Archive for the ‘ClearCase’ Category

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GoMidjets was founded on the belief that our knowledge of IBM Rational ClearCase automation can be packaged as useful tools for developers and administrators. During the last year we’ve seen this belief becoming a reality. Our customer list is steadily growing and our new partners are enthusiastic about helping even more companies improve their internal […]

ClearCase is the heart of R&D department. How to save its assets and reduce the risk of downtime and corruptions? Join our webinar and learn: IBM Rational recommendations Learned lessons and best practices Learn how we help you apply the best practices by using ‘ClearCheck’ – our health checks monitoring tool for ClearCase Date: Tuesday […]

Following our successful webinar on how to be more Agile with Rational ClearCase by using CompBL (replay is available here), we delivered another webiner in this series. The next webinar was more technical and was functioned as a tutorial for CompBL, our solution for applying ClearCase best practices. The speaker was Bob Aiello, Principal Consultant […]

I am honored to present our guest blogger, Bob Aiello. Bob, author of the top-selling book, CM Best Practices: Practical Methods that Work in the Real World, (2010, Addison Wesley) is a well-respected industry expert on all matters CM. We share his passion for excellence in customizing CM implementations and welcome him to our forum: Agile software […]

As part of launching the new version of CompBL (V2.5), one of our ClearCase add-ons, we delivered a webinar a few days ago. The recording is free to watch or listen with no charge. The webinar was delivered by Bob Aiello, author of Configuration Management Best Practices: Practical Methods that Work in the Real World […]

If you are interested in learning how to get the most out of ClearCase and be more Agile, you will not want to miss this webinar: Tuesday, February 8, 2011 12:00-1:00 PM EST / 9 AM PST / 11 AM CST Presenter: Bob Aiello, Consultant and author of Configuration Management Best Practices: Practical Methods that […]

In this post we mention a partial list of ClearQuest projects we have implemented over the years (since 1996) for our customers (and for our own company’s development needs) – all based on Rational ClearQuest tool. Our company has extensive experience in software development and ALM / SCM / DevOps / IT / AppSec methodologies […]

The new CompBL v2.5, adds plenty of features that create comparison between ClearCase objets which are meaningful to developers and managers, not just to file systems or diretories. Recommended baselines are among the most important versions in ClearCase, and now CompBL allows developers to easily see and compare them as well as activate automatic actions […]

We’re happy to announce a new version of ClearCheck with a completely new reporting utility that allows ClearCase administrators to overview VOB’s health at a glance. ClearCheck monitors ClearCase VOBs and alerts on any issue or problem. The new version includes upgraded report and report customization. It also supports Windows 7 and secured communication. What’s […]

GoMidjets bids farewell to 2010 with 10% discount on all ClearCase solutions: CompBL – High-level comparison and R&D progress reports for UCM ClearEnv – Central management for environments setup ClearCheck – VOBs health monitor Offer is valid for GoMidjets products only Not to be combined with other offers or promotions Offer is valid until Dec […]

Symantec has released a report that confirms something I felt for a long time. More organizations suffer from downtime due to system failure than people tend to believe. Interestingly, there is a gap between the downtime people predict to actual downtime in cases of outage. Respondents answered that they think they can recover in 2 […]

We are often asked to provide  some best practices of ClearCase, so we decided to share it with all users, and this time with a video! A common question is “how to easily compare two streams by their recommended baselines?”, so the following video answers that question. The video demonstrates how to select two ClearCase […]

The new features in CompBL focus on improving the usefulness of our reports. The new reports help users identify quickly the information they need. Customized templates and a command line interface (CLI) can be combined to enable a fully-automatic generation of release notes, which can significantly accelerate processes especially in organizaiton working with Agile and […]

The main benefit provided by ClearCheck is a reduced risk of major failures and downtime. Use this calculator to find out what how much VOBs downtime can cost in your organization. Compare this cost with the price of ClearCheck to support buying decisions. Cost of VOBs Downtime No. of developers working on the project: ___ […]