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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
Symptom :After you have installed the web services feature pack for WAS 6.1, you try to install an application running Apache CXF. While the application compiles fine, it simply will not start, and the SystemOut.log (or console) shows the following error message: [1/10/11 14:45:31:410 EEST] 00000019 WASAxis2Compo E WSWS7007E: The xxxxx.war application module cannot be … Read more
Ok, so I’m a bit late saying this, but Happy New Year to all. Guess I missed the party. Yes, its been almost 2 months since our last posting. We’ve neglected you, and we feel like bad hosts. Last month and the beginning of this month was very hectic for us. Nonetheless, we’ll start backup … Read more
Rational Application Developer has always been a bit of a hog on memory. I noticed this neat little feature today. This is available in RAD version 8. It essentially does an immediate garbage collection and reduces the memory footprint of RAD. If your system starts thrashing to your hard drive and you don’t want to … Read more
I received this error while setting up the engine. [Jazz build engine] CRRTC3527E: Operation blocked by process: ‘Control The Build Lifecycle’ failed. Permission denied. You don’t have permission to perform the following actions: Retrieve the Next Build Request (getNextRequest) The solution is to add the Jazz user ID to your project. Open the UI and … Read more
Imagine if your mainframe and distributed development environments were seamlessly integrated, platform choice was removed from the development stage and you could develop across platforms at the same time. No more project delays due to synchronization problems. Increased flexibility. All skill sets could be leveraged without additional training. Planning and reporting would be much easier. … Read more
I get lots of questions about why RTC over subversion. If you are only interested in source code management, and none of the other features, you still have a compelling reason to use RTC over SVN. Here are few examples (courtesy of jazz.net). Storing source code changes: Rational Team Concert v. Subversion Sharing work: Rational … Read more
Do you have secure passwords? (from lifehacker)
In light of a recent issue I had at a client site, I want to share some simple tips that will greatly help you reduce both the amount of SPAM your receive as well as the amount of SPAM you send through your Lotus Domino systems. Yes, I said SEND. One of the largest culprits … Read more