We have worked with several customers in the past few years, and have come to a general consensus on the minimum operation behaviors that should be enabled in your Team Concert project. These that we have listed are in additional to any you may already have (rather than a replacement of them). These also do … Read more
In Rational Team Concert’s build functionality, there is capability to show the build compilation report. This is available by a simple checkbox for Java type builds, but in z/OS dependency builds, it requires some additional configuration to get it working property. A compilaton report can show errors and warnings that occured durring the compile. It … Read more
Linux is a very popular platform to run the IBM CLM tools on (i.e. Quality Manger, Team Concert, DOORs NG, etc). However, out of the box, there is not a built in autostart feature for the platform. Naturally, you want this to autostart in a production environment. Here is a handy systemd unit file. First, … Read more
On a recent project where we were implementing Rational Team Concert for a large z/OS shop, we were requested for performance metrics for the Rational Build Agent (BLZBFA). The amount of data on existing metics is sparse, but there is some information in the Jazz Deployment Wiki. I found a great article on setting up … Read more
In an RTC work item, on the links tab, you’ll notice several types of links you can create. When getting started with RTC, its difficult to know what link type to create. If the project area you are using is a LifeCycle project linked to an RQM and DNG project, you’ll find even more link … Read more
The defect work item in Team Concert has a attribute labeled “Found In”. This field is not populated by default, and often causes confusion for new users. The intention for this field is to tell the development which release the defect was found in. Thus it’s important to understand, that RTC will certainly not know … Read more
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
First Rule: Write Good User Stories If you are just getting started with writing user stories, I highly recommend Mike Cohn’s book User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development. Perhaps you’re coming from a background of writing large use cases. Perhaps you’re fresh out of school and not familiar with requirements management. If you’re already … 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
Rational Team Concert (RTC) is gaining in popularity these days, and we are certainly seeing more and more of it in our business. RTC provides several benefits and features that span development silos. Traditionally, an IT shop would have a different SCM and build system for distributed systems, more for .NET, and yet something completely … Read more