1. Rational Team Concert for IBM i
Executive Overview
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2. Agenda IT Challenges Today IT Management Challenges
What is Rational Team Concert (RTC)
RTCi and the IBM i
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3. Today’s IT Challenges Increased Regulation
Demands for rapid response to business requirements
Demands for new technologies such as Web 2.0
Globally distributed operations and systems
Integration with 3rd party systems
Lack of qualified people
Need to reduce operating costs
Key regulatory acts affecting IT application development
Sarbanes-Oxley Act – United States
Bill 198 — Ontario, Canada, equivalent of Sarbanes-Oxley Act
J-SOX — Japanese equivalent of Sarbanes-Oxley Act
German Corporate Governance Code (at the German Wikipedia)
CLERP9 — Australian corporate reporting and disclosure law
Financial Security Law of France ("Loi sur la Sécurité Financière") — French equivalent of Sarbanes-Oxley Act
L262/2005 ("Disposizioni per la tutela del risparmio e la
disciplina dei mercati finanziari") — Italian equivalent of Sarbanes-Oxley Act for financial services institutions
King Report — South African equuvalent on corporate governance
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4. IT Management Challenges
Multiple hardware and software development environments
Inconsistent process and procedures between development teams
Lack of communication between teams as well as IT and business stakeholders
Manual procedures in support of regulatory and audit requirements impacting productivity
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5. What is Rational Team Concert?
Rational Team Concert based on Jazz technology which enables collaboration among business stakeholders, subject matter experts, and all of the relevant people that have a role to play in the successful delivery of software – not just software developers.
Rational Team Concert provides the tools to integrate all software development tasks and helps you meet the requirements of various regulatory authorities by helping you choose your level of process enforcement to meet your specific needs.
Rational Team Concert is scalable to support both small and large organizations with local and globally distributed teams.
Rational Team Concert supports all IBM supported development environments in one integrated system. Now with Rational Team Concert you can manage your software development projects with one suite of software not one per platform!
Process Awareness & Customization
Team Awareness
Work Item Tracking
Source Control
Build & Deploy
Project Health
Interoperability
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6. Process Awareness and Customization
Define a customized application development process
Include workflow
Documents
Reviews and approvals
Scope to your degree of control
Make as rigorous or flexible as your process demands
Implement automatic work item notifications and reporting
Implement automatic escalation
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7. Team Awareness
Rational Team Concert knows your project teams, their internal organization, and the artifacts they are working on.
It greatly simplifies the access to team-related information or performing team-related operations.
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8. Work Item Tracking Eclipse UI Web UI
Integrates work item tracking into the tools used to develop artifacts required by the project.
Plugs into RDi, RDi SOA, and RAD for IBM i customers
Web UI
View high level dashboards or drill into details
Support business users, stakeholders or occasional users
Automate tracking of all project work items
Dashboards to summarize key factors affecting your entire organization
Monitor health of all projects or drill into a specific project
Eclipse UI
Web UI
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9. Source Control
The Source Control component of Rational Team Concert is a component-based version control system built on the Jazz platform.
Change sets The storage model is entirely change set based which provide atomic changes to sets of files.
Change management through project life – no lost changes during long projects
Delta based line level change archives – unlike file level of other products
Dramatically improved security and resource protection
Support for concurrent development (emergency fix during longer term project)
Synchronize your changes with ISV changes and preserve customization of 3rd party software applications where you customize the application.
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10. Build and Deploy
The Team Build component integrates the team's build system into Rational Team Concert, providing build awareness, control, and traceability to the team.
Team members can track build progress, view build alerts and results, request builds, and trace builds to other artifacts like change sets and work items.
Automated tools to assist in compiling and deploying artifacts
BuildForge integration to manage complex cross platform projects
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11. Project Health
The Team Reports and Web Dashboards components of Rational Team Concert help you to keep tabs on the health of your project.
Dashboard provides an at-a-glance view of work item queries, event feeds, reports, and other items that are critical to understanding your progress.
Reports provide both real-time views and historical trends of builds, streams, work items, and other artifacts that your team works with.
Data for reporting collected automatically as a byproduct of doing work -- without mandatory data entry by team members
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12. Interoperability
Rational Team Concert also interoperates with other products.
The ClearCase Connector component supports flexible bi-synchronization between a stream or branch in Rational ClearCase and a stream in Rational Team Concert Source Control.
Similarly, the ClearQuest Connector component allows teams using Rational ClearQuest to share work-tracking data with teams using Rational Team Concert.
Rational Team Concert for i also integrates with RDi and RDi SOA
Note: The CC/CQ plug-ins are downloadable from the Internet and work with RTCi (Standard Edition only) as a Tech Preview at this time. Note they will be fully supported in the next release.
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13. Rational Team Concert for IBM i
Runs natively on IBM i Operating System
Utilizes IBM i integrated DB2 Database
Supports IBM i programming in RPG, COBOL, C, C++, CL, Java, and EGL.
RTCi support composite applications written in multiple languages and deployed across multiple platforms or Operating Systems.
Supports archiving and management of other IBM i artifacts
Integrates with other platforms and languages supported on IBM Power Systems machines.
Integrates and interoperates with all versions of RTC for other development environments.
Note: Support for Visual Studio is currently in Beta Testing ( see: )
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14. Two Versions – Sized to Fit Your Organization
RTCi Express – designed for smaller organizations or large organizations with very small IT shops utilizing 3rd party vendor supplied software. RTCi Express has complete functionality of the full Standard edition but lacks some of the database customization and custom reporting capabilities.
RTCi Standard – full function with comprehensive dashboards, custom reporting, and database and system customization for the most demanding IT organization’s needs.
If you use 3rd party software ask your vendor if they have a custom process built around RTCi to control changes to your environment.
Requires RDi or RDi SOA workstation client as a pre-requisite.
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15. Rational Team Concert for i – Standard Edition
SERVER -- IBM Rational Team Concert Standard Edition for i Install with 3 Authorized Users License + SW Subscription & Support 12 Months (D06RJLL)
One per IBM i based machine
Eclipse Based Developer Client -- IBM Rational Team Concert Developer Client Standard Edition for i Authorized User License + SW Subscription & Support 12 Months (D06RMLL) 
One per IBM i developer using RDi or RDi SOA
Web Based Contributor Client -- IBM Rational Team Concert Contributor Client for i Authorized User License + SW Subscription & Support 12 Months (D06SBLL)
As many as required – typically used by stakeholders or business users
Requires RDi or RDi SOA workstation client as a pre-requisite.
On the web at:
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16. Rational Team Concert for i – Express Edition
Server with Developer licenses: IBM Rational Team Concert Express Edition for i Install with 3 Authorized Users License + SW Subscription & Support 12 Months (D06QWLL)
Developer licenses: IBM Rational Team Concert Developer Client Express Edition for i Authorized User License + SW Subscription & Support 12 Months (D06S9LL)
Contributor Licenses: IBM Rational Team Concert Contributor Client for i Authorized User License + SW Subscription & Support 12 Months (D06SBLL)
Note: Maximum 50 developers with unlimited contributors
Requires RDi or RDi SOA workstation client as a pre-requisite.
On the web at:
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17. Summary
Improve developer productivity with real-time visibility into individual and team related work.
Built in Project Dashboards makes it easier to stay on top of project progress, troubleshoot project problems and take corrective action earlier in the project lifecycle
Improved cycle times through automated and reusable patterns, services and architectures
Earlier detection and accelerated resolution of defects
Improved predictability of project outcomes
Customizable work items and workflow
Support for up to 250 developers and unlimited contributors
Support for WebSphere Application Server V6.1, WebSphere Application Server Express V6.1
Operating systems supported: IBM i, AIX, Power Linux
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18. IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform
Process and portfolio management
Change and release management
Quality management
Architecture management
Rational trial downloads
developerWorks Rational
IBM Rational TV
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