Creating and Sharing Work Item Queries in Rational Team Concert

March 15, 2016 Kenny Smith

Off

Rational Team Concert uses work items as the “glue” to bind various artifacts together. It links source code change sets...

+ Read More

Anti-pattern: Using the IBM Rational Jazz Tools in Place of a Help Desk Suite

October 20, 2015 Kenny Smith

Off

DevOps

A common anti-pattern for the Jazz tools (RTC, RQM, and DNG) is using them in place of a true help...

+ Read More

How to Install IBM DevOps tools with IBM Packaging Utility and Installation Manager

August 31, 2015 Kenny Smith

Off

DevOps

IBM has an extensive catalog of desktop products, especially for application and database development. Some of those tools offer features...

+ Read More

Unpacking IBM Software from Passport Advantage the easy way

August 17, 2015 Kenny Smith

Off

DevOps

Some of the IBM software can include multiple multi-gigabyte files, all of which are required for installation. IBM Rational Application...

+ Read More

Using JUnit to unit test IBM Rational HATS applications

July 21, 2015 Kenny Smith

Off

DevOps

Why unit testing? Any developer worth their salt, uses unit tests to validate that their code satisfies the task or...

+ Read More

Making IBM Rational HATS A Strategic Investment

October 17, 2014 Kenny Smith

Off

DevOps

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

+ Read More

IBM Innovate 2014: How to become a Rational Developer for IBM i Power User

June 11, 2014 Kenny Smith

Off

DevOps

Moving from SEU/PDM to Rational Developer for i? This month we presented at the annual IBM Innovate Conference in Orlando...

+ Read More

Using rectangle selection style in Rational Developer for System z

January 27, 2014 Kenny Smith

Off

Uncategorized

I came across this almost by accident when teaching RDz to a customer recently. He wanted to know if RDz...

+ Read More

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

December 18, 2013 Kenny Smith

Off

Uncategorized

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

+ Read More

New JES features in Rational Developer for System z 9.0.1

December 18, 2013 Kenny Smith

Off

Uncategorized

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

+ Read More