WorkItem Command Line and RTC/EWM Extensions Workshop for 7.0.2 SR1

Work Item Command Line for 7.0.2 SR1

The Workitem Command Line had dependencies to the plain Java Client Libraries, including to Log4J1 in a few places. This breaks the Work Item Command Line for IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management 7.0.2 SR1 especially IBM Engineering Workflow Management 7.0.2 SR1 (EWM). WCL 5.3.1 and earlier will not work with the 7.0.2 SR1.

It was requested to support 7.0.2 SR1 with the WorkItem Command Line. I had a look and was able (I think) to update the code of the WCL to work with the new Plain Java Client Libraries. This removes the dependencies to Log4J1 and change the functionality to use Log4J2. The code is on a different branch named Log4j2, because it is incompatible with previous versions of EWM. A new pre-release was created and is available here as Work Item Command Line 6.0 prerelease. I have only done minimal testing. If you have an opportunity to run it, please report issues.

EWM/RTC Extensions Workshop for 7.0.2 SR1

To be able to perform the updates I had to perform (most parts of) Lab 1 of the Rational Team Concert Extensions Workshop. The workshop still works. There are some smaller issues and here is my erratum so far.

• I downloaded Eclipse IDE 2022-06 R and installed EWM into it. Unfortunately there is an issue when connecting to the EWM server. The error is “Could not get value of field private transient sun.util.calendar.BaseCalendar$Date java.util.Date.cdate in 2022-07-31 09:37:08.301”. Here is an approach how that can be solved.
• When adding the plugins to the search path the UI has changed and the menu item in the Eclipse version above is named “Add to Java Workspace Scope”.
• When trying to create the Test Database with the JUnit launch, the test ran out of memory. I increase the memory settings in the launch.

Summary

The changes to the ELM 7.0.2 SR1 break the Workitem Command Line and require a new setup of the Extensions workshop to develop extensions. The WorkItem Command Line is available as a prerelease for ELM 7.0.2 and the Extensions Workshop seems to be working with minor limitations.

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Jazz Community Contributions

The Jazz Community starts sharing their tools here: http://jazz-community.org/. The code for their tools can be found here.

There is a very active Jazz user community of members of several companies in Europe that are heavily using the Jazz products such as Rational Team Concert, Rational Quality Manager and Doors Next Generation.

The community members try to meet to share their experience with using, administrating and running the Jazz tools in their environments. It became clear that the different companies and community members face similar challenges and that it would be beneficial if they could share tools they created to make running such an environment easier.

The community has now started sharing their tools in this community project and in this code repository.

Some of the tools have already been shared on other sites. I have linked the ones I am aware of to the Interesting links page in the ‘Extensions Provided by the Community’ section. These are the ones I am aware of (and the code for some of them is already available in the community repository):

• JAM – Jazz Workallocation Manager A lightweight Web client to manage the Workallocation of users or team within Jazz/RTC
  
• Timebox Planning View – A new widget for RTC to allow iteration planning of work items in a “Tetris-Like” way
  
• New RTC Timebox Planning Widget with SAFe Support
  
• The Work Item Command Line is now available in the community as well
  

I am looking forward to see more community created tools soon. Visit the community to find out what they have to offer. The code for their tools can be found here.

Last but not least, a special thanks to Dani for getting this awesome user groups started and for the members of said community for their spirit, engagement and willingness to contribute and help each other. You know whom I address here!

Upgrading your CLM system? – Definitive checklist.

Upgrading the IBM CLM solution is sometimes received as complex and users struggle with it. Yesterday I was notified that there was a blog from a colleague providing a check list that helps making this easier and more likely successful. I thought this is worth reblogging to make it easier to find.

Please find the information in Paul’s blog post Upgrading your CLM system? – Definitive must-read checklist just published. The link points to our Deployment Wiki which is always worth looking at for all things related to deployment, install, setup and configuration.