In a recent project for a z/OS customer, we had to create some custom scripts to kick off a Rational Team Concert Promotion definition. This is a special type of build definition found in the RTC Enterprise Extensions, and is used for promoting change sets from one stream to another, by their attachments to work … Read more
We have worked with several customers in the past few years, and have come to a general consensus on the minimum operation behaviors that should be enabled in your Team Concert project. These that we have listed are in additional to any you may already have (rather than a replacement of them). These also do … Read more
In Rational Team Concert’s build functionality, there is capability to show the build compilation report. This is available by a simple checkbox for Java type builds, but in z/OS dependency builds, it requires some additional configuration to get it working property. A compilaton report can show errors and warnings that occured durring the compile. It … Read more
IDz, being based on Eclipse, shares much of the same capabilities to share, export, and import user preferences. There are several ways to share user based data, and in this post, we cover the most common options that can or should be shared among multiple developers using IDz. We recommend using a Wiki (or Connections, … Read more
We were asked by a customer on what components need to be installed on their z/OS LPAR for their deployment IBM Developer for z Systems (IDz). They are also integrating with Rational Team Concert, which as a result, has some additional z/OS pieces to be installed. These are all SMP/e based installs. I get this … Read more
At a recent customer, we had the opportunity to implement RDz’ Push-to-Client (P2C) functionality. Discussions were had with the customer on the best way to distribute common settings and customizations for RDz among the user community and P2C was the winner. P2C functionality involves creating a customized workspace, exporting that workspace to USS on … Read more
At last year’s IBM Innovate Conference (formerly the Rational Software Developer’s Conference), we presented this deck about using Java on the z/OS mainframe. Since that time there have been a couple of major releases of the IBM Rational Developer for Enterprise product and at this year’s conference there will be extensive coverage of version 9.1 … Read more