Migrate change requests from IBM Clear Quest to JIRA..

unknown

Hi All,

I am very new to Jira. Posting my question here to get some help.

We are trying to migrate the content (Defects and Change requests) from IBM Clearquest to Jira. Started doing research with CSV Import. But with this method we are able to migrate defects but unable to do change requests to Jira.

Can anyone pls give me some ideas on the same. Is this possible to migrate Change requests from CQ to Jira using CSV Importor method? 

Thanks

Vishnu

Petter Gonçalves

Hello @[deleted]

Welcome to Atlassian Community!

Analyzing this documentation, I believe that changes requests in IBM ClearQuest are used to track/manage the entire development procedure to perform a specific change in the application, composed of Defects and feature requests. Is it correct?

Per my understanding of the applicable scenario here, it seems that Change requests would be Project versions in JIRA, where you are able to track the progress of defects and feature requests in that version and finally release it to your environment when all its targets are complete.

If that's the case, I recommend you to take a look at the documentation about versions provided above. Basically, you will need to perform two steps:

1 - Manually/Bulk Create your Change requests as versions in JIRA, possibly using JIRA REST API or the own JIRA interface

2 - Map the values of the created fix versions to the issues in the CSV and import it, as described in this documentation:

Importing data from CSV

Alternatively to the option above, you could map your Change requests as a higher hierarchy issue type called Epic in JIRA. If that also works for you, it would be a simpler achievement:

1 - You would import through CSV the Change requests as any other issues, but adding them with Epic issue type

2 - Then, you would import your low-level issues (defects) linked below the Epics (Change requests), by mapping the Epic name field value (From the existing Epic) in the Epic link column of the CSV file when importing the defects.

Additionally, you can check the useful documentation below about migration from IBM ClearQuest to JIRA for further clarification about other functionalities:

- 1.9 Data Migration from ClearQuest

Let me know which options above makes more sense for you and if you have any questions about it.