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Welcome to the December 2008 edition of ReleaseTEAM's monthly newsletter. We hope you find the content helpful and informative. Feel free to contact us with questions or suggestions for our newsletter at info@releaseteam.com.
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:: Tell us More about YOU!
:: CMC Media News
:: Partner News
:: IBM News

Tell us more about YOU!!!
BETH
ReleaseTEAM has been dedicated to providing the best in Software Configuration Management consulting service, and cutting edge SCM news and information, for almost 10 years. As we turn the corner into 2009, we want to learn more about who you are and what is important to you in your development space. What is your current role and how do you use SCM to improve your process? Send us a short email with your name, job title and the CM tools you use in your development environment, and we will send you custom information that is relevant to you!

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2) Job Title, Company Info
3) What CM tools do you currently use?
4) What CM tools are you interested in learning about?
5) What is your biggest CM challenge?

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Thanks for participating, we look forward to serving you better in 2009!



CMC Media News
Behaviorally Speaking


CM CrossroadsBehaviorally Speaking - Evaluating and Selecting a CM Tool

All fun aside, selecting the right CM tool could make the difference between your project being a success or failure. It's also important to note that you might pick the perfect tool and still have a failed project for any number of reasons. Some of them are a result of selecting the right processes or technology. But still more complex are the critical people issues involved...

Click here to read the full article!

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Nexius Wireless uses Accurev to GO Agile Across the Globe

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Learn how AccuRev allowed a wireless software provider to accelerate it's global development process by over 30 percent moving from waterfall to Agile.


IBM Rational Technotes and FAQs


IBM Business Partner
1. Rational ClearCase LT: Technotes(FAQs)

Creating new files and directories from the CCRC interface
Click Here

Installing or updating CCRC for Eclipse and RSA
Click Here

Support Policy for Anti-Virus and ClearCase
Click Here

Support policy for ClearCase on Macintosh OS X
Click Here

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2. Rational ClearCase LT: Technotes(Troubleshooting)

Trailing slash in snapshot view load rule corrupts view
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21247577

CCRC fails to import projects from Team Project Set File (.psf) if Project Name starts with a VOB tag
Click Here

Attempt to create a symlink in ClearCase Explorer fails when view root directory name has wrong case (upper / lower cases) in view shortcuts
Click Here

Failed to record hostname
Click Here

Deliver or Rebase reports elements were skipped, because they are not visible
Click Here

clearfsimport -recurse -rmname causes source directory to be skipped when view-private file exists in target directory
Click Here

Add to Source Control and Check in operations fail with all ClearCase Remote Clients
Click Here

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3. Rational ClearCase MultiSite: Technotes(Troubleshooting)

Failed to record hostname
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21234135

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4. Rational ClearCase: Downloads and drivers

Rational Software Development Platform - Team versions 7.0.2 and 7.1
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24021451

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5. Rational ClearCase: Technotes(FAQs)

Customize context menus in ClearCase Remote Client
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21305422

Creating new files and directories from the CCRC interface
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21245019

Installing or updating CCRC for Eclipse and RSA
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21215611

Feature Comparison Matrix for CCRC, CCWeb and Native ClearCase
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21233090

Support Policy for Anti-Virus and ClearCase
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21149511

Upgrading to Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 when using the ClearCase integration with VS .NET 2005
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21320134

About UCM baseline types
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21149500

Knowledge Collection: Rational ClearCase 7.1 installation issues
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21326078

Support policy for ClearCase on Macintosh OS X
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21161662

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6. Rational ClearCase: Technotes(Troubleshooting)

CCRC fails to import projects from Team Project Set File (.psf) if Project Name starts with a VOB tag
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21266814

ClearCase Scheduler incorrectly computes next run time on day of transition to standard time
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21266813

albd_server process consumes 100% CPU on HP-UX multi-processor systems
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21294931

MVFS packets can cause RPC flood of the albd_server from Red Hat 3 client
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21328937

clearfsimport -recurse -rmname causes source directory to be skipped when view-private file exists in target directory
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21245035

Unable to authenticate using PAM from CCWeb, MSWeb or CCRC clients
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21226161

Unable to delete multiple view-private files within CCRC
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21319980

Blue/Black Screen (BSOD) occurs displaying the heading: IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (a)
An attempt was made to access a pageable (or completely invalid) address at an interrupt request level (IRQL) that is too high.
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21312829

Cleartool register -replace option errors with <trouble opening VOB database> on 64-bit Windows
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21318681

Network connection problems encountered during search
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21266518

Trailing slash in snapshot view load rule corrupts view
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21247577

cleartool lshistory -fmt "%[hlink]p\n" fails when view extended path is used
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21305504

Using a UNIX dynamic view from a Windows client causes the view server process to consume 100% CPU on HP-UX 11.31 view server
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21303720

CCRC Web server URL is removed if all views are removed
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21259640

Check out option disabled in Results tab of ClearCase View Configuration
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21265065

The following file named: <file-name> already exists in the output
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21265567

Unable to login user: invalid session / login information supplied
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21319448

Deliver or Rebase reports elements were skipped, because they are not visible
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21118911

This object's type (operation "get_cont_info") does not support binary data
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21259721

Add to Source Control and Check in operations fail with all ClearCase Remote Clients
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21266909

ClearCase Remote Client unable to display product help documentation
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21255067

Send a version to My Documents does not work from the Send To menu in Find Checkouts GUI
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21329165

clearmake, omake or clearaudit crashes with Error: Interference from another process
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21307408

Attempt to create a symlink in ClearCase Explorer fails when view root directory name has wrong case (upper / lower cases) in view shortcuts
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21318672

This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21222178

Behavior change causes CAL cleartool calls to return UNIX-style line terminations instead of Windows-style which may cause issues with VB and vbscript tooling
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21307758

Full view updates can occur during mv and rmname operations when using CCRC causing performance issues
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21282719

Use Cancel when stopping a Delete operation in the Select Activity window
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21305421

Cannot check in with Netbeans and ClearCase after activating integration with ClearQuest
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21323349

ClearCase magic file changes needed to handle .csproj files with the XML type manager
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21321291

System Crash when touching view private files with locally stored dynamic views on Windows 2003 R2 SP2
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21305515

Unsupported type for compare operation
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21249567

CCRC displays the incorrect current and master replica names for a stream
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21267477

Failed to record hostname
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21234135

Merge, diff and compare do not display when executed from CCRC on Linux
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21293026

A VOB tag already exists error occurs when using -stgloc -auto option
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21268375

CCRC.NET does not honor ClearCase related preferences in the .NET GUI
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21296191

No changes in component <component-name> since last baseline; no baseline created
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21307157

Diff Merge does not support Diff/Merge of UTF8 data
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21327045

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7. Rational ClearQuest: Downloads and drivers

Rational Software Development Platform - Team versions 7.0.2 and 7.1
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24021451

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8. Rational ClearQuest: Technotes(FAQs)

Determining the WebSphere Application Server version with Rational Web clients
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21328834

Setting up Enterprise Deployment of the IBM Software Delivery Platform
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21255918

Oracle SQL*NET encryption connectivity for ClearQuest
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21328832

Viewing Rational ClearCase Unified Change Management® (UCM) change sets in Rational ClearQuest Web® across multiple ClearCase regions
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21327863

Knowledge Collection: Rational ClearQuest 7.1 installation issues
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21326855

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9. Rational ClearQuest: Technotes(Troubleshooting)

Display of ClearQuest reports might vary on different operating systems
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21328368

BIRT sample reports provided with the Report Server for ClearQuest only run against the English version of the SAMPL user database.
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21321460

Cannot check in with Netbeans and ClearCase after activating integration with ClearQuest
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21323349

Report Server for Crystal Reports displays undiscernable double-byte character set message
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21328209

ClearQuest Web site configuration settings cannot be migrated during installation
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21323427

Crystal Reports XI release 2 hangs when attempting to connect to an enterprise database by using the ClearQuest Reporting Driver
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21327695

Using "Insert in Layout" causes the ClearQuest Client to crash with a JVM exception
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21321444

BIRT Editor resets x-axis type to Linear causing problems
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21321447

Reports that use the Java Native Interface local data sources fail when run by using the Report Server for Crystal Reports or the Report Server for ClearQuest on the UNIX system or Linux
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21327214


IBM
iRise Announces Integration to IBM Rational Requirements Composer MarketWatch

iRise Connect for IBM Rational Requirements Composer gives requirements professionals the ability to embed live, high fidelity software visualizations...

Click here to submit your topic.


Merge Uses IBM Rational Tools to Build Medical Imaging Software eWeek, NY

Merge built Cedara WebAccess with the help of tools IBM Rational acquired when it bought Telelogic this year for $745 million. Healthcare professionals for...

Full Article Click Here!

Jazzing up Dev Teams

IBM's Rational Jazz, introduced in the spring of 2007, provides a similar platform for teams to use as a centerpiece for development activity. (In the interest of full disclosure, one of the clients I consult for on a contract basis is IBM's Rational group.)

Full Article Click Here!


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Happy Holidays and a prosperous New Year!
Sincerely,

Beth Beese
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720-887-0489
bbeese@releaseteam.com