Managing a complex solution roll-out using Rational Team Concert - This article focuses on the project planning and management capabilities of IBM Rational Team Concert showing how it was used to manage and deliver the roll-out of an enterprise wide application lifecycle management solution. The article shows how IBM Rational Team Concert can be used to streamline the communication between 3 teams involved in a deployment project: the end users of the client, the deployment team of IBM Rational Software and the Support and Development... [More]

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Jazz Reporting Service (JRS) Workshop - Authored by Rosa Naranjo and Sudhakar Frederick, this workshop is intended to provide insight into the Jazz Reporting Service (JRS) introduced in CLM v5.0 and updated recently in v5.0.2.  Jazz Reporting Service (JRS) is a lightweight reporting solution that provides practitioners with the ability to create their own reports in a powerful yet easy to use interface (without requiring Cognos expertise).   There is a YouTube video series on JRS below as well as a few Jazz.net articles along... [More]

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Learn the main guidelines to build an automated development and testing framework using scripts. In the following blog post, Aya Elgebeely (Application Developer, IBM) highlights how using scripts to automate your development workflow can have a magical effect on your work quality and performance: Streamline development efforts with scripts - There are quite a few steps to set up an environment or modify and build a substantial amount of files. If you use scripts, one command can do all the work at once. That's a big difference (and savings... [More]

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Develop Multilingual portlets with Rational Application Developer - This article explains how to use ResourceBundle classes for multilingual portlet development using IBM Rational Application Developer for IBM WebSphere Portal. IBM® WebSphere® Portal supports more than 30 languages for different locations. Various international organizations provide their portals for use in different countries or regions through multilingual Web sites. In this context, the portal concurrently serves portal views in the users preferred language to a... [More]

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Run hardware-in-the-loop tests with IBM Rational Quality Manager and ETAS LABCAR-AUTOMATION : LABCAR-AUTOMATION (LCA) is widely used in the automotive industry to run automated tests on hardware to ensure high levels of quality in safety-critical areas. Find out how to use LCA within Rational Quality Manager to ensure traceability, governance, and improved quality. IBM® Rational® Quality Manager provides extensible APIs that enable test-automation tools from various industries to be integrated into the Rational Collaborative Lifecycle... [More]

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  Deep Dive Data Warehouse Reporting using the Jazz Reporting Service - The  Jazz Reporting Service  is the new reporting solution from IBM Rational Software developed on top of the  Jazz integration platform  and is intended to support the authoring of custom reports for the  Collaborative Lifecycle Management  (CLM) solution. A previous articles around Jazz Reporting Service covered reporting using the build in query builder [Haumer 2014], which allows end users to create their own reports almost right away... [More]

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Changing hostnames is a common need and a common question we get in support. Hostname changes can often become problematic if not done correctly. Luckily, we have a top notch support team ready to help! In this case, support engineer Mallikarjuna Manoj Kandala has authored the following developerWorks article outlining this process for Rational ClearCase: How to change the hostname in the IBM Rational ClearCase environment - Making the task easier. The IBM Rational ClearCase environment is sensitive to any hostname changes on the... [More]

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To introduce you to the best of Bluemix DevOps Services,  Lauren Schaefer (Growth Hacking Engineer and Social Media Lead for IBM Bluemix DevOps Services) has written this four-part tutorial series. In Part 1 , you learn how to deploy and make changes to a simple application. In  Part 2 , you learn how to deploy an application that uses a Bluemix service. In  Part 3 , you learn how to use the planning capabilities in Bluemix DevOps Services to plan and track your app, how to add a new Bluemix service to your app, and how to... [More]

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The article below provides you with knowledge about Jenkins and shows you how to set up the continuous delivery framework with Jenkins. The framework can build and scan source code, install the successful build, run tests and send results automatically. Set up a continuous delivery framework with Jenkins - The setup of the framework in a continuous delivery process is important. The framework determines DevOps's efficiency and what can be done in the continuous delivery process. This article contains information on Jenkins and demonstrates... [More]

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 This three-part tutorial walks you through building a multi-tier web application from scratch, using IBM® Rational® Application Developer, the Java Persistence API (JPA), Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs), REST web services, and — for a rich Web 2.0 front end — the Dojo Toolkit. You'll end up with a fully functioning web application that displays data in a table that users can edit by double-clicking any cell. Rapidly build a rich three-tier web app, Part 1: Build the database - The application architecture uses REST... [More]

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  This three part series of articles presents two mechanisms for integrating IBM Rational Team Concert™ and IBM® UrbanCode Deploy to create a continuous delivery process. The first approach included in Part 1 is a packaged out-of-the-box implementation that is easy to set up. The second approach, presented in Part 2  and  Part 3 , uses extensions to the Ant build.xml file.   Continuous delivery with Rational Team Concert and UrbanCode Deploy: Part 1. An out-of-the-box implementation - Learn how to create a... [More]

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   Over on Jazz.net, the team has been publishing some excellent articles. Here are two recent articles you won't want to miss! Rational Team Concert and Git Integration: Setup Guide - Starting with 5.0 release, Rational Team Concert comes with built-in support for integrating with Git, with the following salient features. This article touches upon the overall setup required for this integration to work; and, specifically describes the setup on the Git server-side. How to keep your streams flowing smoothly in Rational Team Concert... [More]

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  A three part series by Jim Amsden  ( jamsden@us.ibm.com ), Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM covering BPMN and SoaML integrations in which you will learn how to use the strengths of each standard to complement the other.   Integrating BPMN and SoaML, Part 1. Motivation and Approach- BPMN and SoaML are two recent standards adopted by OMG. The standards overlap significantly, but each provides a particular emphasis on service and process modeling. This article is Part 1 of a three-part series that explores how to use these two... [More]

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  Four more great articles give you 5 minutes of smart at a time in easy to consume segments. As we wrap up the year, these articles will give you quick and great information, but don't be fooled, these will serve to whet your appetite for even deeper information once you start. So grab some coffee or tea, and take 20 minutes to absorb these articles and lay out a plan for follow up in the coming slow-down. 5 minutes of smart: Manage change with work items - Developers can learn how to become change and configuration management... [More]

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  Four great articles give you 5 minutes of smart in bite-sized chunks. As we move into the holiday weekend for our U.S. based employees and clients, these articles will give you a quickly consumable bite of information, but don't be deceived, these will serve to whet your appetite for even deeper information once you dig in. So grab a cuppa, and take 20 minutes to absorb this great info and lay out a plan for follow up in the coming slow-down.   5 minutes of smart: Tracing project requirements - By using an automated tool to... [More]

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  By way of Jazz.net's awesome library feed , here are three useful articles surrounding Rational Synergy for RTC's bridge connector and synchronizer: IBM Rational Synergy for Rational Team Concert Bridge Connector - Part 1 - This article describes the use of Rational Synergy for Rational Team Concert (RTC) Bridge Connector. It talks about who can utilize this integration, and the benefits and the features of doing so. IBM Rational Synergy for Rational Team Concert Bridge Connector - Part 2 - This article describes the use of... [More]

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Learn how to set up an IBM Rational Team Concert main build that performs an IBM Rational Developer for System z code review. Based on the result of the code review, the process either submits the build to compile, or stops and reports the code review errors. Apply the tested, documented sample described in this article to implement a similar solution on your own platform. The steps focus on the Rational Team Concert administrator who writes an Ant task to compile COBOL programs, depending on other previous tasks, such as quality control. Set... [More]

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  Over on the developerWorks ' Rational Technical library ,    Jesus Ivan Millan   (Build Engineer, IBM) discusses Automating the build workspaces cleaning process in his article titled: Clean Rational Team Concert build workspaces When multiple builds run on multiple machines the process of maintaining the infrastructure can become a problem. In this article you will learn how an automated build cleaning process can improve the continuous integration environment and reduce manual maintenance. Table of contents The... [More]

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  While working the front lines in support over the past 16 years of my career, a small handful of issues always seem to crop up as the most requested items when clients call in. One of those items was consistently in depth question on how to setup SSL for any of the products I was supporting. So, of course I'm going to highlight an SSL article when it comes across my plate, as I know how important these types of setups are to you, or clients, with a focus on ensuring your environment's security. Luckily, John Chewter , Chief... [More]

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