Kenny Smith IDz, being based on Eclipse, shares much of the same capabilities to share, export, and import user preferences. There are several ways to share user based data, and in this post, we cover the most common options that can or should be shared among multiple developers using IDz. We recommend using a Wiki (or Connections, … Read more
Don’t run your CLM Servers without an HTTP Server All too often I run into organizations who have started with IBM Rational Team Concert and some other consultant has setup their servers without an HTTP server. Invariably they run into the same issues over and over again. Its a simple step to setup this up. … Read more
We were asked by a customer on what components need to be installed on their z/OS LPAR for their deployment IBM Developer for z Systems (IDz). They are also integrating with Rational Team Concert, which as a result, has some additional z/OS pieces to be installed. These are all SMP/e based installs. I get this … Read more
Need to keep your IBM IDE’s updated consistently? You can easily do this through automating the IBM Installation Manger’s command line interface. You can put this into a Window’s task Update All via Command Line This is stupid simple to do. First, make sure you have all instances of the IBM or Rational IDE products … Read more
This is a change in previous types of content, and this post is about one of our favorite charities and youth groups: the BSA. This fall as your children are starting back to school, you might have some extra curricular activities in mind for them to peruse. Sure, there is little league football, basketball, baseball … Read more
The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams. This is one of the twelve principles behind the Agile Manifesto, and is a key step in changing the culture in an organization as it moves to Agile development and other DevOps principles. This is not a new concept however. Although it has been studied on … Read more
What is WIP? WIP stands for Work In Progress. Limiting your work in progress is a concept of Scaled Agile Framework or SAFe. By limiting your WIP, you force your team to focus on completing existing tasks before starting new tasks or requirements in the project. Let’s start with an analogy: the “honey-do list”. Its … Read more
If you are currently running IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) on version 7, you have until April of 2018 to upgrade. After that, IBM will no longer offer you support (other than to tell you to upgrade). However there hundreds of custom ISV solutions that have not yet been certified for new versions of the … Read more
CLM Clustering is Dead! Anyone who has worked on WebSphere App server certainly should be familiar with the deployment manager and cluster typologies. One would have thought that since RTC is a Java application, that the native WAS clustering would be a perfect fit. Unfortunately, it was not. Team concert ended support for horizontal clustering … Read more
We help our customers implement software using Agile methods and a DevOps approach. These notes have been growing as we’ve worked with more and more customers. I expect to have more in the future as well, but these several items are recurring issues I see time and time again. Hopefully, even if you are not one … Read more