Check Files In and Out

Note: Rational Software strongly recommends that you check out files before you edit them. If you do not, you could experience problems when using a shared branch within a dynamic view due to automatic checkout. For more information, see the Automatic Checkout During a Save Operation topic.

To check out files, edit them, and check them in, take the following steps:

  1. In WebSphere Studio, select the files that you want to check out and then take one of the following actions:
  1. In the Check Out Element(s) dialog box, click OK to complete the checkout process and close the dialog box. The file names appear in WebSphere Studio with a checked-out ClearCase decoration next to them.
  2. Edit and save the files within WebSphere Studio.
  3. In WebSphere Studio, select the files do one of the following:
  1. In the ClearCase Check In Element(s) dialog box, click OK.
Note: By default, ClearCase does not check in files that have not changed. To change this behavior, click Advanced and select the Checkin even if identical option in the ClearCase -