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 variablePMDB_NAME
is set based on the assigned location.