IBM Support

Changing the location of Rational Manual Tester's workspace and temporary files

Question & Answer


Question

IBM Rational Manual Tester creates a workspace and temporary files in the file system of Microsoft Windows. The locations have default values. How do you change the file locations from the default values?

Cause

Rational Manual Tester is an Eclipse based application. Eclipse creates a workspace and temporary space. It needs them to function correctly.

Default locations

Rational Manual Tester creates a structure that consists of one file, config.ini, and four directories.
These directories are:

  • org.eclipse.update,
  • org.eclipse.osgi,
  • org.eclipse.core.runtime,
  • .metadata

These directories contain 42 other files. Their total size is around 16 MB.

The location of these files and directories depends on your Windows privileges.

For users with administrative rights, the location is:

  • Version 7
    C:\Program Files\IBM\RMT70\configuration.
  • Version 6
    C:\Program Files\IBM\Rational\SDP\6.0\ManualTest\eclipse\configuration

For users without administrative rights, it is:
C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\.eclipse\org.eclipse.platform_3.0.2\configuration

The disadvantage might be, that a user's Documents and Settings directories have limited space.

Answer

Modify the configuration file.

The following steps describe, how you change the configuration file.

  1. Open the config.ini in one of the previous directories.

  2. Replace one of the following lines,

    osgi.instance.area.default=@user.home/IBM/rationalsdp6.0/rmt/workspace
    osgi.instance.area.default=@user.home/IBM/RMT7.0/workspace

    by the following two lines:

    osgi.configuration.area=D:/eclipse-temp
    osgi.instance.area.default=D:/eclipse-workspace

    D:    /eclipse-temp is the location where you want to save the temporary data of Eclipse.

  3. Save the modified config.ini file



Remarks
osgi.configuration.area defines the directory, where Eclipse saves temporary files. These include the following files and directories.
  • The file: config.ini
  • The directory: org.eclipse.update
  • The directory:org.eclipse.osgi
  • The directory: org.eclipse.core.runtime

osgi.instance.area.default defines the location of the Eclipse workspace, the .metadata directory.

Note: Use the forward slashes / as directory delimiters, to specify the location for the temporary files of Eclipse. This is different from the usual back slashes \ on Microsoft Windows.

[{"Product":{"code":"SSCM5S","label":"Rational Manual Tester"},"Business Unit":{"code":"BU053","label":"Cloud & Data Platform"},"Component":"Customization","Platform":[{"code":"PF033","label":"Windows"}],"Version":"6.1;6.1.0.1;6.1.1;6.1.1.1;7.0;7.0.0.1;7.0.0.2;7.0.0.3;7.0.1;7.0.1.1;7.0.1.2;7.0.1.3;7.0.1.4;7.0.1.5","Edition":"","Line of Business":{"code":"LOB45","label":"Automation"}}]

Document Information

Modified date:
16 June 2018

UID

swg21252369

Page Feedback