item and press Enter.

   By default, the first connection name is 7.0.0. You can rename the connection later.

3. In the Schema Repository Properties area, select a database vendor and enter the required properties. The properties for each database are different.
   • If you select Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle DBMS, or IBM DB2, enter the physical database name of one of the empty databases that you created with the vendor database tools.

     When you create a DB2 schema repository, the User Name property must be a user identity that has database administrator authority for the DB2 database.

   • If you select Microsoft Access, enter a physical database name; the Maintenance Tool creates a new database with that name.
4. Click Next.
5. In the ClearQuest Data Code Page window, select the data code page to use with the new schema repository. You can choose any supported data code page supported by Rational ClearQuest. The default data code page is the one associated with the user-interface language for the operating system on which the Maintenance Tool is running, if that code page is supported. If that code page is not supported, the default data code page is ASCII.
6. You have the option of creating a sample user database.
7. Click Finish.