What do I need to install on my z/OS for IDz and RTC to work?
We were asked by a customer on what components need to be installed on their z/OS LPAR for their deployment...
Keep your IBM WebSphere and Rational products updated with this easy command line
Need to keep your IBM IDE’s updated consistently? You can easily do this through automating the IBM Installation Manger’s command...
Supporting the Boy Scouts of America
This is a change in previous types of content, and this post is about one of our favorite charities and...
The success of Agile’s concept of self-organizing teams can be traced back to Austrian economics
The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams. This is one of the twelve principles behind the Agile...
Understanding SAFe Work In Progress Limits
What is WIP? WIP stands for Work In Progress. Limiting your work in progress is a concept of Scaled Agile...
WebSphere App Server 7 support ends in April 2018
If you are currently running IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) on version 7, you have until April of 2018 to...
Team Concert 6.0.4: New Horizontal Clustering Features
CLM Clustering is Dead! Anyone who has worked on WebSphere App server certainly should be familiar with the deployment manager...
Impediments to Agile Adoption
We help our customers implement software using Agile methods and a DevOps approach. These notes have been growing as we’ve worked...
Performance Testing the Rational Build Agent
On a recent project where we were implementing Rational Team Concert for a large z/OS shop, we were requested for...
A Rosetta Stone for IBM’s Jargon and Acronyms
This list is by no means complete (that would take weeks to compile). This list is constructed based on our...