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Rational Team Concert (RTC) is gaining in popularity these days, and we are certainly seeing more and more of it...

Fun times: Software Archaeology with Rational Developer for System Z 8.5

August 9, 2012 Kenny Smith

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They guys on the RDz product team have done an excellent job of getting new features into the product in...

Deploying connection information to RDz users in an enterprise

November 3, 2011 Kenny Smith

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When rolling out Rational Developer for System Z to a mass number of users, I’ve found there is an easy...

Now available: Rational Developer for System z Training

October 21, 2011 Kenny Smith

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We’ve been pretty silent on the blog over the past three months, but for good reason. We’ve been heads down...

Using Rational Team Concert on the mainframe to promote dependency builds

March 30, 2011 Kenny Smith

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Team Concert can handle complex dependency builds on the IBM mainframe. If you have a long deployment tasks that are...

IBM Rational HATS with Dojo: How to spice up your green screens

July 2, 2010 Kenny Smith

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Some have contacted me that they have been unable to find my presentation on the conference web site. I would...

Rational Team Concert for System z has a new home

August 24, 2009 Kenny Smith

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It has previously been difficult to find information specific to the mainframe for Team Concert. Now, the jazz team has...

Pimp my z10 – the ultimate gaming rig

June 5, 2008 Kenny Smith

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Ever seen pictures of these home computers decked out with LEDs and plexiglass? Well, I have all the pc gamers...