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.
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
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
Linux is a very popular platform to run the IBM CLM tools on (i.e. Quality Manger, Team Concert, DOORs NG, etc). However, out of the box, there is not a built in autostart feature for the platform. Naturally, you want this to autostart in a production environment. Here is a handy systemd unit file. First, … Read more
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
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
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
Don’t run your CLM Servers without an HTTP Server All too often I run into organizations who have started with IBM Rational Team Concert and some other consultant has setup their servers without an HTTP server. Invariably they run into the same issues over and over again. Its a simple step to setup this up. … 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
Need to keep your IBM IDE’s updated consistently? You can easily do this through automating the IBM Installation Manger’s command line interface. You can put this into a Window’s task Update All via Command Line This is stupid simple to do. First, make sure you have all instances of the IBM or Rational IDE products … Read more