understand about the "Last Accessed" time stamp in cleartool lsview output

What specific actions update the "Last Accessed" time stamp that is reported when running an IBM® Rational® ClearCase® lsview (with -age, -prop or -full ) command?

It may appear when observing the Last Accessed output produced by cleartool lsview that not all access times are being recorded which is indeed the case.

Actions such as checkin, checkout, cd in to a view, set to a view are not considered by the ClearCase mechanism to be an access of the view.

Only the following actions are recorded:

• Writing a view private object
• Creating a view
• Write or create a derived object
• Wink-in a derived object
• Promote a derived object
• Set a config spec
• Read view private file data

Therefore if you intend to use the Last Access output in a script or some kind of filter you need to consider the above fact.

Change request (RFE) RATLC00700595 has been submitted to allow the cleartool lsview -age command to show last time you change directory into view.

Answer

The decision was made by Product Management to exclude the resolution of this enhancement request from future upgrades and releases due to the significant architectural changes required to implement the solution.