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Various Ways of Deploying and Using IBM Rational Product Help Software- This video contains information about how to use IBM Rational Help systems. The Help can be deployed and used locally, through an internal company intranet, or streamed over the web.

There are new videos available on IBM Education Assistant for Rational. First, there is a new video about license activation kits for Rational SDP products. Secondly, there is a video for Rational DOORS that covers database logging on Windows. The DOORS video is also available on the IBM Rational Support YouTube channel.

Rational DOORS

 

• Title: Enable database logging on Microsoft Windows
  • Video on IBM Education Assistant
  • Video on the IBM Rational Support YouTube channel
• Contributors: Virgil Titarenko, Snehal Patel

Rational common licensing

 

• Title: Remove the license activation kit for Software Development Platform
  • Video on IBM Education Assistant
• Contributor: Muthu Nagaranthinam

  

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We keep plugging away and building great new articles and content to share and help you gain the most benefit from your Rational products... here's what went live on developerWorks Rational this week:

Agile embedded product-line development with Rational Team Concert
Harry Koehnemann describes the problems that hardware, software, and project management teams at 321 Gang faced, the practices and tool changes that helped them, and what challenges remain in adopting agile methods for development of embedded, product line systems
Product: Rational Team Concert

Server-side mobile app development with IBM MobileFirst
Part 1. IBM Worklight adapter integration with Java business logic, using Rational Application Developer and Worklight Studio
Product: Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software

Rational software demos to suit your learning style
Get tips and learn what you can do by watching demos of Rational software.

Featured downloads

• IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software
• IBM Worklight Developer Edition 5.0
• IBM Rational Team Concert
• Rational DOORS Next Generation

New demos

How to produce a simple report in Rational Publishing Engine 1.2
Learn how to use IBM Rational Publishing Engine to build a simple document template linked to a running data source, IBM Rational DOORS requirements management software. The demo shows steps to generate, test, and fine-tune the report and publish it in PDF, Microsoft Word, and HTML formats.

Introduction to IBM Rational Publishing Engine for beginners
In this introduction to how IBM Rational Publishing Engine works, you'll get an overview of the components and what they do. This demonstration also shows details, such as opening Document Studio, opening a document specification, pointing the document specification to a data source, and generating reports.

Get them while they're hot! The latest and greatest downloads which have gone live from Rational Support since April 19th; presented below to help you find the fixes you need and stay up to date with your Rational products.... and don't forget to check out the downloads tag to see the fixes you may have missed:

• Rational Performance Tester Fix Pack 3 (8.3.0.3) for 8.3
• Rational Service Tester for SOA Quality Fix Pack 3 (8.3.0.3) for 8.3
• April 2013 Update for XL Fortran for Linux, V14.1
• April 2013 Update for XL Fortran Runtime for Linux, V14.1
• Interim Fix 2 for Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software 8.5.1
• Rational Publishing Engine Fix Pack 1 (1.2.0.1) for 1.2
• Rational System Architect Add-Ons 11.4.2 with Fix Pack 3: RSA_AddOns_11_4_2fp3
• Rational System Architect XT 11.4.2 with Fix Pack 3: RSAXT11_4_2fp3
• Rational System Architect 11.4.2 with Fix Pack 3: SA_11_4_2fp3
• Rational Solution Process Assets
• IBM Rational Developer for System z: Fix Pack 8.5.1.2
• Rational Test RealTime Fix Pack 4 (8.0.0.4) for 8.0

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