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Release Date
1 December 2020
Abstract
IBM Rational Change 5.3.2.3 has been made generally available and contains new features as well as fixes for client-reported and internally found defects.
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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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This 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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This section provides important information to review prior to the installation of this release. |
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This section provides the direct link to obtain the download package for installation in your environment. |
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This 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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The information center provides you with user assistance for the product. You can view, browse, and search online information related to the product. You can also visit IBM Product information page to browse for additional information centers. |
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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. |
Prerequisites
Rational Directory Server 5.1.1.2 (Apache) or Rational Directory Server 5.2.1 (Tivoli) |
A supported application server (or use the bundled one) on the server machine. |
A supported browser on each of the client machines. |
Installation Instructions
Rational Change 5.3.2.3 comes bundled with Japanese and Simplified Chinese language packs. |
Click the link to the Install instructions provided below. |
- Log in to the machine where Rational Change is installed as the user who installed Rational Change.
- Unzip (Windows) or untar (UNIX) the patch file into <CHANGE_APP_HOME>/WEB-INF/packages. The resultant directory will have the name rc<patch version>.
For example, on UNIX:
$ cd <CHANGE_APP_HOME>/WEB-INF/packages
$ tar xvf <file path> - Install the Fix Pack:
Login to Rational Change as Admin and click the System Administration link in the action panel.
Click the Package Installer tab, select this Fix Pack from the Available Packages list box, and click the Install button. - After the patch installation is successful, stop and re-start Rational Change.
- User CR Process Specific Help file content will be updated only after processing install in Admin. After installing the Fix Pack, rebuild and install the current process package to generate Process Specific Help. If the Process Specific Help is not updated in the user's browser it is advised to clear browser cache.
- Login to Rational Change as Admin and click the System Administration link in the action panel.
- Uninstall the Fix Pack:
Click the Package Installer tab, select the Fix Pack from the Installed Packages list box, and click the Uninstall button.
If LDAP is configured in the file ../WEB-INF/wsconfig/pt.cfg, then update value to false.
[CCM_SYSTEM] [LDAP_ENABLED] false[/LDAP_ENABLED] [/CCM_SYSTEM]
Stop and start Rational Change.
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25-JUNE-2021 |
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How critical is this fix?
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Recommended |
This is a service release of Rational Change. It contains new features as well as fixes for client-reported and internally found defects. |
There are no known issues to report. |
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Problems Solved
Known Side Effects
Important known problems new to version 5.3.1 are described below. Review the known problems from previous release, as they may still be applicable. |
Review the following list of open defects. |
Known Issue |
Problem/Workaround
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User profile page not showing Fax, Phone, and email address on the user login page. | Not Available |
In Central Mode Change installation, on submitting the CR, secondary DB ID may be selected in the CR details. | Select the Central DB and change back to the DB where you are submitting CR from the right-side drop-down of Change user page. |
Deleting a Project under User management shows message undefined. | Not Available |
Able to configure the same AD/ADS as Primary and Secondary server. | No duplicate entry for Primary and Secondary LDAP server supported. |
Known Issues in Rational Change 5.3.2.3 on Windows platform
Known Issue |
Problem/Workaround
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User profile page not showing Fax, Phone, and email address on the user login page. | Not Available |
In Central Mode Change installation, on submitting the CR, secondary DB ID may be selected in the CR details. | Select the Central DB and change back to the DB where you are submitting CR from the right-side drop-down of Change user page. |
Deleting a Project under User management shows message undefined. | Not Available |
Able to configure the same AD/ADS as Primary and Secondary server. | No duplicate entry for Primary and Secondary LDAP server supported. |
Known Issues in Rational Change 5.3.2.3 on AIX platform
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User profile page not showing Fax, Phone, and email address on the user login page. | Not Available |
In Central Mode Change installation, on submitting the CR, secondary DB ID may be selected in the CR details. | Select the Central DB and change back to the DB where you are submitting CR from the right-side drop-down of Change user page. |
Deleting a Project under User management shows message undefined. | Not Available |
Able to configure the same AD/ADS as Primary and Secondary server. | No duplicate entry for Primary and Secondary LDAP server supported. |
Change History
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Dynamic required attribute
The dynamic required attributes feature allows users to mark some of the attributes to be required dynamically when a particular value is selected for another attribute.
Treating numeric fields as integers
Treating numeric fields as integers allows CCM_NUMBER attribute types to be set as integers. They can hold only integer values and users can query on them using mathematical operators. This can be used for queries which need to filter and sort based on criteria.
Database specific Home Pages
Database specific Home Pages allows the users to manage their home page content that is relevant to the database that they log in to.
- Windows Server 2012 (32-bit and 64-bit) Standard and Above.
- Windows Server 2016 (32-bit and 64-bit) Standard and Above.
- Red Hat® Enterprise Linux Server 6.10 and 7.6 (32-bit or 64-bit)
- SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4
- AIX 7.2 TL4
- Jetty is upgraded to version 9.4.14
- IBM Java and JRE is upgraded to 8.0
Synergy and Change Integrations | Eclipse | Visual Studio | Rational Doors | PowerBuilder | Rational Team Concert |
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Change 5.3.1 | N/A* | N/A* | 9.5, 9.5.1 9.5.2, 9.6 9.6.1 |
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Change 5.3.2 | N/A* | N/A* | Deferred | N/A | N/A |
N/A : Not Applicable
- Collapsible and expandable home page reports
- Cryptographic functionality is enhanced to meet “NIST SP800-131a” standards.
- Documentation updates for installation in a Windows secure environment
- Documentation updates on security rules for lifecycle customization
- Rational Change now has Jetty 8.1.3 embedded.
- Upgraded dojo version to 1.8.4 and Birt version to 4.1.2
- Supports browser versions IE 10 and FF 17
- Redesigned user interface URLs and action links - user tokens are no longer displayed.
Below are some of the new Prerequisite:
- Obtain the required licenses.
- JRE 1.8 should be installed and it should be in the system path.
- By default, Rational Change is installed in English.
- To install the software in a language other than English:
- From IBM Fix Central, download one of the available language packages (a.zip file).
- Copy the file to the change\windows directory.
- Ensure that you have set the system locale to support the language package installation. If the system locale is not set, the dialog boxes might not show the proper characters.
- Obtain the required licenses.
- JRE 1.8 should be installed.
- By default, Rational Change is installed in English. To install the software in a language other than English:
- From IBM Fix Central, download one of the available language packages (a .zip file).
- Copy the file to the change\windows directory.
- Ensure that you have set the system locale to support the language package installation. If the system locale is not set, the dialog boxes might not show the proper characters.
- export IBM_JAVA_OPTIONS=-Djdk.crypto.KeyAgreement.legacyKDF=true
- Add below entries in cd /etc/pam.d/cmsynergy
auth required pam_nologin.so
auth include system-auth
account include system-auth
Problems (APARS) fixed
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Modified date:
25 June 2021
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ibm16462259