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For those who missed the webinar this morning, I have posted a couple of presentations on SlideShare. Rational Team Concert For IBM System i – Executive Overview V2 View more documents from Strongback Consulting. Since we did not have an available connection to the Sandbox, here is also a scenario demonstrating the usage of RTCi. … Read more
Lotus Domino 8.5 introduced a new feature call DAOS. This tool is designed to reduce attachment duplication by externalizing the attachment and leaving a pointer in the Notes application or mail file. This presentation is courtesy of the NELotus user group . Its yet another reason to upgrade to the latest version! Daos Technical Overview … Read more
Project Management with IBM Rational Team Concert for System i Join us for a Webinar on September 23 Space is limited.Reserve your Webinar seat now at:https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/730096923 Looking to have your software developer teams to more effectively collaborate in developing and delivering quality software on time & on budget? Join us on Wednesday Sept 23, 2009 … Read more
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I’d like to announce that one of my customers has added some more client’s of their own. Their business is growing well in this down economy. Its another example of how entrepreneurs can thrive in a recession. They are an Internet startup focused on the green movement. I’ve listed them as one of our case … Read more
IBM has released a community edition of its EGL language. This edition is geared for entry level learning such as for colleges and universities. This is a great language that is a natural successor to COBOL. Applications can be created and deployed to mainframes as batch applications, or to Java web applications servers running on … Read more
Blackberry desktop has long been awaited for those Mac users, including my wife who runs on an iMac (and is very happy with it). I would one day like a Mac myself, but there are still so much software that I need from day to day that is restricted (chained) to Windows. For those using … Read more
We will be doing a webinar on Rational Team Concert for System i coming up September 23rd at 11am. In the meantime, here is a video that gives a nice high level over view of RTC. ©2016 Strongback Consulting
IBM Announced XD 6.1.1 last week. This is a refresh pack rather than a fix pack (note the 3rd digit change). You need to be at WAS 6.1.0.25 or 7.0.0.5 before upgrading. The FTP site for the refresh pack CIM is here. New features include: AIX Micro-partitioning uncapped shared processor support enables Virtual Enterprise to … Read more
A very old trick that us old-hats know. If you want to see the contents of a view that is hidden in Lotus Notes, hold down CTRL+SHIFT and select “View – Go To”. The list of available views will show all the hidden ones (denoted by parentheses). You can also do this with creating views. … Read more