A new IBM Rational license key administration and reporting tool is currently under development and will be showcased at both VoiCE and Innovate this year!               At VoiCE , a presentation in the ED session on June 2 nd will showcase the license usage reporting functionality of the new tool. Here, we will present and request customer feedback on the peak usage, peak denial, token distribution, charge back, availability, user based, and license expiration reports the tool will... [More]

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               Have you found a technote that helped you solve an issue without having to open a PMR? Let us know by rating and leaving feedback on that content using the "Rate this page" stars on the top right of the content or the box of the same name at the bottom of each technote! Your feedback is highly valuable to us as we work to improve the quality of solutions and help you solve issues more effectively and efficiently. Last month the following technotes... [More]

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                              I'm pleased to announce a virtual opportunity to 'Jam' (collaborate and share feedback) on two topics: DevOps and your information experience with IBM Rational Products. This Information Experience Jam started this week, continues until May 24th, and does not require a confidential disclosure agreement (CDA). Here's your call to ACTION ! Please register for the Information Experience Jam (if you have not already)... [More]

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             As we're knee-deep in preparations for Innovate, IBM's Technical Summit , we're still committed to getting you the best information we can to help you be successful with our products an in your daily work. To that end, here's the articles, featured downloads and upcoming webcasts that went live on developerWorks Rational last week:                   New articles- Plan and... [More]

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  The Innovate SmartSite Is Live! The Innovate SmartSite is now live! As a registered attendee, you can use the SmartSite to view all sessions and activities offered at Innovate 2013, create a personalized agenda, learn more about exhibitors, and more. To log into the SmartSite, create an account using the confirmation number provided in the email you received when you registered. The agenda builder alone is worth its weight!            Stay Ahead: The Game Have some fun in the weeks before... [More]

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Prevent Defects and Delays: Analyze Your DOORS v9.x Requirements, Part 1 - with Michelle Specht, WorldWide GTM Manager, Systems Communities, IBM Rational Software.     Prevent Defects and Delays: Analyze Your DOORS v9.x Requirements, Part 2 - with Michelle Specht, WorldWide GTM Manager, Systems Communities, IBM Rational Software.

Hot off the presses once again, here are the top twenty technotes used by our Support Engineers to help assist you with your reported PMRs in April 2013:         1250403 How to obtain license keys for IBM Rational products Rational License Key Server 1410649 Get Social With IBM Rational Client Support Rational Customer Support 1131335 Utility to collect ClearCase logs and diagnostic data on Windows Rational ClearCase 1208895 Utility to collect ClearCase logs and diagnostic data on Linux, AIX, HP-UX and Solaris Rational... [More]

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Here is a great tip and trick to find help directly on your local system!   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.    

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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... [More]

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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... [More]

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            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... [More]

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   From JazzPractices and Rosa Naranjo's Blog about Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM): Join Jumpstart at Innovate 2013 in Orlando, FL June 2-6 - Innovate 2013 , The IBM Technical Summit is just around the corner.  Rosa Naranjo be there this year delivering two talks in the Requirements Management and Rational Deployment for Administrators track. Most of her Jazz Jumpstart colleagues will also be there delivering timely topics and workshops ranging from Customizing RTC to Jazz HA/DR Best Practices to Maximizing Jazz... [More]

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You're about to see the movie that holds the Guinness World Records record for the World's Smallest Stop-Motion Film (see how it was made at  http://youtu.be/xA4QWwaweWA ). The ability to move single atoms - the smallest particles of any element in the universe - is crucial to IBM's research in the field of atomic memory. But even nanophysicists need to have a little fun. In that spirit, IBM researchers used a scanning tunneling microscope to move thousands of carbon monoxide molecules (two atoms stacked on top of... [More]

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 The Rational User Education Youtube channel  posted a great playlist recently, entitled: Installing and Configuring IBM Rational CLM Applications . With 14 videos, we're sure you'll find some great information to help with your deployment of CLM!   CLM 2012 Deployment Guide: https://jazz.net/library/article/832/ Key Installation info: http://goo.gl/O6qEb   Performance Tips: http://goo.gl/KCIWp   Exporting from IBM Rational DOORS: https://jazz.net/library/article/1243  

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     It's been a bit since we last shared the wonderful content coming out of developerWorks. But have no fear, we're back with a sizable list of amazing articles to help you! So, without further delay, the following items went live on developerWorks Rational recently:                    Integrate Rational Focal Point with Collaborative Lifecycle Management applications By: Kathryn Fryer, Solution Architect, Unleash the Labs,... [More]

          If you haven't yet, you need to check out this link:  http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/prodguid/v1r0/clarity/ What is it, you ask? Clarity comes in the form of  the Software Product Compatibility Reports tool : an innovative tool designed to allow you to easily generate custom reports about compatible IBM software combinations. Using this tool, you may create reports about a product's compatibility with operating systems, prerequisite software or... [More]

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Available on the IBMRationalSupport YouTube channel, a series of tutorials on Rational ClearQuest Designer! You can find all eleven videos, nearly an hour's worth of schema designing goodness, in this playlist:   http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL68FFAD5B52B17DA2    In this video below from the playlist is a  demonstration of viewing schema history and making schema comparisons  in IBM Rational ClearQuest Designer:      Did this information help... [More]

Using IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation's Rich Client Interface - In this video, narrator and Rational DOORS NG technical specialist Jon Walton walks you through using IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation's Rich Client Interface. The Rich Client interface varies from the web client interface in many significant ways. Jon shows you tips and tricks to using the interface, including many of the improvements that have been made since DOORS v9.x.

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    If you've not checked out Jazz.net recently, here's some of the great content you may have missed over the course of this month. There's a wide breadth of content types below, ranging from betas to videos, workarounds and known issues to workshops. There's something for everyone on jazz.net; we hope this will help you find what you need:           Rational Test Workbench Mobile Tester (version 8.5. Beta 2) - The mobile test capabilities of IBM Rational Test... [More]

 Do you love the videos from IBM Education Assistant, but are only interested in certain products? Then you'll be happy to hear that as of May 1st  all IBM Education Assistant information will be posted on product-specific and brand-specific Twitter feeds and Facebook pages. Check the lsits below and follow the ones you're interested in!       Twitter accounts list :   https://twitter.com/ibmedassistant/ibm-education-assistant/members Facebook accounts : Rational Support Tivoli Support WebSphere and... [More]

   Read on to the end of this post for a $300 promo code to save on your registration...       At  Innovate 2013: The IBM Technical Summit , there will be more content and activities than ever before; specifically focused on execs, managers, and engineers (systems, software, electrical, QA, etc.) in product and systems development organizations. Here are eight great reasons from our friends at the Innovate blog showing you why you should attend Innovate 2013: Dedicated Product... [More]

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High-Level Usability of IBM Rational Requirements Management Application, Part 1 - In this video, IBM Rational Client Technical Specialist Jon Walton walks you through the high-level usability of the IBM Rational Requirements Management application, including the Requirements Composer and DOORS Next Generation products.   More information:  https://jazz.net/products/rational-doors/rmtools/       High-Level Use of IBM Rational Requirements Management (RM) Application, Part 2 - In this video, IBM Rational Client Technical... [More]

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    Here's more of the latest and greatest downloads which have gone live from Rational Support since March 28th; 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: March 2013 PTF for XL C for AIX, V12.1 March 2013 PTF for XL C/C++ for AIX, V12.1 March 2013 PTF for XL Fortran Runtime for AIX, V14.1 March 2013 PTF for XL Fortran for AIX, V14.1 Personal Communications 6.0.7 Rational... [More]

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    I have been asked by a couple of customers using IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC) to see if there is a way to make 'Links' as a required attribute with regards to RTC Work Items. A sample scenario they've noted, where having 'Links' as required attribute being useful, is something like this: A user creates a Work Item, say a defect, in RTC and the work flow demands that any newly created defect be linked to a requirement artifact.  In such case, having 'Links' as required attribute will... [More]

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Stopwatch demo showing model-driven development with IBM Rational Rhapsody in Ada - Ada is a rich high-level language designed for embedded real-time, high integrity and large scale systems development. Progressively, in the Ada 95 and Ada 2005 revisions, it has incorporated more and more Object Oriented (OO) features further increasing its power and richness. During a similar timeframe there has been continued expansion in the use of the industry-standard OMG Unified Modeling Language (UML) for documenting OO designs in C++ and Java. There is... [More]

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     DAY Updated!   Mainframe and Mobile - Are your   back-end apps ready? Register now for the April 18  Webcast: http://bit.ly/XUExuB Mobile is about anytime, anywhere access to information. It improves productivity and is driving business innovation in the enterprise. Mobility enables quicker access to customer data, improved customer satisfaction and support, customer access to business and important functionality, and the capability to respond to customer demands. Mobile is not only one of the most... [More]

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  Preconditions and follow-up actions in Rational Quality Manager - Watch how team members work with preconditions and follow-up actions in Rational Quality Manager web UI.

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  Jazz LICENSING : Exploring Rational Team Concert Rational Team Concert has a simple set of defined roles to enable key solutions for your organization. With Rational Team Concert you simply acquire licenses to support the roles and solutions that you are interested in. This provides you with an unprecedented level of flexibility and cost efficiency to choose and use only what you are interested in to support your needs. Rational Team Concert allows you to implement individual components of RTC now and others later simply through licensing -... [More]

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       It's an RTC love-fest today! Hot off the reporting presses here in Rational Support, here are the  top fifteen  technotes used in March to help solve the Rational Team Concert PMRs you reported. As always, these are taken directly from our PMR reports and tabulated to help you solve the same issues which you may be encountering:                                       1632677 BLZREDB fails with EDC5133I No space left on device 1442170 How to set up Rational Team Concert with Apache Tomcat to use your own CA certificate 1620879 Upgrades to... [More]

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