Rational Test Control Panel upgrade information and requirements

Before you upgrade IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel, learn about the general and release-specific considerations and instructions for the upgrade

You can upgrade Rational Integration Tester and Rational Test Control Panel packages from any release of the 8.7 version directly to 9.0 version. For versions earlier than 8.7, you must uninstall the existing package including the Rational Integration Tester Platform Pack and then install the version 9.0 package. For install instructions, see Installing the product software.

Note: From Rational Test Workbench version 8.7 onwards, the Rational Integration Tester Platform Pack component does not exist. All the technology-specific tool packages and the HTTP/TCP proxy components are now available with Rational Test Control Panel. For more information on the tool packages, see Rational Integration Tester tool packages.

Reusing the workspace

Before you upgrade, back up the Rational Test Control Panel workspace. The workspace is the directory where Rational Test Control Panel stores its data (for example, published stubs), which is separate from the installation directory. After the upgrade, the contents of the workspace directory might change to work with the newer version of Rational Test Control Panel. Because Installation Manager supports rolling back the Rational Test Control Panel installation directory, but not the workspace directory, you must manually roll back the workspace while rolling back the installation.

To preserve your Rational Test Control Panel workspace (published stubs, user configuration, domains, and environments) when you uninstall the previous version, ensure that you do not select the option to remove the workspace. When you install the latest version, ensure that the workspace directory is set to the same location as your existing workspace.

The uninstallation process of Rational Test Control Panel version 8.5 and later specifies the location of the workspace directory. Make note of this directory.

For Rational Test Control Panel versions earlier than 8.5, the uninstaller does not provide this information.

To determine the workspace location, open the container.server.properties file that is available in Rational Test Control Panel installation directory\usr\servers\RTCPServer\apps\RTCP.war\WEB-INF\classes directory to determine the workspace location.

Look for the line that contains the workingDirectory key. For example:

On Windows, workingDirectory=C\:\\IBM\\RTCP-Workspace
Non-Windows, workingDirectory=/var/rtcp

For more information about moving the Rational Test Control Panel workspace, see the technote.

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