Orientation to Rational Team Concert for Rational Developer for System z users

This topic lists and describes some useful Rational Team Concert™ terms, resources, artifacts, and views, especially as they relate to Rational® Developer for System z®.

Rational Team Concert is a team collaboration tool that supports cross-platform development and features native hosting of the Jazz™ Team Server on z/OS® and Linux® for System z. Rational Team Concert includes an integrated set of collaborative software delivery life cycle tools for System z development, including source control, change management, and build and process management.

To learn more about Rational Team Concert, see the Getting Started, Tutorial, and Glossary sections of the product help or in the online information center at http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/clmhelp/v3r0/index.jsp.

The following Rational Team Concert terms are used in the help content for the integrated products:
Data set definition
A Jazz model object that is stored in the Jazz repository. It contains all of the information related to a given data set on a z/OS system. Every data set that a build process references must correspond to a data set definition.
Data set prefix
On System z, Rational Team Concert uses a data set prefix together with the data set name (indicated in the data set definition) to identify the data set you want to allocate to Rational Team Concert. With your own prefix, you can modify Rational Team Concert artifacts in isolation from other contexts.
Repository workspace
A (source control) workspace that holds a developer's private copy of the source file base.
Sandbox
An unstructured location on the file system to which you can extract a source file base from a source control system.
Translator
Describes a single build step; namely, the step wherein a translator executable program is started with the required inputs and outputs. Inputs and outputs are the same as z/OS data sets, so a translator definition must reference multiple data set definitions. For example, a COBOL program that contains SQL statements and runs in a CICS® environment must go through several build steps. Depending on the COBOL compiler version you use, these steps might include the following:
  • DB2® precompile
  • CICS precompile
  • COBOL compile
  • Link-edit
  • DB2 bind
Workspace
A location on a file system with an Eclipse-oriented structure that contains a collection of resources (files, folders, projects).
zComponent
A logical group of artifacts that share a common context; for example, all of the artifacts in a zComponent might comprise part of an application.
zComponent Project
A specialized Eclipse project that contains source or build artifacts (such as build scripts or link-edit files), along with metadata that describes how these artifacts should be organized and built when you extract them to the z/OS file system.
zFile
An Eclipse file that represents a member of an extended partitioned data set (PDSE) on MVS™.
zFolder
An Eclipse folder that is associated with a PDSE on MVS. During a build, zFiles in a given zFolder are extracted to the data set that is associated with that zFolder.

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