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This last week IBM announced that RDiSOA 8 is now available. Current customers have already been able to download the individual parts for some time. Now, they should see the full package available from Passport Advantage. RDiSOA Combines RPG and COBOL Development Tools for i with Rational Business Developer. It also combines the value propositions … Read more
These videos blow me away. As expensive as it is to maintain air cooled server racks in large data centers, everyone is looking for a solution. Well just as air cooled Volkswagon beetles gave way to water cooled, so now (similarly) is the data center. These guys use a non-electrically conducting mineral oil to cool … Read more
This little gem of an error came up today. While installing Rational Developer for Power, I got a message that the the product was not compatible with the package group I was installing into. In this case I tried installing into multiple existing package groups including one with Rational Business Developer, and another with Rational … Read more
Team Concert can handle complex dependency builds on the IBM mainframe. If you have a long deployment tasks that are highly manual, and error prone, using the RTC build agents on z/OS could save you bookoos of time and money. This video from Thom Haynes at IBM’s user experience team shows you how: Setting up … Read more
For those interested, the Jazz team announced Beta 3 for all three Rational CLM products including: Team Concert Quality Manager Requirements Composer While each of these three are worthy in their own spotlight, when put together, the whole is worth more than the sum of its parts. Its interesting to note that the Jazz team … Read more
Rational Application Developer’s bigger brother is Software Architect. I’ve been using it for years for all sorts of development and modeling. In v8 of the product, Rational is introducing a new agile sketching feature. This demo shows how the product can help you flesh out general architecture in a non-intimidating, simple format, yet be able … Read more
The build engine capability of Rational Team Concert is capable of doing anything you want to do with Apache ANT, Maven, or even a shell script via the command line option. On top of that it adds its own calls to so that you can get instrumentation on the status and history of your builds … Read more
Normally, I skip out on the opening general session of any conference, as well I did for LotusSphere this year (as well as the rest of the conference for that matter). Usually, they are filled with ooey-gooey marketing speak, and this technophile just does not care for such drivel. I want to see results and … Read more
If you have COBOL applications on AIX and are not taking advantage of Rational’s compilers and the new Developer for POWER, you are not taking full advantage of the system, and could be compromising the performance of your application. Here is a great over view of the new C++ and COBOL features in Rational Developer … Read more
IBM just released a nice video customer case study for one of our customers. This was filmed at the Innovate conference back in June. They are a System Z shop, and are using HATS to transform some of their legacy applications. [slideshare id=23576926&doc=hats-overview-2013-130627093914-phpapp02] Their mainframe background is great testimonial to the everlasting power of the … Read more