Developing in Java 25 with Jazz: Installing the EWM 7.3 Client in Eclipse 2025-09 and Later

One of our clients wants to develop in Java 25 with the IBM EWM client integrated in Eclipse. However, the latest public Jazz release, 7.2, supports Eclipse 2025-06 at most, which does not handle Java 25. Version 7.3, not yet released as a final version (only milestones are downloadable), appears to be compatible with Eclipse releases from 2025-09 to 2026-09 — but the p2 installation of the EWM client does not work out of the box on them. Here is the cause, and the solution we implemented.

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PlantUML in the ELM Menu: Diagrams One Click Away

On an IBM ELM project you regularly need a diagram: a sequence of exchanges, a state machine, an architecture, a process. Too often it is drawn in an external tool, exported as an image and pasted by hand — and nobody dares touch it again. With PlantUML, the diagram is written as text. What remains is making it available to ELM users, in the right place. That is what a very small component we just built does.

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ReqIF: When DOORS Attachments Vanish After Import

You export a module from IBM DOORS or DOORS Next Generation as ReqIF (.reqifz), import it into another requirements management tool, and the text comes through fine — but the embedded images and objects stay blank. This is a classic ReqIF interchange issue, and the cause is subtler than mere tool incompatibility. This article explains the cause of the problem and offers a ready-to-use utility to fix it.

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Modernising System Administration: Managing Jazz and Scaleway on Windows

Administering critical platforms like Jazz (CORS management, EWM widget deployment, DB2 database maintenance) demands a responsive interface and smooth handling of secure data flows. At Syncheo, we migrated from heavy third-party tools like mRemoteNG to a 100% native Windows stack.

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