Rational Application Developer’s bigger brother is Software Architect. I’ve been using it for years for all sorts of development and modeling. In v8 of the product, Rational is introducing a new agile sketching feature. This demo shows how the product can help you flesh out general architecture in a non-intimidating, simple format, yet be able … Read more
The build engine capability of Rational Team Concert is capable of doing anything you want to do with Apache ANT, Maven, or even a shell script via the command line option. On top of that it adds its own calls to so that you can get instrumentation on the status and history of your builds … Read more
If you have COBOL applications on AIX and are not taking advantage of Rational’s compilers and the new Developer for POWER, you are not taking full advantage of the system, and could be compromising the performance of your application. Here is a great over view of the new C++ and COBOL features in Rational Developer … Read more
IBM just released a nice video customer case study for one of our customers. This was filmed at the Innovate conference back in June. They are a System Z shop, and are using HATS to transform some of their legacy applications. [slideshare id=23576926&doc=hats-overview-2013-130627093914-phpapp02] Their mainframe background is great testimonial to the everlasting power of the … Read more
Rational Application Developer has always been a bit of a hog on memory. I noticed this neat little feature today. This is available in RAD version 8. It essentially does an immediate garbage collection and reduces the memory footprint of RAD. If your system starts thrashing to your hard drive and you don’t want to … Read more
Imagine if your mainframe and distributed development environments were seamlessly integrated, platform choice was removed from the development stage and you could develop across platforms at the same time. No more project delays due to synchronization problems. Increased flexibility. All skill sets could be leveraged without additional training. Planning and reporting would be much easier. … Read more
Web services can be hacked and information exploited against your company. If your organization has made the move towards a services oriented architecture, then security testing of your web services should be part of your repertoire. This YouTube video shows how AppScan can do exactly that with customizable reporting. ©2016 Strongback Consulting
1 – Get all the latest fix packs after you install You should be prepared to update RFT at least once per quarter. Web browsers are always being patched, and RFT integrates tightly into the browsers. For example, if you download the latest edition of RFT and you have Firefox 3.6, you will not be … Read more
If you (like me) used the Cafe’s (such as the HATS Hotspot), you should be aware that IBM has moved those over to Developerworks. Its is fitting, as that is where the forums are for all the other products. If you work on System z or i, these are great forums to visit to post … Read more
For anyone who has taken a HATS class (including those offered by our company), you may find problems accessing the demo servers if you run back through your lab exercises. The reason is that IBM now requires SSL on these connections. I found this on the main site: 28 Jul 2010: If you are using … Read more