Features overview
The following is an overview of enhancements in the Rational Team Concert 3.0:
General features:
Enterprise process projects: This adds the ability to share processes between a set of projects on the same server.
New process pre-conditions: A lot of new pre-conditions help teams better control how they work. This includes support for enforcing that all change sets be accepted before delivering, parent work items can't be closed until all children are closed, and work item state-based required properties.
Navigation: The Web UI is redesigned to improve navigation and ease of use. The navigation bar is replaced with the mini dashboard, and has additional features such as global search, common filtering to find artifacts, a home menu, and component menus.
SmartCard and SSL certificates: Support is added in the Eclipse, build, web, and command line clients to allow users to authenticate with SmartCard and SSL certificates.
Packaging and licencing:
Packaging and platform support is simplified in 3.0. There is only one product that supports all our platforms. Instead of the model in 2.X with separate products and servers for these platforms (RTC, RTC for System Z, RTC for Power), they have been merged.
As an administrator, the first thing you'll notice is that there are now two applications running on your server—the CCM (Change and Configuration Management) and the JTS (Jazz Team Server).
As new applications are available, you will be able to install licenses into the same JTS and share users and licenses across the applications. This will be useful because new versions of RQM and RRC are upgraded as part of the CLM initiative.
Administration:
LDAP configuration setup page improvements: Validation and creation of server and web XML files for Tomcat.
Shared Jazz team server configuration: Users and licenses can be shared between a set of applications and assigned and tracked centrally.
Planning:
Traditional planning: More support is added for more traditional planning activities and processes. This includes resource allocations, work dependencies, and risk management.
Roadmaps: Added ability to see timeline and work dependencies in all plan modes.
Planning usability: Plans have enhancements such as column headers, ability to resize columns, incremental loading, easier plan mode creation and filtering, and a completely new agile task board.
Work items:
Work item customization in the Web: Work item customization is added for the Web. This includes a web-based wysiwyg presentation editor.
Embedded work items: Other products such as Rational Quality Manager can embed work items into their Web UIs even though they may be stored in another application.
Source control:
Distributed source control: It's now possible to create repository workspaces, deliver, and accept across servers. Change sets can be linked to work items in other repositories and any other OSLC-CM providers.
Versioned properties: Properties can now be added to version-controlled resources that are versioned with the resources.
Builds:
Out of the box BuildForge integration: The integration is now included in Team Concert and includes many improvements such as the availability of using BuildForge agents and running jbe tasks directly from BuildForge.
Configurable build engine types: Build engine types have been introduced to support having different tasks run on different environments with custom configuration options.
