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Last week IBM released a new version. What’s New? Improved visibility between test and requirements Better test artifact organization using categories (improved ease of use) Enhanced control over long-running test suites (pause and resume are now enabled!) Improved workflow for test artifact approval Easily restore test artifacts Integration with Requirements Management tools (RRC and DOORS) […]

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RTC 4.0.5 provides new features to support the best practices of continuous delivery (CD), DevOps and Kanban. Furthermore, there are new capabilities to import data from ClearCase. See what’s new: https://jazz.net/downloads/rational-team-concert/releases/4.0.5?p=news See a demo of one of the new features: Work Item guidance in Rational Team Concert. This feature provides a brief info that developers […]

It’s been a long time since we released our last newsletter… Wait no longer – here is our latest newspaper! This year was very busy and exciting for us. New releases, new customers and new ClearCase and SCM, DevOps and ALM challenges we resolved. I visited customers in Germany, US (4 different states), Canada and […]

As we often get requests to provide complementary services for our ClearCase add-on tools, we decided to take up the gauntlet and provide services along with selling our toolset. These services provide a turn-key solution that can be tailored to the specific needs of customers. The services are provided by experienced SCM, ClearCase, ClearQuest and […]

IBM has released a new paper, including many resources such as downloads and fixes, new features, education modules, supported and unsupported platforms and more. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21648646

Today we have some exciting news about new functionality for managers in shops that work in ClearCase and ClearQuest. Now you can get real-time status reports that affect you and can help you make informed decisions. For example, you can compare builds, compare views and streams, export reports, get lines-of-code (LOC) metrics, status charts and […]

Next week there’s an interesting conference in Boston that concerns DevOps, Agile, development and testing. Visit the IBM booth, and be sure to take home a GoMidjets DevOps solution brochure! Our DevOps solution now provides DevOps and Developmental Intelligence for ClearCase ClearQuest, and it works for all R&D players. That means that it’s ideal for […]

  I’d like to invite you to participate in a short survey.   Our R&D Reporter’s latest release (V4 – see what’s new) offers a variety of baseline and stream comparison reports, including new lines-of-code (LOC) metrics.          We are now considering extending the reporting functionality to help ClearCase users monitor the development status. This would enable notification […]

We’ve just released a new paper that explains what Lines of Code (LOC) metrics are; the advantages of measuring LOC, and how we can help you get the metrics and charts from within YOUR ClearCase. The paper is now available to download for free here: Click to download LOC paper

Our partners in France, EGDS, will be attending Rational Technical Summit this week in France. If you’d like to learn about our complementary solutions for ClearCase, ClearQuest and RTC, please contact Mr. Eli Goldmann by email (eli@egds.fr) or by phone: 06 87 87 18 69

IBM Rational now run the “Voice Jam”, an activity where the people at Rational look for feedback and ideas from everybody. It’s YOUR opportunity to influence the next releases of ClearCase ClearQuest and RTC! To join: https://voicejam.ideajam.net/

I’ve started an interesting discussion about using temporary views in ClearCase. I’d like to know what you think about and if you have a policy that forbids it at your company. Please join the session here.    

The IBM GSKit component used in Rational ClearCase and ClearQuest is susceptible to a Transport Layer Security protocol (used in HTTPS) vulnerability known as “Lucky Thirteen.” The vulnerability might allow remote attackers to conduct distinguishing and plain-text recovery attacks by statistically analyzing timing data for crafted packets. Remediation: Upgrade to latest version: 7.1.2.12, 8.0.0.8 or […]