Now that the latest is out in the wild, I’d like to show off some of the new features. This release includes a few new very high priority features that customers and business partners have been asking for. There are more features in the works (which I am well aware of but cannot disclose due … Read more
For those who missed our webinar last week on the updated tools from Rational, I’m posting the presentation here (thanks to Slideshare). If you want the audio… well.. .you’ll just have to give one of us a call here at the office and we’ll reenact it. O.K.? What’s New in Rational Software for POWER Systems … Read more
Today, IBM has released several products geared towards development on IBM POWER systems (notably, the POWER7). IBM is targetting customers running on Sun hardware and especially Oracle applications. Now customer will be able to migrate from Solaris/SPARC to POWER/AIX with new compilers and development tools for C/C++ and COBOL. New compilers (priced separatly or packacked … Read more
Now, I am excited. I just got confirmed as a speaker at the Rational conference this June, now dubbed “IBM Innovate”. This makes my fourth straight year of this conference, and my second year presenting. I submitted 3 abstracts, but this is the one that got accepted. Here is my session abstract: Session: PWR-1068A: Spicing … Read more
Strongback is offering a webinar on Rational Host Access Transformation Services on Friday February 19th at 11AM. If you have been considering or have used the product in the past, please join us on this webcast. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER ©2016 Strongback Consulting
This blog entry popped up on my radar tonight. If you have a HATS project and are suddenly getting and extra ‘Web Content” folder. This, fix will correct the problem. http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/hats-tricks/2010/01/28/creating-projects-with-hats-v75-after-applying-rad-v755-fix-pack-may-cause-problems Thanks to Gerald Mitchell for the post. ©2016 Strongback Consulting
Another fixpack released. To update, use the IBM Installation Manger to upgrade. You no longer are required to use the old Eclipse style of update. Installation Manager is much faster and cleaner. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=203&context=SSXKAY&dc=D400&uid=swg24024964&loc=en_US&cs=UTF-8〈=enCheck out the release notes here. ©2016 Strongback Consulting
Here is an issue that has cropped up on the 7.x release of HATS. Its very very minor one, but can eat up a bunch of hours to troubleshoot. Lets say you have a popup selection widget, and specify you want it to display with the image rather than a button or link. Let’s also … Read more
This is one I’ve been meaning to post for sometime, but always forget. Let’s say you have a HATS screen transformation that you’ve worked for hours to get pixel perfect. It looks gorgeous. You deploy it and then your users come back to you and say they that when they get into an error condition, … Read more
If your organization has no real version control system or your idea of version control is making a copy of your rpgle source code in your library (you AS/400 folks know who you are), well, check out Team Concert Express C. Its a free version of Team Concert and runs on Windows or Linux. We’ve … Read more