Source control

Many enhancements are seen in the core Source Control engine that enables distributed source control, a native client on z/OS, context-aware search, and a source control Web UI.

Rational Team Concert 3.0 now supports distributed source control. Jean-Michel Lemieux, an architect from Rational Team Concert, describes the distributed source control as follows:

From a user's perspective, the easiest explanation of distributed source control is that you can now deliver and accept across repositories.

All the concepts that worked in 2.x will continue to work, except that the Eclipse client now supports distributed source control, as seen here:

At the time of changing the flow target of a repository workspace, you can select the appropriate repository. All the changes will simply flow to the target in the selected repository. The distributed source control concept is supported across the concepts of change sets, work items, repositories, and user interface. You can link change sets to work items on other servers.

Context-aware search is added to the Eclipse client. You can now search source files by keyword, without using a work item. This is extremely useful for impact analysis, reducing code duplication, and understanding how changes you make in your source code can affect other teams.