The other day I needed to log a couple of ClearCase® licenses. So I dusted my license viewer I wrote back in ‘02. And it worked!

I took a little time to write a couple of lines about it and clear some cobwebs off my web pages. And here it is.

I’m not 100% happy though. The behavior of <msie :download/> object must be dependent on some IE security settings, since it didn’t function the same way on two different computers. And I am too lazy to check why. So I cheated with the example, which doesn’t load any logs whatsoever. Instead I turned the logs into tables.

Update: I have revamped the viewer so it no longer uses the msie:download. See here
If you download it, you use it at your own risk!

Update 2007-11-6: As I have upgraded to ClearCase 7 I found that the $! variable I was checking, is getting set to “Bad file descriptor” regardless of success of the operation. Must be something with the perl version they are distributing with CC 7. I changed that condition, but if you want the old version with normal check, it’s here.