Archive for the ‘Best practices’ Category

ClearCase is the heart of R&D department. How to save its assets and reduce the risk of downtime and corruptions? Join our webinar and learn: IBM Rational recommendations Learned lessons and best practices Learn how we help you apply the best practices by using ‘ClearCheck’ – our health checks monitoring tool for ClearCase Date: Tuesday […]

Following our successful webinar on how to be more Agile with Rational ClearCase by using CompBL (replay is available here), we delivered another webiner in this series. The next webinar was more technical and was functioned as a tutorial for CompBL, our solution for applying ClearCase best practices. The speaker was Bob Aiello, Principal Consultant […]

I am honored to present our guest blogger, Bob Aiello. Bob, author of the top-selling book, CM Best Practices: Practical Methods that Work in the Real World, (2010, Addison Wesley) is a well-respected industry expert on all matters CM. We share his passion for excellence in customizing CM implementations and welcome him to our forum: Agile software […]

As part of launching the new version of CompBL (V2.5), one of our ClearCase add-ons, we delivered a webinar a few days ago. The recording is free to watch or listen with no charge. The webinar was delivered by Bob Aiello, author of Configuration Management Best Practices: Practical Methods that Work in the Real World […]

If you are interested in learning how to get the most out of ClearCase and be more Agile, you will not want to miss this webinar: Tuesday, February 8, 2011 12:00-1:00 PM EST / 9 AM PST / 11 AM CST Presenter: Bob Aiello, Consultant and author of Configuration Management Best Practices: Practical Methods that […]

We’re happy to announce a new version of ClearCheck with a completely new reporting utility that allows ClearCase administrators to overview VOB’s health at a glance. ClearCheck monitors ClearCase VOBs and alerts on any issue or problem. The new version includes upgraded report and report customization. It also supports Windows 7 and secured communication. What’s […]

We are often asked to provide  some best practices of ClearCase, so we decided to share it with all users, and this time with a video! A common question is “how to easily compare two streams by their recommended baselines?”, so the following video answers that question. The video demonstrates how to select two ClearCase […]

The main benefit provided by ClearCheck is a reduced risk of major failures and downtime. Use this calculator to find out what how much VOBs downtime can cost in your organization. Compare this cost with the price of ClearCheck to support buying decisions. Cost of VOBs Downtime No. of developers working on the project: ___ […]

dbcheck is the most important maintenance check provides by IBM Rational. According to IBM, it covers about 80% of the corruptions that can occur. ClearCheck and ClearCase enable you to run dbcheck in three ways: Run it on the VOBs themselves Run it on a VOBs backup copy that is stored on the VOB server […]

Have you ever asked yourself what changes have been made since your  stream was rebased to the recommended baseline? Sometimes you rebase your private stream to an integration stream or its recommended baseline. You complete the operation (or havn’t yet), sometimes it requires some merging, and then you encounter new problems: compilation is failed, new […]