WID+ClearCase (Killer Combination)

Yes exactly its a Killer Combination WID+Clearcase (WebSphere Integeration Developer+ClearCase). It can easily take away all of your development time by making some wild assumptions !!!!. I think when these guys get togther they have AI (Artifical Inteligence) or the Seventh Sense. My God ... no even god can't save you. We have been using this combination WID+Clearcase for the past two years.In a way its good b'coz its good CM(Configuration Management) tool.


For us it started with one fine day, when i started my machine and opened my WID did a clean Build (Alt+p+n). I see hell lot of errors. I got scared b'coz we were in middle of our testing cycle. I started checking am i the culprit. All the error was leading to XSD file. when i opened the file it had .............. I am not adding etc.. dots here guys. Its the dot(.) character i see at the end of the file. Hurray i can find who did this checked in clearcase about the history no one has edited the file from the creation date. I got confused and deleting the unwanted character did Alt+p+n.

Everything was normal. Couple of days gone, the monster returns back this time not only in machine space, couple of other machines too faced but with different files. S...t i had this bug did the same thing and cleaned it. From that day still we are getting this issue. Earlier it was only on XSD file It has grown and it managed to spread to .java, .mon , .bpel, .import, .sca module ...... yes all the project files.

One improvement with the issue, it started adding some other characters other than dot to the file. But it has been consistent it adds only at the last

The only solution for this is to checkout the file delete the character and check in again. we have raised a PMR a longgggggggg back. IBM as usual started asking all the log files and their list of documents. We have provided them but they say they are not able reproduce this.

Hope they never. So the only solution is the above one.

Its weekend guys enjoy.... take a break from work ....