© 2012 ibm corporation what’s new in ibm rational team concert – for 2013 releases : rtc 4.0.3,...

© 2012 IBM Corporation

What’s New in IBM Rational Team Concert – for 2013

Releases : RTC 4.0.3, 4.0.4 and 4.0.5

Rolf Nelson / Chris TrobridgeRTC Product ManagersIBM Rational Team ConcertDecember 2013


Software and Systems Engineering | Rational

CLM 2012

RTC 4.0.1

CLM SR3

RRC, RTC, RQM, JAF

CLM 4.0.2

RRC, RTC, RQM, JAF

CLM 4.0.3

RRC, RTC, RQM, JAF

CLM 4.0.4

RRC, RTC, RQM, JAF

Rational Team Concert – Roadmap – 2013

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Planned ConceptualService Release – SR STATUS: Released

CLM 4.0.5

RRC, RTC, RQM, JAF

Q4 Q2Q1Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4Q3 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2

CLM MR6

RRC, RTC, RQM, JAF

CLM MR7

RRC, RTC, RQM, JAF

CLM MR8

RRC, RTC, RQM, JAF

CLM MR9

RRC, RTC,

RQM, JAF RTC 4.0.3

RTC 4.0.2

Under Continuous Delivery (Agile Model)Under Continuous Delivery (Agile Model)

CLM MR10

RRC, RTC, RQM, JAF

CLM MR11

RRC, RTC, RQM, JAF

RTC 4.0.4



Be agile. Be lean. Work Together IBM Rational Team Concert v4.0.3 Q2 2013

Agile your way – Scrum, waterfall or hybrid; adapt planning to meet your team needs and rhythm.

Friction free communication by smart linking of tasks, code changes, builds and releases as you work

Live dashboards - write code not status reports – live web based dashboards tell everyone the story

Empower developers - Fix goofs, juggles tasks, patch in seconds, easily add or remove features

Runs anywhere – open platform Works with your existing tools and data for incremental adoption

IBM Rational Team Concert v4.0.3 Highlights Simple and fast agile ranking – Rank plans quickly and easily with drag and drop or explicit ranking

New Jenkins plug-in with traceability to RTC SCM and work items - Adopt RTC into Jenkins teams faster, leverage hundreds of other Jenkins OSS plug-ins, such as Sonar etc..

Visual Studio developers see all their work in one place - See work across projects, customize views

Performance improvements – Load plans faster in the web UI, Improved CLI performance

Regulatory reporting – Report on time spent, approval descriptors and Modified by custom attributes

ClearCase history importer – Import multi-branch, multi-baseline version history

Enterprise Build improvements – Build subset editor, subset security, static link dependencies

Agile Formal



RTC 4.0.3 Release Themes

Developer Productivity – Work Faster

– Usability – “Simpler faster ranking, developer “my work” view in VS IDE, Windows Shell Basic Mode

– Performance – “Faster planning from the web UI”

– Enhanced Enterprise Build System z - “I want to build only part of a much larger application”

Incremental Adoption – Get Started Quicker

Make it easier to adopt RTC into my existing tool chain - Jenkins, ClearCase / Synergy etc.

Extend Enterprise Capability – Do More

– Reporting – “Make more data available for my team to report on”

– Process – “Improved UI for permissions, new process history, new process guidance in work items”

– Plan Across Projects – “Improve managing cross project plans and schedules”

Continuous Delivery - Respond to customers changing needs

Move from one release a year to a quarterly release cadence4



Rational Team Concert 4.0.3: Usability

Usability: Simple and fast agile ranking

Simplify ranking (218174)

Today:

We support automated stack based ranking in backlogs, which can sometimes lead to ranking gaps during drag operations.

Now we allow more explicit control over ranking.

New explicit actions to assign row numbers as rank numbers

Make the rank number manually editable

Improve drag and drop behavior

Make it much faster to rank order a large backlog and maintain consecutive rank when using drag and drop.

Usability: Simple and fast agile ranking

Simplify ranking (218174)

Today:

We support automated stack based ranking in backlogs, which can sometimes lead to ranking gaps during drag operations.

Now we allow more explicit control over ranking.

New explicit actions to assign row numbers as rank numbers

Make the rank number manually editable

Improve drag and drop behavior

Make it much faster to rank order a large backlog and maintain consecutive rank when using drag and drop.

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https://jazz.net/jazz/resource/itemName/com.ibm.team.workitem.WorkItem/218174




RTC 4.0.3 : Apply Rank Action Examples

“I’ve got the plan ordered the way I want. One click to apply rank across the plan”

“I’ve moved a group of lower priority tasks

to the bottom of the backlog, apply an ordered

rank below, from my current selected task”

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RTC 4.0.3 : Integer Based Ranking Example

“I change the rank of an individual plan item from rank 4 to rank 2 and the rest of the list is re-ranked sequentially”

Drag and drop position based ranking

Is still supported and maintains rank order

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Rational Team Concert 4.0.3 : Usability

Usability: Visual Studio Developers see all their work

organized in one place

[CCM] As a user make it easy for me to see what I'm working on, in the VS Client (227379)

We improved the current “My Dashboard” UI to make it very easy for a developer to see:

Current Work - my to do list of work items in the current iteration

Future Work - my to do list of work items grouped by future iterations

Pending Approvals – my work items owned by me in “pending” approval state

Pending Requests - All work items that require my approval

User customization of these views (sort order, bar charts, rich hovers)

See work across multiple Visual Studio projects.

Usability: Visual Studio Developers see all their work

organized in one place

[CCM] As a user make it easy for me to see what I'm working on, in the VS Client (227379)

We improved the current “My Dashboard” UI to make it very easy for a developer to see:

Current Work - my to do list of work items in the current iteration

Future Work - my to do list of work items grouped by future iterations

Pending Approvals – my work items owned by me in “pending” approval state

Pending Requests - All work items that require my approval

User customization of these views (sort order, bar charts, rich hovers)

See work across multiple Visual Studio projects.



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Rational Team Concert 4.0.3 : Usability – Simple, Basic Versioning

Enhanced Windows Shell Explorer :

New Basic Mode – Simple Versioning

[CCM] As an RTC User, I want to have a simpler user experience in the RTC Shell (252666)

Provide a new Basic Mode targeted at non-developers who do not need to know SCM concepts to use versioning

Integrated on-line help to guide new users

Auto check-in of changed files once you add them to source control. Eliminates two step “check-in” and then “deliver”.

Enhanced Windows Shell Explorer :

New Basic Mode – Simple Versioning

[CCM] As an RTC User, I want to have a simpler user experience in the RTC Shell (252666)

Provide a new Basic Mode targeted at non-developers who do not need to know SCM concepts to use versioning

Integrated on-line help to guide new users

Auto check-in of changed files once you add them to source control. Eliminates two step “check-in” and then “deliver”.







Performance Disclaimer

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Performance is based on measurements and projections using standard IBM benchmarks in a controlled environment. The actual throughput or performance that any user will experience will vary depending upon many factors, including considerations such as the amount of multiprogramming in the user’s job stream, the I/O configuration, the storage configuration, and the workload processed. Therefore, no assurance can be given that an individual user will achieve results similar to those stated here.



Rational Team Concert 4.0.3 Performance

Performance: User Productivity

SCM command line:

10% boost in CLI execution

Plan loading performance: Phase II

In RTC 4.0.1 we improved performance by 25%

In RTC 4.0.3 plan loading uses a new “pay as you go” model and other optimizations that improve performance by up to 40 to 50 percent. For example, the Rational Team Concert product backlog now loads in 10 seconds, compared to 20 seconds in 4.0.3 M3, over a network latency shown in the image above using browser Mozilla Firefox 17.0.5.

Pay as you go: When we load a plan, not all plan view data is loaded until you ask for it.

Parallelize requests: Parallel requests when loading data rather than sequential requests

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RTC 4.0.3 Performance – Plan loading Web UI – Details

Plan loading performance: (Tests are FireFox from Switzerland client to Canadian server )

Improved plan loading 36-60% for sample plans, with 130 - 5000 work items

– RTC Product Backlog plan - 10 seconds vs. 20 seconds (50%)

• Plan Size: 238 work items

• Plan View: Ranked list

– RTC Foundation & WorkItems Backlog plan - 26 sec. vs. 66 sec. (60%)

• Plan Size: ~5,000 work items

• Plan View: Ranked List

– Foundation Process 4.0.3 plan - 14.5 sec. vs. 26.5 sec. (45%)

• Plan Size: 1,200 work items

• Plan View: Ranked List

– RTC TAP 4.0.2 M2 plan - 16 sec. vs. 25 sec. (36%)

• Plan Size: 130 items

• Plan View: Work Breakdown

Note: Your results may vary based on your network latency, plan view mode & browser. Numbers taken on live staging server, not a fully controlled environment.

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Rational Team Concert 3.x and 4.x – New Jenkins OSS plug-in. Available from the Jenkins plug-in site.

Incremental Adoption: New Jenkins plug-in Installs into Jenkins as a Jenkins plug-in, not shipped with the RTC

product

Runs SCM phase of a Jenkins build when you’re using RTC SCM

Supports integration at both SCM level and Build level with traceability from RTC build result.

Works with multiple versions of RTC (RTC 3.0.1.5 and 4.x and later)

Benefits:

Simpler to set up – provides incremental adoption of RTC

Automatically creates an RTC build result for you

Provides traceability to build workspace, snapshot, SCM changes link and “included in build” work item links

Leverage other Jenkins plug-ins / ecosystem

More details about obtaining the plug-in see our wiki page:

https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Team+Concert+Plugin

Incremental Adoption: New Jenkins plug-in Installs into Jenkins as a Jenkins plug-in, not shipped with the RTC

product

Runs SCM phase of a Jenkins build when you’re using RTC SCM

Supports integration at both SCM level and Build level with traceability from RTC build result.

Works with multiple versions of RTC (RTC 3.0.1.5 and 4.x and later)

Benefits:

Simpler to set up – provides incremental adoption of RTC

Automatically creates an RTC build result for you

Provides traceability to build workspace, snapshot, SCM changes link and “included in build” work item links

Leverage other Jenkins plug-ins / ecosystem

More details about obtaining the plug-in see our wiki page:


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New Jenkins plug-in for Rational Team Concert

After the SCM phase has run, the build change log captures:

SCM change sets and snapshot, with links to associated work items

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RTC 4.0.3 Plans : Enhanced ClearCase Importer

ClearCase Multi-branch Importer Improvements

Import baselines for multiple related releases or branches

– Must import streams in dependency order

Baselines are created in RTC automatically

– Now the version trees of imported files are comparable across ClearCase and RTC

Main line R8.0

R7 branch

R7.x

R6 branch

R6.x

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RTC 4.0.3 Plans - Reporting

Regulatory Reporting: Report on Time Spent, approval descriptors and Modified By custom attributes

[CCM] Improve ability to report on time spent / lean metrics (213855)

[CCM] Make complex custom work item attributes, approval descriptors and Modified By data reportable and available in the data warehouse (242806)

Data collected in time sheets (via time tracking) can be reported on using RPE

– Time sheet data has a REST interface (4.0.1) for RPE

– Time sheet data is available for live reporting using BIRT reports

New out of the box timesheet reports

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Details: New Approvals and Attribute Data Available for Reporting

ETL for "modified by" data

RICALM.REQUEST_HISTORY (Field: MODIFIER_ID)

ETL for approvals and approval descriptors

RICALM.REQUEST_APPROVAL_STATE

RICALM.REQUEST_APPROVAL_TYPE

RICALM.REQUEST_APPROVAL

RICALM.REQUEST_APPROVAL_DESCRIPTOR

ETL for complex custom attributes

The complex custom attributes data is now loaded into the data warehouse. The data includes complex custom attributes of these types: Category, Contributor, Deliverable, Item, Iteration, Process Area, Project Area, Team Area, Timeline, Work Item, and SCM Component.

RICALM.REQUEST_COMPONENT_EXT

RICALM.REQUEST_CATEGORY_EXT

RICALM.REQUEST_RESOURCE_EXT

RICALM.REQUEST_RELEASE_EXT

RICALM.REQUEST_ITERATION_EXT

RICALM.REQUEST_PROJECT_EXT

RICALM.REQUEST_TEAM_EXT

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Improved Process Permissions Configuration – Web UI

The contents of the Permissions tab were replaced with a new Permissions editor. Features include merging of project and team permissions, inheritance of permissions from the parent when customizing, filtering by operation name, and visibility of roles and time periods configured

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Process Area History

History tab in the web UI, shows the history for project and team areas: who made each change, when it was made, and what was changed.

UI details what’s currently included (membership, roles, iterations, process xml)

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Process Guidance in Work Items

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RTC 4.0.3 Plans – Complex Cross Project Plans

Increased hierarchy levels for drill down

– Previously cross-project plans displayed a single hierarchy level. Now, they support multiple hierarchy levels for items that are tracked in the plan. The level is configurable.

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RTC 4.0.3 Plans – Complex Cross Project Plans

Cross-project plans support three new plan checks for items that are tracked in a plan.

– Visual warnings are displayed when the following situations occur:

• The rolled-up schedule for an item in the plan exceeds the end date of the iteration that the plan is associated with.

• The "planned for" date of a plan item exceeds the plan's iteration end date.

• The rolled-up schedule for an item in the plan exceeds the due date that is specified for the item.

Colorizers and filters now support date expressions

– To highlight or hide items in the plan by date

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Updated Platform Support

RTC 4.0.2:

FF17 ESR, VMware ESx 5.1

RTC 4.0.3:

Eclipse 4.2.x supported

– RAD 9.0 will require Eclipse 4.2.x

– For customers who need a mix of RAD 8 and RAD 9 on a single RTC deployment, they can migrate their server to RTC 4.0.3 and run both RAD 8 (RTC 3.x, or 4.0.1, 4.0.2) and RAD 9 (RTC 4.0.3 clients) against the same server.

– WAS 8.5 support

– DB2 10.1



More Information: Demo Videos

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RTC Client for Microsoft Visual Studio IDE – My dashboard video:

Simpler, faster agile ranking video:

Attachment134393

Demo video for cross project plans feature (253403)

Create a Demo Video for My Dashboard (242294)

New cross project plan feature demo video:

[CCM] Improve multi-stream / multi-branch-type CC importing - Demo Video (244404)

Improved ClearCase history importer for multi-branch scenarios:

https://jazz.net/jazz/service/com.ibm.team.workitem.common.internal.rest.IAttachmentRestService/itemName/com.ibm.team.workitem.Attachment/134393#action=com.ibm.team.workitem.viewWorkItem&id=218174&tab=checklist







Open Lifecycle Integration and Services Management Platform

IBM Rational Team Concert v4.0.3

Deliver faster with improved performance

– Load plans in the web UI up to 50% faster

Focus on developer productivity

– Rank plans simpler and faster with explicit ranking options

– New customizable developer view across all projects for Visual Studio developers. Track my to do list and approvals

Report and act on more data

– Out of the box reports to track time spent

– Ability to report on approval descriptions and complex attributes such as team structure, components and iterations

Get started quicker than ever– New Jenkins plug-in with traceability to Rational Team

Concert work items and SCM to allow faster adoption without having to change your existing build tooling.

– Easier importing of ClearCase data with support for multi-branch, multi-baseline version history.

Build better software and products with an all-in-one development environment

Rational Team Concert

“Plans load much faster, ranking is simpler and now I can expand our adoption of Rational Team Concert to teams using Jenkins”

Development Team Lead

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AgileFormal



CLM 2012

RTC 4.0.1

CLM SR3

RRC, RTC, RQM, JAF

CLM 4.0.2

RRC, RTC, RQM, JAF

CLM 4.0.3

RRC, RTC, RQM, JAF

CLM 4.0.4

RRC, RTC, RQM, JAF


201420132012 2015+


CLM 4.0.5

RRC, RTC, RQM, JAF

Q4 Q2Q1Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4Q3 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2

CLM MR6

RRC, RTC, RQM, JAF

CLM MR7

RRC, RTC, RQM, JAF

CLM MR8

RRC, RTC, RQM, JAF

CLM MR9

RRC, RTC,

RQM, JAF RTC 4.0.3

RTC 4.0.2


CLM MR10

RRC, RTC, RQM, JAF

CLM MR11

RRC, RTC, RQM, JAF

RTC 4.0.4









IBM Rational Team Concert v4.0.4 Highlights Enhanced RTC work item editor - RTC now has the same rich text editor in web UI as RRC and RQM

Work Item copy support extended – One click copy of work items from the web UI and Visual Studio

Advanced Release Burndown report – Project the ideal line for a release and track progress and velocity

View and Cancel reports – View and manage all running reports on your server from one place

Process Sharing and Customization – Rename attributes in child projects while retaining inheritance

ClearQuest importer – Re-import support - update fields of existing work items previously imported

Enterprise Build improvements – Simulation Mode Builds – e.g. Simulate z/OS builds on Windows

Agile Formal



RTC 4.0.4 Release Themes

User Productivity – Work Faster

– Usability – “Easily copy existing work items from any UI, New rich text, work item editor with keyboard shortcut and enhanced link support”.

Extend Enterprise Capability – Do More

– Reporting – “Predict ideal line delivery dates in new Advanced Release Burndown Report

– “View and manage reports on your server from a single place”

– Process – “Allow local projects to rename custom attributes”

– Global Teams – “Configure time stamp display in work items for date+time”

– Enterprise Build – “Allow z/OS Builds to be simulated on distributed platforms without running a full build”

Incremental Adoption – Get Started Quicker

Make it easier to adopt RTC into my existing tool chain - Re-import ClearQuest records

Continuous Delivery - Respond to customers changing needs

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Rational Team Concert 4.0.4: New Rich Text Editor for WI in WebUI

Usability: New Rich Text Editor for Work Items in WebUI

Replace current WYSIWYG editor for work items in WebUI with CKEditor (239792)

RTC now uses the same rich text editor as other CLM products (RRC, RQM)

Better support for formatting, linking and pasting text

All editing features accessible from the keyboard

Link detection while typing

such as “@user”, “defect 3”, attachment 23”

Auto-complete feature helps with linking to recent work items

Usability: New Rich Text Editor for Work Items in WebUI

Replace current WYSIWYG editor for work items in WebUI with CKEditor (239792)

RTC now uses the same rich text editor as other CLM products (RRC, RQM)

Better support for formatting, linking and pasting text

All editing features accessible from the keyboard

Link detection while typing

such as “@user”, “defect 3”, attachment 23”

Auto-complete feature helps with linking to recent work items

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RTC 4.0.4: Copy Work Item in WebUI and Visual Studio IDE

Usability: Create Work Item Copy in Web UI

Provide "Create Work Item Copy..." action in the Web UI (113766)

RTC now supports creating copies of work items in the Web UI and the RTC client for Visual Studio. Prior to RTC 4.0.4 this feature was only available in the Eclipse UI.

Usability: Create Work Item Copy in Web UI

Provide "Create Work Item Copy..." action in the Web UI (113766)

RTC now supports creating copies of work items in the Web UI and the RTC client for Visual Studio. Prior to RTC 4.0.4 this feature was only available in the Eclipse UI.

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RTC 4.0.4: Reporting / Enhanced Agile Burndown Report

Advanced Release Burndown Report

Extended Release Burndown for Enterprises (268449)

New Advanced Burndown Report adds:

Project ideal line with dates

Best Guess

Optimistic

Pessimistic

Advanced Release Burndown Report

Extended Release Burndown for Enterprises (268449)

New Advanced Burndown Report adds:

Project ideal line with dates

Best Guess

Optimistic

Pessimistic

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Jazz Foundation 4.0.4 – View and Cancel Running Reports

View and cancel running reports

– View reports that are running on the server and cancel reports that are taking too long or consuming too many resources.

– See all reports running on the Server Administration page.

– Which report is running, how long it has been running, and who requested it.

– You do not need to be an administrator to view and cancel running reports in a project area.

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RTC 4.0.4: Rename Custom Attributes in Child Project Areas

Process Sharing & Customization: Rename Custom Attributes

[CCM] Allow to rename inherited custom attributes in child project areas (239759)

In RTC 4.0.1, we introduced support to extend the data model of a shared process by adding attributes, enumerations, and enumeration values.

In RTC 4.0.4 we introduced an alternative to this approach. Now, a shared process can declare the full set of available attributes, including extensions, and not allow child project areas to extend the data model themselves.

In this model, the shared process defines a number of attributes of various types which aren't included in the presentation. For example, string1, string2, int1 and int2. Any project areas wishing to use these available attributes would then add them to their editor presentations and change the attribute's label in the user interface.

For examples of how this can be used see:

Modifying_the_name_of_a_custom_attribute

Process Sharing & Customization: Rename Custom Attributes

[CCM] Allow to rename inherited custom attributes in child project areas (239759)

In RTC 4.0.1, we introduced support to extend the data model of a shared process by adding attributes, enumerations, and enumeration values.

In RTC 4.0.4 we introduced an alternative to this approach. Now, a shared process can declare the full set of available attributes, including extensions, and not allow child project areas to extend the data model themselves.

In this model, the shared process defines a number of attributes of various types which aren't included in the presentation. For example, string1, string2, int1 and int2. Any project areas wishing to use these available attributes would then add them to their editor presentations and change the attribute's label in the user interface.

For examples of how this can be used see:

Modifying_the_name_of_a_custom_attribute

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https://jazz.net/wiki/bin/view/Main/ConfigurationDataDelta#Modifying_the_name_of_a_custom_a


https://jazz.net/wiki/bin/view/Main/ConfigurationDataDelta#Modifying_the_name_of_a_custom_a



RTC 4.0.4: Extended Time-Stamp Display in Work Items

Extended / Configurable Time- stamp Display

[CCM] Provide flexible/configurable presentation for time stamp attributes (239758)

Development teams working across global time zones often require both a date and time display to communicate effectively

Now you can configure time-stamp presentations used by work items :

Configure to display:

Date or Date+Time

Once configured, work items display the correct format. The default is now date+time in RTC 4.0.4

Extended / Configurable Time- stamp Display

[CCM] Provide flexible/configurable presentation for time stamp attributes (239758)

Development teams working across global time zones often require both a date and time display to communicate effectively

Now you can configure time-stamp presentations used by work items :

Configure to display:

Date or Date+Time

Once configured, work items display the correct format. The default is now date+time in RTC 4.0.4

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RTC 4.0.4: Update Work Items with the ClearQuest Importer

Adoption: Enhanced ClearQuest Import

[CCM] provide update capability of CQ importer (250622) Do you need to ability to update work items previously

imported from ClearQuest?

Now you can use the new re-import feature of the ClearQuest importer to update only the modified fields of existing work items.

Adoption: Enhanced ClearQuest Import

[CCM] provide update capability of CQ importer (250622) Do you need to ability to update work items previously

imported from ClearQuest?

Now you can use the new re-import feature of the ClearQuest importer to update only the modified fields of existing work items.

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Focus on end user productivity

– New rich text, work item editor in the web UI with better support for formatting, linking and keyboard shortcuts.

– Easily create work item copies from any UI

Enterprise and global teams– Reporting – View and cancel running reports. Predict ideal

line delivery dates in Advanced Release Burndown Report,

– Process – Allow local projects to rename custom attributes

– Global Teams – Configure time stamp display in work items for date+time

– Enterprise Build – “Allow z/OS Builds to be simulated on distributed platforms without running a full build”

Get started quicker than ever– Easier importing of ClearQuest data with support for re-

import to update existing work items.



“The web UI for work items has been enhanced to support easier work item editing and copying. Richer burndown charts give us more visibility and the re-import of ClearQuest data will speed adoption.”

Team Lead – Example quote


AgileFormal



CLM 2012

RTC 4.0.1

CLM SR3

RRC, RTC, RQM, JAF

CLM 4.0.2

RRC, RTC, RQM, JAF

CLM 4.0.3

RRC, RTC, RQM, JAF

CLM 4.0.4

RRC, RTC


201420132012 2015+


CLM 4.0.5

RRC, RTC, RQM, JAF

Q4 Q2Q1Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4Q3 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2

CLM MR6

RRC, RTC, RQM, JAF

CLM MR7

RRC, RTC, RQM, JAF

CLM MR8

RRC, RTC, RQM, JAF

CLM MR9

RRC, RTC,

RQM, JAF RTC 4.0.3

RTC 4.0.2


CLM MR10

RRC, RTC, RQM, JAF

CLM MR11

RRC, RTC, RQM, JAF

RTC 4.0.4









IBM Rational Team Concert v4.0.5 Highlights Advanced Merge Workflows - SCM now has support for back porting or cherry picking change sets with

merge assistance and link traceability. Prior to 4.0.5 you had to patch merges with “gaps” in change sets

Work Item query results enhanced – The result set for a work item query supports links and approvals

Taskboard and Kanban – Promote Kanban views, WIP limits and taskboard usability improvements

Remote Project Support – Will enable RDz and TPF to maintain workspaces on the mainframe

UrbanCode Deploy and RTC Build integration – New post build deploy option for RTC Build

New Platform Support – IE10 and FF24 and Windows Server 2012 are now supported

New ClearCase importer - New importer for base ClearCase data can run in background and import full version history into Rational Team Concert’s SCM

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Continuous Delivery and Planning

Compliance and Control

Advanced Jazz SCM Merge and Automation

Enterprise Development – Distributed to Mainframe

RTC 4.0.5 – Major Themes


Enabling Product and Service Innovation | Rational

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Get to market faster Bring siloed teams together Automate all parts of the supply chain Continuously improve so you can balance speed, cost, quality and risk Reduce time to obtain and respond to customer feedback

Continuous Delivery and Planning: Our Vision

DevOps Lifecycle

Continuous Innovation, Feedback and Improvements

Operations/Manufacturing &

Support

Software & Product DevelopmentCustomers

Line of Business/Product Managers

dev·ops noun \'dev-äps\Enterprise capability for continuous software delivery that enables clients to seize market opportunities and reduce time to customer feedback

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– Continuously Build and Deploy your applications with RTC and IBM UrbanCode Deploy

– Copy/Paste Build Properties

– Quickly create a plan with multiple sprints/iterations

– Ability to unset the current iteration

– Kanban and taskboard improvements

– Planning filters – it's all about me

– Simplified, explicit ranking is now the default ranking model

– Connect Eclipse IDE to JazzHub - Our DevOps delivery in the cloud

– Updated browser support for IE10 and FF24 ESR

RTC 4.0.5 – Continuous Delivery and Planning



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Rational Team Concert 4.0.5: UrbanCode – RTC Build Integration

Continuous Deployment:

You can now continuously build and deploy your applications with Rational Team Concert Build and IBM UrbanCode Deploy.

The IBM UrbanCode Deploy process design tool makes it easy to define the steps required to deploy a new version of an application.


You can now continuously build and deploy your applications with Rational Team Concert Build and IBM UrbanCode Deploy.

The IBM UrbanCode Deploy process design tool makes it easy to define the steps required to deploy a new version of an application.



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Rational Team Concert 4.0.5: UrbanCode – RTC Build Integration


The post-build deploy option makes it easy to create a new component version in IBM UrbanCode Deploy and to upload those files to that version.

Configure the post-build deploy option to have IBM UrbanCode Deploy an application process.

IBM UrbanCode Deploy runs the steps in the process to deploy them in a live environment with minimal or no down time.


The post-build deploy option makes it easy to create a new component version in IBM UrbanCode Deploy and to upload those files to that version.

Configure the post-build deploy option to have IBM UrbanCode Deploy an application process.

IBM UrbanCode Deploy runs the steps in the process to deploy them in a live environment with minimal or no down time.



201320122011

Rational Team Concert 4.0.5: Build – Copy/paste of build properties

Build enhancements – copy/paste build properties

You can now copy and paste build properties between build property editors

You can also modify the build properties on the clipboard before pasting them onto a control.

Build enhancements – copy/paste build properties

You can now copy and paste build properties between build property editors

You can also modify the build properties on the clipboard before pasting them onto a control.

Allow copy/paste of build properties (88669)



201320122011

Rational Team Concert 4.0.5: Quickly Create Multiple Iterations/Sprints

Planning: Quickly Create Multiple Iterations/Sprints

Supports the creation of multiple iterations at one time.

You provide a start date and the duration of each type of iteration in weeks, and the start and end dates of each iteration are calculated automatically.

Planning: Quickly Create Multiple Iterations/Sprints

Supports the creation of multiple iterations at one time.

You provide a start date and the duration of each type of iteration in weeks, and the start and end dates of each iteration are calculated automatically.



201320122011

Rational Team Concert 4.0.5: Clearing the Current Iteration

Planning: Unset the current Iteration

Allow to unset the current iteration (79007) When an iteration is no longer the current iteration,

and another iteration is not planned, you can now clear the current iteration selection.

This enhancement prevents any views that display the current status from showing information about that iteration.

Planning: Unset the current Iteration

Allow to unset the current iteration (79007) When an iteration is no longer the current iteration,

and another iteration is not planned, you can now clear the current iteration selection.

This enhancement prevents any views that display the current status from showing information about that iteration.



201320122011

Rational Team Concert 4.0.5: Taskboard/Kanban Usability

Phase 1: Taskboard/Kanban Usability

[CCM] Technical investigation: Improve Taskboard and Kanban support (239726)

Phase 1: Focus will be on:

Promote a customized Kanban or tree view

Fix usability issues with Taskboards

Control Kanban WIP limits

Phase 1: Taskboard/Kanban Usability

[CCM] Technical investigation: Improve Taskboard and Kanban support (239726)


Promote a customized Kanban or tree view

Fix usability issues with Taskboards

Control Kanban WIP limits



201320122011

Rational Team Concert 4.0.5: Kanban WIP + Collapse Columns

Kanban / Taskboards Work-in-Progress limits now include a warning or error that is displayed when the limit is exceeded.

You can also now collapse the columns of the Kanban and Taskboard views.

Kanban / Taskboards Work-in-Progress limits now include a warning or error that is displayed when the limit is exceeded.

You can also now collapse the columns of the Kanban and Taskboard views.



201320122011

Rational Team Concert 4.0.5: Plan Filters – Owned by me / others

New plan filters New Owned by Me and Owned by Others filters are now available.

Multiple tags are supported on a single filter expression.

New plan filters New Owned by Me and Owned by Others filters are now available.

Multiple tags are supported on a single filter expression.



201320122011

Rational Team Concert 4.0.5: New Default Ranking Behavior

Planning: New default ranking behavior for plans:

The new simplified explicit ranking behavior introduced in RTC 4.0.3 is now the default ranking behavior for RTC in agile plans

You can migrate a plan to the new explicit rank

You can toggle between old and new

Newly created plans will default to explicit rank

Priority or Stack based ranking (Old)

Explicit ranking ( New)

More Info: https://jazz.net/wiki/bin/view/Main/NewRanking405

Planning: New default ranking behavior for plans:

The new simplified explicit ranking behavior introduced in RTC 4.0.3 is now the default ranking behavior for RTC in agile plans

You can migrate a plan to the new explicit rank

You can toggle between old and new

Newly created plans will default to explicit rank

Priority or Stack based ranking (Old)

Explicit ranking ( New)

More Info: https://jazz.net/wiki/bin/view/Main/NewRanking405



201320122011

Rational Team Concert 4.0.5: Connect RTC Eclipse Client to JazzHub

Connect to JazzHub from RTC Eclipse client If you are not yet connected to a Rational Team

Concert repository, a new link named Manage JazzHub Projects [Beta] is displayed in the Team Artifacts view. Additionally, a Manage JazzHub Projects [Beta] push button is displayed on the toolbar for the Team Artifacts view.

Connect to JazzHub from RTC Eclipse client If you are not yet connected to a Rational Team

Concert repository, a new link named Manage JazzHub Projects [Beta] is displayed in the Team Artifacts view. Additionally, a Manage JazzHub Projects [Beta] push button is displayed on the toolbar for the Team Artifacts view.



201320122011

Rational Team Concert 4.0.5: New Platform Support

New Platform Support:

Updated browser support for Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 7

Updated browser support for FireFox 24 ESR

Windows Server 2012 Support

WebSphere Application Server 8.5.5

Java 6 SR14

For the most up to date platform support please see:

https://jazz.net/wiki/bin/view/Deployment/CLMSystemRequirements

New Platform Support:

Updated browser support for Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 7

Updated browser support for FireFox 24 ESR

Windows Server 2012 Support

WebSphere Application Server 8.5.5

Java 6 SR14

For the most up to date platform support please see:

https://jazz.net/wiki/bin/view/Deployment/CLMSystemRequirements



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Compliance and Control

– Ability to query on approvals, links and comments

– Bulk edit support for approvals and links

– Electronic signature support added to the RTC Client for Microsoft Visual Studio IDE

– Support for work item process configuration from the web UI

– Ability to report on project and team roles and membership for audit control

– New work item drill down on any point in trend line reports

– Auto-Manage reports usage of system resources

– New visual representation of work item tags

RTC 4.0.5 – Compliance and Control



201320122011

Rational Team Concert 4.0.5: Enhanced WI Query Result Set

Work Item Query Result Set Enhanced

[CCM] Support additional attributes in query result view columns (263094)

Provide support for querying on links

e.g. Parent-child, Affected by, etc..

Query on approvals

Query on last comments

Hover shows last 3 comments

Support for web and Eclipse

Can also export to a spreadsheet

Bulk edit for links and approvals - Eclipse

Work Item Query Result Set Enhanced

[CCM] Support additional attributes in query result view columns (263094)

Provide support for querying on links

e.g. Parent-child, Affected by, etc..

Query on approvals

Query on last comments

Hover shows last 3 comments

Support for web and Eclipse

Can also export to a spreadsheet

Bulk edit for links and approvals - Eclipse



201320122011

Rational Team Concert 4.0.5: E-Signature support from Visual Studio

Electronic Signatures support in RTC client for Microsoft Visual Studio IDE

[CCM] As a user I want to be able to sign off using electronic signatures, for state changes and approvals for work items in the VS Client (242131)

RTC has had e-signature support since 2009 but now the RTC Client for Microsoft Visual Studio IDE can support e-signature workflows directly in the IDE.

Electronic Signatures support in RTC client for Microsoft Visual Studio IDE

[CCM] As a user I want to be able to sign off using electronic signatures, for state changes and approvals for work items in the VS Client (242131)

RTC has had e-signature support since 2009 but now the RTC Client for Microsoft Visual Studio IDE can support e-signature workflows directly in the IDE.



201320122011

Rational Team Concert 4.0.5: WI Process Configuration in web-UI

Ability to configure the preconditions & follow-up actions for work items using Web UI

[CCM] Process customization For Work Items operation behavior in the Web UI (213889)

Supported Preconditions :

– Required Approvals

– Required Estimates

– Prevent Editing

– Implied Attributes

– E-Signature

– Required Attributes For Type and State

– Read-Only Attributes For Type and State

– Required Attributes For Condition

– Read-Only Attributes For Condition

Ability to configure the preconditions & follow-up actions for work items using Web UI

[CCM] Process customization For Work Items operation behavior in the Web UI (213889)

Supported Preconditions :

– Required Approvals

– Required Estimates

– Prevent Editing

– Implied Attributes

– E-Signature

– Required Attributes For Type and State

– Read-Only Attributes For Type and State

– Required Attributes For Condition

– Read-Only Attributes For Condition



RTC 4.0.5: Report on Project and Team Membership & Roles

Report on more data in the DW

The following data is now loaded into the data warehouse and is available for reporting from RRDI.

Project

Team Membership

Roles

Report on more data in the DW

The following data is now loaded into the data warehouse and is available for reporting from RRDI.

Project

Team Membership

Roles

201320122011



RTC 4.0.5: Reporting / Trend Line Drill Down

Reporting: Trend Line Drill Down Clicking any point in the trend line of the following reports

now opens a detailed report, which lists the work items that contributed to the selected value:

• Open versus Closed Work Items

• Open Work Items by Type

• Open Work Items

• Defect Backlog

• Burndown

• Burnup

• Work Items by Priority

The Work Item History Details report resource must be deployed to the project area for the feature to work.

Reporting: Trend Line Drill Down Clicking any point in the trend line of the following reports

now opens a detailed report, which lists the work items that contributed to the selected value:

• Open versus Closed Work Items

• Open Work Items by Type

• Open Work Items

• Defect Backlog

• Burndown

• Burnup

• Work Items by Priority

The Work Item History Details report resource must be deployed to the project area for the feature to work.

201320122011



201320122011

Rational Team Concert 4.0.5: Reporting Administration & Control

Reporting: Auto-Manage Report System Resources In RTC 4.0.4 we allowed teams to view and cancel all running reports on a Jazz Team server

In RTC 4.0.5 you can now configure your server to automatically cancel reports that have been running for more than a specified amount of time.

This limit can prevent reports from consuming too many server resources.

Reporting: Auto-Manage Report System Resources In RTC 4.0.4 we allowed teams to view and cancel all running reports on a Jazz Team server

In RTC 4.0.5 you can now configure your server to automatically cancel reports that have been running for more than a specified amount of time.

This limit can prevent reports from consuming too many server resources.



201320122011

Rational Team Concert 4.0.5: Work Item Tag Enhancements

Work Items: Tag enhancements

The look and feel of the tags widget is redesigned. Rather than a comma separated list, each tag now displays as an individual visual entity.

The user, however, can still edit tags and navigate freely between them using the keyboard.

See Notes: for details on keyboard operations supported on tags

Work Items: Tag enhancements

The look and feel of the tags widget is redesigned. Rather than a comma separated list, each tag now displays as an individual visual entity.

The user, however, can still edit tags and navigate freely between them using the keyboard.

See Notes: for details on keyboard operations supported on tags



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Advanced Jazz SCM Merge and Automation

– Advanced merge support to enable managing release variants

– Improved usability for the Jazz SCM command line

– Configurable end of line handling in Jazz SCM

– New importer for Base ClearCase Data:

RTC 4.0.5 – Advanced Jazz SCM Merge and Automation



Rational Team Concert 4.0.5: Advanced SCM Merge Workflows

Advanced Merge: Variant Management

[CCM] Merge Gaps 3 : Provide initial workflow to mitigate merge gap exceptions via change set porting (249763)

Today:

We support patching when a “gap” in the change set is encountered during an Accept operation

Now we allow more explicit control over change set merging which helps developers:

Back port a bug fix to earlier releases

Cherry pick change sets

Mix and match features by accepting change sets from multiple work items


[CCM] Merge Gaps 3 : Provide initial workflow to mitigate merge gap exceptions via change set porting (249763)

Today:

We support patching when a “gap” in the change set is encountered during an Accept operation

Now we allow more explicit control over change set merging which helps developers:

Back port a bug fix to earlier releases

Cherry pick change sets

Mix and match features by accepting change sets from multiple work items

201320122011



Rational Team Concert 4.0.5: Advanced SCM Merge Workflows

201320122011

Changes to Merge: This section shows the changes from the source change set that need to be merged into the resulting change set.

Resulting Change Set: This section shows the new resulting change set


New Editor assists with merging changes

Link traceability between original change set and the new merged change set is maintained



201320122011

Rational Team Concert 4.0.5: SCM CLI: Usability Enhancements

SCM CLI: Usability Enhancements

[CCM] Usability improvements in the SCM CLI

Improve command syntax

consistent verb-noun syntax across all commands

For example - create <workspace>

Backward compatibility is maintained

Help will display new commands .

To see old commands set an environment variable SCM_SHOW_DEPRECATED_HELP

More information in wiki page https://jazz.net/wiki/bin/view/Main/SCMCLIUsabilityImprovements

SCM CLI: Usability Enhancements

[CCM] Usability improvements in the SCM CLI

Improve command syntax

consistent verb-noun syntax across all commands

For example - create <workspace>

Backward compatibility is maintained

Help will display new commands .

To see old commands set an environment variable SCM_SHOW_DEPRECATED_HELP

More information in wiki page https://jazz.net/wiki/bin/view/Main/SCMCLIUsabilityImprovements



Rational Team Concert 4.0.5: Jazz SCM: End of line handling

201320122011

New line delimiter handling for JAZZ Source Control

Now you can set the line delimiter handling to NONE. This setting ensures that line delimiters in a file are not changed during check-in or share operations.

Control setting at server-wide or project level:

You can also set a per-project or server-wide preference in the advanced properties for the server.

Note: The NONE setting is analogous to ClearCase “transparent mode” and provides compatibility for customers using that.

Do you need the Jazz SCM to never modify the end-of-line character on check-in?



201320122011

Rational Team Concert 4.0.5: Base ClearCase Importer

Initial Phase 1: Base ClearCase Importer

[CCM] Release 1 of base ClearCase to RTC SCM migration to import all of the history of a ClearCase file element. (274847)


All version history of file elements are imported as individual change sets

Merge hyperlinks as Jazz SCM merge

Version owners as change set owners

Version properties imported as change set comment and user properties

For limitations of the initial release see:

https://jazz.net/wiki/bin/view/Main/ConnectorScmImporter

What are the advantages of a new ClearCase importer?

Simpler, no synchronizer to setup

Two phase import (export to dump file then import)

Can run in background; pulls in more version history

Initial Phase 1: Base ClearCase Importer

[CCM] Release 1 of base ClearCase to RTC SCM migration to import all of the history of a ClearCase file element. (274847)


All version history of file elements are imported as individual change sets

Merge hyperlinks as Jazz SCM merge

Version owners as change set owners

Version properties imported as change set comment and user properties

For limitations of the initial release see:

https://jazz.net/wiki/bin/view/Main/ConnectorScmImporter

What are the advantages of a new ClearCase importer?

Simpler, no synchronizer to setup

Two phase import (export to dump file then import)

Can run in background; pulls in more version history



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Enterprise Development - Distributed to Mainframe

– Remote Project Support on z/OS

– Dependency Build – Exclude components from build pre-processing

– ISPF Client Enhancements

– Enhanced packaging and deployment automation for IBMi and System z

RTC 4.0.5 – Enterprise Development – Distributed to Mainframe



201320122011

Rational Team Concert 4.0.5: Remote Project Support

Remote project Support for System z

[CCM] Support Remote Projects on zOS to enable RDz and TPF/tk adoption (261620)

The ability for an IDE to run on a local distributed client and have the SCM project data live on a remote host.

The first IDE releases to make use of this capability will be Rational Developer for z (planned Q4 2013) and the TPF toolkit.

Remote project Support for System z

[CCM] Support Remote Projects on zOS to enable RDz and TPF/tk adoption (261620)

The ability for an IDE to run on a local distributed client and have the SCM project data live on a remote host.

The first IDE releases to make use of this capability will be Rational Developer for z (planned Q4 2013) and the TPF toolkit.

Workspace

Repository



201320122011

Rational Team Concert 4.0.5: Dependency Build Enhancements

Dependency Build Enhancements

Exclude select components from build pre-processing (265923)

Allows the user to exclude components they don’t care about to spoeed up the build processing ( especially useful in a mixed technology application)

Dependency Build Enhancements

Exclude select components from build pre-processing (265923)

Allows the user to exclude components they don’t care about to spoeed up the build processing ( especially useful in a mixed technology application)

Genlink utility for IBM i ILE binding discoveryGenlink is a stand-alone QShell command interface that retrieves the bindings of existing ILE programs and service programs. Genlink generates output into source members that instructs the dependency build how to bind source code into programs after it is compiled. This utility can help accelerate configuring dependency builds for IBM i by examining the existing programs that are currently in production.



201320122011

Rational Team Concert 4.0.5: ISPF Client Enhancements

ISPF Client Enhancements

Accept All option

The ISPF client includes a new Accept All action that is available in the Incoming Change Sets panel. To accept all change sets that are displayed in the incoming change sets list, enter a forward slash (/) in the Accept all field and press Enter.

Better sandbox data sets and directories cleanup

When unloading or deleting a repository workspace, the ISPF client now deletes any SCM_WORK directories and data sets to keep the SCM work directory clean. If a data set that is to be deleted after the unload or delete operations contains members, new ISPF panels are displayed to allow users to process members, such as creating back up files, and perform data set cleanup actions.

ISPF Client Enhancements

Accept All option

The ISPF client includes a new Accept All action that is available in the Incoming Change Sets panel. To accept all change sets that are displayed in the incoming change sets list, enter a forward slash (/) in the Accept all field and press Enter.

Better sandbox data sets and directories cleanup

When unloading or deleting a repository workspace, the ISPF client now deletes any SCM_WORK directories and data sets to keep the SCM work directory clean. If a data set that is to be deleted after the unload or delete operations contains members, new ISPF panels are displayed to allow users to process members, such as creating back up files, and perform data set cleanup actions.



201320122011

Rational Team Concert 4.0.5: Packaging and Deployment

Deployment Usability Enhancements

[CCM] Usability Enhancements for the EE workflows

Work item packaging of affected output

The Create Package wizard now has an option to run a work-item package that includes "Impacted outputs.“

Package preview

The Create Package wizard now has an option to run a preview package.

Export packaging query results

The Queried Results view now has an option to export the results to a file, which can be useful when you export packages that are created from a package definition or that are deployed by a deployment definition

Ant tasks for packaging and deployment

New Ant tasks were added for packaging and deployment action to provide a flexible, scriptable alternative to submitting packaging and deployment requests from the GUI.

Deployment Usability Enhancements

[CCM] Usability Enhancements for the EE workflows

Work item packaging of affected output

The Create Package wizard now has an option to run a work-item package that includes "Impacted outputs.“

Package preview

The Create Package wizard now has an option to run a preview package.

Export packaging query results

The Queried Results view now has an option to export the results to a file, which can be useful when you export packages that are created from a package definition or that are deployed by a deployment definition

Ant tasks for packaging and deployment

New Ant tasks were added for packaging and deployment action to provide a flexible, scriptable alternative to submitting packaging and deployment requests from the GUI.






– Integrate RTC Team Build with IBM UrbanCode Deploy to automate the process of going from a completed build to a deployed application

– Promote Kanban views and enforce WIP limits, easily automate sprint timeline creation,

– New default ranking model, much easier to manage backlogs

– Support for IE10 and FF24 ESR for better performance

Compliance and Control– Query on approvals and links such as blocking

dependencies or parent child relationships

– Bulk edit links and approvals

– New report drill down on trend reports

Advanced SCM Merge and Automation– Manage multiple variants with more flexible change set

merging across releases.

– Easier setup and import of ClearCase data

– For System z environments, enable IDE's to work with remotely located projects



“The ability to add or remove features from a release, and continually build and deploy them gives us a competitive advantage in getting products to our users faster and with a repeatable process.”

Team Lead – Example quote


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Notice: Proposed Platform Removal – 1H 2014

Important note on future IBM Rational Team Concert platform support for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Internet Explorer 8 and older Visual Studio IDE versions.

Microsoft has officially announced that it will no longer support Windows XP after April, 2014 including no security fixes or updates. IBM Rational's CLM based Jazz products, including RTC, intend to drop support for Windows XP, Internet Explorer 8, Windows Vista and at least Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 in the mid-2014 time frame. To give customers time to plan for this, we are continuing to make this announcement in advance. Customers who still need to run Rational Team Concert on these platforms can continue to run existing releases, such as RTC 4.0.5 and others that will continue to provide this support for an extended support lifecycle. However, to gain access to new 2014 releases of RTC and CLM products customers will need to plan for moving off Windows XP, Windows Vista and IE8 by mid-2014.

See: Microsoft to end Windows XP support

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