Re: Rational Team Concert 3.0 experience

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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