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
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
I received this error while setting up the engine. [Jazz build engine] CRRTC3527E: Operation blocked by process: ‘Control The Build Lifecycle’ failed. Permission denied. You don’t have permission to perform the following actions: Retrieve the Next Build Request (getNextRequest) The solution is to add the Jazz user ID to your project. Open the UI and … Read more
I get lots of questions about why RTC over subversion. If you are only interested in source code management, and none of the other features, you still have a compelling reason to use RTC over SVN. Here are few examples (courtesy of jazz.net). Storing source code changes: Rational Team Concert v. Subversion Sharing work: Rational … Read more
The Jazz team announced that RTC will support VS2010 in RTC version 2.0.0.2 iFix3, which is currently at milestone 1 build. This includes full client support on Windows 7. This build is primarily for developers that work with VS – if you don’t work with VS, then you can/should ignore the build. The interim fixes … Read more
IBM is offering a special this month on Rational Team Concert, whereby you can get 7 additional free developer client access licenses for free. They have also dropped the server prices by about half for Express, Standard, and Enterprise. This means, that with the Express edition server, you an enable your entire team for under … Read more
There are several Jazz based products that run on Linux, namely Rational Team Concert, Quality Manager, and Requirements Composer. When you install these products, either through extracting a zip file, or using the Installation Manager approach, you do not get the option to start on boot. You will have to manually configure this. IBM released … Read more
Last year, IBM announced it was withdrawing Rational ClearCase LT from marketing , meaning end of the road for the product. For a few years, IBM had positioned CCLT (with disappointing results) as a competitor to Subversion (which it really wasn’t). To be fair, CCLT does thinks Subversion does not – such as distributed storage, … Read more
As you begin working with RTC and work items, you’ll find you have similar work items – they have similar titles, or affect the same artifact, etc. You can link work items to others so that as you or the assignee start to work on these items, the owner is aware that whatever he/she does … Read more
Team Concert is such a cool flexible tool, and there are so many features that its easy to miss, yet its easy to get started with. It just ‘grows’ as your environment needs. I learned a few things from this video and and just have to share. I really like that you can edit code … Read more