EmailPlus package

The IBM® Rational® ClearQuest® EmailPlus package provides enhanced email notification functions. EmailPlus includes the following support:

• Customizing the content of the message subject and body with boilerplate text
• Including dynamic content in emails in addition to field old or new values
• Including rich content (HTML)
• Providing access to SMTP restricted servers
• Attaching files to email
• Allowing enhanced conditions to construct the rules
• Allowing the self-subscription of users to rule or record notifications
• Enabling enterprise-wide configuration of email notifications, which can be enabled or disabled by users
• Providing performance improvements through queries
• Extending the rules and data displayed through customer-provided extensions

The EmailPlus package is implemented in Perl. Although the package is implemented in Perl, it can be used to enable VBScript-based schemas because packages have their own scripting language defined.

The package can be added to any ClearQuest schema. You can deploy the package in mixed environments to ClearQuest Web or to ClearQuest clients that run on Microsoft Windows, UNIX, or Linux.

The possibility of name conflicts are minimized by prefixing routine names with EMP_ and by prefixing session name values with EMP::. Avoid using names like these to ensure that the package can coexist with other packages in your schema.