Rational Team Concert for System z 2.0 Beta 2

Early Access Milestone | June 12, 2009

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Important upgrade notice regarding pre-release software:

Use of a pre-release build in a production environment as the primary or only system for productive purposes is not supported and not recommended. We strongly recommand that you install and evaluate any pre-release build separately and continue to use an existing release for productive purposes.

Unless otherwise documented, pre-release (milestone, release candidate or beta) builds can only be upgraded to the next published build targeted for the same release. In most cases the next build will be another pre-release build (e.g. version x.0 M3 can only be upgraded to x.0 M4 or whichever build is published next in that stream).

This is not the recommended version. We recommend Rational Team Concert for System z 2.0.0.2 interim fix 5. This is made available for archival purposes and may contain bugs and/or security vulnerabilities. If you do download this version, it is being provided AS IS, without warranties of any kind, including the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. We strongly advise you review the support pages for this version and update the product or take actions recommended therein. Security bulletins contain instructions for the security vulnerability addressed therein, and may require upgrading to a newer version. Link to security vulnerability blog: IBM PSIRT blog.

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Rational Team Concert for System z is based on the open and extensible Jazz platform. The program empowers software development teams to collaborate in real time based on specific roles and processes. Rational Team Concert for System z integrates source control, work items, build management, dashboards, and process support into a single solution that runs on System z.


Rational Team Concert for System z mass import tool	A rules-driven tool that imports PDS members into an automatically created Eclipse project structure called a zComponent project. The zComponent project is managed by Rational Team Concert for System z source control and contains all your supporting artifacts, data definitions, and project directories. You can also associate an artifact with a language definition. A language definition describes how an artifact is built by specifying preprocessing tasks and setting the correct compiler and compiler options. This beta provides a preview of the mass import tool that allows you to create and modify rules to find out what your zComponent project structures will be when the complete import tool is available.

zComponent Eclipse projects and content	New wizards help you create the Eclipse project, project containers, and project artifacts required for System z development.

User-created hyperlinks to z/OS artifacts from Rational Team Concert for System z work items	This function is only available when Rational Developer for System z 7.5 is installed. You can add a hyperlink in a work item to open a z/OS artifact in the Rational Developer for the System z LPEX editor, and add a link in the z/OS artifact that the LPEX editor recognizes as a hyperlink back to a Team Concert-based work item.

Work item status queries through external z/OS source control management tools such as SCLM and Endevor	A gateway application running on System z simplifies calling of Jazz REST services from scripting languages such as REXX. A sample SCLM exit point REXX exec is included, which demonstrates how to interrogate the status of a Rational Team Concert for System z work item and use the results to determine whether an SCLM action is permitted.

Builds driven by REXX and JCL using the Rational Build Forge agent	Install and configure the System z based Build Forge build agent and start compilation using sample REXX scripts. Submit a build driven by JCL and obtain the JCL job results from within the Eclipse client or Web-based client.

End-to-end build driven by Ant	Builds driven by Ant scripts for a COBOL program stored in Rational Team Concert for System z source control on a System z machine.