Re: Rational Team Concert 3.0 experience -- MIDRANGE-L

Hi all,

I understand some of the folks on the list are now using RTC. I have seen
a demo, and was well impressed. This demo did not address development for
IBM i though.

I am interested in your experiences using RTC for development of RPG
applications - your successes, in improved quality of the software
delivered, of the software delivery as such, in improved handling of hot
fixes, or indeed your disappointments.

Any comments would be welcoome.

Kind Regards,

Erick.

Buck

You might look at the thread a few weeks ago here at MIDRANGE with me
and Richard and Pete Helgren (he tried the WAS route on an i - had
trouble, too). You do not have to install the Jazz server on the i - in
fact, it is so much easier to do it on a Windows box. The only thing you
need on the i is the build engine, and that does not require WAS.

At least that is the case with version 2. I hope it is the same with 3.

That will make your life SOOOO much better with RTC, IMO.

I do understand your pain, however!

HTH
Vern

On 12/8/2010 3:45 PM, Buck wrote:

This is a synopsis of my experience with RTC 3.0

I downloaded RTC 3.0, to give it a whirl with WDSC and my beloved IBM i.
Tried to install it on my Windows 7 PC. Went well until it was time
to
run the setup wizard. It insists that my PC be known to the network at
mypc.someorg.tld It isn't. ipconfig shown my name as mypc without a
domain name and what's more, I'm apparently unreachable from the network
by that name. So now I can uninstall it from my PC.

But! There's an IBM i RTC server as well. Which requires Websphere App
Server; even though Apache and Tomcat are supported under Windows, they
are not supported for the i. Assuming I could convince the right people
to allow me to run WAS, I'd probably be blamed for every performance
problem from now until the end of time. Maybe I'll go that route, but
my margin of success looks thin, given we're using Apache/Tomcat
already.

This might seem like whining; if so, I apologise. I'd love to run an
IBM product to help me convince my team to at least start tinkering with
collaborative source code management. It seems overly complex to me,
and I'm not afraid to run Cygwin binaries (grep, sed, tr) in a DOS .bat
file to automate importing data from external sources. I can't imagine
trying to turn this loose on someone who's hesitant about /looking/ at
RD Power.

My RTC experience meter remains at zero.
--buck

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