If you are installing the new Rational Team Concert for Power Systems (RTCp), which is the follow on to RTCi, there are a few common installation issues you might run into. First, be sure and check all the system requirements for the product. RTCp server can be installed on i/OS, AIX, and Windows. I highly … Read more
The most recent milestone for RTC snuck out the door last night. Most notable is support for the Eclipse 3.5 client. Another new feature is work item templates. These can be created from an existing set of work items, and then be used to create new work items. template creation wizard also lets you to … Read more
Currently the Rational Team Concert build engine does not include an init.d script for those running build engines on Linux. This is analogous to Windows services and allow the jbe to run automagically at startup. Instead, you must rely on system administrators having the knowledge of how to write these from scratch. Currently there is … Read more
No matter what version of Team Concert you are using, the following tips will apply. You can monitor the status of each step in your automated build using the following two ANT elements:startBuildActivity, and completeBuildActivity.These two should be treated like bookmarks to an atomic grouping of ANT tasks. For example, in your build file, you … Read more
Yes, I know, its hard to get excited about a point release, however, there are some features worth mentioning. In particular is the change in the licensing model for RTC Express-C. It now includes not 3 but 10 (ten) free developer/contributor licenses. It is now also supported on all the databases that are supported by … Read more
For those who missed the webinar this morning, I have posted a couple of presentations on SlideShare. Rational Team Concert For IBM System i – Executive Overview V2 View more documents from Strongback Consulting. Since we did not have an available connection to the Sandbox, here is also a scenario demonstrating the usage of RTCi. … Read more
Project Management with IBM Rational Team Concert for System i Join us for a Webinar on September 23 Space is limited.Reserve your Webinar seat now at:https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/730096923 Looking to have your software developer teams to more effectively collaborate in developing and delivering quality software on time & on budget? Join us on Wednesday Sept 23, 2009 … Read more
We will be doing a webinar on Rational Team Concert for System i coming up September 23rd at 11am. In the meantime, here is a video that gives a nice high level over view of RTC. ©2016 Strongback Consulting
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
I have recently been upgrading my Jazz/Team Concert environment to version 2.0 from 1.0. I’m using the Express-C version which is based on Apache Tomcat and Derby. These versions come in a zip file format and can easily be extracted out on a Linux server and started with minimal configuration. Upgrading from one to the … Read more