IBM Rational Lifecycle Integration Adapters extend the Rational ALM solution with integrations to a number of third-party tools
IBM United States Software Announcement 212-433October 9, 2012
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Today's software delivery challenges require a more concerted approach to Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). The IBM® Rational® solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) is the IBM implementation for ALM, based on the Rational Jazz™ platform.
The IBM native CLM solution integrates Rational Team Concert™ , Rational Requirements Composer, and Rational Quality Manager to create a seamless and highly collaborative solution for softwaredelivery. However, many IBM customers have existing tools that stem from a variety of sources that also need such integration to gain visibility across a diverse toolset.
The Rational Lifecycle Integration Adapters extend the Rational CLM solution with integrations to select third-party tools. These adapters also provide integrations for Rational ClearQuest® . The Rational Lifecycle Integration Adapters enable customers to gain greater value from these Rational products when practicing ALM in aheterogeneous lifecycle tools environment. The first release of this offering includes adapters for integrating with HP ALM, Atlassian JIRA, and open source Git.
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The Rational product family provides a seamless integration of ALM capabilities referred to as the IBM Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM). CLM provides a collaborative way for software delivery teams to unify multiple platforms and coordinate roles and activities across the core ALM disciplines of Change Management, Requirements Management, and Quality Management.
The core CLM solution integrates a corresponding set of products -- Rational Team Concert , Rational Requirements Composer, and Rational Quality Manager -- to create a seamless and highly collaborative solution for software delivery. This solution can also be integrated with Rational Software Architect to extend the value of CLM to design management. IBM also maintains integrations between a number of its other ALM products, such as Rational ClearQuest .
The experience gained from driving integration across these products helps to identify the challenges in applying traditional integration technologies. It spurred IBM to look toward more strategic solutions, including involvement in the Open Services for LifecycleCollaboration (OSLC) and W3C Linked Data Platform. OSLC provides a set of interfaces organized into a number of functional areas (domains) that allow lifecycle tools that stem from many sources to link and trace data being managed by those tools. OSLC is now the Rational standard for integration implementation.
The Rational product family is expanding its implementation of OSLC integrations beyond the Rational products. Many of our customers operate in a highly diverse and heterogeneous lifecycle environment. There are a variety of reasons why tools already established in their environments are critical to their business. These tools often cannot simply be removed and replaced with new ones. Therefore, IBM takes its experience with integrations across Rational products and applies it to select third-party tools as well.
By listening to customers, IBM assessed which tools are most needed for integrating with Rational products. IBM created a new Integrations Directory on jazz.net (jazz.net/extend) that lists all of the integrations currently available with Rational tools. This directory also includes a facility for requesting integrations that do not yet exist. It encourages customers to share their integration needs to continuously help IBM identify the highest priority tools for its Rational customers.
As strong drivers in the OSLC community, IBM champions an open approach to linked data specifications that can be adopted by vendor, business partner, and community members directly. The results of this approach can now be seen in a new offering called the Rational Lifecycle Integration Adapters. These adapters allow customers to continue using their existing lifecycle tools and still gain benefitfrom many capabilities found in the Rational ALM products. The first release of this offering includes adapters for integrating with HP ALM, Atlassian JIRA, and open source Git.
For ordering, contact your IBM representative, an IBM Business Partner, or IBM Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL (Reference: AE001).
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| Key prerequisites |
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For details, refer to the Hardware requirements and the Software requirements sections.
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| Planned availability date |
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- October 12, 2012: Electronic availability
- October 18, 2012: Media availability
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| Description |
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| Program number |
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Program number VRM Program name 5725-I05 1.0.0 Rational Lifecycle Integration Adapters
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| Offering Information |
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Product information is available via the Offering Information website
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| Publications |
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No publications are shipped with this product.
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Specified operating environment
Hardware requirements
- 1 GB RAM, minimum (2 GB recommended)
- 1 GB disk space minimum
- Intel™ Pentium™ 4 processor minimum
Software requirements
Web browsers
- Microsoft™ Internet Explorer 9.0 and future fix packs
- Mozilla Firefox ESR 10 and future fix packs
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0 and future fix packs
Application servers
- WebSphere® Application Server Network Deployment V7.0.0.23 and future fix packs
- WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment V8.0.0.3 and future fix packs
- WebSphere Application Server - Base V8.0.0.3 and future fix packs
- WebSphere Application Server - Base V7.0.0.23 and future fix packs
- Apache Tomcat 6.0 and future fix packs
- Apache Tomcat 7.0 and future fix packs
Connectors
- HP ALM 11 and future fix packs
- Rational Team Concert V4.0 and future fix packs
- Git 1.7.1, Gitweb 1.7.1, Gerrit 2.2.2, and future fix packs
- Atlassian JIRA 4.4.x and future fix packs
- Rational Requirements Composer V4.0 and future fix packs
- Rational Quality Manager V4.0 and future fix packs
Java™ SDK
- Sun Java SDK/JRE/JDK 6.0 Update 23 and future fix packs
- Oracle Java SDK/JRE/JDK 7.0 and future fix packs
- IBM Java SDK/JRE V7.0.1 and future fix packs
- IBM Java SDK V6.0.10.1 and future fix packs
Virtualization
- VMWare vSphere 4.0 and future fix packs
- VMware ESXi 4.1 and future fix packs
- Red Hat KVM as delivered with Red Hat Enterprise Linux™ (RHEL) 6.0 and future fix packs
- IBM PowerVM® Hypervisor (LPAR, DPAR, Micro-Partition) any supported version and future fix packs
- VMware ESX 4.1 and future fix packs
- VMware ESX 4.0 and future fix packs
- VMware ESXi 4.0 and future fix packs
- VMWare vSphere 4.1 and future fix packs
Operating systems
Linux
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 Update 7 Advanced Platform x86-64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 Update 6 Advanced Platform x86-64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Server 6 Update 2 x86-64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 Update 5 Advanced Platform x86-64
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 SP2 x86-64
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10 SP4 x86-64
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 SP1 x86-64
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10 SP3 x86-64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Server 6 x86-64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Server 6 Update 1 x86-64
Windows™
- Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition x86-64
- Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Enterprise Edition x86-64
- Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition x86-64
- Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Standard Edition x86-64
- Windows Server 2008 SP2 Enterprise Edition x86-64
- Windows Server 2008 SP2 Standard Edition x86-64
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Customer responsibilities
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Packaging
Rational Lifecycle Integration Adapters
Security, auditability, and control
The customer is responsible for evaluation, selection, and implementation of security features, administrative procedures, and appropriate controls in application systems and communication facilities.
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This product is only available via Passport Advantage . It is not available as shrinkwrap.
Product information
Licensed function title Product group Product category
IBM Rational Lifecycle Integration Software Software
Adapters Standard Edition Change and Change and
Configuration Configuration
Management Management
Program name PID Charge unit
number description
IBM Rational Lifecycle Integration 5725-I05 Per Processor Value Unit
Adapters Standard Edition for System z
IBM Rational Lifecycle Integration 5725-I05 Per Processor Value Unit
Adapters Standard Edition
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Passport Advantage program licenses
Rational Lifecycle Integration Adapters
Part description Part
number
IBM Rational Lifecycle Integration Adapters Standard Edition
Ratl LC Int Adpt SE Per Processor Value Unit (PVU) E0F1YLL
Annual SW S&S Rnwl
Ratl LC Int Adpt SE Per Processor Value Unit (PVU) Lic D0UY6LL
+ SW S&S 12 Mo
Ratl LC Int Adpt SE Per Processor Value Unit (PVU) SW D0UY7LL
S&S Reinstate 12 Mo
Passport Advantage supply
Rational Lifecycle Integration Adapter Standard Edition V1.0.0 Rational Lifecycle Integration Adapters Std Ed BT0HSEN Multiplatform English Media Pack
Passport Advantage customer: Media pack entitlement details
Customers with active maintenance or subscription for the products listed are entitled to receive the corresponding media pack.
Rational Lifecycle Integration Adapter Standard Edition V1.0.0
Entitled maintenance Media packs description Part offerings description number IBM Rational Lifecycle Ratl Lifecycle Integration BT0HSEN Integration Adapters Adapters Std Ed Standard Edition per Multiplatform English Processor Value Unit Media Pack IBM Rational Lifecycle Ratl Lifecycle Integration BT0HSEN Integration Adapters Adapters Std Ed Standard Edition per Multiplatform English Processor Value Unit For Media Pack System Z
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Rational Lifecycle Integration Adapters
Part description Part
number
IBM Rational Lifecycle Integration Adapters Standard
Edition
Ratl LC Int Adpt SE Per Proc VU for Sys z Annual SW S&S E0F1ZLL
Rnwl
Ratl LC Int Adpt SE Per Proc VU for Sys z Lic + SW S&S D0UY8LL
12 Mo
Ratl LC Int Adpt SE Per Proc VU for Sys z SW S&S D0UY9LL
Reinstate 12 Mo
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