ClearCase 7.1.1 was released
Posted by: Tamir in: ● December 22, 2009
New version includes enhancements for Windows, Sun Solaris, z/OS, UCM and Base (atomic checkin!), CCRC, MultiSite, CCRC and more. Read more…
Microsoft buys bridge for Java, .Net developers
Posted by: Tamir in: ● November 12, 2009
InfoWorld reports that Microsoft is acquiring SourceGear’’s Teamprise suite, which lets Java developers build applications via Visual Studio TFS.
Microsoft’s move is in recognition of heterogeneous development shops building in both .Net and Java.
It seems that Microsoft is putting significant efforts into keeping up with its competitors.
Functionality from Teamprise Client Suite will be integrated into Microsoft’s Visual Studio product line beginning with the Visual Studio 2010 IDE.
UNIX / Linux silent install of IBM Rational ClearCase and ClearQuest
Posted by: Tamir in: ● November 5, 2009
Agile and ALM – Expo 2009
Posted by: Tamir in: ● October 12, 2009
- In: ALM| CM Planning
- 1 Comment
ALM Expo is an online conference sessions and discussions given by CM Crossroads. This year it is focused on the topic of “ALM and Agile in the New Economy”.
Conference sessions:
- Taking Travel Search to New Heights – How Travelzoo delivered Fly.com with Agile ALM
- Innovation in a New Economy: The Business Imperative for Intelligent ALM
- The Agile Heartbeat: Putting Build and Test Center Stage
- Smart SCM Solutions For Your Custom Application Lifecycle
- Build & Deployment Management in the New Economy
When? October 15, 2009
Where? http://www.almexpo.com
ClearCase performance enhancements – A new white paper
Posted by: Tamir in: ● August 26, 2009
A new white paper concerning performance enhancements for ClearCase registry server was released a few days ago by IBM.
It deals with improvements of daily clearcase commands in ClearCase 7.1, 7.0 and CCRC.
It seems that IBM Rational has really improved ClearCase performance, particularly in following clearcase actions: make streams, create activities, checkin and checkout, lshistory, update snapshot view and remove view.
The best part is that you don’t have to customize your environment to achieve these improvements – just upgrade to ClearCase 7.1 or ClearCase 7.0.1.2 . Indeed, upgrading an environment is always a “pain”, but you are probably planning to do so sometime in the future.
Are you waiting for ClearCase on Windows 7?
Posted by: Tamir in: ● August 25, 2009
- In: ClearCase| ClearQuest| Windows
- 5 Comments
I’m looking forward for it. Are you?
I was told by Rational Support that its ClearCase, ClearQuest and other Rational suits are planned to support Windows 7 at the beginning of 2010, after their general release and test/validation results.
Stay tuned.
An update : Windows 7 and ClearCase insights
Yin meets Yang
Posted by: Tamir in: ● August 6, 2009
- In: ALM| IBM
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A few days ago I was interviewed by IBM DeveloperWorks, the IBM community for developers and IT professionals.
Hope you’ll find it interesting! Here it is.
Twitter and CM / ALM systems
Posted by: Tamir in: ● July 17, 2009
I find this interesting:
In a random glance in Twitter during the last couple of days, it seems like twitters who mention CM and ALM tools actually complain and express their dissatisfaction of it. Could Twitter be their therapy?
Have a guess which system is the top of the bitching list? (Clue: we simplify and automate it 
)
Have a look yourself – read the last twits of these users:
How to catch the event when ClearCase UCM baseline being recommended?
Posted by: Tamir in: ● July 1, 2009
As you probably know, there is no way in ClearCase to know when baselines are being recommended. If you’ve ever wanted to know it just as it happens, you can take a brand new trigger that I developed the last week, as part of our work @ GoMidjets.
What benefits you can achieve by using this trigger?
- Sending automatic emails to relevant people. For instance, let’s say you’re a configuration manager or a team leader and you want all your developers to receive Emails about the new recommended baselines just as you recommend it, in order to let them rebase to the recommended baseline ASAP.
- Saving the history of recommended baselines. ClearCase does not enable you track the recommended baselines during timeline. This benefit has even more benefits:
- If you want to rollback to the recommended baseline of yesterday or two weeks ago – you can’t do that unless you save its history.
- Create a new stream by a previous recommended BL.
- Automatically comparing recommended BL and the previous rec. BL (this benefit will be ready soon as part of our new version of CompBL)
- Knowing the baselines which considered as recommended.
Subscribe here to get updates about this trigger.
Download the trigger right here.
ClearCase: If you’ve ever needed to create a view attached to a stream on another region…
Posted by: Tamir in: ● June 17, 2009
- In: ClearCase| Tips and Tricks| UCM
- 1 Comment
You have to know that this option of “cleartool mkview” was cancelled in ClearCase 7 and later.
This option was valid in ClearCase 6 and below, but now has cancelled, in all platforms (Windows, UNIX and Linux).
As written in “mkview” manual:
–reg/ion network-region
Creates the view tag in the specified network region. An error occurs if the region does not exist. (Cannot be used with –str/eam .)
I found this feature very useful when you have two ClearCase remote servers, each of them on a separated region, and you have to create a new UCM view on the other region.
Never mind. There are another ways to do it (and our ClearEnv supports it).
