In june we presented on these best practices based on our expertise and experience in deployment to our clients. This is by no means a complete picture, and will certainly vary by client. However, once you read the presentation, you should have a better understanding about how best to roll out the clients. IBM i … Read more
Rational Team Concert gets more and more traction in the industry. It is a collaborative application lifecycle management product that allows a team of developers, project managers, designers, testers, analysts, executives, and stakeholders to work in unison. It works in harmony with other DevOps concepts such as: Continuous Release and Deployment Continuous Testing Application Monitoring … Read more
If you are using the Rational Development and Test product, you are likely in one of two camps: 1) you are a systems programmer with minimal linux expertise, or 2), you are a linux admin with nominal z/OS experience. Certainly there are people who are gurus at both, but those are rare birds indeed. You … Read more
This year at the IBM Innovate conference we presented several topics. One of which was on HATS web services and RDBMS integration points with the product. In the presentation we cover details on creating a web service from a System i 5250 application using nothing but the HATS macro and web service wizards. [slideshare id=22924090&doc=makinghatsastrategicinvestment-pwr1212-130613094949-phpapp02]As … Read more
In preparation for the IBM Innovate conference starting this June, I’ve put together some helpful advice to newcomers who’ve not been to one of the conferences before. By no means is this a complete list, nor is it an official list. Its MY list. Enjoy: What to bring CLOTHING: Well, first off, this is Florida. I live … Read more
Rational Development and Test (or RD&T for short), is a virtualized instance of a z/OS mainframe operating system running on a Linux host, on a normal Intel based CPU. We’re assuming that you might already be familiarized with it with this article. When starting the RD&T box, you should be using a linux startup script … Read more
This is a view that does not get mentioned enough in the training exercises we do, so we’re mentioning it here for posterity’s sake. If you’re working with a job and trying to understand where your batch job has failed, or if you’re trying to understand an ABEND, there is a built in lookup tool … Read more
Continuous Integration I’ve recently read a couple of great books on the agile discipline of continuous integration. For those not familiar, this is the concept of using automation to build source code on a very frequent interval, and report defects or failures in the build to the team. The initial movement began after JUnit started … Read more
What is refactoring? Refactoring has long been a discipline of the agile development world. Wikipedia defines refactoring as: “A disciplined technique for restructuring an existing body of code, altering its internal structure without changing its external behavior…. [and its] advantages include improved code readability and reduced complexity to improve the maintainability of the source code, … Read more
I get this question often. Yes, you can map your control (CTRL) key on your keyboard to a specific function such as ENTER or RESET in the HCE of RDz. Open your workbench preferences (Window – Preferences). Go to General > Keys > Host Connection Control Keys. You can then map the keys to specific … Read more