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IBM Rational Method Composer 7.5.3 has been made generally available.
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The Change history section provides an overview on what is new in this release with a description of any new functions or enhancements when applicable. |
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The How critical is this fix section provides information related to the impact of this release to allow you to assess how your environment may be affected. |
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The Prerequisites section provides important information to review prior to the installation of this release. |
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The Download package section provides the direct link to obtain the download package for installation in your environment. |
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The Installation instructions section provides the installation instructions necessary to apply this release into your environment. |
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The Known side effects section contains a link to the known problems (open defects) identified at the time of this release. |
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Click to review the detailed system requirements information for a complete list of hardware requirements, supported operating systems, prerequisites and optional supported software, with component-level details and operating system restrictions. |
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IBM Knowledge Center provides an entry point to product documentation. You can view, browse, and search online information related to the product. |
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Click to review a complete list of the defects (APARs) resolved in this release including a list of resolved defects for the entire version family. |
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Find technical developer content and resources. |
Prerequisites
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Floating/Token licensing Rational Method Composer ships with a trial license key that enables you to try the product for a period of 30 or 60 days. During the trial period, the product is fully functional. You will get a warning message when the trial period is about to expire. After the expiration date, the product will not function. Setting up the license server You must have administrative privileges on the machine that you want to import license key information in Rational License Key Administrator.
Enabling floating licenses Rational Method Composer supports Floating/Token licenses. You can configure a connection to one or more license servers to obtain access to floating/token license keys installed on a license server. Before enabling floating license, you must obtain the license server connection information from your administrator.
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Installation Instructions
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To update Rational Method Composer using IBM Installation Manager (On-line update):The Installation Manager update does not work for this release, because this release uses a completely new version of Eclipse. Use one of the options below instead.
To download and install from Fix Central:
To download and install from Jazz.net:
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The following sections provide detailed information related to this release.
Click the FC link below to obtain the release from Fix Central.
How critical is this fix?
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This is a service release. It contains new features and fixes for client-reported and internally found defects. |
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There are no known regressions to report. |
Problems Solved
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Click the Fix List link in the table of contents above to review a list of the problems solved in this release. |
Known Side Effects
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Accepting changes from source control and other file changes If file changes are made that affect your open library (such as accepting changes from source control), you must reopen your library. Otherwise RMC may overwrite those changes with cached information. The Rational Method Composer integration with Rational Synergy Rational Synergy integration is no longer officially supported. The Rational Method Composer integration with Jazz source control In some instances, there might be extra lock being acquired for files that do not need to be changed. One example is that when a content package is added to a method plug-in, some of the configuration files will be locked, too. This is harmless and users should just release all the locked files when deliver the changes in a change set. User-defined types, custom relationships, and custom attributes Support for user-defined types, for custom relationships is currently implemented for the authoring perspective and for publishing. The following areas are not currently supported for user-defined types, custom relationships, and custom attributes:
Publishing configuration error Try to avoid using HTML comments in HTML table definition in your Rational Method Composer contents, as this generates errors in the log files when publishing to Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF. Sharing a project in Rational ClearCase After sharing a project in Rational ClearCase, you might get error messages when trying to edit Rational Method Composer contents. This is because the project is moved from Rational Method Composer workspace to Rational ClearCase space after sharing. Installation Manager limitation for updating Practice library When starting Rational Method Composer for the first time, the default Practice library is loaded. This might cause Installation Manager not to be able to update this library in the future because of the time flag changes in some library files. It is recommended to make a backup of your Practice library and load that when launching Rational Method Composer. Uninstalling Rational Method Composer There is a menu option under Help > Manage Licenses > Uninstall that does not uninstall the product and must be ignored. To uninstall Rational Method Composer, Use the Uninstall feature of IBM Installation Manager. Search function of the published HTML sites on Firefox Rational Method Composer uses a Java applet for the search function on the published sites that use Classic skins. On Linux, sometimes the Java applet is not enabled on Firefox and must manually be enabled. File-based browsing on Chrome If using Google Chrome to browse a website published with the new "RMC Simple" skin using file:// protocol, then you must launch Chrome with the switch "--allow-file-access-from-files". If using Search, edit <Published_Folder>\scripts\jws\SearchMain.jnlp and add the path to the codebase property. File-based browsing on Internet Explorer If you plan to use Internet Explorer to browse a Web site published with the new "RMC Simple" skin, first modify the index.xsl file and change "EmulateIE9" to "EmulateIE8". Alternatively you can make this change to the index.htm file after publishing. Also note that the top navigation bar will display in collapsed form. It displays correctly in expanded form when the web site is hosted by a Web server. File-based browsing on Microsoft Edge File-based browsing is not supported for Microsoft Edge. Search on Android devices Search does not work when using file-based browsing with Android devices. Deploying web sites to Jazz (Liberty) Server Search will work only if you deploy an unzipped war file. See Integrating with Rational Team Concert Whitespace in RMC toolbar Toolbar menu items are shifted to the right due to excessive whitespace. _____________ Issues fixed in Interim Fix 2 for RMC 7.5.3 _____________________________ See http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/quickorder?product=ibm%2FRational… Floating license error Floating licenses do not work without the Interim Fix installed. Missing rich text editor toolbar icon for area maps The rich text editor icon for adding or editing an area map displays as an empty red icon. Duplicate relationships section in Simple skins This can be addressed by skin change, or by applying the Interim Fix. _________ Issues that do not apply if RMC 7.5.3 was installed after 3/23/2018 (also fixed in IFix 1 for RMC 7.5.3) _____________ The issues below were fixed in the RMC 7.5.3 download as of 3/23/2018. If you installed RMC 7.5.3 prior to that date, you can apply the latest hot fix available from the support site. File changed notifications When creating new elements and with some updates, RMC prompts with "The file has been changed on the file system. Do you want to load the changes?". Respond "No" to all such prompts. To minimize (but not eliminate) the number of such prompts, tick the following preferences in Preferences > General > Workspace:
Creating plug-ins in a workspace-based library When creating plug-ins, you may get the message "Failed to create the method plug-in". You can just click "OK", and the method plug-in will have been created. Creating configurations in a workspace-based library The option to "Create a new method configuration project" does not work. Choose "Select an existing method configuration project" instead. Custom Category tag-based queries Custom categories that use queries to select elements based on tags will be empty and therefore will not publish. Search look and feel Search color scheme doesn't match the rest of the site and dialog background placeholder text is not visible on IE. |
Change History
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Rational Method Composer 7.5.3 has been enhanced as follows: |
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Updated integration with Rational Team Concert:
New publishing skin:
Linux support:
RMC Libraries:
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Product Synonym
RMC;Rational Method Composer
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Modified date:
20 July 2018
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