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Rational Service Tester for SOA Quality Fix Pack 2 (8.5.1.2) for 8.5.1

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Abstract

IBM Rational Service Tester for SOA Quality 8.5.1.2 has been made generally available and contains fixes to version 8.5.1 including all predecessor fix packs.

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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.

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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.

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 the IBM Product information page to browse for additional information centers.

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.

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Prerequisites

Prerequisites include:

Version of IBM Installation Manager required: IBM Installation Manager 1.7.

Installation Instructions

Review the installation guide in the information center for details.

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The following sections provide detailed information related to this release.

How critical is this fix?

Impact Assessment
Impact Description

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

Test Results

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.

Problems Solved

Defects resolved

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

Known Side Effects

The following defects were not resolved in this release:

Review the following list of open defects.

APAR Description
PI08099 javaw.exe doesn't terminate at end of cmd line playback; stuck in Stats export
PI08148 RPT DCI instrumentation does not recognise WAS version if installed with non-English language pack
PI08686 Auto-correlation of AMF transform test takes over 6 hours
PI10739 Over time, JVM heap size of playback engine grows in almost linear rate even though workload is being repeated
PI11074 Encoding used for the test log is not the "raw ascii" encoding expected by the Binary editor.
PI11235 StringIndexOutOfBound Exception if RPT identifies a datapool candidate at the beginning of text data in HTTP Requests
PI11335 Schedule execution fails at codegen if test name contains white spaces
PI11413 Nested error handling not behaving as expected
PI11472 Test Editor doesn't highlight newly created references in response content
PI12093 Unexpectedly large heap growth in playback JVM (with custom code hotfix installed)
PI12233 Add/Remove Resource Counters doesn't work in RPT 8.5.1.1

Change History

What's new

No new features or functions.

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Problems (APARS) fixed
PI06746;PI07026;PI07419;PI07615;PI08007;PI08033;PI08567;PI08698;PI09019;PI09181;PI10282;PI10876;PM98977;PI11011;PI10739;PM91459;PM92978;PM93649;PM94414;PM94464;PM94976;PM95398;PM95627;PM95730;PM96051;PM96236;PM96538;PM96650;PM96907;PM97559;PM97678;PM97700;PM98978;PM99187;PM99552;PI05728

Document Information

Modified date:
07 May 2019

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