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Last week we released Visual Annotate v3.6 . As part of the release, we are offering a free training webinar to show the users what’s new and give an updated overview of this tool. Visual Annotate is a lightweight tool that tracks the development history from the code lines perspective, helping you to quickly detect […]

  The JUC brings Jenkins Continuous Integration (CI) Server experts and community enthusiasts together for an invaluable day of Jenkins -focused learning and networking opportunities. Kohsuke Kawaguchi, the creator of Jenkins (formerly Hudson), will be The guest of honor at the event. The conference will be held on July 16, 2015 at the David InterContinental, […]

We’re proud to announce the new version! Visual Annotate helps you drill down into the history of any code line in a file within ClearCase. This tool can be very useful for saving the time and effort of developers, system integrators and release managers who work with ClearCase. The tool is provided with a floating […]

  Participate in our survey and you could win a $50 donation to your preferred charity organization! As you may know, we supply add-on tools that provide development insights and analytics for many ClearCase users (see R&D Reporter and Visual Annotate). Over the last few years we have provided “Lines of Code” metrics, reports and […]

ClearCheck 2.9.7, our comprehensive health checks monitoring tool for ClearCase, is out! For this release, we updated the internal knowledge base used to detect errors within ClearCase VOBs, and we also fixed some bugs with the ClearCheck software (click here to see an example of the nightly report generated by ClearCheck). Fixed issues: We fixed […]

Your voice counts! Participate in these ClearCase and ClearQuest Surveys and Influence future releases! IBM plans updated releases of ClearCase ClearQuest for years to come and is now gathering feedback from worldwide users regarding what the community would like to see in future releases. Would you like to influence with which platform ClearCase and ClearQuest […]

We will soon release a new query type as part of our R&D Reporter add-on tool! The new query gets a view path as an input, and provides an extended report of the content of the entire view. See a screenshot: This new report provides extended capabilities far beyond just providing the data like in […]

See some usages that can help you on your daily tasks: 1. Quickly find out who checked-in a certain code line, when, and on which version: This feature is particularly useful when you have dozens or hundreds of file versions and you can’t readily open the Version Tree for each one and quickly ascertain into exactly which one of the many existing versions your ”target” code […]

Did you know? As of January 2015, you can no longer just open a ticket by email (as used to be the case). You now have to open a Service Request (SR) to the IBM customer support team from here: https://www-947.ibm.com/support/servicerequest This also applies to all IBM (and Rational) products. I’ve used this website many […]

Had some great meetings with the ClearCase ClearQuest executives during IBM InterConnect in Vegas. We demonstrated our latest add-on tools for ClearCase & ClearQuest. At our last meeting we took a group photo: In picture (right to left): Peter Hack – ClearCase chief architect Kathy Parks – upcoming CC CQ product manager Adam Levensohn – […]

We have lots of updates, and we’re getting ready for IBM InterConnect next week, so this time we’ll keep each post quite short. If you will be attending InterConnect and you want to see a live demo of our add-on tools, click here to quickly setup a meeting! IBM InterConnect is around the corner! Preview […]

R&D Reporter (https://www.almtoolbox.com/rnd) is a ClearCase add-on tool that provides development status reports, metrics and charts. We’re often asked what makes our R&D Reporter for ClearCase so special and why it’s better than in-house scripting. Here is a list of the unique value proposition of R&D Reporter (feel free to share with your boss and colleagues): […]

InterConnect conference in Vegas is right around the corner, and we have many exciting new features to show to attendees who work with ClearCase ClearQuest or RTC, including an enhanced solution for both developers and administrators. Our founder and CEO, Tamir Gefen, would like to meet with you to demonstrate our latest products. Tamir, an […]

We’re thrilled to reveal some of the exciting features coming soon in R&D Reporter V5.0 for ClearCase. This is just a short list. We’ll provide more details soon (register for our newsletter to receive updates): New report template: two UCM views comparison (click to see a screenshot) New report template: full view \stream report, including […]

I’ll be delivering an interesting case study about utilizing ClearCase with Continuous Integration tools (Jenkins and more). Read the summary: While Rational ClearCase alone provides excellent SCM functionality, the emerging requirement is to deliver products faster through a combination of SCM, automation and continuous operations (DevOps) capabilities. N-Trig, a leading provider of touch-enabled technology for […]