IBM Canada Ltd. Software Announcement A17-0871, dated November 28, 2017
IBM Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management V6.0.5 delivers new functionality with improved quality and performance
Table of contents
1 Overview 10 Publications
3 Key prerequisites 10 Technical information
3 Planned availability date 12 Ordering information
3 Description 12 Terms and conditions
10 Program number 15 Prices
At a glance
IBM(R) Rational(R) solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management V6.0.5 delivers:
• New Rational Team ConcertTM Quick Planner
A new version of Rational Team Concert Quick Planner is available in Rational Team Concert V6.0.5. The main features of this new Quick Planner include support for flexible tag- and process-based work boards and plan boards. These new task boards make it very simple for users to create boards without having to modify XML process templates.
• Electronic signatures
Electronic signatures can now be applied on requirements baselines.
Improvements in electronic signatures on change requests and other types of work items enable them to be easily queried and to show up in work item history for regulatory audit control.
• Support for using large files in Rational Team Concert source control management (SCM) that are stored outside the Rational Team Concert SCM
You can now configure the IBM Rational Team Concert source code application server to store files that are larger than a specified size outside the default database. The external content store can be configured as a folder on the server's local file system, or it can point to a WebDAV server such as Artifactory.
• New administrative support and APIs
New support and APIs help to keep a large number of project area, component, and configuration definitions consistent in DOORS(R) Next Generation and the Global Configuration Management application.
Overview
IBM Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management V6.0.5 delivers new functionality to the following Collaborative Lifecycle Management components:
Rational Team Concert V6.0.5
IBM Rational Team Concert V6.0.5 includes major new enhancements to support usability with the completely new Rational Team Concert Quick Planner interface.
Rational Team Concert Quick Planner now supports flexible tag- and process-based work boards and plan boards that make it trivial to create and customize work and
plan boards for new agile practitioners. Adding tag-based swim lanes to a process- controlled board can be done without modifying the XML process template for the project, making it very easy for developers to innovate and replicate physical boards quickly. For large-scale deployments, the Rational Team Concert SCM has been enhanced to support external storage of large files in a transparent way. For example, users can store files larger than 10 MB or large binaries in an external store like Artifactory or the local file system. In this release, electronic signatures have been greatly enhanced to comply with standards and allow for stronger query and work item audit history.
Rational DOORS Next Generation V6.0.5
Responding to popular demand, IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation V6.0.5 brings usability improvements to distinguish the different ways of managing requirements (module versus base artifacts). The release responds to FDA demands by providing FDA-compliant electronic signature support for both baselines of requirements data and associated work items in Rational Team Concert. Continuing with the theme of usability, improvements have been made for module scrolling responsiveness while working with larger module specifications. From an administrative perspective, it is now simpler to manage larger numbers of projects with the ability for a project to inherit its base properties from a central definition.
Rational Quality Manager V6.0.5
In Rational Quality Manager, users can now subscribe to execution records and schedules to be notified by email when specific conditions occur. The Manual Testing capability offers the ability to track execution progress using the number of steps and to modify the script during execution.
Collaborative Lifecycle Management V6.0.5 - Common
Enhancements to common capabilities across Collaborative Lifecycle Management components:
• Global configuration management (GCM) makes it simpler to work with large sets of information through:
– Bulk actions on global components and configurations (tags and attribute values)
– Type definition import/export and related APIs that make it easier to maintain consistent multiple GCM instances and multiple GCM project areas
• SAFe 4.5 support offers:
– Product templates for Rational Team Concert, Rational DOORS Next
Generation, and Rational Quality Manager to support all four configurations of SAFe 4.5
– CLM Lifecycle Project Area templates for all four configurations of SAFe 4.5 – Enterprise Scaled Agile JRS reports for SAFe 4.5 and hybrid environments
• Security enhancements offer:
– Improved scale when using System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM)
– Reduction in use of stack traces when user actions create system exceptions
• Significantly more data is available for application-level operational monitoring tools, published as JavaTM Management Extension (JMX) MBeans.
• JazzTM Reporting Service allows you to synchronize Lifecycle Query Engine with Network Time Protocol (NTP) time servers.
Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager V6.0.5 is part of the IBM solution for continuous engineering and is included in the install package of Collaborative Lifecycle Management V6.0.5 as a convenience.
In this release, a number of usability enhancements were delivered to make everyday Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager tasks simpler. Users can:
• Easily import views
• Easily change what artifact type to show in a container
• Take advantage of enhanced snapshot functionality
• Show DOORS 9 data in views
• See the number of artifacts in one or more containers in a view
• Customize focus and selection colors for the container border
Key prerequisites
Supports MicrosoftTM WindowsTM and Linux(R) operating systems.
For details, refer to the Software requirements section.
Planned availability date December 4, 2015
Description
IBM Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management is a set of integrated capabilities that work together as one to help teams to work together as one. This solution delivers requirements management, quality management, change and configuration management, and agile project planning and tracking capabilities on a single Jazz Team Server. Teams can start with one product to address immediate needs and add more as their needs evolve. The solution includes the following products and capabilities:
• Rational Team Concert helps with task tracking, source control, and agile planning.
• Rational Quality Manager lets you plan, develop, execute, and report on your test plan.
• Rational DOORS Next Generation provides capabilities to define, manage, and analyze requirements.
IBM Internet of Things continuous engineering solution is a superset of Collaborative Lifecycle Management. It is a set of engineering and development tools that help systems engineers, application developers, and embedded developers work together to create smart and connected products and systems similar to those in the Internet of Things. This solution helps teams to plan, design, develop, test, and manage change more effectively; become more agile; and streamline compliance with industry standards.
In addition to the capabilities in Collaborative Lifecycle Management this solution includes the following:
• IBM Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager: Visualize and analyze your
engineering data so you can take action (included in the Collaborative Lifecycle Management installation package for convenience)
• Model-based systems engineering and model-driven development using IBM Rational Rhapsody(R) and IBM Rhapsody Design Manager
Related capabilities (sold separately) include the following:
• IBM Rational Publishing Engine automates the generation of document-style reports across your deployed Jazz and third-party tools, whether these reports are needed for formal reviews, contractual obligations, regulatory oversight, or ad hoc use. It allows for outputting high-quality documents in formats such as PDF, HTML, Microsoft Word, and XSL.
• IBM Rational Method Composer is a flexible process management platform with a method authoring tool and a process asset library to help you implement measured improvement of your enterprise, systems engineering, or software delivery processes. Rational Method Composer tooling enables you to create, edit, manage, and publish process descriptions. The process and practice libraries provide best-practice content that you can reuse as is or that you can tailor to compose your own processes.
• IBM UrbanCode family of products (IBM UrbanCode Build, IBM UrbanCode Deploy, IBM UrbanCode Release) automate software continuous delivery in a DevOps process.
• IBM Cloud Services offerings enable your teams to focus on their development projects, not systems administration. Cloud Service offerings provide you with a single-tenant cloud environment. The IBM cloud team configures and delivers ongoing infrastructure, application, and support, deployed into a secure environment.
• IBM SoftLayer(R) data centre supports and monitors the solution for 24x7 availability. Organizations with Cloud Service typically are upgraded to a new version within 45 days of the announced general availability date. For more information, see the IBM IoT Continuous Engineering and Collaborative Lifecycle Management on Cloud website.
Rational Team Concert V6.0.5
New Rational Team Concert Quick Planner
A new version of Rational Team Concert Quick Planner is available in Rational Team Concert V6.0.5. The main features of this new Quick Planner include support for flexible tag- and process-based work boards and plan boards. These new task boards make it very simple for users to create boards without having to modify XML process templates.
In Rational Team Concert Quick Planner prior to V6.0.5 each swim lane in a board must be associated with a process state or state group. In Rational Team Concert V6.0.5 Quick Planner, it is now possible to create swim lanes that display one or more states of your choice but now you can also display work items in a lane based on work item tags. How would one use this? You can now have a full tag-based board like simple tools do. Or a fully process-based board (as Rational Team Concert does). Or you can mix process and tags in the same lane. So you might have a shared process that defines the states open, in-progress, and done and then allow your development teams to create any number of other swim lanes to track work items based on tags. Such as "important customer A" and "severity 1" in a swim lane for example. In addition, with this version of Rational Team Concert Quick Planner you can display up to eight lanes on large-screen monitors and you can pin down more than one lane.
Rational Team Concert Quick Planner in V6.0.5 now supports both board (global) and lane (swim-lane specific) filters. Lane settings now provide the option to specify a lane filter in addition to a board filter. The board filter is applied to all lanes on the board. If a board has both lane and board filters, the filter that is applied on the lane is both a board filter and a lane filter. The lane filters do not modify the value of items when they are dragged and dropped from one swim lane to another, like the other lane settings, such as State Group, Iteration, and Tags. A check box is now available to select all items in a lane or table. To clear selected items in the lane or table, clear the check box. To select multiple consecutive items in a lane or table, select the first item and then press Shift and click the last item.
In Rational Team Concert Quick Planner V6.0.5 swim lanes that are grouped by Ranked List show parent-child links and those can be links to cross-project children.
Now, child items that belong to different project areas are also shown. If you hover over the type icon it shows information about the project area that the item belongs to. You can now select or clear a parent and all of its children that are grouped by ranked list by using Ctrl+click or Cmd+click. You can now also move child items to the root level by dragging and dropping them. You can also now reorder lanes on a board by simply dragging and dropping them.
The task breakdown view now has an Add Existing button to add existing work items as a child item to speed linking stories to existing child tasks when tasking out a story.
Rational Team Concert Quick Planner in V6.0.5 is completely rewritten to use REACT technology which makes the UI avoid the use of spinners for waiting for a task to complete before asking for the next task in the UI. Rational Team Concert QP Next has a fast and fluid UI experience with no wait time. Now when you onboard a new team to Rational Team Concert and they are familiar with tag-based boards they can be productive immediately, reducing their learning curve.
Enhanced SAFe 4.5 templates in Rational Team Concert
In Rational Team Concert, the predefined Scaled Agile Framework SAFe 4.0 Process (Program) and SAFe 4.0 Process (Portfolio) templates are included. IBM has also published SAFe 4.5 Process templates and instructions for how to configure the out- of-the-box templates for SAFe 4.0 to achieve SAFe 4.5 in Rational Team Concert V6.0.5 for early adopters of the latest SAFe 4.5 methodology.
Enhanced electronic signatures for Rational Team Concert work items In this release electronic signature based approvals have been enhanced to more fully comply with the standard specification. Electronic signatures will now prompt for a user name and password in this release. Enhanced support for electronic signatures is now available in both the web and Eclipse clients to help comply with regulatory requirements. You can configure work item state changes and approvals to require electronic signatures. The electronic signature details are also available in the work item history. The electronic signature attributes can be added to the work item query conditions, and the electronic signature details can be retrieved as a column in the query results.
Ability to query on empty text fields
In the Query Editor, you can now query on empty text fields in both the web and Eclipse clients. The query condition UI has a check box to search for Unassigned values for operators is and is not, for Medium HTML, Medium String, and Small String attribute types.
Inline search support for additional attribute types in the query condition editor
The query condition editor now shows inline search fields for iteration, deliverable, category, and contributor attribute types for predefined and custom attributes.
Ability to search by work item ID across project areas in the web client Previously, when you searched for a work item by entering a work item ID in the Select Work Items window in the web client, the search was confined to the selected project area. Now, the search spans project areas. This behavior is now consistent with the Rational Team Concert client for Eclipse IDE. In the Quick Search feature in the web client, if the first word of the input text is not an integer, the search does not return the work item whose ID matches the integer.
Work item editor performance improvements
In a project area that has many categories, team areas, timelines, and iterations, the work item editor now loads faster because the caching is more efficient and fewer network requests are required to load a work item.
Support for String List attributes in CSV imports
If you import work items from a comma-separated values (CSV) file, you can now include String List attributes.
Ability to store large files transparently when using an external content store in Rational Team Concert SCM
You can now configure the IBM Rational Team Concert application server to store files that are larger than a specified size outside the default database. The external content store can be configured as a folder on the server's local file system, or it can point to a WebDAV server such as Artifactory. To configure an external content store, edit the properties on the Advanced Properties page in the administrative web client.
For example, if you want all files greater than a specified size to be stored in an external repository you can now say if anyone checks in a file greater than a certain size, such as 10 MB, store it in Artifactory or the local file system to preserve space in the Rational Team Concert SCM database. Developers still load files in their workspace but they are not aware that any large files referenced may reside outside the Rational Team Concert SCM database. They still check in as before and the system transparently stores larger files externally. The benefits of this model are to allow very large files such as binaries to be part of a build without overloading the Rational Team Concert SCM database with those very large files. A command- line utility is also provided that allows an administrator to move large files that are already in the Rational Team Concert SCM database to an external file store such as Artifactory. You can run this move utility to move all files larger than a certain size to your designated external file repository and it will save space in your Rational Team Concert SCM database. MBeans support for administrators who wish to report on disk space usage is also provided.
Code review support for issue tags and tag-based filtering
In the issue editor, you can now apply one or more tags to issues raised during code review. Project administrators define tags on the Source Control tab of the project area administration page in the web client. For example, you can use tags to define issue types (LogicError, Security, Accessibility, and so on), to augment your code review process (such as Verified and Rejected), or for any other use. You can now filter issues in the code review navigator panel based on the presence or absence of one or more tags.
Support for custom link types
You can now create custom link types for files under source control. The project area editor in the web client includes a new Link Types page, which displays the available link types (predefined and user-defined) for files under source control. To create a link type, click Add, and then complete the fields in the Add Link Type window.
By default, new link types are available to all project areas in the repository. To disable a user-defined link type within a project area, select Manage the link types for this project area, and then clear the check box beside the link type. To create or modify link types, you must be assigned to a role that has the Administer Link Types permission.
Significant Rational Team Concert SCM Windows Shell UI enhancements, including locking
The Rational Team Concert Shell client now includes a Locks view that displays the locked files in a stream. To open the view, click the Show locks for currently tracked workspaces icon on the Pending Changes toolbar. There are many other Windows Shell improvements as well, such as in the Rational Team Concert Shell, you can now accept change sets associated with a work item from Work Item History in the Manage Artifacts view of the Shell Control Panel.
Support for keyword expansion in the Rational Team Concert SCM command-line interface and builds
The ability to expand keywords that are encountered when content is loaded was added to the command-line interface (CLI) and builds. The option on the CLI command is expand-keywords. The Jazz Build Engine (JBE) build property to enable keyword expansion on load is team.scm.expandKeywords, which you set to true to request that keywords are expanded. The Ant teamfetch task attribute is expandKeywords. The following keywords are supported:
$VersionId$ - The version ID of the file.
$LongVersionId$ - The long version ID of the file (for example: VersionId@repoId).
$ItemId$ - The UUID that identifies the file.
$StateId$ - The UUID that identifies the specific state of the file.
$Date$ - The date that the file in the repository was most recently modified.
$Name$ - The name of the file in the repository.
When keyword expansion is enabled for a load operation, all text files (those files whose line delimiter is set to a value other than NONE) are processed for keyword expansion. To disable keyword expansion for specific files, add the scm:keyword user property with a value of false to those files.
Consistency in load rule behavior in Rational Team Concert builds and in Rational Team Concert source control
Load rules now behave the same way in Rational Team Concert builds as they do when you use them with Rational Team Concert source control. The Build Definition editor in the client for Eclipse IDE includes new fields to define how to load a repository workspace. The Jazz Source Control page includes a new field named Load Policy where you specify either components to load or a load rule to use. The Load Policy field is displayed only for new build definitions that you create by using this release (and later versions) of the client.
Support for Rational Team Concert webhooks to GitLab
Rational Team Concert now supports webhooks (web callbacks) to GitLab. These webhooks support push events and comments triggers. When a push event occurs, a link to the commit is added to all the Rational Team Concert work items that are mentioned in the commit comment. When a Rational Team Concert work item is mentioned in an issue or commit discussion, a comment is also added to the Rational Team Concert work item.
Ability of GitHub to add commit comments and issue comments to Rational Team Concert work items
Rational Team Concert now has expanded support for commit comment and issue comment events to the webhook URL for GitHub. When a Rational Team Concert work-item is mentioned in an issue or commit comment discussion, a comment is added to the Rational Team Concert work item.
Rational DOORS Next Generation V6.0.5
FDA compliance -- Supporting electronic signatures for baselines
Like many other industries, FDA-related organizations rely on governance and compliance around requirements data. FDA also has requirements to ensure accountability and a documented consensus of decision making. This release provides support for electronically signing baselines in conformance to FDA regulations.
Usability -- Differentiating free-standing requirements and modules of data DOORS Next Generation allows for requirements to exist in their own right (base artifacts) and in the context of specifications (modules). This release makes it easier to distinguish requirements in their different forms, ensuring fewer errors are made in finding relevant information and in the creation of traceability.
Administration -- Managing projects at a higher scale
As the scale of organizations grow, so does the administrative overhead for managing multiple project environments to keep them all adhering to company standards. This release introduces Project base property inheritance that allows an organization to manage many of the generic properties of a project in a single place.
Projects can now inherit Roles, Permissions, and Workflows between similar project areas.
Linking -- A focus on link ownership, specifically when using configurations Traceability is one of the most important aspects of requirements data. When combined with Configuration Management linking can get very complex and difficult to maintain. Care is needed to govern which versions of information are related to each other. This release introduces the concept of "link direction" ensuring consistency with linking with a focus on "link ownership." Knowing that a link is always owned from the place it starts from allows users and organizations to know more clearly what will happen as versions are created and Global Configurations are defined.
Other enhancements and work in progress
This release continues to work on Configuration Management functionality with improvements to the merge and conflict resolution dialogs and also the ability to support import of multiple versions of ReqIF package into different streams and for those requirements to be seen and treated as different versions of the same information.
Performance and scale continues to be a focus for DOORS Next Generation. Several improvements have been made around performance including support for more responsive scrolling around larger modules.
Rational Quality Manager V6.0.5
In Rational Quality Manager, the email notification capability has been extended to execution records and execution schedules in addition to the existing support for review and approval. Users can now subscribe themselves or other users to test case execution records, test suite execution records, and execution schedules to receive notifications when specific conditions occur. Each user can define in the preferences which events will generate an email, such as the modification of the owner of an execution record or the completion of an execution with a failed status.
The number of steps of manual test scripts is now shown in a step count column within the test case and test case execution record and test script table views to help with test execution planning. In the test case execution record table view, additional columns display the step count for each execution status such as pass, failed, and so forth. Additionally, a new dashboard widget shows the execution status by number of steps. This capability offers an alternative to using test case weight to track execution progress in a fine-grained way.
During the execution of manual tests, users now have the option to modify the description and expected result of script steps in the event they find that the script needs to be updated to complete an execution successfully. The modified script is saved as part of the test result. The original script stays unchanged. Later on, users can use the compare and merge capability to take into account the modified version of the script and update the original script if needed.
Collaborative Lifecycle Management V6.0.5 - Common
Enhancements to common capabilities across Collaborative Lifecycle Management components
• Global configuration management makes it simpler to work with large sets of information:
– Bulk actions on global components and configurations (tags and attribute values)
– Type definition import/export and related APIs that make it easier to maintain consistent multiple GCM instances and multiple GCM project areas
• SAFe 4.5 support offers:
– Support for four configurations: Full, Portfolio, Large Solution, and Essential.
IBM provides product templates for all four levels for Rational Team Concert,
Rational DOORS Next Generation, and Rational Quality Manager. IBM also provides CLM Lifecycle Project Area templates for all four configurations that default to the appropriate product-level templates to create a complete, cross- domain SAFe 4.5 LPA environment.
– Delta updates between SAFe 4.0 and SAFe 4.5 in the new templates, including:
-- Change from Value Stream to Large Solution layer
-- Updates to artifacts consistent with changes introduced in SAFe 4.5
-- Updates to Kanban workflows for Epics, Capabilities, and Features consistent with changes introduced in SAFe 4.5
– Enterprise Scaled Agile JRS reports for the Relational Data Warehouse data source supporting the four configurations as well as generalized scaled agile in non-SAFe-based environments. These are provided as downloadable archive files that can be used to import the reports into an existing JRS environment:
-- SAFe 4.5 [Essential SAFe]
-- SAFe 4.5 [Full SAFe]
-- SAFe 4.5 [Portfolio SAFe]
-- SAFe 4.5 [Large Solution SAFe]
-- Enterprise Reporting
• Security enhancements include:
– Improved large-scale support for using System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM) with OpenID Connect (OIDC) with large LDAP registries when synchronizing users and group information to the Jazz Team Server – Reduction in use of stack traces when user actions create system exceptions
• Significantly more data is available for application-level operational monitoring tools, published as Java Management Extension (JMX) MBeans. For details see the Jazz Deployment Wiki.
• Updates are provided to supported software levels, including Java 8 runtime, WebSphere(R) Application Server V9, and WebSphere Liberty 17.0.0.2. For a full list see the Software requirements section.
• Jazz Reporting Service allows you to synchronize Lifecycle Query Engine with NTP time servers.
Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager V6.0.5 is part of the IBM solution for continuous engineering and is included in the install package of Collaborative Lifecycle Management V6.0.5 as a convenience.
In this release, a number of usability enhancements were delivered to make everyday Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager tasks simpler. Users can:
• Easily import views
• Easily change what artifact type to show in a container
• Take advantage of enhanced snapshot functionality
• Show DOORS 9 data in views
• See the number of artifacts in one or more containers in a view
• Customize focus and selection colors for the container border Accessibility by people with disabilities
A US Section 508 Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT), containing details about accessibility compliance, can be found on the Product accessibility information website.
Reference information
For more information on Collaborative Lifecycle Management, see Software Announcement A17-0453, dated June 6, 2017.
Program number
Program number VRM Program name
5725-F21 6.0.5 IBM Rational Collaborative
Lifecycle Management
5724-W87 6.0.5 IBM Rational DOORS Next
Generation
5724-V04 6.0.5 IBM Rational Team Concert
5724-V10 6.0.5 IBM Rational Quality
Manager
5725-H85 6.0.5 IBM Rational Engineering
Lifecycle Manager
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Technical information
Specified operating environment Software requirements
For current information, see the IBM Software Product Compatibility Reports website.
AIX(R):
• AIX 7.1 (POWER(R))
• AIX 6.1 (POWER) IBM i:
• IBM i 7.3 (POWER)
• IBM i 7.2 (POWER)
Linux:
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Client 6 x86-32
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Client 6 x86-64
• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Client x86-64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Workstation 6 x86-64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Server 6 POWER System - Big Endian
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Server 6 IBM z Systems(R)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Server 6 x86-64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Client 7 x86-64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Workstation 6 x86-32
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Server 7 x86-64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Server 7 IBM z Systems
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Server 7 POWER System - Big Endian
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 POWER System - Big Endian
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 x86-64
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12 x86-64
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) 11 x86-32; x86-64
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 IBM z Systems
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12 IBM z Systems
IBM continues to support SLES on x86 IntelTM architectures for the CE server based products, including all of Collaborative Lifecycle Management and Rational DOORS.
IBM added SLES 12 support on x86 to Collaborative Lifecycle Management V6.0.4 and retains support for SLES 11.x on x86. IBM plans to continue supporting SLES major new versions on x86. This is a change in server platform strategy for SLES on x86 based on feedback from clients and based on continued market demand.
Mac OS: OS X 10.9, 10.10, 10.11, and 10.12 x86-64 Windows:
• Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter Edition x86-64
• Windows 8.1 Professional x86-64
• Windows 8.1 Standard x86-64
• Windows Server 2012 Datacenter Edition x86-64
• Windows 8.1 Enterprise x86-64
• Windows 7 Professional x86-32
• Windows 7 Professional x86-64
• Windows 10 Enterprise x86-64
• Windows 7 Enterprise x86-32
• Windows 10 Pro x86-32
• Windows 10 Enterprise x86-32
• Windows 10 Pro x86-64
• Windows 7 Enterprise x86-64
• Windows 7 Ultimate x86-64
• Windows Server 2012 Standard Edition x86-64
• Windows 7 Ultimate x86-32
• Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard Edition x86-64 IBM z(R)/OS:
• z/OS(R) 2.2 (IBM z Systems)
• z/OS 2.1 (IBM z Systems)
• z/OS 1.13 (IBM z Systems)
The new, optional Rational Team Concert clustering capability uses IBM IoT MessageSight, which runs on Red Hat Enteprise Linux.
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Ordering information
Program number Program name
5725-F21 IBM Rational Collaborative Lifecycle
Management
5724-W87 IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation
5724-V04 IBM Rational Team Concert
5724-V10 IBM Rational Quality Manager
5725-H85 IBM Rational Engineering Lifecycle
Manager
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Rational Collaborative Lifecycle
Management 6.0.5 L-JHUT-AR6RQR
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If for any reason you are dissatisfied with the program and you are the original licensee, you may obtain a refund of the amount you paid for it, if within 30 days of your invoice date you return the program and its PoE to the party from whom you obtained it. If you downloaded the program, you may contact the party from whom you acquired it for instructions on how to obtain the refund.
For clarification, note that (1) for programs acquired under the IBM International Passport Advantage offering, this term applies only to your first acquisition of the program and (2) for programs acquired under any of IBM's On/Off Capacity on Demand (On/Off CoD) software offerings, this term does not apply since these offerings apply to programs already acquired and in use by you.
Volume orders (IVO) No
Passport Advantage applies
Yes, information is available on the Passport Advantage and Passport Advantage Express website.
Software Subscription and Support applies
Yes. Software Subscription and Support, also referred to as Software Maintenance, is included with licenses purchased through Passport Advantage and Passport Advantage Express. Product upgrades and Technical Support are provided by the Software Subscription and Support offering as described in the Agreements.
Product upgrades provide the latest versions and releases to entitled software, and Technical Support provides voice and electronic access to IBM support organizations, worldwide.
IBM includes one year of Software Subscription and Support with each program license acquired. The initial period of Software Subscription and Support can be extended by the purchase of a renewal option, if available.
While your Software Subscription and Support is in effect, IBM provides you assistance for your routine, short-duration installation and usage (how-to)
questions, and code-related questions. IBM provides assistance by telephone and, if available, electronic access, only to your information systems (IS) technical support personnel during the normal business hours (published prime shift hours) of your IBM support centre. (This assistance is not available to your users.) IBM provides Severity 1 assistance 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. For additional details, see the IBM Software Support Handbook. Software Subscription and Support does not include assistance for the design and development of applications, your use of programs in other than their specified operating environment, or failures caused by products for which IBM is not responsible under the applicable agreements.
Unless specified otherwise in a written agreement with you, IBM does not provide support for third-party products that were not provided by IBM. Ensure that when contacting IBM for covered support, you follow problem determination and other instructions that IBM provides, including in the IBM Software Support Handbook.
For additional information about the International Passport Advantage Agreement and the IBM International Passport Advantage Express Agreement, go to the Passport Advantage and Passport Advantage Express website.
Variable charges apply No
Educational allowance available Not applicable
Statement of good security practices
IT system security involves protecting systems and information through intrusion prevention, detection, and response to improper access from within and outside your enterprise. Improper access can result in information being altered, destroyed, or misappropriated or can result in misuse of your systems to attack others. Without a comprehensive approach to security, no IT system or product should be considered completely secure and no single product or security measure can be completely
effective in preventing improper access. IBM systems and products are designed to be part of a regulatory compliant, comprehensive security approach, which will necessarily involve additional operational procedures, and may require other systems, products, or services to be most effective.
Important: IBM does not warrant that any systems, products, or services are immune from, or will make your enterprise immune from, the malicious or illegal conduct of any party.
Prices
Prices are subject to change without notice.
GST, QST, and sales taxes, where applicable, are extra.
Passport Advantage
For Passport Advantage information and charges, contact your IBM representative.
Additional information is also available on the Passport Advantage and Passport Advantage Express website.
Trade-marks
Rational Team Concert and Jazz are trade-marks of IBM Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both.
IBM, Rational, DOORS, Passport Advantage, Express, Rhapsody, WebSphere, AIX, POWER, IBM z Systems, IBM z and z/OS are registered trade-marks of IBM Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both.
Oracle and Java are trade-marks of Oracle and/or its affiliates in the United States, other countries, or both.
Microsoft and Windows are trade-marks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both.
Linux is a registered trade-mark of Linus Torvalds in the United States, other countries, or both.
SoftLayer is a registered trade-mark of SoftLayer, Inc., an IBM Company, an IBM Company.
Intel is a trade-mark of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries.
Other company, product, and service names may be trade-marks or service marks of others.
Trade-mark owned by International Business Machines Corporation and is used under license by IBM Canada Ltd.
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Terms of use
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