Archive for the ‘ClearCase’ Category

1.    Protect R&D’s Most Valuable Asset Business continuity is not just a buzzword. Time lost on fixing ClearCase problems wastes time, money and energy which directly affect the company’s bottom line. ClearCheck implements: Accurate reports – covers all possible errors so you know whether VOBs are healthy or not, and if not, what is wrong […]

The new ClearCheck version, V1.7, suggests a simpler procedure for installing ClearCheck in order to ensure that your ClearCase environment is healthy. It takes only 3 minutes to install and receive a preliminary report! Here are the 4 steps to follow after you download ClearCheck (To download the latest version: https://www.almtoolbox.com/download.php?did=1) 1. Select your VOB […]

dbcheck is the most important maintenance check provides by IBM Rational. According to IBM, it covers about 80% of the corruptions that can occur. ClearCheck and ClearCase enable you to run dbcheck in three ways: Run it on the VOBs themselves Run it on a VOBs backup copy that is stored on the VOB server […]

On March 23rd GoMidjets’ seminar “Accelerating development and CM processes by automation“ took host at IBM Israel. The turn-out for the event was high.  In less than two days all the seats for the seminar were booked. This was achieved by using only selected social media platforms (and not all intentionally). 35 people signed up […]

Have you ever asked yourself what changes have been made since your  stream was rebased to the recommended baseline? Sometimes you rebase your private stream to an integration stream or its recommended baseline. You complete the operation (or havn’t yet), sometimes it requires some merging, and then you encounter new problems: compilation is failed, new […]

Configuring work environments with ClearCase is a time consuming manual task that wastes the time of both administrators and developers. Ness TSG found a better way to do things – with ClearEnv they configure all their projects at once, and then they are installed automatically. They estimate that at least 10 hours are saved every […]

So what’s new? New ClearCase version contains defect fixes, new features and added platform support. Here it’s categorized by groups: General Enhancements Primary group intersection algorithm Clone baseline – Create a new baseline by cloning an existing baseline Suppressing unnecessary clearfsimport checkouts Enhanced Properties view Suppressing unnecessary clearfsimport checkouts Windows Performance improvement in Windows version […]

If you were wondering when is the best time to purchase ClearCheck, A ClearCase maintenance plug-in that prevents costly problems, then this is your opportunity – in our special end-of-year deal you can save 10% on all the licenses you buy by the end of this year. You can get another 5% discount if you […]

A new version of CompBL is out, featuring new benefits. What’s new in this version? Performance improvements. Getting ClearCase assets is much faster. Add change-set comments into your report. See the file version comments beside the detailed change-sets. A new legend. The report may include a legend to make the report more legible. Sort baselines […]

The new version, V2.0.1, contains a few enhancements and fixes. If you’ve already downloaded CompBL V2.0.0, please download a patch and install it over the current version that you have: https://www.almtoolbox.com/download.php?did=10 A full version, including the last update is here: https://www.almtoolbox.com/download.php?did=2 We are always willing to get your feedback. Please send feedback by replying to […]

Dear CompBL followers, Today, following a lengthy development phase and having received constructive feedback from users around the world, we are happy to announce the release of a new version of our product; CompBL V2. This  version holds many new and powerful features, which we hope will assist you to improve the development processes in […]

This post serves as an introduction to the New Version of CompBL, presenting all its new features and comparison capabilities. In general, CompBL enables you to compare any combination of ClearCase streams and baselines. Moreover, we have enhanced these capabilities by enabling you to select recommended baselines and composite baselines, which makes CompBL more efficient […]

We are proud to announce that CompBL V2 will be released in this coming Thursday. CompBL V2 has several new features and enhancements, improved usability and reliability. Experience our CompBL V2 Beta version and provide valuable feedback to enhance the product. Main Benefits Control. Know what ClearCase artifacts have been changed. Any time. Simplicity. Smart, […]

This time I’d like to talk about ClearEnv, one of our ClearCase add-ons. ClearEnv helps you to get better results of ClearCase. ClearEnv has a better approach for setting new ClearCase environments, and it helps you to achieve much better control, IT governance and compliance. Here are some of its main benefits: IT Governance: Define […]

In the course of our on-going examinations for our  Rational ClearCase add-ons, we decided to test them on Windows 7, even though it is not yet officially supported to work with Rational ClearCase. Today I installed Windows 7 as an additional virtual machine on my laptop (with VMware server). We’ve been gaining experience using VMware […]