title: Can I Use Rational Clearquest API remotely (with no local client bits)
body: <p><strong>I'm trying to integrate with Clearquest from a remote web tier.</strong>   <strong>The web tier will create a few simple entities (e.g. defects) and query data for a few reports.  This web tier can't have the Clearquest bits installed locally and needs a means to remotely drive the product or API.</strong></p>
  
  <p>In reading the Clearquest API documentation, they have a COM API (seeminly requires the full client be installed locally), ODBC (direct back end access), and some mention of OSLC adapters (expose most of the API via open source RESTful interface), which I presume also requires the full Clearquest client installed locally.    </p>
  
  <p>Before declaring this integration as not being feasible without having the Clearquest client locally installed, <strong>I was wondering if anyone else found a solution to perform an integration sans locally installed Clearquest bits</strong>.   It seems as though the ODBC route could be used but this would bypass application level business rules for the entity create, which is less than ideal.  The documentation also doesn't state if ODBC will provide create access or if this is relegated to the underlying DB2 database.    </p>