Jenkins Composite baseline with ClearCase

Question

I'm using the jenkins "ClearCase UCM Make baseline composite" plugin and it seems that it checks a dynamic view on different machine (not the relevant one, on the build machine) - Does someone know why? Where does jenkins take this values from?

Another Q : The regular "ClearCase UCM baseline" plugin won't create a composite baseline.. But I read it should be able to do that, can I specify the root component through this plugin somehow?

Thx

Answer 1

The JENKINS/ClearCase UCM Plugin (whose sources are available on GitHub) is only working with snapshot, not dynamic, views:

The plugin will automatically create a snapshot view in a folder named 'view' in the root of the job's workspace.
Snapshot views can - as opposed to dynamic views - be located anywhere, which we exploit to place it inside the job's workspace.
Dynamic Views can only reside on the location where your mvfs is located and that is not inside the workspace.

A composite baseline is automatically created if the stream has a composite component, and composite dependencies have been defined (using that component as the root one) on said stream.
Setting a baseline on that stream should trigger the creation of a composite baseline, without you having to specify the root composite component.