Rational Team Concert uses work items as the “glue” to bind various artifacts together. It links source code change sets to tasks, tasks to user stories, defects to test plans, stories to requirements. Work item queries allow you to easily create repeatable searches into the RTC system for just about any work item type and … Read more
A common anti-pattern for the Jazz tools (RTC, RQM, and DNG) is using them in place of a true help desk application. Help desk apps are designed to handle the recording of calls to the desk, categorizing the problems, and assisting the call agent with remediating those problems. In some cases a help desk system … Read more
IBM has an extensive catalog of desktop products, especially for application and database development. Some of those tools offer features and functions that can only be realized when combined with another product. In such cases, the products need to be installed into the same Eclipse package. This presentation shows you how to combine, deploy, and … Read more
Some of the IBM software can include multiple multi-gigabyte files, all of which are required for installation. IBM Rational Application Developer is good example. Using the normal windows unzip functionality can make for a bit of a tangled mess of a download directory if you’re not careful. I’ve been working with this software for over … Read more
Why unit testing? Any developer worth their salt, uses unit tests to validate that their code satisfies the task or tasks the code is supposed to do. Unit testing encourages modular development. Junit for Java was one the first and certainly the most well known. Other frameworks for other languages have popped up all over … Read more
Here is another presentation we did a the IBM Innovate conference in June 2014. Using HATS to create web services from 5250 or 3270 terminal applications is a common use case for HATS. You can also consume services either in the interface (i.e. RESTful or JSON), or through HATS macros or Business Logic (i.e. custom HATS … Read more
Moving from SEU/PDM to Rational Developer for i? This month we presented at the annual IBM Innovate Conference in Orlando several topics on the various IBM Rational tools. Rational Developer for i (RDi) is the IDE of choice for editing, verifying, analyzing, and managing RPG, COBOL, and C/C++ on the IBM i (i.e the AS/400). … Read more
I came across this almost by accident when teaching RDz to a customer recently. He wanted to know if RDz can do “column editing” like another text editor he uses, to which I replied “what’s that?”. After he described it it sound like the rectangle selection within the tool, which I knew could change a … Read more
Another posting of ours from this past year’s IBM Innovate Conference, and mentioned on the Mainframe Insights blog. Software Archaeology with RDz and RAA from Strongback Consulting ©2016 Strongback Consulting
Job Entry System The JES now shows the return code of completed jobs. This saves you significant time in tracking down which job completed, which abended, and which had other issues. You will see this in the JES filters. Also for JES, you can now resubmit directly from the context menu. Ordinarily you would just … Read more