What is the relationship (difference?) between GCM and SCM
I am completely new to RTC and I am trying to evaluate its capabilities as far as versioning is concerned.
I fail to understand what the difference between GCM and SCM is. After going through some of the documentation and videos for GCM, I read this document which made me think that SCM is the description of a subset of the functionality contained in GCM and not a separate module.
Is this the case? Can anyone direct me to resource where this difference is described?
I thank you in advance.
I fail to understand what the difference between GCM and SCM is. After going through some of the documentation and videos for GCM, I read this document which made me think that SCM is the description of a subset of the functionality contained in GCM and not a separate module.
Is this the case? Can anyone direct me to resource where this difference is described?
I thank you in advance.
Accepted answer
RTC SCM is the built in capability of version management for source code. This has always been there.
Since 6.0 Doors Next and RQM also have a capability to version their artifacts. Basically creating streams of requirements and quality artifacts, fork, merge and baseline them.
Global Configuration Management is the bracket that allows to build configurations across streams and baselines in RTC, RQM, Doors Next. RTC SCM is the part that plays a role in that. This allows to create configurations of consistent, requirements, test artifacts and source code.
https://jazz.net/help-dev/clm/topic/com.ibm.rational.gcapp.doc/topics/c_overview_gcapp.html
Since 6.0 Doors Next and RQM also have a capability to version their artifacts. Basically creating streams of requirements and quality artifacts, fork, merge and baseline them.
Global Configuration Management is the bracket that allows to build configurations across streams and baselines in RTC, RQM, Doors Next. RTC SCM is the part that plays a role in that. This allows to create configurations of consistent, requirements, test artifacts and source code.
https://jazz.net/help-dev/clm/topic/com.ibm.rational.gcapp.doc/topics/c_overview_gcapp.html