Managing source code with Rational Team Concert for System z

The source control component of the Jazz™ technology platform manages the source code, documents, and other artifacts that a team creates. It provides change-flow management to facilitate the sharing of controlled artifacts, retains a history of changes made to these artifacts, and enables simultaneous development of multiple versions of shared artifacts, so that teams can work on several development lines at the same time.

A software development team typically works with a large base of files that comprises the source code for a software product or system. As a team member, you work within this base of source code, changing file content to add new features or fix defects. After you verify that your changes are correct (by building and testing the code in a private workspace, for example), you share the changes with the rest of the team, whose members have also been changing files, including some on which your work depends. Rational Team Concert™ source control organizes "versionable" items (files and folders) into components and streams, and provides workspaces where you can view and modify file and folder contents. Together, these repository objects represent the configuration of the system being developed, and allow any configuration to be retrieved, shared, or built. They organize a team's files, track and share changes, and keep the entire team working in concert to achieve common goals.

Rational Team Concert source control is closely integrated with the other application development lifecycle tools included in Rational Team Concert.

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