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OSLC Workshop and Jazz Extensions Workshop

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:35:00 GMT

The two workshops downloadable here were initially created and delivered at the IBM/Rational Innovate 2010 User Conference. Participant feedback, and the stream of customer questions regarding OSLC and Rational Team Concert (RTC) Extensibility have convinced us that we need to make this available here on Jazz.net.

Using the Common Project Administration (2010 Beta 1)

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:35:00 GMT

The IBM Jazz Common Project Administration application is a new IBM Rational application currently under development that is intended to simplify creation and management of projects that contain capabilities from multiple lifecycle capabilities. In this demo, we create a project that contains requirements, change and configuration management, and test capabilities.

Configuring Common Project Administration (2010 Beta 1)

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:30:00 GMT

This video demonstrates how to successfully configure the new IBM Jazz Common Project Administration application that the IBM Rational Jazz team are developing to simplify creation of projects that span applications and capabilities. Note that this demo shows a beta version of the Common Project Administration.

Continuous Integration Best Practices with Rational Team Concert

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:00:00 GMT

Continuous integration is a software development best practice that distributed teams use more and more as a way to mitigate integration problems and to facilitate development of cohesive software more rapidly. The objective of this technical article is to introduce briefly continuous integration key practices (referencing Martin Fowler "Continuous Integration" white paper and explain using a practical scenario how Rational Team Concert (RTC) can help software development teams easily build a Continuous Integration system.

Rational Asset Manager 7.5 Milestone 3 - Search Facets

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:00:00 GMT

Watch an overview demo of new and noteworthy features and support added during Rational Asset Manager 7.5 milestone 3 - Search Facets.

Rational Asset Manager 7.5 Milestone 3 - Rational System Architect

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:00:00 GMT

Watch an overview demo of new and noteworthy features and support added during Rational Asset Manager 7.5 milestone 3 release System Architect.

Rational Asset Manager 7.5 Milestone 3 - Social Gadgets

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:00:00 GMT

Watch an overview demo of new and noteworthy features and support added during Rational Asset Manager 7.5 milestone 3 release - Social Gadgets.

Rational Asset Manager 7.5 Milestone 3 - Library

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:00:00 GMT

Watch an overview demo of new and noteworthy features and support added during Rational Asset Manager 7.5 milestone 3 release - Library.

Rational Asset Manager 7.5 Milestone 3 - Lotus Connections

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:00:00 GMT

Watch an overview demo of new and noteworthy features and support added during Rational Asset Manager 7.5 milestone 3 release - Lotus Connections.

Rational Asset Manager 7.5 Milestone 3 - Rational Insight

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:00:00 GMT

Watch an overview demo of new and noteworthy features and support added during Rational Asset Manager 7.5 milestone 3 release - Rational Insight.

Rational Asset Manager 7.5 Milestone 3 - Artifact Links

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:00:00 GMT

Watch an overview demo of new and noteworthy features and support added during Rational Asset Manager 7.5 milestone 3 release - Artifact Links.

Rational Team Concert pre-release Online Help (In progress)

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:00:00 GMT

This infocenter includes the under-development Help documentation for Rational Team Concert. You can review and add comments to each topic.

Rational Quality Manager pre-release Online Help (In progress)

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:45:00 GMT

This infocenter includes the under-development Help documentation for Rational Quality Manager. You can review and add comments to each topic.

Link and Populate Plans using IBM Rational Workbench for Collaborative Lifecycle Management

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:00:00 GMT

In this demo, Carolyn Pampino shows how requirements, development plans, and test plans are linked together between Rational DOORS Requirements Professional, Rational Team Concert, and Rational Quality manager.

Case Studies in the Use of Rational Jazz for Systems and Software Development: CPDA Analyst Report

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:00:00 GMT

As confirmed by numerous users in interviews, IBM Rational tools based on Jazz, centered on the Rational Team Concert solution, can help solve many systems development issues. This analyst paper highlights leading users who are leveraging IBM Rational solutions to assist them in embedded systems development. The report confirms the strength and potential for the platform and introduces Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC), providing integration potential by offering standards-based definitions of interfaces to data leveraged throughout the development lifecycle.

Configuring IBM DB2 9.7 High Availability Database Repository for Rational Team Concert

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 06:00:00 GMT

This article will describe how to configure your Rational Team server with a DB2 database server by leveraging DB2's High Availability and Disaster Recovery (HADR) feature. This configuration will allow minimizing down time of the Rational Team Concert server from software or hardware failures that may occur on the system where the database repository resides.

Enabling custom defect types when integrating RQM with RTC

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:00:00 GMT

IBM Rational Team Concert provides a wide range of components to support application lifecycle management. Rational Team Concert adds various functionalities to Rational Quality Manager. These new functionalities are can be used to increase productivity and efficiency.

Build Forge - Demo of the new user interface

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:00:00 GMT

This video contains a walk-through of the new user interface features of Rational Build Forge. We look forward to hearing feedback in our Build Forge forum.

Jazz Administration Guide

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:00:00 GMT

This document defines the set of tasks performed by the Rational Team Concert (RTC) administrator to keep the environment up and running effectively.

Rational Requirements Composer 2.0.0.2 Online Help

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:00:00 GMT

Infocenter with help documentation for Rational Requirements Composer 2.0.0.2

Tech Tip: Preventing Visual Studio crash while opening Web Site projects

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:00:00 GMT

When using Rational Team Concert 2.0.0.2 client for Microsoft Visual Studio IDE, when you open a Web Site project shared in Jazz, Visual Studio crashes due to ordering of assemblies in web.config file.

Web UI Pattern and Style Guide

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:00:00 GMT

This article is for anyone designing or developing user interfaces for Web applications built or integrating with Jazz. This guide provides a collection of elements that are expected from a well-behaved Jazz application or component that is extending or making UI contributions to the web client.

Tech Tip: Configuring Tomcat with LDAPLocalGroup Realm

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:00:00 GMT

This document provides instructions on how to configure the Tomcat application server and the Jazz application to use the information present in the LDAP directory for authentication and a local file for managing authorization/group membership.

The Executive Dashboard: as presented at IBM Rational Innovate 2010

Fri, 04 Jun 2010 20:00:00 GMT

Watch this short video to see how the Executive Dashboard can leverage Rational software and best practices to achieve your business results.

What's new in Rational Asset Manager 7.5 Milestone 2

Fri, 28 May 2010 17:00:00 GMT

Watch an overview demo of new and noteworthy features and support added during Rational Asset Manager 7.5 milestone 2 release.

Sharing work: Rational Team Concert SCM v. Subversion

Thu, 27 May 2010 17:00:00 GMT

This video demonstrates how Rational team concert allows developers to share the work(changesets) or suspend, discard, revert thus allowing them to be more efficient and productive.

Associating changes: Rational Team Concert v. Subversion + Jira

Thu, 27 May 2010 17:00:00 GMT

This video demonstrates how the integration between Subversion and Jira can be very brittle and requires developer to be perfect. It also shows how Rational Team Concert (RTC) dosen't have this problem being part of tool integration solution.

Storing source code changes: Rational Team Concert v. Subversion

Thu, 27 May 2010 17:00:00 GMT

Rational team concert has the ability of repository based workspaces where changes are safely stored and can be recovered from the client problems such as hard disk failures.

Agile Planning with Rational Team Concert for Rational Synergy and Change Users

Tue, 18 May 2010 17:00:00 GMT

This video demonstrates how to use the agile planning and collaboration features in Rational Team Concert (RTC) and link the results with Rational Synergy and Rational Change the new Synergy and Change integrations with RTC.

Transforming Software Development through Web 2.0 Collaboration

Mon, 17 May 2010 22:00:00 GMT

In this presentation, we explore highly collaborative approaches to software delivery powered by the Rational Jazz solution for collaborative ALM. By integrating Web 2.0 technologies, Agile practices and "team first" principles, we'll show you how Rational Team Concert, Rational Quality Manager and other next-generation solutions are transforming the way teams plan, develop, test and deliver software.

Synchronizing Rational Change with Rational Team Concert

Fri, 14 May 2010 21:00:00 GMT

Rational Change integrates with Rational Team Concert (RTC) using a synchronizer; this allows synchronizing Change CRs with corresponding RTC Work Items.

Synergy for RTC interface

Fri, 14 May 2010 21:00:00 GMT

Rational Synergy integrates with Rational Team Concert (RTC) using a bridge. Using the Synergy bridge to RTC allows integrating Synergy with RTC so that you utilize the benefits of Work Items, Agile Planning, Collaboration and Dashboarding capabilities without using Jazz source control.

Practicing source control archaeology with Rational Team Concert

Fri, 14 May 2010 21:00:00 GMT

The goal of this article is to shed some more light on how Team Concert keeps track of all the great work you do during your development. For those of you who have parallel development needs this article will be very helpful. We'll first review how Team Concert handles history, then discuss investigation techniques and wrap up with some insights into interpreting merge graphs.

Removing the cost barriers to getting the agile tools you need

Wed, 12 May 2010 20:00:00 GMT

If your development team is still using poorly integrated agile planning, version control, defect tracking or build tools, now you have no excuse not to try Rational Team Concert ... but we should warn you about our experience with other Rational Team Concert customers: once developers try it they don't want to use anything else!

Originally posted on ibm.com, where a transcript is available. You can also read a related blog post by speaker Rolf Nelson

Mapping your Visual Studio Projects and Solutions to Jazz Components

Tue, 11 May 2010 17:00:00 GMT

In Jazz source control, the fundamental organizational unit for source code is a component. When you create a component, you'd typically put related projects together (for example, projects that are built together or form a subsystem). Projects put into one component can then be re-used in multiple solutions.

Transferring Requirements from Rational Requirements Composer to RequisitePro

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:00:00 GMT

See how to create a requirement in Rational Requirements Composer and then transfer it to RequisitePro for management.

What's New in Rational Requirements Composer Overview 2.0

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:00:00 GMT

Learn new capabilities in Requirements Composer which expands this application from requirements definition to requirements management. Look at reporting, the web ui, web review and approval, collections and snapshots and collaborative application lifecycle management.

Creating Value through Requirements Definition

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:00:00 GMT

Learn about the full scope of IBM Rational Requirements Composer and its capabilities to help you manage evolving business objectives. Rational Requirements Composer is a requirements definition solution that enables organizations to enhance their requirements processes with easy-to-use elicitation and definition capabilities. Providing various visual and collaborative tools, Requirements Composer enables the capture and refinement of business needs into unambiguous requirements that drive improved quality, speed, and alignment across the IT Lifecycle. This ability to visualize results before committing resources helps avoid costly requirements failures and project rework.

How to create dashboard viewlets in Rational Team Concert

Geetu Garg — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:00:00 GMT

This article explains how to create a dashboard on the Jazz technology platform and add viewlets. It also describes how to customize a viewlet programmatically by using JavaScript and calling REST services and Dojo widgets that you want to include in the viewlet.

Server Sizing Guide - IBM Rational Quality Manager Version 2.0

Chuck Berry — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:00:00 GMT

This article provides sales teams and customers guidance on how to specify the appropriate deployment architecture for IBM Rational Quality Manager Version 2.0

Executive Dashboard - Elevate your view with Insight

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:00:00 GMT

See how the Executive Dashboard can leverage Rational software and best practices to achieve your business results.

Elevate your view with IBM Rational Insight Demo

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:00:00 GMT

Learn more about Rational Insight, a performance measurement and management solution that gives you a new perspective on your project and process performance.

IBM Rational Insight Tour

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:00:00 GMT

Tour IBM Rational Insight to learn how you can leverage it in your development model.

IBM Rational Insight Datasheet

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:00:00 GMT

Deliver the right information at the right time - As economic climates continue to change, organizations must find ways to keep their competitive advantage while meeting customer needs with fewer resources and more budget constraints.

Improve project success with better information

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:00:00 GMT

Organizations must have access to accurate, timely and appropriate project information and the ability to put it in the hands of decision makers.

Building a measurement foundation for effective software delivery

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:00:00 GMT

Due to a lack of timely and accurate information, project and process management within the software and systems development and delivery lifecycle often rely more on guesswork than good insights.

Lowering business costs: Mitigating risk in the software delivery lifecycle

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:00:00 GMT

In today's challenging economy, businesses are under increased pressures to reduce overall costs while mitigating and controlling risks.

Software development and delivery performance measurement and management: Optimizing business value in software

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:00:00 GMT

Successful business executives and senior managers control their organization's performance by knowing their goals and measuring their business performance and results against them.

Configuration of Insight for Rational Quality Manager

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:00:00 GMT

Rational Insight provides a single point of access for consistent and objective insight into development projects.

Rational Team Concert for Power Systems Software 2.0 Online Help

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:00:00 GMT

Infocenter with help documentation for Rational Team Concert for Power Systems Software 2.0

Webcast: Tired of wrestling with point solutions? Then step up to a lean ALM platform!

Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:00:00 GMT

Rational Team Concert - Collaborative Development. Does your organization develop for both Java and .NET platforms? Are you looking to tie-in your legacy system development with newer development technologies? Are you adopting agile practices? Do you want to leverage your open source tools? Are your teams scattered across different time zones and countries? In this webcast, Rolf Nelson (product manager for IBM Rational Team Concert) explains how an agile application lifecycle management solution can help disparate teams produce high quality software in a much more cost-effective and predictable manner (registration required).

Tech Tip: Installing Rational Project Conductor (RPC) on a Rational Team Concert (RTC) instance that has projects and a process template

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:00:00 GMT

If you use IBM Rational Team Concert and have one or more project areas that use a process template, you can install Rational Project Conductor on your Rational Team Concert instance and customize the process template for use in Rational Project Conductor.

What's New in Rational Asset Manager 7.2.0.2

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:00:00 GMT

This PDF is a presentation describing new and noteworthy features in Rational Asset Manager 7.2.0.2.

Rational Asset Manager 7.2 Editions and Licensing

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:00:00 GMT

This PDF is a presentation showing the editions and licensing options for Rational Asset Manager 7.2.

Manage Assets with Lifecyles in Rational Asset Manager

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:00:00 GMT

Learn how to use lifecycles in Rational Asset Manager to improve how you govern and manage assets in your repository.

Rational Asset Manager - Editions

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:00:00 GMT

Learn what is new in this 6 part Webcast series. In Part 6 of Rational Asset Manager v 7.2 on Jazz What's New, see how you have more flexible options for deploying RAM and where you can learn more information.

Rational Asset Manager - Use and Create Assets in Development

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:00:00 GMT

Learn what is new in this 6 part Webcast series. In Part 5 of Rational Asset Manager v 7.2 on Jazz What's New, see how you can Use and Create Assets in Development in the Rich client and other build tools.

Rational Asset Manager - Use and Report on Assets

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:00:00 GMT

Learn what is new in this 6 part Webcast series. In Part 4 of Rational Asset Manager v 7.2 on Jazz What's New, see how you can Use and Report on Assets in the Web client.

Rational Asset Manager - Review Assets

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:00:00 GMT

Learn what is new in this 6 part Webcast series. In Part 3 of Rational Asset Manager v 7.2 on Jazz What's New, see how you can review assets in the Web client.

Rational Asset Manager - Create Assets

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:00:00 GMT

Learn what is new in this 6 part Webcast series. In Part 2 of Rational Asset Manager v 7.2 on Jazz What's New, see how you can create assets in the Web client.

Rational Asset Manager - Search for Assets

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:00:00 GMT

Learn what is new in this 6 part Webcast series. In Part 1 of Rational Asset Manager v 7.2 on Jazz What's New, see how you can search for assets in the Web client.

What's New in Rational Asset Manager 7.2.0.2

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:00:00 GMT

Provides an introduction to the features and benefits of Rational Asset Manager v 7.2.0.2.

Managing a Software Development Release with Rational Asset Manager

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:00:00 GMT

See how Rational Asset Manager allows people to interact with each other and deliverables to create a web service.

Rational Quality Manager 2.0.1 Online Help

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Infocenter with help documentation for Rational Quality Manager 2.0.1

IBM Rational Collaborative ALM Demo - The Jazz Revolution

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:00:00 GMT

This demo illustrates the Rational solution for collaborative ALM, including requirements, development, testing, and performance management capabilities. It demonstrates how the roles on a typical development team use Rational tools to deliver greater value for their business. There is also a Japanese version of this video.

Collaborative ALM Interoperability

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:00:00 GMT

This white paper outlines the options for integrating IBM Rational ClearQuest with Rational Team Concert and Rational Quality Manager to achieve Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) interoperability.

Tech Tip: Installing the Rational ClearCase Bridge to Rational Team Concert

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:00:00 GMT

This document provides instructions for installing the components that make up the ClearCase Bridge to Rational Team Concert.

Tech Tip: Single Sign-on using WebSphere Application Server

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:05:00 GMT

This tech tip will explain how to setup Single sign-on using WebSphere Application Server.

Tech Tip: Windows XP Runtime Error when running Compare with Predecessor after opening ClearCase Activities link on non-CCRC host

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:05:00 GMT

This Tech Tip addresses the following runtime error from the Rational Team Concert ClearCase Bridge: "This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way."

Tech Tip: ClearCase Synchronizer workaround for problem in Rational Team Concert 1.0 with conflicts in identical content

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:00:00 GMT

Rational Team Concert 1.0 contained a defect (work item 43962) that caused the Compare Editor to show conflicts between file states with identical content. This defect was fixed in Rational Team Concert 2.0; this tech tip provides a workaround for users of the ClearCase synchronizer who run into this problem in the 1.0 release.

Agile practices enactment with Rational Team Concert and Rational Method Composer

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:35:00 GMT

IBM Rational Team Concert can improve the productivity of your teams and the quality of the work they produce by allowing each team to define the practices they will follow.

Developing with Rational Team Concert

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:35:00 GMT

Take a tour of Rational Team Concert 2.0.0.2 from a developer's perspective and see how day to day tasks such as continuous integration, participating in planning, fixing builds, and collaborating on code changes are made easier.

Tracking and Planning with Rational Team Concert

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:34:00 GMT

Take a tour of Rational Team Concert 2.0.0.2 from the perspective of a product manager, scrum master, or product owner, and see how it can help improve the transparency, planning, and tracking within your team.

Tech Tip: Updating existing Rational Team Concert project areas with the Project Area Updater Tool

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:45:00 GMT

Rational Team Concert 2.0 shipped with new versions of the Scrum and OpenUP process templates. The new versions offer some new features, such as new work item types and plan types. If you want to use the new features in project areas that were created with a previous version of the templates, you can use the project area updater tool.

Results of IBM Rational Requirements Composer 2.0 Performance and Scalability Tests

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:45:00 GMT

Performance and scalability are of paramount importance in any server-based environment. Depending on the complexity of the environment, performance can dramatically impact the effectiveness of software that you have in place.

RRC 2.0: New Features for Documents in Rational Requirements Composer 2.0

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:34:00 GMT

This demo shows the latest features in Rational Requirements Composer 2.0 for documents. These features include creating and working with tables, setting font and spellchecking preferences, and manipulating formatting.

RRC 2.0: Out-of-the-Box Reporting

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:33:00 GMT

This demo describes the out-of-the-box report templates offered with the Requirements Composer 2.0 release. It also provides an instructional follow through on generating these reports from within the composer rich client.

RRC 2.0: Using Project Snapshot to Capture the State of a Project

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:32:00 GMT

This Rational Requirements Composer 2.0 video explains what a Project Snapshot is and how it can be used to view the tags, folders, and artifacts that comprised a project at a given point in time. You will learn how to create a snapshot of a project and browse its artifacts in the context of a date in the past. For more applications of Project Snapshots, view the video "Collections" to see how artifact collections can be associated with Project Snapshots and how their contents can be compared across snapshots.

RRC 2.0: Create Meaningful Groups with Collections

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:30:00 GMT

This demo of Rational Requirements Composer 2.0 explains what a Collection is and how it can be used to create a powerful group of artifacts at a meaningful point in time. You will learn how to create a Collection, set the Version of Artifacts used in a Collection, create a Review of a Collection, compare two different versions of a Collection, and much more. Collections are closely tied to Project Snapshots, so you may want to view the video about Project Snapshots to learn more information on that topic.

IBM Rational Quality Manager 2.0.0.1 Platform Performance Report

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:45:00 GMT

This report examines performance and resource utilization of Windows vs. Linux platforms of Rational Quality Manager Standard server in a single-tier topology.

IBM Rational Quality Manager 2.0.0.1 Application Server Performance Report

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:45:00 GMT

This report examines performance and resource utilization of application servers Apache Tomcat vs. WebSphere Application Server (WAS) of Rational Quality Manager Standard server in a single-tier topology.

Tutorial: Creating and monitoring C/ALM relationships in Rational Requirements Composer

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:45:00 GMT

This tutorial shows you how to use the Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management (C/ALM) capabilities to link artifacts in Rational Requirements Composer with work items in Rational Team Concert and test plans and test cases in Rational Quality Manager. The tutorial also demonstrates how to view the status of linked artifacts and navigate between them. It also demonstrates how to customize and filter the display of artifacts in Rational Requirements Composer for viewing C/ALM relationships.

Getting Started with Rational Team Concert: A Deployment Guide

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:30:00 GMT

This guide provides a road map as you embark on a deployment of Rational Team Concert (RTC) into your organization.

Demo of RRC 2.0 and Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:30:00 GMT

Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management (C/ALM) improves the collaboration of the people in the various job roles across the application lifecycle. This short video shows a simple example of a business analyst using this solution to develop a set of business requirements and relating them to Release, Iteration and Test plans. All members of the team (analyst, developers, testers) use their normal tool of choice, thus ensuring that the developed solution is delivered and validated as defined by the requirements.

RRC 2.0: Managing requirements using RRC and DOORS

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:45:00 GMT

This demo provides an overview of the Rational Requirements Composer/DOORS integration. The video demonstrates a general example of how you might use the integration to help you successfully track and manage your requirements.

RRC 2.0: Server installation and configuration

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:05:00 GMT

This video demonstrates how to configure your Rational Requirements Composer 2.0 Server on a Tomcat/DB2 configuration.

RRC 2.0: Migrating RRC 1.0 projects to 2.0

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:02:00 GMT

This video demonstrates how you can migrate Rational Requirements Composer 1.0 projects to a 2.0 server.

Drinking our own champagne: Inside the concert of RTCz development

Jean-Yves Rigolet — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:55:00 GMT

In this presentation (PDF), Jean-Yves Rigolet, the Rational Team Concert for System z Scrum Master, gives an overview of the RTC for System z development team, their processes, successes, and lessons learned.

Introduction to the RequisitePro to Rational Team Concert Connector

Steve Arnold — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:00:00 GMT

This article discusses the purpose and use of the Requisite Pro to Rational Team Concert connector, and then walks you through how to install it and set it up.

Guide to migrating defects from Rational ClearQuest to Rational Team Concert 2.0

Mark D. Dunn — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:00:00 GMT

This document provides step-by-step instructions on how to successfully import defects from a Rational ClearQuest database to a project area in a Rational Team Concert 2.0 server as Jazz work items (defects).

Extending Rational Jazz with IBM Lotus Connections

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:55:00 GMT

developerWorks editor Scott Laningham interviews Chris Lamb, Senior Marketing Manager for IBM Lotus Connections, and Yaacov Cohen, CEO of Mainsoft, about the benefits of integrating Lotus Connections into the software delivery process. For the first time, development teams can easily communicate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders -- for a more agile development process -- using searchable user profiles, status updates, wikis, blogs and more, directly from the development environment. Podcast originally posted on Scott's blog.

RRC 2.0: Working with Selected Filters and Saved Filters

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:02:00 GMT

This demo provides background information about the concepts of selected filters and saved filters. It also includes an instructional follow through on creating and using saved filters.

RRC 2.0: Business Process Diagram Enhancements

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:01:00 GMT

This demo provides information about some of the business process diagram enhancements included in Requirements Composer 2.0.

What's new in Rational Team Concert 2.0.0.2 for Rational customers

Rolf Nelson — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:00:00 GMT

This PDF is a presentation describing new and noteworthy features in Rational Team Concert 2.0.0.2. You can also watch the related new & noteworthy video demo.

Rational Team Concert 2.0.0.2 - New and Noteworthy

Jean-Michel Lemieux — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:02:00 GMT

This video is a quick feature overview of the new enhancements added to Rational Team Concert 2.0.0.2.

Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC)

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:00:00 GMT

IBM Rational Jazz is a participant in OSLC. Your development team has a problem -- a lot of tools, from a lot of different vendors, and they are NOT getting along. Learn how the Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration initiative can help -- and how you can get involved.

Tech Tip: Installing the Rational Team Concert client into Eclipse 3.5.x

Sonia Dimitrov — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:30:00 GMT

This tech tip describes how to try out Rational Team Concert with an Eclipse 3.5.x release. This use case is not officially supported.

Getting Started with Planning in Rational Team Concert 2.0.0.2

Agile Planning Component Team — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:00:00 GMT

The Agile Planning component provides a new way to assist you with planning and executing development iterations. Because iteration planning is based on work items targeting a certain iteration, planning becomes interactive, live and fun.

Planning in the Web UI with Rational Team Concert 2.0.0.2

Agile Planning Component Team — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:00:00 GMT

You can do Work Item planning using the Web user interface in Rational Team Concert 2.0. This article gives a brief walkthrough of the agile planning Web UI and shows how to do planning there.

Effective Planning with Rational Team Concert 2.0.0.2

Agile Planning Component Team — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:00:00 GMT

This article describes how to use the Planned Items page of the Plan editor to create and manage work items as you plan and execute your work.

Customizing the Agile Planning tools in Rational Team Concert 2.0.0.2

Agile Planning Component Team — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:00:00 GMT

This article describes how to customize the Agile Planning tooling to further enable you in being agile. From planning a simple iteration, to a release for one team or a whole project with multiple iterations and teams, the Agile Planning tooling comes with a set of customizable plan types and plan modes.

Tech Tip: Unable to synchronize ClearQuest records to Rational Team Concert 2.0 or 2.0.0.1 using ClearQuest 7.1.1.x

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:03:00 GMT

This tech tip describes the resolution for errors when synchronizing ClearQuest records due to version incompatibilities.

Tech Tip: Unable to import ClearQuest records into Rational Team Concert 2.0 or 2.0.0.1 using ClearQuest 7.1.1.x

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:02:00 GMT

When attempting to import ClearQuest Records into Rational Team Concert, clicking on the "Browse" button in the "Select a Query" section, results in an error message about incompatible versions.

Tech Tip: Rational Team Concert 2.0.0.2 coexistence with command line and client for Microsoft Visual Studio

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:02:00 GMT

With Rational Team Concert 2.0.0.2, it is possible to run the Eclipse client, command line, and client for Microsoft Visual Studio on the same sandbox.

Tech Tip: Eclipse Properties view incompatibility with the ClearCase Bridge in certain versions of ClearCase Remote Client

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:42:00 GMT

When using the IBM Rational ClearCase Bridge in Rational Team Concert 2.0 or 2.0.0.1 with ClearCase Remote Client IFix 7.1.0.02.01, an attempt to open an activity link from a work item results in an empty Properties view.

Tech Tip: Updating Rational Team Concert 2.0.0.2 Eclipse Client from RC2 milestone to 2.0.0.2 GA release

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:00:00 GMT

Describes a potential issue using the IBM Installation Manager to update the RTC Eclipse Client from 2.0.0.2 RC2 to the 2.0.0.2 GA release.

TN0006: Deploying Rational Team Concert into a ClearCase/ClearQuest Environment

Paul Vanderlei — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:07:00 GMT

Addresses the various issues regarding the ClearCase and ClearQuest Connectors in deploying Rational Team Concert. It presents various scenarios and makes recommendations on appropriateness and configuration of Rational Team Concert and the Jazz Team Server.

RRC 2.0: Customizing the column properties

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:02:00 GMT

This Rational Requirements Composer 2.0 video demonstrates customizing the project page and the collection editors to display the custom attributes for the artifacts list.

RRC 2.0: Custom attributes filtering and editing

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:01:00 GMT

This Rational Requirements Composer 2.0 demo provides information on how to filter the project page and the collection editors artifacts list based on the values of the custom attributes and how to edit the values of the custom attributes for multiple artifacts in a single operation.

RRC 2.0: Handling conflicts in editors

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:00:00 GMT

This Rational Requirements 2.0 video demonstrates handling the conflicts when two users are working concurrently on the same resource.

Implementing agile requirements using Rational Requirements Composer 2.0 with C/ALM

Yan (Tina) Zhuo — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:00:00 GMT

Development organizations, large and small, are striving for more agility in their software delivery. Requirements management, a major factor for project success, is an essential part of disciplined agile development. This presentation introduces an agile requirements project template using IBM Rational Requirements Composer 2.0 that puts user stories in the business context. It also provides guidance on how to work with user stories using Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management(C/ALM).

Part 1: Collaborative development with RTC for System z and Rational Developer for System z

Steven Dearth — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:02:00 GMT

Part 1: Diagnosing the problem. This three part video series demonstrates a collaborative development scenario involving a Web developer and a COBOL/CICS developer. The Web developer gets assigned a defect, but discovers through debugging that the problem is likely in the COBOL/CICS part of the application. He hands off the defect to the COBOL developer who uses Rational Developer for System z to diagnose and fix the problem.

Part 2: Collaborative development with RTC for System z and Rational Developer for System z

Steven Dearth — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:01:00 GMT

Part 2: Debugging the problem. This three part video series demonstrates a collaborative development scenario involving a Web developer and a COBOL/CICS developer. The Web developer gets assigned a defect, but discovers through debugging that the problem is likely in the COBOL/CICS part of the application. He hands off the defect to the COBOL developer who uses Rational Developer for System z to diagnose and fix the problem.

Part 3: Collaborative development with RTC for System z and Rational Developer for System z

Steven Dearth — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:00:00 GMT

Part 3: Fixing the defect. This three part video series demonstrates a collaborative development scenario involving a Web developer and a COBOL/CICS developer. The Web developer gets assigned a defect, but discovers through debugging that the problem is likely in the COBOL/CICS part of the application. He hands off the defect to the COBOL developer who uses Rational Developer for System z to diagnose and fix the problem.

Tech Tip: Microsoft Excel files show outgoing changes in Jazz SCM after you read them

John Camelon — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:27:00 GMT

Opening a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet can cause it to show up as an outgoing change within Jazz Source Control. This tech tip explains the error and how to work around it.

Tech Tip: Pending Changes view stops tracking repository workspace

John Camelon — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:25:00 GMT

Restarting your client may show your workspace as unloaded. This tech tip explains the error that may come up and how to work around it.

Build Forge white papers

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:35:00 GMT

These white papers give an overview of the Rational Build Forge system, and how it provides value to people who are developing software applications. They describe such things as how build and release management plays a key role in agile, distributed and iterative development environments, and examine the business and technical benefits of Rational Build Forge.

Build Forge case study

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:30:00 GMT

Download this IBM Rational Build Forge case study to learn how Build Forge helps customers to achieve scalable build and release processes and centralize build and release management systems.

Tech Tip: Symbolic Link support in Jazz Source Control

John Camelon — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:25:00 GMT

You may run into problems when trying to check in or accept symbolic link changes using Jazz Source Control on unsupported or misconfigured platforms. This tech tip explains errors that may come up and how to work around them.

Tech Tip: Eliminate excessive RACF warnings under WebSphere Application Server on z/OS

Bruce Green — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:15:00 GMT

When you deploy the jazz.war Web application in Rational Team Concert for System z, multiple ICH408I error messages are logged to the system console for any security roles for which you are not authorized. This Tech Tip explains why these warnings occur and how to suppress them.

Share and manage documents through the Rational Team Concert Web UI

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:25:00 GMT

This article shows how to share and manage documents directly on a stream, in the Rational Team Concert Web UI. This workflow is particularly well suited for team members who create documents with specialized applications such as graphic design tools, word processing tools, and spreadsheet editors.

Part 1: Installing Rational Requirements Composer 2.0 server on Websphere Application Server 6.1.0.25 using LDAP (Part 1 of 2)

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:25:00 GMT

This demo provides an instructional follow through to implement security on Websphere Application Server for Rational Requirements Composer Server. These security features include enabling the LDAP user registry and updating web security for authentication. Lastly, the presentation will show how to create the JVM custom properties required by the Rational Requirements Server.

Part 2: Installing Rational Requirements Composer 2.0 server on Websphere Application Server 6.1.0.25 using LDAP (Part 2 of 2)

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:24:00 GMT

This demo provides an instructional follow through on how to install and deploy Rational Requirements Composer Server applications. In addition it will guide the end user through a Rational Requirements Composer Server setup that enables the server to leverage the LDAP user registry.

RRC 2.0: Working in the Collaborative Application Lifecycle

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:22:00 GMT

This demo provides an instructional follow through to aid in linking Rational Requirements Composer 2.0 with Rational Team Concert and Rational Quality Manager. It demonstrates the features available in the Rational Requirements Composer rich client that allow for linking between plan items, test cases, and test plans. Furthermore, running cross server filters is demonstrated to allow for a quick visualization of the current status of plan items and test cases.

RRC 2.0: Collaborating with Formal and Informal Review and Approval

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:20:00 GMT

This demo provides an instructional follow through on using the review and approval feature in Rational Requirements Composer 2.0. It demonstrates the flow between the review initiator and the participants as they progress through the review. Furthermore, it demonstrates the versatility of this feature by reviewing in both a rich client as well as the web ui. Lastly, it covers the difference between an informal and formal review.

TN0007: Guide for Importing Jazz Work Items from Bugzilla and Other Systems

Benjamin Pasero — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:00:00 GMT

This Tech Tip explains how to import Bugzilla bug reports into Rational Team Concert 1.0 and 2.0. It also briefly addresses a general approach for importing issue tracking reports from other systems into Jazz, including ClearQuest and CSV files.

TN0039: Configuring Rational Team Concert, Rational Quality Manager, and Rational Requirements Composer for the Collaborative ALM integration

Martin Aeschlimann and Goshen Pan — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:00:00 GMT

This Tech Tip provides detailed instructions for establishing cross-server communication and project area links between Rational Team Concert (RTC), Rational Quality Manager (RQM), and Rational Requirements Composer (RRC) to support the Collaborative ALM (C/ALM) integration scenarios.

Tech Tip: Viewlet dialog opens off-screen

Curtis d'Entremont — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:20:00 GMT

In large dashboards containing viewlets added from other (remote) servers, dialogs opened from remote viewlets (e.g. from preferences) may not appear centered on the screen, or may even appear off-screen.

Tech Tip: "Check for running servers" button removed from Installation Manager

Sergio Deras, Chris Daly — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:15:00 GMT

This tech tip explains the removal of the "Check for running servers" button from the Installation Manager File Backup panel for uninstall, update, and rollback of the Jazz Team Server. The button was removed for the 2.0.0.2 release of Rational Team Concert.

Integration between Rational Focal Point and Project Conductor

David Terry, IBM Rational — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:00:00 GMT

This video demonstrates the integration between portfolio and project management. See how a project proposal created in Focal Point becomes a project in Project Conductor, and how the two applications share data.

Effective use of Rational Team Concert for daily scrums

Steve Speicher, Senior Software Engineer, IBM — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMT

Agile, scrum, and lean methods focus on a core need of team awareness of project tasks and prioritization. Having the appropriate tools to assist with this communication and prioritization is a key to success. This article is about daily scrums from the viewpoint of active participants and how they can best use IBM Rational Team Concert to effectively communicate progress and blockers.

Tech Tip: Installing Rational Team Concert 2.0 with WebSphere Application Server 6.1.0.25 / 7.0.0.3

Christophe Elek, Eric Jodet, Matt Lavin — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:00:00 GMT

In this Tech Tip we will provide step by step guidance of how to setup Jazz Team Server 2.0 to run with WebSphere Application Server 7.0.

How to consume the Rational Team Concert change management services

Martin Aeschlimann, IBM Rational — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMT

This article shows how your application can integrate with systems compliant with the Open Services for Lifecycle Management (OSLC) change management (CM) services, using the example of Rational Team Concert. It demonstrates how to access the RTC work items, how to query items, and how to embed RTC's work item picker and creation dialogs in your product.

Integrating Rational Focal Point and Rational Project Conductor

Shirley Hui, IBM Rational — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:30:00 GMT

The goal of the integration between Rational Focal Point and Rational Project Conductor is to communicate vital information regarding business decisions made at the portfolio level to the project managers tasked with managing and executing individual projects.

Using the Hudson build integration system with Rational Team Concert

Jim D'Anjou, Jazz Jumpstart Team — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:30:00 GMT

Hudson is a popular build engine. Rational Team Concert's Build System was designed to work with most other build engines in addition to the Jazz Build Engine (JBE) included in Rational Team Concert. You can use Hudson to manage and run your builds and publish the results in Rational Team Concert with links to source control change sets and work items that were consumed by the build running on Hudson.

Rational Team Concert for System z 2.0.0.1 Online Help

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Infocenter with help documentation for Rational Team Concert for System z 2.0.0.1

TN0037: Work item migration cleansing and rewriting options in Rational Team Concert 2.0

Patrick Streule — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:35:00 GMT

This Tech Tip describes how to discard work items and how to rewrite textual work item attributes during a migration. Discarding work items along with their attachments and history is based on tags or project area membership and can be necessary to fulfill legal requirements or for sweeping unused data.

Tech Tip: Rational Team Concert product activation kits now available via the IBM Rational License Key Center

Jim Mickelson — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:15:00 GMT

Starting 15 October 2009, IBM Rational will distribute Rational Team Concert product activation kits via the IBM Rational License Key Center. Rational Team Concert customers will now go to the License Key Center to get their product activation kits instead of IBM Passport Advantage.

Using Jazz Licenses

Kartik Kanakasabesan, Jazz Jumpstart Team — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:30:00 GMT

With the advent of products built on top of Jazz, a new licensing mechanism is implemented to allow a better licensing user experience. The Jazz technology platform strives to drive a sense of consistency on the licensing model for products that leverage it. The key focus around Jazz is to allow for organizations implementing Jazz-based solutions to be aware of the usage of the solutions that are being used. Jazz licensing is not FlexLM based. Jazz licensing has the capability to manage both Authorized User and Floating License models.

Migrating process templates using the Process Template Migration Application

Rishav Chakravarti — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:30:00 GMT

This article describes how to use the Process Template Migration Application to migrate process templates exported from Rational Team Concert 1.0 or 1.0.1.1 so that they can be imported into a Rational Team Concert 2.0 server.

What is Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management (C/ALM)?

Carolyn Pampino — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:30:00 GMT

IBM's Carolyn Pampino gives an overview of Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management (C/ALM) and IBM's strategy for providing solutions in this area, including with IBM's Jazz platform.

Import ClearCase data with history using Rational Team Concert 2.0

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:00:00 GMT

In Rational Team Concert 2.0, ClearCase users have the ability to import VOB data with some limited history into Rational Team Concert. ClearCase UCM users can now import all or some pre-determined set of baselines created in a UCM stream into Rational Team Concert. Base ClearCase users can choose to import some pre-determined set of label types applied to interesting versions in the VOB.

Tech Tip: Rational Team Concert 2.0 editions and licensing overview (including 2.0.0.1 license changes)

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:00:00 GMT

This Tech Tip provides an overview of the different Rational Team Concert editions, and describes in detail the license options. It is intended to help customers match Rational Team Concert capabilities to the needs of the customer organization.

Best practices for using news feeds to track events in Rational Team Concert

Benjamin Pasero — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:30:00 GMT

This article helps you learn how to efficiently make use of news feeds in Rational Team Concert to keep in touch with things that are going on in your team and other teams. After reading this article, you will be able to configure feeds to fit your needs. You will likely disable e-mail notifications and never go back again.

Tech Tip workaround: Wrong context menu in the Team Artifacts view (Rational Team Concert Client for Microsoft Visual Studio)

Sreerupa Sen — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:15:00 GMT

The user right-clicks on a node in the Team Artifacts view, or any view displaying composite nodes. The context menu that shows up is for another type of node.

Tech Tip for known issue: Non-support of Guest users in Rational Team Concert Client for Microsoft Visual Studio on Windows Vista / Windows 7

Sreerupa Sen — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:05:00 GMT

The Rational Team Concert Client for Microsoft Visual Studio does not function correctly if invoked by a Guest account holder on Windows 7 or Windows Vista.

Tech Tip workaround: User gets logged off from a repository when working simultaneously on multiple solutions in the same sandbox

Sreerupa Sen — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:00:00 GMT

When a user is working simultaneously on two shared solutions in the same sandbox, via two instances of the Rational Team Concert Client for Visual Studio, and logs off from the repository in one instance, the Pending Changes view stops tracking the sandbox in both the instances.

Introduction to IBM Jazz

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:30:00 GMT

What is Jazz? This six-minute video introduces the Jazz platform through the story of JK Enterprises, a mid-sized company that needs to develop high quality software fast in order to land a new client.

Creating and Working with Collections in Rational Requirements Composer

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:00:00 GMT

This demo provides background information about the concept of collections. It also includes an instructional follow through on associating collections with a snapshot as well as associating collections with the review and approval process.

Linking requirements to documents and embedding artifacts in Rational Requirements Composer

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:00:00 GMT

This demo illustrates the basic linking features in Rational Requirements Composer. Examples included are: Creating a requirement from a document, creating a link to another artifact, and embedding artfacts.

Migrating Rational Requirements Composer 1.0 projects to 2.0

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:00:00 GMT

This demo illustrates how to migrate your Rational Requirements Composer 1.0 projects to a 2.0 server.

Collaborating with formal and informal review and approval in Rational Requirements Composer

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:00:00 GMT

This demo provides a walkthrough of using the review and approval feature in Rational Requirements Composer. It demonstrates the flow between the review initiator and the participants as they progress through the review. Furthermore, it demonstrates the versatility of this feature by reviewing in both a rich client as well as the Web UI. Lastly, it covers the difference between an informal and formal review.

Generating reports of use case and requirement specifications in Rational Requirements Composer

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:00:00 GMT

This demo shows how to generate basic reports with use case specifications or requirement specifications. The reports can be generated in multiple external formats (doc, htm, pdf, fo).

Configure a Rational Requirements Composer server

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:00:00 GMT

This demo walks through the process of configuring a Rational Requirements Composer server on a Tomcat/Derby configuration. The demo ends by creating an example project.

Using Project Snapshot to preserve a project in Rational Requirements Composer

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:00:00 GMT

This demo shows how an end user can preserve the state of their project in time in Rational Requirements Composer. The snapshot feature allows users to keep a historical timeline.

Tech Tip: Workaround for Microsoft Visual Studio IDE becoming slow or unusable

Krishna Kishore — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:40:00 GMT

When using Rational Team Concert 2.0.0.1 client for Microsoft Visual Studio IDE, after a while the Visual Studio IDE can sometimes become very slow or unusable and sometimes throws an "Out of Memory" exception.

Tech Tip: Workaround for Pending Changes view not updated with errors after a solution build

Krishna Kishore — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:00:00 GMT

When using Rational Team Concert 2.0.0.1 client for Microsoft Visual Studio IDE, after a solution is built, the Pending Changes view is not updated with the build error information listed in the error list view.

Tech Tip: Workaround for bulk editing of work items when using RTC 2.0 client for Microsoft Visual Studio IDE against an RTC 2.0.0.1 server

Saikarthik Natesan — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:15:00 GMT

When using Rational Team Concert 2.0 client for Visual Studio IDE to connect to an RTC 2.0.0.1 server, bulk editing of work items will not work.

Tech Tip: Workaround for failed move in repository, unable to delete vshost.exe

Priyadarshini Gorur — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:10:00 GMT

When using Rational Team Concert 2.0.0.1 client for Microsoft Visual Studio IDE, you have a solution that has an application, for example ConsoleApplication1, as the StartUp Project. When you try to move such a solution to a different component, it fails for being unable to delete the ConsoleApplication1.vshost.exe file.

Tech Tip: Workaround for known issue with tracking changes in a sandbox loaded directly under the drive

Priyadarshini Gorur — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:05:00 GMT

When using Rational Team Concert 2.0.0.1 client for Microsoft Visual Studio IDE, when you load a repository workspace directly under the drive, for example C:\, the Pending Changes view stops tracking changes the moment you open a shared solution from the sandbox. You also cannot share a new solution. Most source control operations available from Solution Explorer fail.

Tech Tip: Workaround for code window context menu of code-behind file acting on the XAML page instead

Priyadarshini Gorur — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:00:00 GMT

When using the Rational Team Concert 2.0.0.1 client for Microsoft Visual Studio IDE, if you use the View Code option from a XAML markup page, say App.xaml, to open its code-behind file, App.xaml.cs, and invoke Jazz source control operations from the code window's context menu, it acts on the XAML markup page instead.

Using content caching proxies for Jazz Source Control

John Camelon, Dmitry Karasik, Todd Lainhart — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:00:00 GMT

This article discusses different strategies for using Jazz Source Control with proxy servers in order to minimize wide area network (WAN) traffic and improve performance of updating Jazz Source Control sandboxes.

Part 3: Heterogeneous development using RTC Client for Eclipse, RTC Client for Microsoft Visual Studio IDE, and RTC Web UI

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:05:00 GMT

This video series demonstrates heterogeneous teams working together, collaborating using Rational Team Concert (RTC) Client for Eclipse, RTC Client for Microsoft Visual Studio IDE, and RTC Web Client. Read the related blog post in the Jazz Team blog.

Part 2: Heterogeneous development using RTC Client for Eclipse, RTC Client for Microsoft Visual Studio IDE, and RTC Web UI

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:05:00 GMT

Part 1: Heterogeneous development using RTC Client for Eclipse, RTC Client for Microsoft Visual Studio IDE, and RTC Web UI

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:05:00 GMT

Aligning development and test plans (Integrating RTC and RQM)

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:05:00 GMT

In the 2.0 versions of Rational Team Concert and Rational Quality Manager, testers can now use a new section called Plan Items to link test cases to development work items managed in Rational Team Concert. This video demonstrates how to create these links using Rational Quality Manager.

Automating code reviews by integrating Rational Software Analyzer with Team Concert

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:00:00 GMT

This demo will provide a brief overview of how organizations can automate their code quality reviews and processes by leveraging Rational Software Analyzer with Rational Team Concert. In this demonstration I will customize the pre-conditions for delivering source code by adding a Software Analyzer rule in Team Concert, show how that rule works when a developer is delivering code and finally how to generate a Team Concert work item so the issue can be resolved.

Rational Team Concert for System z 1.0.1 Online Help

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Infocenter with help documentation for Rational Team Concert for System z 1.0.1

Tech Tip: Configuring the AT&T Network Client VPN Client with Jazz

Larry Smith and Eric Jodet — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:33:00 GMT

This Tech Tip details the configurations steps to improve the reliability of the AT&T Network Dialer Connection when connection to a Jazz repository over a VPN.

TN0032: Configuring proxy server caching with Rational Team Concert

Anuradha Ramamoorthy, Ken Tessier, Todd Lainhart — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:00:00 GMT

You can configure the Jazz Team Server and either Apache HTTPD or WebSphere Application Server to enable caching of artifacts stored in Jazz source control. By caching frequently accessed documents close to the clients that request them, you can reduce network bandwidth and improve retrieval performance over networks with high latency between those clients and the origin servers that they contact.

What's happening with Jazz? A conversation with Rational Chief Architect John Wiegand and Jazz Jumpstart Manager Kartik Kanakasabesan on Jazz strategy and results

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:40:00 GMT

John and Kartik discuss how Jazz has evolved, where it is headed, and what this means for Rational customers.

Overview of Rational's project management solution

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:00:00 GMT

This is a quick overview of the project management solution offered by Rational

TN0027: ClearQuest Connector Troubleshooting Guide

Lorelei Ngooi — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:25:00 GMT

This Tech Tip provides some assistance in verifying that your ClearQuest Connector environment was properly configured.

Rational Team Concert 2.0 SDK

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:00:00 GMT

Wiki with information and guides for RTC 2.0's SDK, including working with the Java, REST and Source Control APIs, as well as the Eclipse client and the Foundation server.

Process behavior lookup in Rational Team Concert 2.0

Jazz Process Component Team — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:00:00 GMT

An overview of how the Jazz Process runtime computes the correct behavior when a user performs a process-enabled operation.

Process permissions lookup in Rational Team Concert 2.0

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:00:00 GMT

An overview of how the Jazz Process runtime determines whether a user is permitted to perform a process-enabled operation.

Developing software in a fishbowl: A conversation with Jazz.net technical leads

Robin Garside and Seth Packham — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:02:00 GMT

Robin and Seth talk about the Rational Jazz initiative and how the Jazz.net team uses Jazz tools like Rational Team Concert every day to build and maintain the Jazz.net online community.

TN0026: ClearQuest Connector Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Lorelei Ngooi — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:30:00 GMT

This Tech Tip is a collection of error messages, problems, and questions that have been asked about the ClearQuest Connector.

Effective Planning with Rational Team Concert 2.0

Agile Planning Component Team — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:30:00 GMT

This article describes how to use the Planned Items page of the Plan editor to create and manage work items as you plan and execute your work.

Scaling Agile with C/ALM (Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management)

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:11:00 GMT

InfoQ gives an introduction to IBM Rational's latest eBook, which covers the C/ALM movement and how it aims to benefit software organizations. The book's authors frame the problems of agile development in large distributed organizations, as well as communication between business and development divisions, and explain why the C/ALM initiative and Jazz architecture are uniquely designed to alleviate these issues.

TN0038: Overriding the public URLs for artifact links in Jazz Team Server

Ritchie Schacher — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:30:00 GMT

This Tech Tip describes how to override the default absolute URLs generated by a Jazz Team Server for external hyperlinks rendered as part of e-mails and cross-repository links, for example.

TN0024: Running the ClearQuest Connector Gateway for Rational Team Concert as a Windows Service

Richard Piazza — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:00:00 GMT

This Tech Tip gives instructions on how to run the ClearQuest Connector Gateway for Rational Team Concert as a Windows service inside an instance of Tomcat.

Controlling access to source control in Rational Team Control 2.0

Andrew Hoo — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:15:00 GMT

This article describes different strategies for controlling access to the Jazz source control, and gives examples of when each strategy might be used.

Part 2 - Creating a report in RTC 2.0 - Custom work item attributes

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:00:09 GMT

Part 2 of a 2-part video demonstrating how to create a report on custom work item attributes using Rational Team Concert. Demo by Rafik Jaouani, Jazz Reports component team.

Part 1 - Creating a report in RTC 2.0 - Custom work item attributes

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:00:08 GMT

Part 1 of a 2-part video demonstrating how to create a report on custom work item attributes.

Creating a report in Rational Team Concert 2.0 - Work item query

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:00:07 GMT

James Moody demonstrates how to use Rational Team Concert 2.0 to write a report that includes the results of a work item query.

Creating a report in Rational Team Concert 2.0: Open work items

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:00:06 GMT

This video is a "hello world" introduction to creating reports in Rational Team Concert 2.0. James Moody demonstrates how to create a report that shows the historical data of open work items.

Custom report for reporting across item links in Rational Team Concert 2.0

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:00:05 GMT

This video is a quick tutorial on authoring a report template that reports across item links.

Externalizing a string in a custom report template in Rational Team Concert 2.0

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:00:04 GMT

This video demonstrates how you can externalize strings from a custom report for translation.

Part 3 - Getting started with Rational Team Concert and Microsoft Visual Studio

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:03 GMT

This video is the third in a 3-part demo showing how to use the Rational Team Concert 2.0 client for Microsoft Visual Studio.

Part 2 - Getting started with Rational Team Concert and Microsoft Visual Studio

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:02 GMT

This video is the second in a 3-part demo showing how to use the Rational Team Concert 2.0 client for Microsoft Visual Studio.

Part 1 - Getting started with Rational Team Concert and Microsoft Visual Studio

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:01 GMT

This video is the first in a 3-part demo showing how to use the Rational Team Concert 2.0 client for Microsoft Visual Studio.

Using Rational Requirements Composer 1.0 to develop 2.0 features

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

This is all about "drinking our own champagne," or using our own tools to build our tools. This video shows how the RRC development team has been using Version 1 to develop Version 2 features. The video shows a process to building the right solution and the various artifacts developed at each stage.

[1390701] Rational Team Concert repository database ChangeEvents scrubbing

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[1391227] Unable to use Rational Team Concert Web UI using FireFox 3.0 configured for FIPS

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[1391060] Exporting Rational Team Concert databases in Oracle Database using the expdb utility

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[1391050] Rational Team Concert Server connection to a Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008 using a Java 1.6 VM

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[1391067] repotools -clone command generates error CRJAZ0653I in log file

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[1390696] Error: CRRTC5013, reported during repotools -import into Oracle database

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[1391597] Server to server communication fails when system time is not correct

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[1390715] Rational Team Concert 1.x to 2.0 (Eclipse or Visual Studio) Client Workspace migration

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[1391037] Links from Jazz work items to ClearQuest records might appear broken

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[1391784] ClearQuest Bridge component of RTC deployed on WebSphere v7.0.0.3, can cause intermittent RTC server freeze on heavy loads

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[1391032] ClearQuest records Import Wizard stopped due to invalid Rational ClearQuest Record

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[1391400] [ClearCase Bridge] ClearCase activity ID is not refreshed by Refresh button on work item

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[1391401] [ClearCase Bridge] Do not associate a large number of work items with a single activity object

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[1391247] Interaction of ClearCase Connector with ClearCase triggers

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[1391248] ClearCase Importer tips

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[1388959] Knowledge Collection - Rational ClearCaseConnector

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[1391413] Toolbar button on ClearCase Synchronized Streams view sometimes does not work

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[1391402] Error: Resource does not exist, when browsing for synchronization roots in ClearCase Connector

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[1391407] [ClearCase Connector] "Synchronization is not active" error shown while synchronization is running

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[1391411] Exporting multiple Jazz source control components to ClearCase components in separate PVOBs using the Rational Team Concert ClearCase Synchronizer

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[1391403] Importing from Rational ClearCase LT using Rational Team Concert ClearCase Importer

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[1391414] Rational Team Concert ClearCase Connector release notes

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[1391243] Checking Rational ClearCase synchronized stream synchronization status from the Rational Team Concert Web UI

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[1391404] [ClearCase Connector] "ccc" command line usage message still shows "scm" command name

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[1391406] [ClearCase Connector] Confusing output from "ccc list sychronizedStreams"

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[1391061] Exporting reports with chart or images to Microsoft Excel format

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[1391218] Reports with non-Western characters might require installation of server fonts

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[1391225] Work Item change notification emails are resent after repository migration

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[1391255] Cannot open a plan containing more then 2048 items

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[1391241] Unable to open a plan in the RTC Eclipse Client or Web UI

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[1391270] Undoing unresolved changes from the Pending Changes View does not work

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[1390713] Error while replacing in flow target from the Pending Changes view

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[1391223] repotools -createTables fails on DB2 9.1 with default APP_CTL_HEAP_SZ

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[1390693] Increase the query cache size to prevent Query Expired issue

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[1390691] Support of the IPv6 addresses notation

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[1390685] Rational Team Concert repository database collocation recommendation

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[1390870] The 2.0 Rational Team Concert predefined Process Templates

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[1390698] Upgrading process templates when migrating from Rational Team Concert 1.X to 2.X

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[1391039] Development lines have been renamed to timelines

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[1391603] Agile and Eclipse Way process templates available as a separate download

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[1391056] AdBlock Plus prevents from accessing the WebUI with the debug flag on

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[1391063] Additional configuration required when using the RTC Server with Microsoft SQL Server J2EE datasource

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[1390906] Deploying Rational Team Concert on WebSphere Application Server for high availability using idle standby

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[1389335] Rational Team Concert repository database collocation recommendation

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[1391231] Setting up a Rational Team Concert local update repository served by an HTTP server

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[1391033] Rational Team Concert views and perspectives are not visible when shell-sharing with Rational Software Architect

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[1390702] Installation of the Rational Team Concert Eclipse Client on 64-bit only platforms

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[1391788] Installing the Rational Team Concert Client 2.0 into Eclipse 3.5

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[1391790] Required updates for WebSphere Application Server to install the IBM JRE 1.5 or 1.6 required for RTC 2.0

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[1391789] Download IBM Developer Kit for JavaTM 1.6 SR4 + PK86771 from jazz.net

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[1391221] Unable to launch the Rational Team Concert Eclipse Client on Linux

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[1391079] Overcome deadlock in OSGI ClassLoaders when using Sun 1.5 or 1.6 JVM

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[1391220] Arabic/Hebrew characters incorrectly displayed in Rational Team Concert client

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[1391072] Rational Team Concert will show right to left text (such as Arabic or Hebrew) as left justified and does no special processing of bi-directional characters

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[1391058] Installing Rational Team Concert Client by extending an existing Eclipse 3.4.2 environment

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[1391062] Creating a DB2 temporary tablespace for use with Rational Team Concert 2.0

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[7015716] Detailed System Requirements for the Rational Team Concert 2.0 client for Microsoft Visual Studio

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[7015746] Detailed System Requirements for the Jazz Team Server 2.0 server environment

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

[7015704] Detailed System Requirements for the Rational Team Concert 2.0 client environment

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

Sample z/OS Build with Jazz Server and Build Engine

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

Walkthrough of a sample build on z/OS.

Build Engine Setup on z/OS

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

Setup guide for Jazz Build Engine on z/OS, after Jazz Team Server has already been installed.

Jazz Server Setup on Websphere for z/OS

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

Setup guide for Jazz Server on top of Websphere in z/OS, for use in conjunction with Rational Team Concert.

Jazz Server Setup on z/OS

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

Setup guide for Jazz Server on z/OS, for use in conjunction with Rational Team Concert.

Rational Team Concert 2.0 Online Help

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Infocenter with help documentation for Rational Team Concert 2.0

Managing vendor/third-party code in Rational Team Concert source control

Heather Fraser-Dube — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:45:00 GMT

When developing, we often find we need to make use of code from another vendor or third-party. This article describes how to use Rational Team Concert's (RTC) Source Control when working with Vendor/Third-party code.

Rational Team Concert 2.0 Deployment Planning Guide

Jean-Michel Lemieux — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:40:00 GMT

Rational Team Concert 2.0 supports several thousand users on a single server instance. This article describes the careful steps to consider in order to ensure that the server capacity and tuning is appropriate for the anticipated user load.

Deploying Rational Team Concert 2.0 on WebSphere Application Server for high availability using idle standby

Mark Gravina — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:35:00 GMT

Idle Standby is a failover strategy for basic high availability. The Rational Team Concert Idle Standby configuration provides for failover recovery to help ensure minimal impact on business operations during planned or unplanned server outages.

Migration benchmarking for Rational Team Concert 2.0 server

Ritchie Schacher — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:30:00 GMT

Rational Team Concert provides a utility for migrating a repository, either for upgrading to a newer version of Team Concert, or for migrating from one database vendor to another. This topic is intended for administrators to assist with planning a migration and estimating how long a migration will take on their specific hardware and platform installation.

Rational Team Concert (RTC) 2.0 sizing guide

Paul W. Weiss, Scott Rich, Jean-Michel Lemieux — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:25:00 GMT

Enterprise Scalability of RTC 2.0 is reaching new levels on single and dual tier configurations. We've created a sophisticated performance test harness to simulate actual client workload and validate our scalability requirements. With the RTC test harness, we are confident in our claims that we can support over 2000 active users in an enterprise RTC environment. Server performance data collected during these tests runs was necessary for the creation of this sizing document.

Tuning the Rational Team Concert 2.0 server

John Camelon and Dmitry Karasik — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:20:00 GMT

This article serves as a source for optimization settings and troubleshooting strategies in order to ensure that you get the best performance out of your Rational Team Concert (RTC) deployment.

TN0010: Running Jazz Team Server in Tomcat as a Windows Service

Richard Backhouse — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:30:00 GMT

pache Tomcat has the ability to run as a Windows Service. This can be useful if you wish to run the Jazz Team Server on a Windows-based machine without having to be logged on.

Getting Started with Planning in Rational Team Concert 2.0

Agile Planning Component Team — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:40:00 GMT

Progress Bars, Load Bars, and the importance of estimating your work in Rational Team Concert 2.0

Agile Planning Component Team — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:30:00 GMT

The Agile Planning tooling assists you in planning and executing development iterations. The core of this support are Progress and Load Bars. This article describes the benefits of working with load and progress, their difference, and how to read the corresponding bars.

Customizing the Agile Planning tools in Rational Team Concert 2.0

Agile Planning Component Team — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:20:00 GMT

Work Item estimates and beyond with Rational Team Concert 2.0

Agile Planning Component Team — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:10:00 GMT

This article explains how work item estimates are used and how they affect your planning and executing on releases and development iterations.

Planning in the Web UI with Rational Team Concert 2.0

Agile Planning Component Team — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:00:00 GMT

You can do Work Item planning using the Web user interface in Rational Team Concert 2.0. This article gives a brief walkthrough of the agile planning Web UI and shows how to do planning there.

Using the My Work view in Rational Team Concert 2.0

Agile Planning Component Team — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:40:00 GMT

The My Work view gives you access to your work items, and it assists you in planning, organizing, and managing your work. This article outlines the functionality of the My Work view and includes many tips on howand when to make best use of the features.

TN0017: Configuring Jazz Team Server to use JEE Data Sources in WebSphere Application Server

Matt Lavin — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:30:00 GMT

Jazz Team Server includes the ability to connect to databases using Java Enterprise Edition (JEE) Data Sources defined in the application server, but it takes a little extra configuration compared to using the default direct JDBC method. This note walks you through the additional steps necessary to configure Jazz Team Server to use a JEE data source configured in WebSphere Application Server.

Getting Started with Work Items in Rational Team Concert

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:00:00 GMT

Work Items are the fundamental mechanism to track and coordinate development tasks and workflows and they provide the hub for linkage between the various artifacts in Rational Team Concert (RTC). This article describes how to create and manage work items.

Using "Favorites" in the Team Artifacts view to keep important artifacts quickly at hand

Evan Hughes, RTC Source Control Team — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:15:00 GMT

This article describes how to effectively use the "Favorites" folder in the Team Artifacts view in Rational Team Concert.

Using the SCM Command Line Interface in builds

Evan Hughes, RTC Source Control Team — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:00:00 GMT

This article provides a basic background to using the SCM CLI and build, and provides recipes for handling common build scenarios.

Integrating other SCM Systems with Rational Team Concert 2.0

Michael Valenta, SCM Team — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:00:00 GMT

In this article, we will discuss several ways other Source Control Management (SCM) systems can be used in conjunction with Rational Team Concert (RTC) 2.0. We will be using Git, a relatively new and popular open source SCM in order to illustrate some of the points we make in our discussion. We will also provide source code for some of the integration points that we implement.

Work Item Customization

Work Item Team — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:00:00 GMT

The Work Item component can be customized in various ways. These customizations are configured on the Process Configuration page of the Project Area or Project Template editor.

TN0018: Running Rational Team Concert on Mac OS X

Andr� Weinand — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:56:00 GMT

Although officially unsupported, Rational Team Concert 1.0 and 2.0 both run on Mac OS X 10.4.x and 10.5.x. The Rational Team Concert client works without modification, and the Jazz Team Server and build engine work with minor changes to scripts and configuration files. This document describes how to install and run the Rational Team Concert 1.0 and 2.0 client and server components on Mac OS X.

Work Item Editor Presentations

Work Item Team — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

The work item editor can be configured to accommodate new work item types or to extend existing types with additional attribues. How this can be done is part of article "Work Item Customization". The configuration and concept of the work item editor presentations is described in this article, for extensibility (code contribution) have a look at the wiki at Contributing Attribute Presentations.

Loading Content from a Jazz Source Control Repository in Rational Team Concert 2.0

Michael Valenta, Jazz SCM Team — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:00:00 GMT

This article presents several ways to load content from a Jazz Source Control repository. It begins with the basic forms of loading that existed in Rational Team Concert (RTC) 1.0 and then describes some of the new ways to load content that were introduced in RTC 2.0.

Tracking Work Item Changes in Rational Team Concert 2.0

Benjamin Pasero — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:00:00 GMT

In this article you will learn how to track work item changes. For instance, if you are the owner of a work item, you will have a strong interest in any changes to the work item, such as new comments that have been added. Another example is tracking the inbox of a certain component by staying informed when new work items for the component are created.

Finding Lost Content with Rational Team Concert 2.0

Jazz Process Component Team — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:00:00 GMT

Often we make changes to files and then decide either we want to revert back to an older version. This article describes the Backup shed feature in Rational Team Concert source control and how you can use your IDE to restore earlier versions of files and folders.

Productivity Tips for Rational Requirements Composer - Part 3: Templates

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

Part 3 in a series of tips aimed at helping users of RRC get the most out of their software. Includes usability, navigation, productivity and efficiency tips from the developers themselves.

Contributing to the Team Artifacts view in Rational Team Concert 2.0

Jazz Process Component Team — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:00:00 GMT

This article explains how to contribute to the Team Artifacts view and the Artifacts part of a Project Area or Team Area editor.

Joining a Team in Rational Team Concert 2.0

Jazz Process Component Team — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:00:00 GMT

This brief article explains how to invite new members to a team and how new members can join a team using Rational Team Concert 2.0.

Translatable Process Templates in Rational Team Concert 2.0

Jazz Process Component and Jazz Jumpstart Team — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

Are you a processs template author who wants to provide messages for the the Team Advisor view, work item fields, dashboards and reports in multiple languages? Are you interested in adding new languauge strings to existing processes? This article will explain how to do both of those things.

Getting Started with Project Areas and Process in Rational Team Concert 2.0

Jazz Process Component and Jazz Jumpstart Team — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

Setting up a project area in Rational Team Concert where your team can do work.

RSC 2009: CRM27 - Heterogeneous Development using Eclipse and Rational Team Concert Visual Studio

Sandeep Kohli, Sreerupa Sen — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:00:00 GMT

Rational Team Concert is a collaborative development environment optimized for agile teams. Whether your development is Java or .NET centric and your IDE Eclipse or Visual Studio, you can use Rational Team Concert to collaborate, track your projects, manage your source code and build your components. In this presentation we will show you how a heterogeneous team can leverage Team Concert to work effectively on a project, following the same process, and collaborating via sharing common artifacts like streams, work items, change sets, builds, feeds etc. We will show you how, as a Visual Studio developer, you can use all the power and capabilities of Team Concert for collaborative development. We will show you what's already there, find out what you think is important for your projects, and also give you a taste of what's to come.p test environments with an exact copy of the actual archive.

Productivity Tips for Rational Requirements Composer - Part 2: Collaboration

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

Part 2 in a series of tips aimed at helping users of RRC get the most out of their software. Includes usability, navigation, productivity and efficiency tips from the developers themselves.

Using the ClearQuest Bridge in Rational Team Concert 2.0

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:00:00 GMT

In this video, Sreedhar Rella demonstrates how to use the ClearQuest Bridge in Rational Team Concert.

RSC 2009: SDP25 - Hitchhiker's Guide to IBM Jazz.net

Robin Garside — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:30:00 GMT

See how IBM jazz.net is a direct connection between an organization and the IBM Rational development teams, and get a live, real-time view into how IBM uses its own IBM Jazz products to build those products. The session includes a tour through the Jazz community portal and shows how to navigate the site, find the development plans and status dashboards, create work items and reports, and get the most out of the Jazz.net experience. Available for conference attendees only.

RSC 2009: CRMA41 - Large Scale Enterprise Deployment of Rational Team Concert 2.0

Doug Weissman, Scott Rich — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:30:00 GMT

Come and learn about the largest Rational Team Concert installation in the world - the one we're using in Rational. This session covers large scale enterprise deployment best practices for Rational Team Concert. You will learn about topologies, configurations, hardware and software, server administration, security, and more. Available for conference attendees only.

RSC 2009: SDP24 - Customizing IBM Rational Team Concert Work Items and Process

Andre Weinand — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:15:00 GMT

Different organizations have varying requirements for project governance. Rational Team Concert is a customizable product that can be configured to fit your own development process. This talk is a detailed look into the most common work item and process customizations. Available for conference attendees only.

RSC 2009: SDP23 - Extending IBM Rational Team Concert

Jean-Michel Lemieux — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:15:00 GMT

Have a custom build system or in-house tools? IBM Rational Team Concert can integrate into that environment. This talk is for customers and business partners wanting to extend IBM Rational Team Concert capabilities for their own automation or scripting. Available for conference attendees only.

RSC 2009: SDP22 - The IBM Jazz Foundation and the IBM Jazz Integration Architecture

Scott Rich — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:00:00 GMT

The IBM Jazz Foundation implements the underlying architecture for a new generation of IBM Rational tools. The foundation includes the IBM Jazz Team Server technology, and the core infrastructure for deploying and integrating tools. This talk covers the architecture and extensibility of the foundation, and illustrates how it can enable tools that make software delivery more collaborative, productive, and transparent. Available for conference attendees only.

RSC 2009: SDP21 - Agility at Scale: Agile Planning and Best Practices with IBM Rational Team Concert

Erich Gamma, Dirk Baeumer — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:15:00 GMT

Scrum and Agile planning are hot topics in the Agile world, but Agile methodologies don't yet cover all the processes and tooling needed to make large-scale Agile teams work. Come and see how the Agile Planning support in IBM Rational Team Concert 2.0 can support best practices for large teams and across different Agile methodologies. Available for conference attendees only.

RSC 2009: SDP20 - Getting Starting with IBM Rational Team Concert

Kai-Uwe Maetzel — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:00:00 GMT

This talk covers the best practices, gotchas, and guidance on how to start an IBM Rational Team Concert pilot, integrate it into an organization, and use it in production. It introduces the basic concepts found in IBM Rational Team Concert and how to structure projects, then highlights the key functions such as planning, work items, source control, reports, dashboards, and builds. Available for conference attendees only.

RSC 2009: SDP19 - Introduction to IBM Rational Team Concert

Rolf Nelson — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:45:00 GMT

This talk walks attendees through IBM Rational Team Concert and how it can dramatically improve productivity in a shop. Participants see demonstrations of the key features and capabilities, learn what it means to be team and process aware, and discover how to collaborate in real time. Available for conference attendees only.

RSC 2009: CRM19 - What's New With IBM Rational Team Concert

Erich Gamma — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:45:00 GMT

This session outlines the new developments in IBM Rational Team Concert 2.0 and looks to the future. Available for conference attendees only.

Productivity Tips for Rational Requirements Composer - Part 1: Navigation

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

Part 1 in a series of tips aimed at helping users of RRC get the most out of their software. Includes usability, navigation, productivity and efficiency tips from the developers themselves.

RSC 2009: SSDP21 - Surfin' the Collaborative ALM Web

Carolyn Pampino, George Decandio, John Whitfield — Sun, 31 May 2009 20:00:00 GMT

An analyst, a developer and a tester walk into a conference room. A misunderstanding occurs. A fight breaks outs. They never speak again. Sound like your organization? In this session, learn how you can effectively collaborate on requirements, development iterations and test execution using Rational Requirements Composer, Rational Team Concert and Rational Quality Manager. Teams define 'what' is needed using Rational Requirements Composer, 'when' it will be delivered using Rational Team Concert, and validate the delivery works as expected using Rational Quality Manager. Available for conference attendees only.

Connecting ClearCase to Rational Team Concert 2.0

Fri, 29 May 2009 20:00:00 GMT

In this video, Carol Yutkowitz gives a demo of how to use the ClearCase Connector in Rational Team Concert 2.0 to import from ClearCase, set up a bridge, or to synchronize a ClearCase UCM with the Jazz repository.

What is New in Rational Team Concert 2.0 Web UI

Thu, 28 May 2009 20:00:00 GMT

This video is a description of the new features in the Web User Interface of Rational Team Concert 2.0.

What's New in Rational Team Concert 2.0 (video)

Mon, 25 May 2009 18:00:00 GMT

In this video, John Kellerman gives a presentation about what's new and exciting about Rational Team Concert 2.0.

What's New in Rational Team Concert 2.0 (PDF)

Rolf Nelson — Mon, 25 May 2009 17:00:00 GMT

Review this presentation to learn about the new and changed features in Rational Team Concert 2.0.

Jazz Licensing in Ten Minutes

Thu, 21 May 2009 17:00:00 GMT

A 10-minute overview of the concepts of licensing in Jazz, and a demo of license management in Rational Team Concert 2.0, including Floating license support.

Rational Team Concert 2.0 Permissions Overview

Tue, 19 May 2009 17:00:00 GMT

This video explains and demonstrates several different types of permissions options in Rational Team Concert 2.0, including Jazz Repository Permissions, Project Area Access Control (new to Team Concert 2.0), and Role-based Permissions. These permissions together help Jazz repository administrators, project area administrators, and team leads secure the software artifacts in the Jazz repository based on the organization and teams' process.

Using read permissions to protect source code

Thu, 14 May 2009 18:00:00 GMT

This video demonstrates techniques for using the read permissions support in Rational Team Concert 2.0 to make projects private or control read access.

Rational Quality Manager Overview

Thu, 14 May 2009 17:00:00 GMT

IBM Rational Quality Manager is a test management tool testers and quality assurance managers can use to manage test projects and quality

Creating a Process Template - Part 9 - RTC Temperature Conversion Demo

Thu, 14 May 2009 16:45:00 GMT

This is Part 1 in a Getting Started with Rational Team Concert series of videos.

Work Item Customization - Part 8 - RTC Temperature Conversion Demo

Thu, 14 May 2009 16:40:00 GMT

This is Part 8 in a Getting Started with Rational Team Concert series of videos.

Work Item Customization - Part 7 - RTC Temperature Conversion Demo

Thu, 14 May 2009 16:35:00 GMT

This is Part 7 in a Getting Started with Rational Team Concert series of videos.

Customizing the Project - Part 6 - RTC Temperature Conversion Demo

Thu, 14 May 2009 16:30:00 GMT

This is Part 6 in a Getting Started with Rational Team Concert series of videos.

Sharing Source Code - Part 5 - RTC Temperature Conversion Demo

Thu, 14 May 2009 16:25:00 GMT

This is Part 5 in a Getting Started with Rational Team Concert series of videos.

Configuring Teams, cont. - Part 4 - RTC Temperature Conversion Demo

Thu, 14 May 2009 16:20:00 GMT

This is Part 4 in a Getting Started with Rational Team Concert series of videos.

Configuring Teams - Part 3 - RTC Temperature Conversion Demo

Thu, 14 May 2009 16:15:00 GMT

This is Part 3 in a Getting Started with Rational Team Concert series of videos.

Setting up a Project Area - Part 2 - RTC Temperature Conversion Demo

Thu, 14 May 2009 16:10:00 GMT

This is Part 2 in a Getting Started with Rational Team Concert series of videos.

Creating a Project Area - Part 1 - RTC Temperature Conversion Demo

Thu, 14 May 2009 16:05:00 GMT

This is Part 1 in a Getting Started with Rational Team Concert series of videos.

IBM Rational Team Concert Turns Two!

Rolf Nelson — Mon, 11 May 2009 17:00:00 GMT

Rolf Nelson, IBM Rational Team Concert product manager, discusses the innovations and benefits that have been achieved over the past year in platform support, translations, document collaboration, enterprise scalability and security.

Rational Requirements Composer 1.0.0.1 Online Help

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:00:00 GMT

Infocenter with help documentation for Rational Requirements Composer 1.0.0.1

Rational Quality Manager 1.0.1.1 Online Help

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:00:00 GMT

Infocenter with help documentation for Rational Quality Manager 1.0.1.1

Creating queries with both AND and OR

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:00:00 GMT

Defining work item categories

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:00:00 GMT

Creating team area hierarchy

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:00:00 GMT

Creating iteration plans team area hierarchy

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:00:00 GMT

Assigning work items to iteration plans

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:00:00 GMT

Managing work items and iteration plans in team area hierarchy

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:00:00 GMT

IBM Education Assistant module on managing various Rational Team Concert 1.0 artifacts and concepts in relationship to a team hierarchy.

Transferring Requirements from Rational Requirements Composer to RequisitePro

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:00:00 GMT

This demo shows how to create a requirement in Rational Requirements Composer and then transfer it to RequisitePro for management.

Creating Value Through Requirements Definition (RRC Overview)

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:00:00 GMT

This demo presents IBM Rational's Requirements vision and strategy. We talk about the many improvements that have been made to strengthen management of requirements through RequisitePro. We also talk about IBM Rational's exciting new offering, IBM Rational Requirements Composer, which is a requirements definition solution. Our presentation will include a quick tour of Rational Requirements Composer.

Rational Requirements Composer and Rational Software Architect Integration

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:00:00 GMT

This demo illustrates how to transform a Rational Requirements Composer project into a model in Rational Software Architect or Rational Software Modeler. It shows how you can use use-cases and process flow requirements you captured in IBM Rational Requirements Composer as a basis for your solution analysis and design activities within RSA or RSM.

Using the Scrum Process and Agile Estimating and Planning with Rational Team Concert

Millard Ellingsworth — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:00:00 GMT

This video follows the fictional Havannah team while they develop a Product Backlog and then a Sprint Backlog and execute their first Sprint. Read more in the blog

TN0036: Configuring IBM DB2 V9.5 for online backups for Rational Team Concert

Hari Vetsa — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:35:00 GMT

This Tech Tip discusses the process for managing backups of Rational Team Concert using IBM DB2 V9.5.

Agility at Scale - Using Rational Team Concert in a Globally Distributed Team

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:00:00 GMT

In this case study, Rational Team Concert lead Erich Gamma explains how IBM organized its teams, tooling, and process to deliver IBM's first Jazz product. Through charts and demos, Erich describes the team's practices and underlying values; explains the project rhythm and planning approach used to guide the team's iterations; explores the different roles on the team; and shows how these roles were instantiated through team workflow, permissions, and process guidance. The webcast is provided as an IBM e-Seminar. To view the webcast you simply provide your name and email address, but you are not registering for any service, and your information is not used for any purpose.

Getting started with IBM Rational Quality Manager

Michael Kelly — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:00:00 GMT

Learn how to get started with IBM Rational Quality Manager, which is collaborative, Web-based, quality management software for comprehensive test planning, manual testing, and integration with automated test tools. This article describes the primary features, provides an introduction to workflows and roles, and shows you how Rational Quality Manager can integrate with your other tools and the way that your team works.

Surfing the Collaborative ALM Web: RTC, RQM, and RRC

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:00:00 GMT

This demo shows a prototype implementation of Rational Team Concert, Rational Quality Manager, and Rational Requirements Composer. Read more in the blog

IBM Rational Team Concert Version 1.0 Server Sizing Guide

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:00:00 GMT

Learn about architectural topologies for IBM Rational Team Concert, and when a specific topology is favored over another.

Early, Often and Aligned: Requirements Definition for Business-Driven solutions, an IBM case-study

Vishy Ramaswamy — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:00:00 GMT

Join Vishy Ramaswamy, IBM Rational Lead Product Architect and Senior Development Manager on the creation of Rational Requirements Composer, to learn how IBM used Requirements Composer to define the product, shipping early and often iterations, and using scenario driven approaches to deliver a business-driven application that is transforming the way that applications are being created and delivered inside IBM.

Storyboarding in IBM Rational Requirements Composer

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:00:00 GMT

A storyboard is a logical and conceptual description of system functionality for a specific scenario, including the interaction required between the system users and the system. In IBM Rational Requirements Composer, a storyboard is represented as a frame-by-frame depiction of a usage scenario, where each frame has a description of the actions that lead to the next frame. It contains an in-depth walkthrough of a linear story, represented as graphical frames on a timeline with sample data. In essence, a storyboard is a sequence of frames that elaborates the user experience. It includes a frame list, timeline viewer, and frames. Frames are basically instances of sketches within a storyboard.

Source Controlling Projects and Solutions in Team Concert for Visual Studio

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:00:00 GMT

This article explains how to structure and source control new solutions and projects in a way which works well for team development in Team Concert. In addition, for existing solutions and projects which are controlled in another tool, we will outline how to migrate them into Team Concert.

Introduction to Visual Studio Client Beta 1

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:00:00 GMT

Here is a short video to introduce you to some of the capabilities of Visual Studio integration.

TN0035: Configuring WAS with Federated realm

Daniel Kogan — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:35:00 GMT

This Tech Tip provides step by step guidance of how to setup WAS with Federated realm to install Jazz Server including discussion on Application Server Realm Configuration, Group Management, Security setting.

TN0034: Configuring WAS with LDAP realm

Daniel Kogan — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:34:00 GMT

This Tech Tip provides step by step guidance of how to setup WAS with LDAP realm to install Jazz Server including discussion on Application Server LDAP Configuration, LDAP filters and verifying LDAP connection.

TN0033: Installing Jazz Team Server with WebSphere Application Server

Daniel Kogan — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:33:00 GMT

This Tech Tip provides step by step guidance of how to setup Jazz Team Server to run with WebSphere Application Server, including discussion on application server configuration, group management, security setting, application deployment and start-up.

Wiegand and Abrams on the Open Services for Life Cycle Collaboration (OSLC) Initiative

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:00:00 GMT

John Wiegand, IBM Distinguished Engineer and Rational Chief Software Architect, and Steve Abrams from the Rational CTO Team and OSLC Lead architect talk about the OSLC initiative, a key element of the Jazz integration architecture, and explore the basics and benefits of an open services approach.

Introduction to Rational Team Concert

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:00:00 GMT

A 3 minute executive level introduction to the benefits and functions of IBM Rational Team Concert.

TN0031: Deploying the Rational Team Concert Help WAR for internal access

Seth Packham — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:27:00 GMT

The Rational Team Concert Web UI points users to an ibm.com Web site for Help contents (Help > Help Contents). If your company does not allow access to the external Web, you can deploy the Help on an internal server and configure the Help link to point users to that internal site. The Help contents can be downloaded as an incubator project from Jazz.net.

TN0030: User Management in Tomcat

Balaji Krish — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:25:00 GMT

The Jazz Team Server application runs in a secure application server and requires authentication. The authentication is managed by the application server. User information maintained in an external user directory is used by the application server for authentication and by the Jazz application for displaying group membership information in the UI and synchronizing the user information between the user directory and Jazz database. This note describes how to set up the Tomcat user database, the LDAP user directory, and the custom user directory in Tomcat application server.

TN0029: User Management in Jazz

Balaji Krish — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:23:00 GMT

The Jazz Team Server application runs in a secure application server and requires authentication. The authentication is managed by the application server. User credentials are maintained in an external user directory. The application server uses the information in the user directory to perform authentication. Jazz application uses the information in the user directory to authorize user operations, display group membership information in the user interface, and synchronize the user information between the user directory and the Jazz database. This note describes the different user directories supported by Jazz application and ways to configure the user directory realm in the application server and Jazz application.

TN0028: Workaround for the Jazz Team Server capacity problem (The "251st user" problem)

Don Weinand, Ryan Manwiller, and Darin Swanson — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:19:00 GMT

This Tech Tip provides step by step guidance of how to work around the Jazz Team Server limit of 250 licensed developers when working on multiple projects.

Rational Team Concert 1.0.1.1 Online Help

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:00:00 GMT

Infocenter with help documentation for Rational Team Concert 1.0.1.1

Rational Team Concert 1.0.1 Online Help

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:00:00 GMT

Infocenter with help documentation for Rational Team Concert 1.0.1

Getting started with Rational Team Concert

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:00:00 GMT

Depending on your role, you can get started with different areas of the product. This topic provides pointers to different features.

Tutorial: Get started with Rational Team Concert

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:00:00 GMT

This tutorial introduces you to some of the major Jazz technology platform components and features found in Rational Team Concert. You can follow the steps in the lessons to experience it firsthand, or just read through to get a feel for it.

Lab Management using IBM Rational Test Lab Manager

Michael Kelly — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:00:00 GMT

This article describes how test lab management works with IBM Rational Quality Manager. It also shows you how to create and view lab resources and work with lab resource reservations and requests.

Defining Your SOA Requirements, What Matters Most

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:00:00 GMT

IBM Rational Whitepaper (Requires registration on IBM.com). Definitive requirements for delivering successful SOA-based solutions.

IBM Rational Test Lab Manager demo

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:00:00 GMT

This demo provides a brief overview of how IBM Rational Test Lab Manager allows teams to integrate lab activities into their quality management process.

Translatable Process Templates

Jazz Process Component Team — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:00:00 GMT

Learn how translatable templates work, how to use translatable templates in your repository, and how to change an existing process so that it can be translated.

Rational Team Concert

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:00:00 GMT

What is Rational Team Concert? Here is a short video to introduce you to some of the capabilities and benefits of IBM Rational Team Concert.

Jazz Integration Architecture Overview

Jazz Team — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:00:00 GMT

The goal of the Jazz Integration Architecture (JIA) is to enable diverse tools to be used together providing an integrated experience to their users. This document provides an overview of JIA, and introduces the notion of a Jazz Team Server (JTS) that provides the Jazz Foundation Services (JFS) that allow groups of tools to work together. It also explains the relationship between JIA and Rational's Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) initiative.

Rational Requirements Composer: Create value through requirements definitions

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:00:00 GMT

View this demo to learn about the full scope of IBM Rational Requirements Composer and its capabilities to help you manage evolving business objectives. Visualize results before committing resources to avoid costly requirements failures and project rework.

Quality Management in 3 Minutes

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:00:00 GMT

A brief and simple explanation of Quality Management.

Process behavior lookup in Rational Team Concert 1.0

Jazz Process Component Team — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:00:00 GMT

An overview of how the Jazz Process runtime computes the correct behavior when a user performs a process-enabled operation.

Process permissions lookup in Rational Team Concert 1.0

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:00:00 GMT

An overview of how the Jazz Process runtime determines whether a user is permitted to perform a process-enabled operation.

Contributing to the Team Artifacts view

Jazz Process Component Team — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:00:00 GMT

An overview of how to extend Rational Team Concert by contributing to the Team Artifacts view.

TN0025: Troubleshooting the Jazz Team Server

Ritchie Schacher — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:08:00 GMT

This note provides links to resources that can help server administrators in troubleshooting Jazz Team Server problems.

Getting Started with Jazz Project Areas and Process

Jazz Process Component and Jazz Jumpstart Team — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:00:00 GMT

Setting up a project area in Jazz where your team can do work.

TN0023: Installing Rational Team Concert with IBM Rational Application Developer version 7.5 Open Beta RC0

James Stuckey — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:33:00 GMT

This document explains how to install the IBM Rational Team Concert client together with IBM Rational Application Developer version 7.5 Open Beta RC0 using the IBM Installation Manager.

TN0022: Installing from a DVD on Linux

Chris Daly — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:17:00 GMT

On Linux configurations, the default options for mounting DVD media may not grant permission to run programs from the DVD.

TN0021: Incorrect report data after drill-in from dashboard

Rafik Jaouani — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:06:00 GMT

This documents describes a known issue with the reports feature when editing a report that was the result of a drill-in from a dashboard report.

TN0020: Reports PDF export issues

Rafik Jaouani — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:05:00 GMT

This document describes known issues with the reports export feature.

TN0019: Viewing reports in the Eclipse client with XULrunner 1.9 and Linux

Rafik Jaouani — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:05:00 GMT

This document describes a known issue with the reports feature related to XULrunner 1.9 and Linux.

Multi-Stream Development with Jazz Source Control

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:00:00 GMT

Parallel development in Jazz Source Control.

Resolving Conflicts with Jazz Source Control

Source Control Team — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:00:00 GMT

Keeping your friends when working in parallel development.

Monitoring your build's progress with build activities

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:00:00 GMT

Learn how to use build activites.

Millard Ellingsworth on the Scrum project management method

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:00:00 GMT

Developer Millard Ellingsworth is the author of the developerWorks article on How to use the Scrum project management method with IBM Rational Team Concert and the Jazz platform, and he talks about it with the developerWorks podcasts editor, Scott Laningham.

Setting up and Using ClearCase and ClearQuest Connectors In a ClearQuest-Enabled UCM Environment

Maneesh Mehra, IBM Rational Software Group — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:00:00 GMT

Learn how to integrate Jazz with Rational UCM projects.

How to use the Scrum project management method with IBM Rational Team Concert and the Jazz platform

Millard Ellingsworth — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:00:00 GMT

The integration of an Agile planning tool with IBM Rational Team Concert and Jazz provides greater visibility, opportunities for collaboration, and traceability as well as process awareness into a single platform for improving development productivity.

Rational Team Concert 1.0 Online Help

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:00:00 GMT

Infocenter with help documentation for Rational Team Concert 1.0.

Effective Iteration Planning

Agile Planning Component Team — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:00:00 GMT

The Iteration Plan editor assists you in planning and executing development iterations. By default, the Iteration Plan editor has two pages: an Overview page and a Planned Items page. While the former allows capturing unstructured information using wiki-style text, the latter allows creating and managing work items. This article focuses on the Planned Items page and best practices when working with it.

Rational Team Concert 1.0 User Workshop

Jazz Jumpstart Team — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:00:00 GMT

This workshop is derived from material developed by the Jazz Jumpstart team. It has been adapted to serve the broader user community and designed to help you on your journey with Rational Team Concert 1.0. It can be used for individual study or teams can use it to kick start their deployment of Rational Team Concert 1.0. The repository is already configured with an application, project and team definitions, a release plan, source control streams, and working build definitions. It is a mini version of a working project and is designed to illustrate best practices in Rational Team Concert configuration and usage.

Getting Started with Iteration Planning

Agile Planning Component Team — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:00:00 GMT

Learn how to plan work for an iteration.

TN0016: Manually Editing Report Template Path Fails to Update Path

Rafik Jaouani — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:10:00 GMT

TN0015: Jazz Reports Component Requires X11 Libraries on a Linux Server

Rafik Jaouani — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:02:00 GMT

When running the Jazz Reports functionality included with Rational Team Concert Standard Edition on a server with a Linux operating system, it is necessary for X11 libraries to be present.

TN0014: Updating the Deployment Descriptor for a Previously-Deployed Java EE Web Application Archive (WAR)

Richard Backhouse — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:46:00 GMT

There are times when it may be necessary to make modifications to the Jazz Team Server Java EE Web Application Archive (WAR) deployment descriptor (web.xml) after the WAR has already been deployed, for example, if you wish to change the basic security configuration. This document provides details on how to do this in both an Apache Tomcat and WebSphere Application Server environment.

TN0013: Jazz Team Server Authentication Explained

Ritchie Schacher — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:51:00 GMT

The Jazz Team Server that ships with Rational Team Concert 1.0 is packaged as a Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) Web Application, and as such runs within a supported Java EE application server (IBM WebSphere Application Server or Apache Tomcat). The application uses Java EE authentication per the Java Servlet specification. This note explains the authentication mechanism used by Jazz Team Server, and the rationale for the design. It also describes how to change the configuration to use alternate authentication methods and to unsecure feed URLs for a custom deployment, along with the tradeoffs associated with each configuration.

TN0012: Using Lotus Notes' Instant Messaging with Rational Team Concert

Tobias Widmer — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:57:00 GMT

This Tech Tip describes the current support for Lotus Notes 8.0.x Instant Messaging functionality used in Rational Team Concert.

TN0011: Installing Hot-fixes for IBM Lotus Sametime Connect

Tobias Widmer — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:42:00 GMT

This Tech Tip describes how to install any necessary hot-fixes for IBM Lotus Sametime Connect 7.5.1/8.0.x to be used as an Instant Messaging service provider for Rational Team Concert.

Jazz Source Control FAQ

Source Control Team — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:00:00 GMT

Answers to frequently asked questions.

Advanced Gestures and Workflows

Source Control Team — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:00:00 GMT

In this article, we describe the Word Compare bundle that has recently been made available for Windows users.

Compare Word Documents with RTC

Michael Valenta — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:00:00 GMT

In this article, we describe the Word Compare bundle that has recently been made available for Windows users.

Making best use of the My Work view

Agile Planning Component Team — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:00:00 GMT

Explaining Progress and Load Bars, and Why Estimating Your Work is Important

Agile Planning Component Team — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:00:00 GMT

Configuring Project and Team Areas for Work Items

Work Item Team — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:00:00 GMT

This section shows how to set up your Project Area for Work Items and how to configure Team Areas for team specific behavior.

Advanced User's Guide to Querying Work Items

Patrick Streule — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:00:00 GMT

Rational Team Concert supports different ways to find work items. This document focuses on the Query Editor and intends to shed some light on the lesser known features of creating structured queries. It also discusses current limitations and gives some examples of frequently used queries.

Getting Started with Setting up Jazz Builds

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:00:00 GMT

Learn how to set up builds for your team.

TN0009: Performance Problems with Jazz Web UI Dialogs on Some Linux Systems

Marcel Bihr — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:25:00 GMT

On some Linux configurations, accessing Jazz Web UI dialogs cause the Linux system's X process to cause extremely high CPU load and in extreme cases, an unresponsive system for a short period of time. This Tech Tip explains the nature of this problem and methods for configuring your system to avoid it if it happens to you.

TN0008: Planning Guide for Importing from Subversion and CVS

Paul Vanderlei — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:58:00 GMT

Switching from one source control or issue tracking system to another can be a daunting task. Not only do you need to learn the new system, but you need to find a way to retain as much of the history of your project as you can. This document is intended to address the various issues regarding importing from existing source control repositories and bug tracking systems in deploying Rational Team Concert.

Hello Jazz - How to write a simple Jazz component

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:00:00 GMT

This tutorial walks you through the process of creating a very simple Jazz component with both client and server contributions. As a prerequisite for this tutorial, you should be familiar with Eclipse plug-in development.

Getting Started with Jazz Source Control

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:00:00 GMT

How your team works collaboratively on the file base.

RSDC 2008, CRM09: Connecting to the Mothership: Using IBM Rational Team Concert with ClearCase and ClearQuest

Geoff Clemm and John Vasta — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:00:00 GMT

RSDC 2008, CRMA38: Architecture and Customization of the IBM Rational Team Concert Connectors for ClearCase and ClearQuest

Geoff Clemm and John Vasta — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:00:00 GMT

Global Distributed Development with Rational Team Concert

Erich Gamma, Distinguished Engineer, Jazz Technical Lead, IBM — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:00:00 GMT

SDP19: Collaborative Software Development: An Introduction to Rational Team Concert

Erich Gamma, Distinguished Engineer, Jazz Technical Lead, IBM — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:00:00 GMT

RSDC 2008, SDP20: A Guided Tour of Jazz.net

Bill Higgins, Jazz.net and Jazz Web UI Foundation Lead, IBM — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:00:00 GMT

RSDC 2008, SDP21: Introduction to the Jazz Technology Platform: Architecture Overview and Extensibility

Scott Rich, Distinguished Engineer, Jazz Architect, IBM — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:00:00 GMT

RSDC 2008, SDP22: Parallel Development with IBM Rational Team Concert

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:00:00 GMT

RSDC 2008, SDP24: Agile Planning with IBM Rational Team Concert

Dirk Baeumer, Jazz Component Lead, IBM — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:00:00 GMT

RSDC 2008, SDP26: Integrating your build with Jazz team build

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:00:00 GMT

RSDC 2008, SDP27: Bring Your Process to Life: Process Enactment in IBM Rational Team Concert

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:00:00 GMT

RSDC 2008, SDP30: Jazzing Up IT: Best Practices from Internal Deployment of IBM Rational Team Concert

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:00:00 GMT

From The Eclipse Way to Jazz

Erich Gamma and John Wiegand — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:00:00 GMT

The development of the Eclipse Platform can be described as a journey from closed to open transparent development. Throughout this journey the team has continuously tuned our development practices and processes with the goal of achieving the ongoing health of the project. The result of this exploration is 'Jazz', a new team collaboration platform for seamlessly integrating tasks across the software lifecycle. In this talk we'll reflect on the journey, describe the pain points, and take a look at the current state of the Jazz Platform from a viewpoint on both the inside and the outside.

TN0005: Deployment Guide for Jazz Team Server

Paul Vanderlei — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:31:00 GMT

Addresses the various issues related to the Jazz Team Server when deploying Rational Team Concert in an organization. It makes recommendations on how to set up and configure Rational Team Concert and the Jazz Team Server.

TN0004: Rational Team Concert 1.0 Editions and Licensing Overview

Paul Vanderlei — Fri, 30 May 2008 11:10:00 GMT

Rational Team Concert 1.0 SDK

Thu, 29 May 2008 16:00:00 GMT

The Rational Team Concert 1.0 SDK enables clients, partners, and the community to extend Rational Team Concert in interesting ways. Note that the Rational Team Concert 1.0 product is based on Jazz Platform 0.6, which means that it does not have stable APIs for extensibility. Extenders of the 0.6 Platform release should be prepared for a porting effort to migrate from 0.6 to 1.0. However, the subset of APIs that are in the SDK will be held stable in the Rational Team Concert 1.0 maintenance stream (1.0.x). Customers will be able to safely upgrade to maintenance releases of Rational Team Concert without breaking existing extensions.

The Jazz Tutorial

Mon, 12 May 2008 17:00:00 GMT

This is the original Jazz tutorial, including eight lessons that guide you through the major Jazz components. You may read it or, better yet, take the tour yourself with this tutorial as your guide.

Interview: Jazz Update from EclipseCon with Erich Gamma

Michael Cote — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:00:00 GMT

Once again, I had the pleasure of talking with Erich Gamma, currently lead of the IBM Rational Jazz project. We catch up on the recent developments in the Jazz world, discuss managing large, geo-distributed teams, and then talk about the upcoming release of Rational Team Concert, based on Jazz.

TN0001: Rational Team Concert 1.0: Supported Web Browsers

Bill Higgins — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:17:00 GMT

Describes the web browsers supported by Rational Team Concert 1.0 web clients.

Next Generation of Requirements Driven Software Quality

Sat, 01 Mar 2008 16:00:00 GMT

Scott Hebner introduces Rational Requirements Composer, the next generation of requirements-driven software quality.

TN0003: Configuring Rational Team Concert 1.0 Beta 2 and Rational Application Developer 7.5 Beta to run in the same Eclipse workbench

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:25:00 GMT

Describes how to configure Rational Team Concert 1.0 Beta 2 and Rational Application Developer 7.5 Beta to run within the same Eclipse Workbench.

TN0002: Configuring Jazz Team Server to use IBM HTTP Server and Apache Tomcat

Matthew Jarvis — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:06:00 GMT

Describes how to front Tomcat with IBM HTTP Server, for users with advanced web server configuration needs.

Swinging with Jazz and Rational Team Concert

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 16:00:00 GMT

IBM Rational leaders Lee Nackman, Mike O'Rourke, and John Wiegand riff on Jazz and the Rational Team Concert beta release in this developerWorks podcast. Hear them talk about Jazz, how it fits into the overall Rational story, and what the big news is with the Rational Team Concert open beta.

Setting up a Jazz JUnit Example Project

Jazz Jumpstart Team — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:00:00 GMT

This document contains steps how to setup a Jazz JUnit Example Project.

Getting Started with Jazz Reports

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:00:00 GMT

Learn how to monitor the health of your project.

Getting Started with Jazz Code Coverage

Code Coverage Component Team — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 17:00:00 GMT

Learn how to monitor the test coverage of your projects.

Interview with Erich Gamma on Software Engineering Radio

Sat, 01 Dec 2007 16:00:00 GMT

A Software Engineering Radio interview with Erich Gamma. This podcast covers his illustrious career in software development, including the well-known Gang-of-Four book, the JUnit testing framework, Eclipse and now Jazz itself.

Spotlight on IBM software solutions: IBM Rational Team Concert and Jazz

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:00:00 GMT

Kartik Kanakasabesan, product manager for Rational Team Concert, talks about the first offering on the Jazz platform. He discusses the development environment Rational Team Concert is designed for and looks at some of the challenges Rational Team Concert is intended to address.

The User Interface Checklist for the Jazz Eclipse Client

Julian Jones and Kimberley Peter — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:00:00 GMT

UI guidelines for teams creating Eclipse based Jazz clients.

Joining a Team

Jazz Process Component Team — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 16:00:00 GMT

Inviting new team members and accepting team invitations.

Inside the Jazz Technology Platform

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:00:00 GMT

The Jazz Project is a collaboration between IBM Rational and IBM Research to build a scalable, extensible, team collaboration platform for seamlessly integrating tasks across the software lifecycle. This session discusses the architecture and capabilities of the Jazz Team Platform and demonstrates Jazz in action. See how the Jazz Team is leveraging Eclipse, Equinox on the server, AJAX , Web Services, REST and relational database technologies to produce an extensible client- server platform. Come and learn about this exciting new technology that is shaping the future of Rational's team tools!

What If Your Tools Knew You Better?

Kai-Uwe Maetzel, Jazz Process Component Lead, IBM Rational software — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:00:00 GMT

Building professional grade software needs continuous attention to detail. Attention, for example, to the health of your project, to the quality of your code, and to whether and how often your builds are broken. What if your tools knew more about your practices and rules? The Jazz Project is a scalable, extensible team collaboration platform for seamlessly integrating tasks across the software lifecycle. Using examples from our experience building Jazz with Jazz, we will talk about how we are building process awareness into the Jazz Kernel.

Rational Team Concert - Agile team development with Jazz

Jean-Michel Lemieux and Geoffrey Clemm — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:00:00 GMT

Rational Team Concert Beta 1 is an early beta of a new agile development product based on Jazz. Team Concert includes simple, flexible, fast, and fully- integrated software configuration management capabilities for small to medium sized geographically distributed teams. This talk will introduce the software configuration management features of Team Concert, followed by a demo of these features. IBM Rational ClearCase users will learn how they can access these capabilities through the use of ClearCase Jazz Views.

Explorations in Collaborative Requirements Approaches for Agile Teams

Aamer Khan and Robin Bater — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:00:00 GMT

Agile teams have a unique approach to requirements. We will briefly overview a few prevalent agile approaches. Furthermore, we will demonstrate an incubator technology from the Jazz project focused on helping agile teams with requirements -- from early unstructured brainstorming sessions, in context collaboration, evolution of stories, reviewing and approval, to tracking progress against requirements. We will also look at the key challenges of traceability; and understanding dependencies.

It's Jazz for IBM System z and System i

Jean-Yves Rigolet and Alex Akilov — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:00:00 GMT

The Jazz platform is able to target IBM(R) System z/i(TM), Windows(TM), and UNIX(R) systems. The Jazz platform also provides dedicated functions in order to support the specific characteristics of these platforms and their development processes. This presentation focuses on these functions.

EclipseCON 2007 "Jazz in Action - Building Jazz with Jazz" - Demo Video

IBM Rational Jazz Team — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 17:00:00 GMT

At the Rational Software Development Conference 2006, we introduced you to the Jazz Platform - a scalable, extensible platform for collaborative development. We took a look at a day in the life of a team using Jazz, and some of the collaborative features we were building then. In this video from EclipseCON 2007 we take a look at how the Jazz team works through an entire milestone - a world wide distributed team developing Jazz with Jazz. (1024x768, 1000kbps, 58min)

[VIDEO NO LONGER AVAILABLE] RSDC 2006 Keynote, Erich Gamma and John Wiegand

Erich Gamma and John Wiegand — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 16:00:00 GMT

A video of the Technology Keynote presented by Erich Gamma and John Wiegand at the 2006 Rational Software Development Conference in Orlando. (200kbps, 29min)

RSDC 2006 "Jazz BoF - Introduction to Jazz" - Demo Video

The Jazz Team — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 16:00:00 GMT

Watch the Jazz BOF main screen as the Jazz team introduces the Jazz platform and gives a live multi-developer demonstration of an early version of Jazz at the 2006 Rational Software Development Conference. (1024x768, 1128kbps, 60min)

[VIDEO NO LONGER AVAILABLE] JavaOne 2006 Keynote: Java in the Trenches - "The Eclipse Way"

Erich Gamma and John Wiegand — Thu, 18 May 2006 16:00:00 GMT

Software development is hard work and globally distributed software development is even harder! In this JavaOne General Session, we took a look from inside the trenches at how the Eclipse development team achieves continuous quality and on-time delivery. We explore how our approach has evolved over the past five years, from both a technical and a process perspective, reflecting on how the team's experiences influenced our development practices. Finally, we share how these best practices are generally applicable to any Java software development effort and suggest ways in which they can be adopted more widely.