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Thanks for giving it a whirl. I like your thinking.

My understanding now is that you have to use "triggers" to prevent accidental deletion. Here is the explanation:

The cleartool rmelem command is one of the most powerful commands in ClearCase because it removes a complete element from version control. This command destroys information irretrievably. Using it carelessly may compromise your organization's ability to support previous releases.

It's probably pretty clear why this is one of the first commands on which I like to put a trigger.

Trigger installation / Trigger script

Here is the trigger definition:

cleartool mktrtype -c "Trigger to avoid rmelem command" -element -all -preop rmelem -execwin "ccperl -e "exit 1"" -execunix "Perl -e "exit 1"" NO_RMELEM

Here is the link that talks about import triggers:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/4311.html#t1

Do you think it is related to chgrp or chown issue ?
if the locked file is not in the same group that you can delete it , I guess