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Rational Method Composer 7.5.3.1

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Abstract

IBM Rational Method Composer 7.5.3.1 has been made generally available.

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Table of Contents
Sections Description

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.

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.

The Prerequisites section provides important information to review prior to the installation of this release.

The Download package section provides the direct link to obtain the download package for installation in your environment.

The Installation instructions section provides the installation instructions necessary to apply this release into your environment.

The Known side effects section contains a link to the known problems (open defects) identified at the time of this release.

Supporting Documentation
Document Description

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.

IBM Knowledge Center provides an entry point to product documentation. You can view, browse, and search online information related to the product.

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.

Find technical developer content and resources.

Prerequisites

Prerequisites include:

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.

  1. Install Rational Common License 8.1.5.1
  2. Go to Start > IBM Rational > License Key Administrator and the License Key Administrator wizard opens.
  3. Select Import a Rational License File, click Next.
  4. Browse and select a valid license file to import, click Import.
  5. In the Confirm Import window click Import.
  6. In the File imported successfully window, click OK.
  7. In the Restart License Server window, click Yes.

 

 

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.

  1. In the IBM Installation Manager, click Manage Licenses.
  2. Select a version of a package and then select Configure Floating license support. Click Next.
  3. Read and accept the license agreement and click Next.
  4. Select Enable floating license enforcement and click the + icon to add a the license server information.
  5. Select the Single Server option.
  6. In the Name field, enter the host name of the license server.
  7. In the Port field, enter the port number of the server.
  8. Click Test Connection to verify that you can successfully connect to the server.
  9. Click OK, then click Next.
  10. In the license usage summary page, verify the product and version, click Finish.

 

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Installation Instructions

 

To update Rational Method Composer using IBM Installation Manager (On-line update):

See Upgrading Rational Method Composer.

To download and install from Fix Central:

  1. From the Download package section below, download the zip file.
  2. Extract the zip file.
  3. Follow the instructions in Installing from the Launchpad Program.

To download and install from Jazz.net:

  1. Go to: https://jazz.net/downloads/rational-method-composer/
  2. Click the desired release version.
  3. Follow the instructions on that page to download and install.

 

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Download Package

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?

Impact Assessment
Impact Description

Recommended

This is a service release. It contains new features and fixes for client-reported and internally found defects.

Test Results

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Definitions

Regression: An error in the Maintenance Delivery Vehicle (MDV) that produces incorrect or unexpected behavior causing a supported feature to stop functioning as designed.
This includes:

  • Coding errors that cause a regression
  • Documentation or packaging problems that cause a regression
  • Errors reported in a new function delivered in a MDV that cause a regression

 

Incomplete: An error in the MDV has not regressed, but does not work as designed.
This includes:

  • Fixed APARs which did not solve the original problem but did not break anything new
  • APARs reporting documentation errors, such as readme errors, that cause problems applying an MDV but do not lead to a regression

 

Notes:
  • Regression and incomplete APARs are considered fix-in-error or MDV-in-error
  • Definitions above apply only to valid APARs that result in product fixes (APARs returned as working-as-designed are not assessed for being fix-in-error)
  • Issues in major releases due to new functionality do not apply in this definition

 

 

There are no known regressions to report.

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Problems Solved

Defects resolved

Click the Fix List link in the table of contents above to review a list of the APARS solved in this release.

Other defects corrected are:

1. Defects fixed in Interim Fixes, specifically:

  • Floating license error - Floating licenses do not work.
  • 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.

2. PHP search - unable to bring up page 2 of search results.

3. Knowledge center corrections to install instructions

4. Copy of external links in rich text editor adding underline and font tags

5. Localized installation not displaying the localized language.

6. Security fixes.

Known Side Effects

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Review the following list of known issues and open defects:

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:

  • CSV file report
  • Package copy across plug-in
  • Using the plug-in creation wizard to copy a plug-in
  • The Tailoring perspective and other areas such as BIRT-based reporting

 

 

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.
This is a known BIRT issue (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=324612).

 

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.
The workaround for this issue is to reload the workspace library 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.
Before : codebase=""
After: codebase=\scripts\jws">file:\\\<Published_Folder>\scripts\jws
Example: codebase="file:\\\C:\Published_website\scripts\jws

 

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.

 

Change History

What's new

Rational Method Composer 7.5.3.1 has been enhanced as follows:

 

Tech Preview: Web-based method authoring with RDNG

  • A new feature to export to ReqIF, for import into Rational DOORS Next Generation (RDNG), has been added as a tech preview.  To learn about how to use this feature and to do web-based method authoring with RDNG,  visit the RMC Community on DeveloperWorks.

Tech Preview: Server-based browsing

  • A web application is now available as a tech preview that allows RMC configurations to be browsed without the need for publishing.  To learn more, visit the RMC Community on DeveloperWorks.

Linux support

  • Linux support, which was temporarily dropped for RMC 7.5.3, has been re-added in this release.

Usability

Assigning configurations to processes is unnecessary and can cause unexpected behaviors.  This capability is now hidden in the UI, but can be re-enabled via preferences, if necessary.

Publishing skin:

  • Minor cleanup of skin code, no observable changes.

 

 

 

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Product Synonym

RMC;Rational Method Composer

Document Information

Modified date:
21 November 2018

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