One of the coolest things about IBM is the network of thousands of IBM Business Partners. These Business Partners, or BPs as we often call them, are constantly innovating around IBM products and are often the face of IBM to many customers.
Last week, at an IBM IT Symposium, the Business Partners in the room stood and gave a brief introduction. When the reps from Clearblade stood, they said that they had just released a new mobile app for Rational Team Concert. During a break, I had to grab a few minutes with them to learn more.
The app, aptly named ClearConcert, allows RTC users to view and create work items, monitor dashboards, run queries, open defects, and more. Check out the documentation on the Clearblade website for more info or just go download the app. It was just released a few days ago for Android and should be available on iTunes any day now.
And the best part is, it’s FREE! How can you not like that?
But wait…there’s more! ;-) Check out this fun video from our colleagues over at Clearblade.
Over and out,
Dan Griffin — Marketing Manager, Jazz.net, JazzHub, and Academics
Note: It is currently not possible to connect ClearConcert to Jazz.net Team Concert repositories due to firewall restrictions. We are working on enabling this functionality, so stay tuned!
I installed the App and it freezes at the login screen. There is no way to exit the program of to cancel the login process. No idea what’s going on!
Hi Spriteburn, thanks for giving it a try, frustrating to hear it hung up on your device, lets get it fixed for you.
Do you have any details that can help us recreate it. -phone OS and build version, RTC version, anything interesting with regards to security certificates or server redirects
FYI – Our apple build is a good bit behind the droid build today… consequently connections to the jazz.net repository where 404 responses occur regularly are not handled as elegantly there. We hope to catch it up now that Apple has completed its overall review and the app is publically available.
Aaron Allsbrook
ClearBlade Mobile
My download worked fine, but it was unable to login (to the Rational Team Concert project at jazz.net). I checked my URL and credentials multiple times. It looked like it might be having issues with the jazz.net certificate (Communication Alert dialog said “Click here to verify or accept certificates”) but clicking there did nothing. No docs or useful data regarding this at the ClearBlade web site, either. I was hoping to show this off at lunch. :( [Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Android 4.1.1]
Tried this on a Samsung Galaxy S3 Android 4.0.4. Same issue as millarde, “Incorrect url, userid or password – Click here to verify or accept certificates” I tried jazz.net and a couple of internal IBM servers that are using IBM’s internal CA certificates. The “Click here to accept cert…” doesn’t seem to do anything.
I am using the app on Samsung Galaxy Nexus running Android 4.1.2 and have had no problems on jazz.net. It’s working great for me. I particularly like how the queries come back grouped by project area and you can have quick links for favorite work items. Nice job!
Thanks acho, glad to hear its working for you. We have lots of ideas for features but please share if you have anything you would like to see.
Let me apologize to all those struggling with getting connected to jazz.net. We do have the jazz.net repo as part of our test bucket and intend it as a target. For whatever reasons the authorization services on the server quit responding from the server over the weekend. They appear to be back today although user detail services are very slow or unresponsive at this time. We will continue to work out the kinks and make the connection process as easy as possible. We really appreciate your patience.
Lastly – after debating this issue internally, at this time we are not supporting RTC servers with untrusted certificates due to security risks. We will update the UI to be more clear about this fact in the next release.
Aaron Allsbrook
ClearBlade Mobile
Just tried it on a couple of devices and we are experiencing the same 404 response when trying to authenticate on jazz.net:
– Sony S1 tablet, Android 4.0.3 rel1a
– Xperia Arc s, Androide 4.0.4
fyi, authenticating via browser works on these devices.
I haven’t tried any of them, but on this Innovate 2012 there was a booth showing one pretty similar on beta I guess. Consider it too!
I have a RTC with self-signed SSL certificate and I can’t log into it. Is there any error logs where I can get a detail message to confirm if that is the problem?
Another neat feature would be to add ability to view my review bucket and let me review/approve it.