We’re very pleased to announce that CLM 6.0 Milestone 9 with Configuration Management is now available to try in the cloud. Check out Daniel Moul’s M9 beta announcement where he introduces what’s new. This sandbox provides the user with an automatically created set of CLM projects and a small data set along with a Task […]

We are looking forward to demonstrating our latest Beta Milestone M9 and hearing feedback from clients like you at InterConnect 2015, which starts this weekend in Las Vegas.  With Milestone 9 now available for download, it’s possible to create development streams and baselines that span two or more project areas managed by multiple applications (for […]

Back in September, Rolf Nelson wrote a blog to help launch Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) 5.0.1. So, I thought I’d keep the analogies going as we make our 5.0.2 release generally available. First, I just want to provide some quick background about me and the role I’m in. My name is Brian Lang, and I’m […]

These days software developers don’t think twice about putting their source code under configuration management.  The advantages of using configuration management speak for themselves: Creating a shared development context: Each person can load their workspace with the same files and file versions. Managing change: You can make isolated changes, and when you are ready, deliver […]

In this fourth Blog, Christophe explains how the Jazz team is now managing complete automated continuous build, test and deployment of IBM CLM on their staging system using IBM UrbanCode Deploy and how they integrated the deployment from an ANT script.

On a recent weekend trip with my five year old, I took him to Boothbay Harbor, Maine. One of his favorite things to do is watch an old salt water taffy machine that cuts and wraps taffy. While one flavor is being fed into an automated cutting and wrapping machine, another flavor is being stretched and […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]