Preventive Service Planning
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Effective with this and later versions of IBM Rational ClearCase and IBM Rational ClearQuest, the aforementioned products no longer support certain operating system versions, product components, and integrations. Platform support in older releases is not affected by this statement.
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Support for these items is discontinued for the aforementioned Rational products to which the technology is applicable (unless otherwise stated).
Refer to the system requirements documents published for each of these products for further support details:
Rational ClearCase System Requirements
Rational ClearQuest System Requirements
Rational ClearCase and Rational ClearQuest platform support aims to align as closely as possible with vendor support dates. That support can vary from this strategy due to critical customer needs for building and deploying their own applications, limited adoption by the marketplace, the availability of security fixes, or for other reasons.
Regarding support for client user interfaces:
- Rational ClearCase is focused on continued first-class support for a single client GUI, ClearTeam Explorer, and the command line interfaces cleartool and rcleartool.
- Rational ClearQuest is focused on continued first-class support for the browser-based ClearQuest Web client and the ClearQuest Designer rich client.
Older interfaces might not be enhanced to support new product features and might over time be deprecated and removed from support. It is our intent that such deprecation occurs only in a major release and with at least a month advance notice; and in some cases, only when newer interfaces achieve sufficient parity with older interfaces to justify the deprecation.
When an issue is caused by a version of an operating system, filer, IDE, or other technology that is no longer supported by the vendor on the date of release of any major version of ClearCase or ClearQuest, IBM Rational might ask customers to upgrade the version of the operating system, filer, IDE or other technology to resolve the issue.
Operating System discontinuance for ClearCase:
| Product | Version | Comments |
| Microsoft Windows | 7 SP1 | All platforms and editions |
| 8 | All platforms and editions | |
| 8.1 | All platforms and editions | |
| 10 | 32-bit user space only on all platforms and editions | |
| 2008 R2 | All platforms and editions | |
| 2012 | All platforms and editions | |
| 2012 R2 | All platforms and editions | |
| 2016 | 32-bit user space only on all platforms and editions | |
| 2019 | 32-bit user space only on all platforms and editions | |
| RHEL | 6 | All updates and all platforms |
| 7 | All updates and all platforms | |
| 7.1 | All updates and all platforms | |
| 7.2 | All updates on s/390 and ppc64 (Power BE) | |
| SLES/SLED | 11 | All updates on all platforms |
| 12 | All updates on s/390 only | |
| Ubuntu | 14.04 | All updates, all platforms |
| 16.04 | All updates, all platforms | |
| 18.04 | All updates, all platforms | |
| Solaris (SPARC) | 10 Update 9 | All updates, all platforms, all zones |
| 11 | All updates, all platforms, all zones | |
| Solaris (x86-64) | 10 Update 9 | All updates, all platforms, all zones |
| 11 | All updates, all platforms, all zones | |
| HP-UX (IA 64) | 11 iv2 (11.23) | All patches |
| AIX | 6.1 TL7+ | All updates, all platforms |
| 7.1 TL3+ | All updates, all platforms | |
| 7.2 | All updates, all platforms |
Installation Manager discontinuance for ClearCase:
| Product | Version | Comments |
| IBM Installation Manager | 1.8.2 | No longer supported by IM |
| 1.8.6 | No longer supported by IM. ClearCase and ClearQuest continue to support IM 1.8.6. You can continue to run IM 1.8.6 if it is downloaded already. |
Virtualization discontinuance for ClearCase:
| Product | Version | Comments |
| KVM in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) | 11 | No longer supporting SUSE 11 |
| MicroSoft Hyper-V Server | 2012 | No longer supporting Windows 2012 or Windows 8.1 |
| RH KVM support in RHEL | 6 | No longer supporting RHEL 6 |
| RHEV | 6 | No longer supporting RHEL 6 |
| VMWare ESXi | 5.0 |
Licensing discontinuance for ClearCase:
| Product | Version | Comments |
| Rational License Key Server | 8.1.3 | All fix packs |
| 8.1.5 | All fix packs |
Asset Management discontinuance for ClearCase:
| Product | Version | Comments |
| Rational Asset Manager Enterprise Edition | 7.5.2 | All fix packs |
| Rational Asset Manager Standard Edition | 7.5.2 | All fix packs |
Integration discontinuance for ClearCase:
| Product | Version | Comments |
| Cadence Design Framework | 6.1.6 | All fix packs |
| IBM Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management | 5.0 | All fix packs |
| 6.0 | All fix packs | |
| Microsoft Office | 2013 | All fix packs |
| 2016 | All fix packs | |
| Microsoft Visual Studio | 2013 | All fix packs |
| 2015 | All fix packs | |
| Rational App Developer for Websphere Software | 9.0 – 9.6.1.0 | 9.6.1.1 and fix packs are supported |
| Rational Build Forge | 8.0 | All fix packs |
| Rational Modeling for Microsoft .Net | 7.5.5.4 | All fix packs |
| Rational Modeling for Communications Applications (chargeable component) | 7.5.5.1 | All fix packs |
| Rational Software Architect Extension for Communications Applications | 7.5.5 | All fix packs |
| Rational Software Architect | 9.0 – 9.7.0.1 | All fix packs |
| Rational Software Architect for Websphere Software | 9.0 – 9.7.0.1 | All fix packs |
| Rational Software Architect Realtime Edition | 9.0 | All fix packs |
| Rational Software Modeler | 7.5.5 | All fix packs |
| Rational Systems Developer | 7.0.5 | All fix packs |
| Rational Team Concert | 5.0 | All fix packs |
| 6.0 | All fix packs | |
| Sybase Power Builder | 12.5 | All fix packs |
Eclipse discontinuance for ClearCase:
| Product | Version | Comments |
| Eclipse | 4.4 | All fix packs |
| 4.5 | All fix packs |
File Server Discontinuance for ClearCase:
| Product | Version | Comments |
| Samba | 4.0.7 | |
| 4.1.0 | ||
| 4.2.0 | ||
| 4.3.0 | ||
| 4.4.0 | ||
| 4.5.0 | ||
| 4.6.0 |
Java SDK Discontinuance for ClearCase:
| Product | Version | Comments |
| IBM Runtime Environment, Java Technology Edition | 7.0 | All fix packs |
Requirements Management discontinuance for ClearCase:
| Product | Version | Comments |
| Rational DOORS | 9.6 | All fix packs |
Terminal Services discontinuance for ClearCase:
| Product | Version | Comments |
| Citrix XenApp | 6.0 | All fix packs |
| 6.5 | All fix packs |
Product Components discontinuance for ClearCase:
| Product | Version | Comments |
| Base CC/CQ Integration | All | All fix packs |
| z/OS Extension for ClearCase | All | All fix packs |
| CTE on MacOS | All | All fix packs |
Operating System discontinuance for ClearQuest:
| Product | Version | Comments |
| Microsoft Windows | 7 SP1 | All updates, All editions |
| 8 | All updates, All editions | |
| 8.1 | All updates, All editions | |
| 10 | 32-bit only | |
| 2008 R2 | All updates, All editions | |
| 2012 | All updates, All editions | |
| 2012 R2 | All updates, All editions | |
| RHEL | 5 | 5.7 – 5.11 |
| 6 | All updates, All editions | |
| 7 | 7.0 - 7.1 | |
| AIX | All | All editions |
| Solaris SPARC | All | All editions |
Database discontinuance for ClearQuest:
| Product | Version | Comments |
| DB2 | 10.1 | |
| 10.5 | ||
| 11.1 | ||
| SQL Server | 2008 R2 | All updates, All editions |
| 2012 | All updates, All editions | |
| 2014 | All updates, All editions | |
| 2016 | All updates, All editions | |
| Oracle | 11g | |
| 12cR1 |
Product Components discontinued from ClearQuest:
| Product | Comments |
| Crystal Reports | Replaced by BIRT Reporting |
| CQTOOL | |
| Email Reader |
IBM Software Support Lifecycle
It is the intent of IBM Rational to support each product release for five years beginning at the date the product is made available for purchase (general availability date) and to provide maintenance support during that period. For more information, refer to the IBM Software Support Lifecycle page.
All statements regarding IBM Rational's Software Support Lifecycle are subject to change or withdrawal without notice. Product plans or features referenced in this document can change at any time at IBM's sole discretion based on market opportunities or other factors, and are not intended to be a commitment to future product or feature availability in any way. All statements regarding IBM future direction or intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice and represent goals and objectives only. All information is provided on an "as is" basis, without any warranty of any kind.
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12 July 2022
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