Want to learn more about Jazz-based products?  Check out the enhanced jazz.net products page! On this page, you’ll see a tile for each jazz.net product.  When you hover over it, a bright blue border appears around it.  Find the one you’re interested in, and click anywhere on the tile to expand it. When the tile […]

We’re delighted to announce that IBM Quick Deployer version 1.2 is available, free to download and use from Jazz.net under a “Non-warranted Program” license. You can see more details on version 1.2 here. IBM Quick Deployer is installation and deployment automation for IBM’s Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) and Continuous Engineering (CE) Solutions 6.0.2, 6.0.1 and […]

The journey of a system test organization in transforming itself into a continuous delivery, DevOps model by Mario Maldari and Albert Tabachnik In a DevOps Continuous Engineering environment, with accelerated timescales, it is ever more important to focus testing efforts on those features and platforms that are most critical to your customers. The Collaborative Lifecycle Management […]

DOORS Next Generation (DNG) v6.0, which was made generally available at the end of June, was one the largest and most feature-filled releases we have ever delivered. With that shipment, we introduced for the first time configuration management of requirements as well as a new, no browser plug-in graphical editor. You can view all the details of […]

This blog post has been a collaborative effort with Marianne Hollier, Cindy VanEpps, Roger LeBlanc and Anita Rass Wan. We are interested in getting feedback on how these scenarios could help to drive customer conversations when introducing the middleware portfolio in support of their DevOps initiatives. Welcome to the first in a series of blog […]

In our pipeline, we use Rational Quality Manager (RQM) to run a lot of tests using dynamically created RQM adapters. While building the products, we also compile and package the tests to be run. After the tests and products to test are built, we create and start several RQM adapters to run the tests. Here’s […]

NOTE: This AMA has been rescheduled from July 15th to July 16th due to a conflict on the iAmA subreddit. The Collaborative Lifecycle Management team will be doing an AMA (Ask Me Anything) on the iAmA subreddit on July 16th from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM Eastern time. For those not familiar with the concept […]

IBM Rational Team Concert 6.0 continues to develop and improve the capabilities provided for users of z Systems and IBM i. ISPF client usability The ISPF client is still focused on developers and their day-to-day code changing activities. First of all a new command,  SRCHFOR, has been added, to make it easier for developers to […]

In IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC) 6.0 we have simplified the user experience while adding advanced capabilities. Let’s start with making things easier and more flexible for developers. Easy agile your way: IBM Rational Team Concert Quick Planner 6.0 I recently gave a brief keynote talk at the SCRUM Alliance in Phoenix about “Agile your […]

This release could well be introducing the most fundamental function into a requirements management (RM) tool since RM systems began.  While we continue our drive with usability and productivity, we are also providing support for requirements configuration management (CM), built from the ground up as part of the native tool, rather than simply integrating an […]