We are pleased to announce the availability of the IBM CLM as a Management Service (CLM aaMS) offering. This offering provides you with a managed, virtual private cloud environment to deploy Rational CLM (Rational DOORS Next Generation, Rational Team Concert, Rational Quality Manager, and Rational Reporting for Development Intelligence). IBM’s managed service is specifically designed […]

What is the advantage of adopting CLM 4.0.7 over 4.0.6? What does the new CLM maintenance approach mean to customers? What are the future considerations system administrators and process owners should have and what are the recommendations?

These are the type of questions we heard from customers since the Announcing of CLM 4.0.7 and my first blog on the DevOps transformation for CLM maintenance. If these are some of your questions, hope you can find the info. in this blog useful.

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We are pleased to announce the release of CLM 4.0.7, the recommended maintenance release for customers who want to stay on the version 4 base of Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM).  This release provides improvements in support and resolutions to key defects and security issues. Improved maintenance On the journey to Continuous Delivery, we identified […]

Ever wished you could see an engineer float in front of his code?  Ever wondered what stickers an IBM Distinguished Engineer puts on his laptop?  Ever wanted to see a live demo of DevOps Services and Bluemix?  (I had to throw a serious question in the list.) Today is your lucky day!  See all that […]

With the release of CLM 5.0, CLM has started a brand new approach to deliver maintenance to customers via regular, light weight, and cumulative iFix. CLM 5.0 iFix addresses a couple major pain points with maintenance for CLM customers: high cost of adoption of full maintenance releases, manual and error prone installation of test fixes, hard […]

What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear about migrating source control data from Rational ClearCase to Rational Team Concert? There are several challenges… How long does it take to migrate a large repository? Is it automated to some extent, or does it require a lot of manual intervention? Can I […]

Last week, I traveled to IBM Innovate in sunny (and sometimes randomly extremely rainy) Orlando, Florida.  My team, the IBM DevOps Services team, seemed to be everywhere:  helping people with apps, mingling at the Bluemixer, drinking cognitive cocktails, and talking all about DevOps.  I’ll give you the highlights of our week… The DevOps Keynote Monday […]

At Innovate this week, we’ve been showing several advanced features that our Requirements Management team is working on.  It’s been exciting to see the interest in the new usability, scripting, and performance features of IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation V5.0, but even more exhilarating to witness the response to Rational DOORS Next Generation with Configuration Management beta. In addition […]

IBM is simplifying its requirements tool portfolio: IBM Rational Requirements Composer is being renamed to IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation. As of version 5.0, which released on June 2, 2014, Rational Requirements Composer and Rational DOORS Next Generation are no longer separate products. They are one product: Rational DOORS Next Generation. In 2008, we introduced […]