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Jazz CLM Team Doing Reddit AMA on Jul 16

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From the jazz.net blog:

The Collaborative Lifecycle Management team will be doing an AMA (Ask Me Anything) on the iAmA subreddit on July 16th from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM Eastern time. For those not familiar with the concept of an AMA, it’s an opportunity to ask a person or group of people any sort of question on the site reddit.com.

I think it’s great that the devs are going to answer questions about, well, anything. I’ll definitely be checking in!

Update: You can check out the AMA here!

IBM Releases RDNG, RTC, and RQM 6.0!

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It’s been a long time coming, but you can head over to Jazz.net and download CLM 6.0, which includes new releases of RDNG, RTC, and RQM.

This update has been a long time coming, and of course IBM released it right before the end of last month. We’re still recovering from some of the quarter-end deals that closed. Look for more details on this release soon. At a high level, though, DNG gets a diagram editor and the entire suite gets Configuration Management.

Stay tuned!

DNG, RTC, and RQM 5.0.2 released!

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IBM DOORS Next Generation, Rational Quality Manager, and Rational Team Concert 5.0.2 were just released.

You can read the release notes on Jazz.net. Notable in DNG are greatly enhanced file management and much needed updates to managing views.

The Jazz Reporting Service is also promoted to more of a public view, and my guess is that in 6.0 it will be fully baked in. It looks very promising.

RPE 1.3 Issues with DNG

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RPE 1.3 was recently released and the very first thing I encountered with it was that you can no longer generate DOORS Next Generation documents from a DNG-generated document specification (.dsx) file in the RPE Launcher.

If you don’t know what I’m talking about, this article on Dragos’ RPE Actual should clear it up. This technique will no longer work with RPE 1.3 due to the “cookies” section of the .dsx file not being available.

IBM can provide you with a fix. So open up those PMRs, folks. There’s also a related issue with how oAuth is misbehaving for DNG in RPE 1.3, so hopefully IBM will have a patch for these issues shortly.

 

Screencast: Importing Documents Into DOORS Next Generation

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The above video demonstrates how to import a Word document into DOORS Next Generation.

I’ve been using the tool for a few months and didn’t really understand what the delimiter options were for until recently. I haven’t had to deal with many documents that used tables and once I had a table-heavy document, was amazed at just how easy it was to map table artifacts to a specific type in DOORS Next Gen.

I hope this video helps someone else!

Jazz CLM 5.0.1 is available!

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IBM Rational Jazz CLM 5.0.1 has been released! When I think 501 I think of jeans and button flies. But now I’ll also think of RDNG, RQM, and RTC.

As seems to always be the case, RTC has gotten LOTS of love. RQM has some nice new features involving scheduling of test suite executions and resources. And DNG has some bug fixes, no new features.

I am personally excited about the new Jazz Reporting Service. Let’s hope my enthusiasm doesn’t wane when I actually get my hands on it.

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So long, RRC! Welcome RDNG!

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Anyone who has downloaded the milestone release of Rational Requirements Composer 5.0 may have noticed that in the help documentation, Rational Requirements Composer does not have its own help section. DOORS Next Generation, however, does.

When version 5.0 of the Jazz suite gets released in June, RRC will be no more. The name of Jazz’s requirements management tool will henceforth be Rational DOORS Next Generation.

I suspected this change coming for a while. As RRC gained modules, most places I’ve seen latched onto modules, even if they had never used DOORS 9. Having DOORS and RDNG still presents the “which tool should I use” problem to IBM, but at least IBM has narrowed the list down from three tools to two tools.

With the upcoming Requirements Configuration Management capabilities in RDNG (open beta starting around June and final release coming in Q4), I expect RDNG’s marketshare to grow exponentially, especially since existing DOORS 9 users can leverage their licenses for RDNG.

In the meantime, I can now speak about RDNG to everyone we do business, and that will lead to less confusion to my customers and even within IBM. June 1 can’t get here soon enough.

Jazz 405 Is Out

IBM Jazz 4.0.5 Released

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IBM just released IBM Jazz 4.0.5. While you can download 4.0.5 now, I thought I’d cover some compelling reasons to do so.

What’s new in Jazz Team Server 4.0.5

  • You can limit the amount of time that a report runs — good for stopping reports that take too long or that error out.
  • CLM server monitoring is now installed by default. Seems like a few hoops must be jumped through to use it though.
  • Archive and restore process templates: I see this being used to help migrate projects to sandbox servers.
  • Project Members can be searched for within the Manage Project page. Filtering for Project Members
  • Clear the current iteration instead of having to have a default
  • Membership data for projects and teams, including roles, is now sent to data warehouse so it can be reported on.
  • New window to create timelines and iterations (seems cleaner to me, just my opinion)
  • repotools now supports online backup of work item indices

What’s new in Rational Team Concert 4.0.5

  • Can now copy and paste build properties
  • ClearCase Importer has been improved
  • Export source code data query results from builds into a file
  • Improved usability for merging changes containing gaps in history
  • Remote Project Support (Rational Developer for System z and TPF Toolkit)
  • Removal of restriction on promoting Kanban views
  • Improvements on Tag creation and display on Work Items
  • UrbanCode Deploy integration
  • Can exclude components from builds
  • Context-aware search command line command supports SSL and smart cards
  • The ISPF client can accept all for incoming changes (I have no idea what this means, looks mainframe/cobol related)
  • Can set line delimiter handling in source control to NONE
  • Connect to JazzHub from RTC Eclipse Client
  • New help for command-line interface
  • Argument seperator in command-line interface
  • Create Package Wizard has an option to include work items
  • Create Package Wizard has a preview package option.
  • Can query results of package export
  • Ant tasks for packaging and deployment
  • In the web client, you can now view preconditions and follow-up actions.
  • The plan editor has been greatly enhanced
  • Bug fixes for MS Project 2010 export with correct dates
  • Kanban view now reports on exceeded count limits
  • Can migrate plans from pre-4.0.5 releases and include explicit rankings
  • New filtered combo widget (drop-down list searching without using the drop-down list. Pretty nice.) Drop-downs also will show tree views
  • Query results will now show approvals, links, and comments in-line
  • Approvals now bulk-editable in Eclipse
  • Can filter links in query results
  • Links are now bulk-editable in Eclipse
  • Override schedule properties of builds

What’s new in Rational Quality Manager 4.0.5

  • Test Suite runs can be puased, resumed, and stopped.
  • Support for multiple subcategories
  • Reportable REST API for lab resources
  • Subcategory filters in table views
  • Can restore deleted test artifacts
  • Manage categories through heirarchical views
  • New views for category management (show all and show outline)
  • Can create new values from existing values in a different category via drag and drop
  • Test Plans have three new sections: Test Scripts, Test Case Results, and Test Suite Results
  • The test case results for test scripts that have test data associated with them now include the row number of the test data for each step result.
  • New process advisors for state transitions
  • Support for reconciling a subset of requirements collections
  • Various scalability improvements

What’s new in Rational Requirements Composer / DOORS Next Generation 4.0.5

  • Scripting (with warnings against using in production)
  • Drag and drop linking
  • Link creation via Cut and Paste
  • Get hyperlinks for multiple artifacts at once
  • Define preferred link types for artifact types
  • Drag-and-drop reodering of artifacts within a module (finally!)
  • Drag-and-drop artifacts between modules and collections
  • Use OSLC to link to all artifacts in a module view
  • Module scrolling is faster and improved
  • Can now upload a new artifact and include it in a collection or a module in one step (versus uploading, then inserting existing artifacts)
  • Can now control more easily how many levels are shown within a module
  • Embedded images/graphic artifacts are now proportionally scaled within the artifact viewer
  • Search now defaults to the current project instead of all projects
  • Double-clicking now selects an artifacts and the space bar highlights an artifact
  • You can now copy artifacts and create links between the original and duplicated artifact
  • Copy artifacts via drag-and-drop within modules
  • Improved keyboard shortcuts
  • Improved performance while editing within modules
  • Improved scroll preview within modules (it shows up only when needed)
  • Module views available to RRDI
  • New RRDI reports — Requirement List by Collection, Requirements with Execution Results by Collection, Artifact Count, Requirement Counts, Requirements Distribution, Requirements Linked to Test Cases by Collection, Gap Analysis, among many others (must enable them in JTS advanced properties)
  • RRDG exports include printing module in book or table format
  • Quick print of reports without giving parameters
  • Inline view of PDF files in artifacts
  • RDF URIs for the type system
  • ReqIF improvements (to support RDF types)
  • Tips for Requirements Management

I got all of the above information by going to this page, and manually viewing each of the links. The above list does not include all improvements.

My Thoughts

IBM has committed to providing quarterly updates to their Jazz CLM applications. This list is quite big considering IBM’s schedule. RQM probably got the most needed improvements with subcategories, and DOORS Next Generation (DNG)/Rational Requirements Composer is starting to mature nicely. I’m very interested to see how the scripting report works (I believe it uses JavaScript) and how rapidly it matures.

2014 will be a great year for Jazz, particularly for DNG, if IBM can keep their promise of how they intend to version control requirements. That, with reusability, will really have companies who currently use DOORS evaluate DNG seriously.

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