Archive for the ‘CompBL’ Category

In this post me we are hosting a guest writer, Mr. Leonid Stanovsky, who uses our product for a while and has agreed to share his review with us. GoMidjets CompBL allows users of IBM’s ClearCase UCM to automatically compare baselines, streams and other ClearCase objects and assets. I have reviewed it in connection with a […]

We are working on defining the content for CompBL 3.0, our real-time identification and reporting tool of changes made on ClearCase UCM assets, and we consider offering a new feature that includes reporting of “ClearCase attributes” and their properties as well. I’d like to ask you two questions please – your feedback is highly appreciated. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

Now that all our products have achieved the “Ready for IBM Rational software” validation, and we are often asked what this means, I’d like to take a moment to explain: IBM grants this validation to specific Business Partner plug-ins and product integrations that meet Rational integration criteria. If you are looking for software that integrates […]

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 […]

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 […]