Preparing for Rational Statemate installation : Configuration components : Project management data (PMDB_NAME)

Project management data (PMDB_NAME)

The basic unit of work in Rational Statemate is the project. Project definitions, including the location of shared data, individual workareas, lists of members, and other attributes, are stored in the pm.dat file. To set up individual working environments, all users must write to this file.

Rational Statemate requires the following permissions for pm.dat:

During the installation, you can set the location for pm.dat outside the main Rational Statemate file structure. The environment variable PMDB_NAME is set based on the assigned location.