How to delete clearcase views created by other users?
My friend who recently left our organisation also left his ClearCase view undeleted.
Now we wanted to delete it.
I was trying to delete but it did not allow. It said:
Unable to remove "\\hostname\viewsharefolder\Viewname.vws"
Operation not permitted
Can administrator only delete his views?
If I deleted the (.vws) folder associated with view, for ex: "Components_int.vws", will it be enough?
Answer
Yes you can (for any view, snapshot or dynamic, UCM or base ClearCase).
You also can remove it without ever accessing it. (So removing the view storage isn't enough, or even necessary)
If you still have access to the view storage:
cleartool rmview theViewToRemove
If there is any access/right issue when trying to remove said view:
cleartool lsview -l theViewToRemove # get its uuid
cleartool rmtag -view theViewToRemove
cleartool unregister -view -uuid uuid_of_viewToRemove
That second solution is very handy in that you don't need access to the view storage.
You simply remove reference to that view in the central registry of ClearCase (specifically the view_object and view_tag files of your ClearCase registry server)
Tamir Gefen mentions in the comment the IBM script rmview.pl, which is also mention in the SO question "Delete ClearCase Views Script".
A simpler script is in my answer of that same question: "muke_view.pl"