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  48                         <h3 class="entry-header">Stripmime/Cleardiffmrg/CharacterSetValidation</h3>
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  52   <li>Fixed stripmime</li>
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  54   <li>Worked with Shivdutt regarding the cleardiffmrg problem. Turns out to be a leading "/". Shivdutt fixed UCMCustom.pl</lI>
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  56   <li>Turned off character set validation on p4test for PQA. Have not implemented this on production yet</li>
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  60                               <h2>Stripmime</h2>
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  62 <p>After banging my head against stripmime all day I finally figured it out. It would work from the command line but not from sendmail! It turned out to be the fact that I was not setting output_dir rather deferring to cwd and in the context of sendmail and aliases I guess that won't do. Changed stripmime to call $parser->output_dir ("/tmp"). Ravi needs to test this then we can implement.</p>
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  64 <h2>Cleardiffmrg</h2>
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  66 <p>Tommy Kee was having problems with merging where the cleardiffmrg tool would not come up stating instead that it encountered and error. I had seen this sort of error before at Ameriquest but it was specifically with snapshot views and with views that were tagged with forward slashes (something that mktag allows but cleardiffmrg has a problem with). But here we were dealing with dynamic views and the view tags were with all backslashes (\).</p>
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  68 <p>However, UCMCustom.pl would call cleartool findmerge with a leading forward slash (e.g. /andy\path\to\search). I suspected that this leading slash might be causing the problem and eventual showed that it was indeed the problem. Shivdutt changed UCMCustom.pl to use a leading blackslash.</p>
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  70 <h2>CharacterSetValidation</h2>
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  72 <p>I called IBM/Rational support this morning to raise the priority on this one. The priority has been raised and IBM/Rational is investigating this more fully. Meantime they suggested, as a temporary workaround, to turn off checking of code pages. I've tried this:</p>
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  74 <div class="code"><pre>
  75     $ installutil setdbcodepagetonochecking -dbset 2005.02.00 admin <password>
  76     *********************************************************
  77     Starting test setdbcodepagetonochecking
  78     *********************************************************
  79     Note: setting the code page to 'no checking' can result
  80     in data corruption. Please refer to the ClearQuest Release
  81     Notes for more information.
  82     Successfully set the code page to 'no checking'.
  83
  84     *********************************************************
  85     Exit code 0 for test setdbcodepagetonochecking
  86     *********************************************************
  87 </pre></div>
  88
  89 <p>Note that this does not stop the CharacterSetValidation package from complaining! Turning off the CharacterSetValidation requires a schema change to return FALSE from enable_char_set_validation.</p>
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