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Notes from twenty years in the field

Working notes from real z/OS engagements — Endevor-to-Git migrations, DBB builds, IDz performance, code pages, and mainframe CI/CD. The same knowledge we bring to yours.

How to Fix the Mysterious Global Configuration Management Error in jts.log or ccm.log

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I recently ran across an issue, one that was low priority, but nagging like a gnat on a hot summer day. I kept seeing these entries in the log files: ERROR ervice.internal.GlobalConfigurationCacheUpdateTask – [operationId=976] com.ibm.team.jfs.app.http.HttpServiceUnavailableException: Unable to discover the GC service, which might indicate that Global Configuration Management is not set up in JTS. Please … Read more

Securing SSL communication between Rational Team Concert and Urbancode Deploy

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The Business Scenario We recently had a challenge where a customer needed full end-to-end SSL/TLS encryption for communcation between IBM Team Concert, and Urbancode Deploy. They are a z/OS Mainframe customer implementing these tools for continuous Integration / continuous deployment operations.  Team Concert in this case, handles dependency build (compilation) of z/OS source code (COBOL, … Read more

Adding Compiler Feedback Information to Team Concert z/OS Dependency Builds

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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

FAQs for Runnnng Rational Team Concert on DB2 for z/OS Database

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Strongback works with many large mainframe customers, in the financial services, government, insurance, and manufacturing sectors. We’ve been involved in quite a few migrations from various SCM systems to Rational Team Concert. Most of these customers choose to run Team Concert with a DB2 backend running on z/OS (DB2z). As such, we often run into the … Read more

Powershell script to create folders based on week ending date

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We are frequently on projects subcontracted by IBM. As such, we have to submit our time and expenses for each week which ends on Friday’s in IBM’s time tracking system. Sometimes we have multiple projects going on at the same time and every Friday afternoon (or Sunday evening depending upon travel and general motivation), I … Read more