Rational Team Concert (RTC) is gaining in popularity these days, and we are certainly seeing more and more of it in our business. RTC provides several benefits and features that span development silos. Traditionally, an IT shop would have a different SCM and build system for distributed systems, more for .NET, and yet something completely … Read more
They guys on the RDz product team have done an excellent job of getting new features into the product in the latest release of RDz. Already, the product had great support for viewing performance hierarchies, and showing dependencies of copy books. Version 8.5 really builds on the program analysis capabilities of the product with the new program control … Read more
When rolling out Rational Developer for System Z to a mass number of users, I’ve found there is an easy way to do this that avoids mass confusion, and frantic help desk calls. Export RDz Connection Information Usually the connection to mainframe will have many settings and parameters, that are unique to that environment, and … Read more
We’ve been pretty silent on the blog over the past three months, but for good reason. We’ve been heads down working hard over the summer to build a curriculum based on our partnership with Island Training Solutions. We’ve now perfected and delivered our course to over 1000 developers worldwide. The training is delivered remotely. Your … Read more
Team Concert can handle complex dependency builds on the IBM mainframe. If you have a long deployment tasks that are highly manual, and error prone, using the RTC build agents on z/OS could save you bookoos of time and money. This video from Thom Haynes at IBM’s user experience team shows you how: Setting up … Read more
Some have contacted me that they have been unable to find my presentation on the conference web site. I would have sworn I posted it (more than once), but the conference organizer website was considerably different than last year, and not necessarily better. That said, for those who would like to view all the ooey … Read more
It has previously been difficult to find information specific to the mainframe for Team Concert. Now, the jazz team has moved Team Concert for System z to its own project page. For those looking for information on the product specific to System z, here is the link: https://jazz.net/projects/rational-team-concert-z/ The product is at version 1.0.1.1 status … Read more
Ever seen pictures of these home computers decked out with LEDs and plexiglass? Well, I have all the pc gamers beat now. This is IBM’s new Z10 mainframe taken this week at the Rational Software Developer’s Conference in Orlando. This is a lower end unit and only has one CPU card in it. That is … Read more