Release notes for Version 9.1.1

Contents

• Description
• New features and enhancements
• System requirements
• Installing Rational Integration Tester and Rational Test Control Panel 9.1.1
• Installing Rational Performance Test Server 9.1.1
• Installing Rational Test Virtualization Server 9.1.1
• Known problems
• Contacting IBM Software Support

Description

New features and enhancements

What's new in Version 9.1.1.1

• A Code Page field was added to IMS Connect transport editor to be used when messages are recorded since it is not possible to determine the code page from the raw TCP traffic. When you use a transport monitor to record, the Code Page field of the transport editor is used. When you use an operation monitor to record, the Code Page field from the Operation editor is used. For more information, see Creating the IMS Connect transport.
• You can now choose between a tree view and a diagram view of a project's components in the Logical View. For more information, see The Logical View.
• Within a database physical resource, an optional schema can now be specified that is switched to when a connection is established. For more information, see Configuring the physical database resource.
• When you use the Rational Test Control Panel command line or Apache Ant task to stop a stub, and if no stub version information is provided, the latest version of a stub with running instances are now stopped. For more information, see Stop a stub by using the command line.
• In 9.1.1.1 the Rational Test Control Panel tools include a new Jenkins plug-in to run tests without the need for Apache Ant. For more information, see Integration with Jenkins.
• You can now use the Rational Test Control Panel REST API to query details of agents that were registered. For more information, see Agents REST API specification.
• In 9.1.1.1, links to Reporting and Test Data were added to the Rational Test Control Panel home page. Reports direct the user to the reporting application (previously released in 9.1.1). For more information about this feature, see Reporting and viewing test outcomes made simpler than ever. Test Data launches an experimental application that allows the design of custom test data records as required by the application(s) under test. The Test Data application also provides a REST API that you can use to programmatically configure and request test data with. The Test Data application is a time boxed experiment, which in the 9.1.1.1 release expires on 30 April 2018. Send your feedback on the Test Data application to innov.team@hcl.com.
• From version 9.1.1.1, Maven users can now use Rational Integration Tester and Rational Test Virtualization Server to run tests, suites, and stubs as part of their build cycle. For more information, see Integration with Apache Maven.

What's new in Version 9.1.1

Integration Tester Agent

• The logging for an Agent and its engine processes is now configured through a single file, Agent.properties. For more information, see Configuring the Rational Integration Tester Agent logs.
• Logging in general was updated and as a result several of the log file names were changed throughout the offering.
• The structure of the configuration file for the Rational Integration Tester Agent was simplified. The Agent.config files from previous releases are not supported in this release. For more information, see Registering Rational Integration Tester Agent with the Rational Test Control Panel.
• When a Rational Integration Tester Agent engine has no running stubs, the process is kept running to allow other stubs from the same project to be started more efficiently. Previously the engine process might be kept running indefinitely. In Rational Test Control Panel 9.1.1, if no stubs are required after a period of time (default 2 minutes) the server triggers the engine process to stop, helping to free up system resources.

Integrations

• In version 9.1.1, you can import tests from Rational Integration Tester to Rational Performance Tester and run as part of a schedule or compound test. For more information, see Testing with Integration Tester.
• The HP ALM Quality Center 11.0 product is now end of life and support for this version was removed from Rational Integration Tester. For more information, see Setting up the integration with HP Quality Center.
• Rational Integration Tester now supports HP ALM Quality Center 12.5. For more information, see Setting up the integration with HP Quality Center.

Mainframe technologies

• When you run Rational Integration Tester with a WebSphere® MQ queue sharing group on z/OS®, you can now do mirror queue recording and fixed queue stubbing of shared queues, capturing messages from all queue managers within the group. For more information, see Testing with WebSphere MQ on z/OS systems.
• Rational Integration Tester 9.1.1 now supports recording of channel-based requests through CICS® Transaction Gateway if you use CICS TG version 9.1 or newer. For more information, see Testing with CICS.
• COBOL copybook REDEFINES is now supported whereby a fields type can be changed without losing its content. Part of this enhancement changed the numeric field representation as displayed. For example, padding zeros are stripped, positive signs are removed and decimal places are inserted into fields by using V in their picture clause. Time was spent to minimize this impact with automatic migration, however, if you experience issues contact support. A known scenario where automatic migration does not occur is if copybooks are used in parameterized stubs where the lookup values in the data source might no longer match.
• You can now use HTTPS to communicate between the CICS DPL intercept and Rational Test Control Panel. To do this, you must set up a keyring on your z/OS system. For more information, see Configuring CICS® Distributed Program Link (DPL) agent to use HTTPS.

Operating Systems

In version 9.1.x of Rational Integration Tester, only Windows, Linux (x86/x86_64), and macOS are supported platforms for the workbench; for AIX®, the Rational Integration Tester Agent and Rational Test Control Panel are also supported. In future versions of Rational Integration Tester Agent, Windows and Linux (x86_64) will be the only supported platforms.

HTTPS

• In version 9.1.1 when you install 9.1.1 all communications with Rational Test Control Panel are secure and by default use HTTPS on port 5443. If you upgrade from a previous version, all communications with Rational Test Control Panel by default use HTTP on port 7819. To use HTTPS by default during the upgrade of the Rational Test Control Panel software, you must use the Installation Manager Install option and click Check for Other Versions, Fixes, and Extensions from the Install Packages dialog, otherwise you continue to use HTTP on port 7819. For more information, see IBM Rational Test Control Panel upgrade information and requirements.
• You can now use HTTPS to communicate between the CICS DPL intercept and Rational Test Control Panel. To do this, you must set up a keyring on your z/OS system. For more information, see Configuring CICS® Distributed Program Link (DPL) agent to use HTTPS.

Other

• Rational Integration Tester no longer allows a stub to be scheduled to run later. Only tests and suites can be scheduled.
• In Rational Integration Tester the Environment Tasks editor was updated to allow selection of many action types. The deprecated Test Data Management action was removed. For more information, see Environment Tasks view.

System requirements

For system requirements specific to this release of Rational Test Workbench, see Software Product Compatibility Reports.

Installing Rational Integration Tester and Rational Test Control Panel 9.1.1

Installing Rational Performance Test Server 9.1.1

For information about installation, see Installing Rational Performance Test Server.

Installing Rational Test Virtualization Server 9.1.1

For information about installation, see Installing Rational Test Virtualization Server.

Known problems

Known problems are documented in the download document for each product and in the form of individual technotes in the Support Knowledge Base:

The knowledge base is continually updated as problems are discovered and resolved. By searching the knowledge base, you can quickly find workarounds or solutions to problems.

Contacting IBM Software Support

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