How to enable licensing in IBM Developer for z/OS and ADFz

April 5, 2021 Kenny Smith

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Overview IDz is offered in three different packaging options. Overall, its the exact same client, but the licensing differs considerably....

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11 Team Concert Behaviors You Should Use for Enterprise Extension (z/OS) Projects

May 2, 2018 Kenny Smith

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DevOps, Mainframe Devops

We have worked with several customers in the past few years, and have come to a general consensus on the...

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InterConnect 2016: Tips for Developing and Testing IBM HATS Applications

March 28, 2016 Kenny Smith

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DevOps

This is from our presentation at the InterConnect 2016 conference in Las Vegas, February 2016.IBM Rational Host Access Transformation Services...

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Making IBM Rational HATS A Strategic Investment

October 17, 2014 Kenny Smith

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DevOps

Here is another presentation we did a the IBM Innovate conference in June 2014. Using HATS to create web services...

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The Caffeinated Mainframer: Using Java on IBM z/OS to build enterprise Java apps

May 23, 2014 Kenny Smith

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DevOps, Mainframe Devops

At last year’s IBM Innovate Conference (formerly the Rational Software Developer’s Conference), we presented this deck about using Java on...

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Innovate 2013: Software Archaeology on the Mainframe with IBM Rational Tools

December 18, 2013 Kenny Smith

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Another posting of ours from this past year’s IBM Innovate Conference, and mentioned on the Mainframe Insights blog. Software Archaeology with...

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New JES features in Rational Developer for System z 9.0.1

December 18, 2013 Kenny Smith

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Job Entry System The JES now shows the return code of completed jobs. This saves you significant time in tracking...

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Helpful commands to manage RD&T z/OS instance from the linux command line

August 29, 2013 Kenny Smith

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DevOps

If you are using the Rational Development and Test product, you are likely in one of two camps: 1) you...

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Refactoring COBOL with RDz

September 26, 2012 Kenny Smith

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DevOps

What is refactoring? Refactoring has long been a discipline of the agile development world. Wikipedia defines refactoring as: “A disciplined...

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Getting started with Rational Team Concert’s Enterprise Extensions for System z and i

September 4, 2012 Kenny Smith

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DevOps

Rational Team Concert (RTC) is gaining in popularity these days, and we are certainly seeing more and more of it...

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