IBM Rational Team Concert V5.0 Speeds Developer Productivity and Improves Team Collaboration
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IBM Europe, Middle East, and Africa Software Announcement ZP14-0286, dated June 2, 2014 IBM Rational Team Concert V5.0 speeds developer productivity and improves team collaboration Table of contents 1 Overview 6 Publications 1 Key prerequisites 7 Technical information 1 Planned availability date 8 Ordering information 2 Description 21 Terms and conditions 5 Statement of direction 23 Prices 6 Program number 23 Announcement countries At a glance IBM® Rational Team ConcertTM V5.0 helps to integrate planning, software configuration management, change management, and build management into a single application to speed developer productivity and improve team collaboration and transparency. Overview Rational Team Concert provides the developer role for the Rational® Solution for Collaborative LifeCycle Management. Rational Team Concert V5.0 focuses on the strategy to streamline DevOps with enhancements to support: • Planning usability • New lean reports to manage cycle time and lead time • Intelligent merge capabilities to help teams manage multiple development variants For teams developing for System z® and IBM i environments, this release enhances dependency build capabilities with build maps and system definition history. Finally, Version 5.0 includes a new git integration that allows teams to manage software configuration management process control, planning, and work item traceability against git repositories. Key prerequisites This release supports WindowsTM and LinuxTM operating systems. For details, refer to the Software requirements sections. Planned availability date • June 2, 2014: Electronic availability • June 10, 2014: Media availability IBM Europe, Middle East, and Africa Software IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation 1 Announcement ZP14-0286 Description Organizations face growing pressures to quickly deliver high-quality software that is aligned with business objectives. Some of the pressures include: • Delivering more with same or even fewer resources • Working in teams that are becoming even more geographically distributed • Adhering to organizational standards without having the processes defined or documented Rational Team Concert drives software innovation through collaboration, to transform how people, especially those who have project-distributed teams, work together to develop and deliver software in an increasingly rapid manner. Rational Team Concert provides unique capability that allows teams to collaborate in the context of their work; perform real-time planning, steer; and correct the course with constant visibility to project status and learn and adapt with continuous process improvement. Benefits of the new capabilities in Rational Team Concert V5.0 Ability to quickly find the plans you need Want to focus in on just your teams plans? Are you working across teams and managing many plans? It is much easier in this release to locate and work with plans. A new tabbed display allows you to see just your current plans or all plans. You can also locate plans by team area or use a search filter to locate all the plans with a given text string. Load bars are turned off by default so when you search for plans you can find them fast and then display and drill down on plan load as desired by using a UI toggle. New lean reports such as cycle time, lead time, and process control Need to know how long a work item was in a given state? How long on average did the stories in my sprint stay in the "ready to test" state for example? New cycle time and lead time reports help hone in on the bottlenecks in your work flow. Lead time shows you how long from creation time to a closed state. Cycle time shows you how long from in progress to a closed state. A new process control chart shows the individual stories or tasks plotted as a histogram over time. Each point plots a cycle time for that item. Average cycle time across all items is also shown. Reporting has also been enhanced at the Collaborative Lifecycle Management level to make the data in the data warehouse more current by greatly reducing the time window it takes to populate the data warehouse. Ability to organize build definitions by using folders If your project is producing many releases, you likely have many build definitions. It can be difficult to find a specific build definition you need in a single flat list. You can now organize the build definitions within a project area into folders. Rational Team Concert V4.0.6 introduced this feature for the Eclipse IDE and in Version 5.0 the ability to view the folder structure in the web UI and the Rational Team Concert client for MicrosoftTM Visual Studio IDE is added. New intelligent merge support In Rational Team Concert V5.0, the internal architecture of the JazzTM SCM is redesigned to allow Rational Team Concert to understand the order and time of change set deliveries. You will see some new intelligent merge capabilities that help developers decide which change sets can be used to fill a gap in a merge conflict. The SCM history view in Eclipse when a file has a conflict is improved. Now the common ancestor and the two end states for the conflict are highlighted in the history view. Developers can easily visualize what changes are in conflict and what the branch point is. IBM Europe, Middle East, and Africa Software IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation 2 Announcement ZP14-0286 Version IDs The Jazz SCM, like most modern version control tools is change set based. The individual file version of say "foo.c" that make up a change set exist today, and can be displayed using the command line, but they are UUIDs and very long. Rational Team Concert 5.0 adds an option to make simple file version-ids visible as sequential integers in the UI from places such as the history view, change summary and change details views. These simple sequential integers are designed to assist you in formal code audits or code reviews where understanding the sequential ordering of file versions can be helpful. Jazz Source Control: Command line interface New Command line interface (CLI) commands are added. Some examples include, support for automated change set gap filling and the ability to duplicate a stream or workspace. You can also use the CLI to create audit reports that show simplified version IDs to list the contents of a baseline or snapshot. Supports Web UI for SCM process customization In this release, you can now configure SCM process customization for server side operations using the web UI. In earlier releases, this was only possible in the Eclipse UI. Integrated git: Link work items to commits and enable process pre- conditions Included with Rational Team Concert V5.0 is a new git integration that enables git commits to be linked to Rational Team Concert work items to enable planning, tracking and reporting to work with git repositories. In addition, you can now enable Rational Team Concert process control such as pre-conditions applied to git push operations. ClearCase® version importer: Faster and more selective import In this release, the performance of the ClearCase version importer is improved to help you import only the versions you need. Both export and import of Rational ClearCase data into Rational Team Concert is greatly improved. The ClearCase versions can also be selectively migrated by specifying filtering options such as ignoring obsolete branches or ignoring versions older than a given date. ClearCase and ClearQuest® UCM importer: Preserves change set links A new import command to import the ClearCase UCM change set linkage to the ClearQuest record is available when you use both the ClearCase version importer and the ClearQuest importer. ClearQuest Synchronizer: Automatically create Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) ClearQuest Bridge links The ClearQuest Synchronizer now provides the option for OSLC-based ClearQuest Bridge links to automatically be created. After a record is synchronized, a link may be added to the Rational Team Concert work item that directs users to the corresponding ClearQuest record and vice versa. Enterprise development: Distributed to mainframe 1 Dependency build and promotion Ability to view build maps 1 An option to view the build map of a buildable file is available from the context menu for a local file that has been shared, a remote file, or from the "Source Code Data" result view. IBM Europe, Middle East, and Africa Software IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation 3 Announcement ZP14-0286 View systems definition history 1 A History tab is now part of the Enterprise Extensions system definitions, where you can see all changes to a system definition. Similar to the work item history, you can see the changes made over time by different users with system definition history. Ability to rebuild only outgoing change sets in personal builds 1 By default, personal builds compare your personal sandbox workspace with the latest successful team build snapshot and rebuild all incoming and outgoing change sets. A new option allows you to limit personal builds, so that only your outgoing change sets are built. The option is available from the Jazz Team Server administration page under Configuration > Advanced Properties. 1 New capabilities found only in Rational Team Concert Developer for IBM Enterprise Platforms. Platform Support changes for Rational Team Concert V5.0 and CLM V5.0 Rational Team Concert V5.0 provides support for many new platforms and there are many