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Rational Integration Tester Fix Pack 2 (8.5.1.2) for 8.5.1

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Abstract

IBM Rational Integration Tester (RIT) 8.5.1.2 is available for download. It contains fixes to version 8.5.1 components 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.

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.

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.

Find technical developer content and resources.

Prerequisites

Prerequisites include:

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

Installation Instructions

Review the installation guide:

Install the Fix Pack using the Update wizard in IBM Installation Manager.

OR

Download the software from Fix Central.

  1. After the download completes, open the Installation Manager, click File, and select Preferences.
  2. Click Add Repository and browse to the location of the folder that contains the downloaded files.
  3. Start the IBM Installation Manager.
  4. Click Update and follow the instructions in the wizard.

Review the Installing Rational Test Workbench page in the information center.

Download Package

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:

Rational Integration Tester is a component of IBM's comprehensive test solution, Rational Test Workbench. Fix packs are made available separately for each component of Rational Test Workbench.

Review the following list of open defects.

Known issues for Rational Performance Tester are described in the Rational Performance Tester 8.5.1.2 download document.

Known issues for Rational Functional Tester are described in the Rational Functional Tester 8.5.1.2 download document.

Known issues for Rational Test Workbench Eclipse client are described in the Rational Test Workbench Eclipse client download document.

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The following error message might be displayed when you work with database stubs in Rational Integration Tester, such as when you edit stored procedures or add tables to the stub.

The column name IS_AUTOINCREMENT is not valid.

This error is caused by an old version of the Microsoft JDBC Driver for SQL Server. To fix this, update the "Microsoft JDBC Driver 4.0 for SQL Server" field in Library Manager with the latest version of sqljdbc4.jar.
42569 Rational Integration Tester does not support OS X 10.9.x, also known as Mavericks. Rational Integration Tester does not install correctly on this platform.
40654 When virtualizing Java method calls within an IBM WebSphere Application Server container, instrumentation failures can occur, leading to errors within WebSphere Application Server. If this happens, the user should put WebSphere Application Server/JVM into debug mode.
37440 On Windows XP if a non-administrative user attempts to start the Rational Integration Tester Agent Windows service then it may fail reporting "Access is denied". The same user is able to start the service from the command line.
29782 After installing Rational Integration Tester or Rational Integration Tester - Agent on a 32-bit RHEL platform some users have seen a warning in the Installation Manager logs stating "Internal error:UID should end with E, W, or I: SWTNOS". This warning does not affect the installation and can be ignored.
28214Although it is possible to roll back an installation of Rational Test Control Panel using Installation Manager the workspace (containing all published stubs and other information) will not work with an earlier version of RTCP once it has been upgraded and run.

When a new version of RTCP is installed and run it upgrades the workspace to the new version. If the installation of RTCP is subsequently downgraded then it will not start because the workspace remains at the higher version.

To avoid this problem users must back-up the workspace directory before upgrading Rational Test Control Panel. If it is subsequently downgraded again then the workspace must be restored from back-up.
64038Issue with 8.5.0.x upgrades on Solaris

On Solaris machines that do not have any printers configured on them, using Installation Manager to upgrade an existing 8.5.x.x version of any of the components of Rational Integration Tester to 8.5.1 will fail. The installation process will hang after the selection of the Rational Integration Tester component for upgrade.

There are two workarounds for this issue:

1) Configure a printer on the machine. This will allow the installation to complete.

2) Perform the installation and upgrade in a single step using the Rational Test Workbench, Rational Test Virtualization Server, or Rational Performance Test Server launchpad from the 8.5.x.x release. If any Rational Integration Tester components are already installed, they must first be removed using Installation Manager. Then re-install the offering using the launchpad and associated images from Passport Advantage. At the start of the installation process, on the Install Packages page, Click Check for Other Versions, Fixes, and Extensions to find fixes, and select the 8.5.1 fix pack. This will cause Installation Manager to apply the fix pack as part of the initial installation, which does not have the issue with the printers (as described above).

This affects upgrades to Rational Integration Tester, Rational Integration Tester Agent, Rational Test Control Panel, and Rational Integration Tester Platform Pack.

The base 8.5.1 installation (from Passport Advantage) of these components is not affected.
37586Rational Integration Tester tests can be run via Ant. When running test suites, the URL of the results is output at the end of the test.

With Ant 1.8.4, this URL is broken across 2 lines making it unusable as a hyperlink. It works correctly in Ant version 1.8.2 and earlier.

1.8.2 of Ant and earlier results in:
[GHTester] The results for this run can be viewed at http://localhost:7172/ResultsServer/results?resultType=scenario-executi…

1.8.4 of Ant gives two lines:
[GHTester] The results for this run can be viewed at http://localhost:7172/ResultsServer/results?resultType=scenario-exec
[GHTester] ution-data&executionId=73

This is caused by a bug in Ant 1.8.4. Customers must use earlier versions if they require this functionality.

41196When components are upgraded using IBM's Installation Manager changes that users have made to configuration files (such as agent.config) will be lost. This is because the upgrade process does not merge changes that were made to the configuration files with the new version. Instead the upgrade process simply overwrites the user's configuration file with the new version. If users have modified configuration files after installation then these changes must be made again and it is suggested users take copies of the files before upgrade so that they can copy the changes across.
38451Some users have experienced problems when attempting to uninstall or upgrade Rational Test Control Panel when it is installed and running as a Windows service. Although the installation process is designed to stop the service before deleting the files there are circumstances where this doesn't happen correctly. Customers may find the process more reliable if they manually stop the Windows service for Rational Test Control Panel before attempting to uninstall or upgrade.
40374If Rational Integration Tester is being used with the "Run Resources : From memory" preference selected then when a stub is run it may be marked as dirty if the editor is open.
39396Rational Integration Tester's MQ API exit uses the default persistence mode defined by the queue to which it's putting the copies of messages. It is not possible to PUT a persistent message to a temporary queue. When using Dynamic Mirror Queue recording or recording an MQ transport RIT will use a temporary queue and this queue's default persistence is set according the the model queue configuration. If the model queue configuration is set to persistent then the recording will fail. The model queue being used by Rational Integration Tester can be changed to on the physical MQ transport.
40732Rational Integration Tester's JBDC Virtualization solution cannot learn SQL that uses the Oracle non-ANSI notation for JOINS. For example, if the driver sees (+) after the table/column to specify a left outer join then then nothing will be learnt.
41050A number of problems have been observed when using the OSLC user interface provided by Rational Test Control Panel within Rational Quality Manager on Internet Explorer:

1. With Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP it is may not be possible to add Development plan and an error will be shown in the browser windows.

2. With Internet Explorer 9 Windows 7 it may not be possible to enter stub configuration (e.g. agent selection, response time, input tags) in the RTVS dialog from RQM. Only the "Start stub/Cancel" option will be shown.

3. Stub and Scenario icons may not show in the OSLC user-interface for Rational Test Control Panel displayed in Rational Quality Manager if the user is running Internet Explorer version 9. The icons do show correctly with other browsers.

CICS DPL virtualization JVM process

When using the CICS DPL virtualization solution the CICS JVM process must be configured to have a maximum Java heap size of at least 512M. In IBM’s testing values of less than this led to JVM failures during recording or virtualization of CICS programs.

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Side-by-side installation of different versions of Rational Integration Tester is not supported. If such installations are performed then users should note that the multiple versions will share the same start-up splash-screen cause confusion in the version numbering. Help/About must be used to determine the correct version number.

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After uninstalling Rational Integration Tester Agent, Rational Test Control Panel or the Proxies on a Windows XP machine some users have reported seeing the error “Problem with executing "C:\Program Files\IBM\RIT-AgentNonDefault\prunsrv.exe" in the Installation Manager log. This problem has no functional impact; the product will still have correctly uninstalled.

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If a performance test is configured to start a stub on RTCP and that stub is already running then another instance will be (correctly) started for the performance test. However, when the performance test stops, both instances of the stub will be stopped, not just the one that was started for the test. Note that this does not apply to stubs which are already running which are not configured to be used in the performance test; they will continue to run after the test ends.

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When an RTCP scenario is loaded into RIT (via either the Test Suite scenario editor or the Performance Test configuration dialog), scenarios for all domains / environment are listed rather than just the domain/environment the user is currently working in. If the test is then executed in an environment in which the stubs in the scenario have not been published too they will fail to start.

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On Windows installations the Rational Integration Tester Agent can write a logfile (derby.log) into the install directory at runtime. This will happen when the Agent cannot determine the ‘instance location’ which is normally set by the derby.system.home property. This file will be left on uninstall meaning the directories will not be entirely cleaned out.

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If a user has run a stub from a project on an Agent via Rational Test Control Panel, stopped that stub (but left the project deployed to the agent – i..e has not run other stubs on that Agent yet) and then publishes a new version of the stub from the same project number to RTCP and then immediately attempts to start that stub then a failure will occur. This is because Rational Test Control Panel believes that the project already deployed to the Agent contains the new stub and instructs the Agent to start it without deploying the new version of the project file. A workaround to this is to use the Stop All Stubs option on the RTCP dashboard which forces all projects to be cleared out from Agents.
37942IBM WebSphere MQ queue manager permissions: For instructions on defining the user permissions required for using the MQ Exit with IBM Rational Test Workbench (RTW), see IBM WebSphere MQ Exit queue manager settings.

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Users should note that JDBC database virtualization is not supported against IBM DB2 version 8.x. The oldest supported version of DB2 for JDBC virtualization is 9.5 (on distributed) and 9.1 (on System z).

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If, when importing a .NET object into Rational Integration Tester’s Schema Library, a user chooses a file that is not a .NET assembly (e.g. an xml file) then errors can occur. These errors occur in Windows native libraries and cannot be handled by RIT. In the 8.5 release RIT does some additional checks before attempting to ask the native libraries to load the assembly to reduce the number of error conditions. However, errors may still occur if a user attempts to load a file that is not a .NET object into RIT.

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If a Rational Integration Test suite scenario has a reference to a (local) stub as ‘blank’ in the References grid (i.e. not ‘Live System’ and not a specifically selected stub) and a stub is already running for the referenced operation then, when the test suite starts, the running stub will be stopped by RIT (thus reverting message to the live system). This may cause user confusion as they had not explicitly configured the scenario for ‘live system’. Note that this can be worked around by explicitly stating which stub should be used in the scenario editor.

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Use of –clean argument when Tester or Library Manager will not start

Problems can sometimes occur when Rational Integration Tester does not properly resolve multiple versions of the same JAR file correctly. Multiple versions may be present within an installation because third party JAR files may each include a different version. If incorrect dependency information is stored within the Eclipce workspace cache then it will not correct itself. One common symptom of this problem is that when a user runs Tester, the splashscreen appears, then disappears but Tester never starts. The same issue can occur when running Library Manager, although in this case, as there is no splash screen, it will appear to the user as if Library Manager has just failed to start.


Although one workaround is to uninstall and re-install Tester it is possible for a user to force cached dependency information to be removed and re-evaluated and, in the majority of cases, the problem will then correct itself.
To force the Eclipse environment to delete dependency information GHTester.exe must be started from the command line with the -clean argument specified. i.e., from within the installed directory:
GHTester.exe –clean on Windows and ./GHTester –clean on Linux.
Rational Integration Tester will take longer than usual to start when -clean is specified.
For Library Manager use:
LibConfig.exe –clean on Windows and ./LibConfig –clean on Linux.
The same problem can occur in RTVS and RPTS installations with the RIT Agent. In this case diagnosis and remediation is more difficult as there are multiple executable files and the correct one must be used. In these cases IBM’s Support team should be contacted.
39739When upgrading the Rational Integration Tester Agent on the Windows Server 2008 platform then, if the existing Agent is installed as a Windows server it is advisable to stop the service before attempting to perform the upgrade otherwise errors may occur. To do this, open Control Panel to: Control Panel\System and Security\Administrative Tools, then stop the 'IBM RIT Agent' service.
38668When a user creates a subfolder under an operation in Rational Integration Tester, then creates a stub in that subfolder and then publishes the stub to Rational Test Control Panel, the stub will not be visible from the RTCP dashboard although the publish process will appear to have worked correctly. To avoid this problem, move the stub directly under the operation so that it is not within a subfolder.
38426On Microsoft Windows, if users attempt to uninstall, or rollback Rational Integration Tester Agent and Rational Test Control Panel components at the same time and both are installed as Windows services and both services are running and stubs have been run after the Agent service was started, uninstallation will fail, warning that prunsrv.exe could cannot deleted. If this occurs, user must delete the files from the installation directory manually before starting a new installation.

This problem may also occur when upgrading from 8.5.0 to 8.5.0.1 or when rolling back an 8.5.0.1 installation to 8.5.0.

To avoid this problem, users should either uninstall/rollback the components separately or stop both Windows services before starting the process.

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Using the Shutdown.bat file (or shortcut) will not stop RTCP running as a service

Startup and shutdown batch file scripts are provided with RTCP to start and stop it from the command line. On Windows shortcuts to these scripts are provided in the Start Menu. Note that, on Windows, if RTCP is running as a service then the shutdown batch script cannot be used to stop it. You must either using the control panel or issue a net stop IBMRTCP statement on the command line.


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Overwrite Expected Field for Filters

Within the Message Difference Window, Overwrite Expected Field only works for filters (within stubs) when updating leaf nodes. Message structures cannot be copied when viewing filter actions. The whole message can be replaced while viewing the filter actions, using overwrite expected message, but overwriting part of a message currently only works for the validate field action.


AIX Performance Testing Does Not Support the sysstats Probe
The sysstats probe is not provided for AIX. If a user attempts to configure an AIX-based performance test to use this probe then the following error will be shown in the console : [Error] Probe ERROR: localhost:4476 - Probes failed to start - Failed to start probe: System Statistics - java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: ghsystemstats (Not found in java.library.path). You must remove this probe from the configuration of the test.

Stopping an Agent Results In Windows Event Log Error
On some Windows installations IBM has seen errors raised in the Windows Application Event Log when the Rational Integration Tester Agent service is stopped. This error occurs during the shut-down process of the service and does not affect the functionality of the Agent.

Component Tree Does Not Show Complete Project In Test Factory
Some users have reported instances where the Test Factory Perspective does not show the complete list of project resources in the component tree. Rational Integration Tester has required re-starting to correctly display the tree. This problem has not yet been replicated within IBM’s labs and its cause is currently unknown.

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User Interface Freeze

Some users have encountered software freezes on Windows, particularly when moving the Rational Integration Tester user interface from a laptop screen onto an external monitor. This is believed to be caused by problems between the Java Virtual Machine and the DirectX video drivers in use on the machine. If this problem affects you then please try to resolve it by adding the following line to the GHTester.ini file in the installation directory:

-Dsun.java2d.d3d=false

This tells the JVM not to use DirectX. This has resolved the problems in all cases IBM is aware of so far although the UI does run more slowly. This issue has been raised with the IBM Java team.

Note that users who experienced this problem while using computers with NVIDIA graphics cards found that upgrading to the most recent driver for their graphics card resolved the problem.


GHDotNetUtils Must Be In the .NET Global Assembly Cache
If you are using Rational Integration Tester’s .NET integration then the GHDotNetUtils.dll file (in the root installation folder) must be added to the .NET Global Assembly Cache before .NET objects can be parsed.

Users wishing to use the .Net functionality will need to install the .Net SDK from Microsoft and register the dll manually e.g : gacutil /i GHDotNetUtils.dll


Date Formatting Strings
Rational Integration Tester uses Java to format date strings for validation purposes. The IBM JRE acts differently from the Oracle/Sun JRE used by earlier versions of GHT Tester for one unusual format string.

Specifically, a date of "123" parsed using an input format of “yyy” with output format MMDDy will be formatted as “0101123” by the IBM JRE. Previous versions of GH Tester (using the Oracle JRE) would have formatted this as “010123”. This is unlikely to cause problems as it is unlikely customers will be using single-character year output format strings.


Launching the ‘Tools Application’ (Source Control option on Menu) Displays License Warning
If you are running Rational Integration Tester using an evaluation license then when you launch the “Tools Application”, by choosing the Source Control option in the menu or by creating/editing a data model, a dialog will appear warning that you are using a trial license. This dialog will not appear once you have installed a full license.

Silent Install of Rational Test Control Panel
Depending on how the silent installation response file has been generated the “Security Configuration” tool may still be launched at the end of the process. The imcl tool is known to work correctly and will suppress the dialog. As Rational Test Control Panel is a server-based product silent installations are not expected to be common but IBM will look to improve this in future releases.

To use imcl within the ${IM}/eclipse/tools directory run “./imcl-c”, specifying the response file when prompted.


The Agent Can Only be Started From its Installed Directory (Unix)
On Unix, if an attempt is made to start the agent from a directory other than the one it is installed in then it will fail to start. For example:

/opt/GH/RIT-Agent/Agent -consolelog

Whereas if you are within the installed directory then:

./Agent -consolelog
works correctly.


It is not possible to rename a project resource by simply changing case
Although project resources can be renamed, it is not possible to simply change the case. i.e. A rename that changes “simpletest” to “SimpleTest” will not actually rename. This is because Tester uses the Eclipse framework to manage its files and Eclipse does not recognize this type of change.
38005If a Rational Integration Tester project results database is created on MySQL on Linux, the MySQL system variable lower_case_table_names in the my.cnf file must be set to 1. On Linux systems, this is not the default setting.
37010When Rational Integration Tester is installed on Apple Mac systems running OS X 10.8.4, some users are still experiencing software hangs when running Rational Integration Tester or Library Manager.

The reason why the software hangs on some Mac systems and not on others is still being investigated.
36796In Recording Studio, the information window that displays details about warnings or errors that have occurred while recording truncates some information.

For example, recording rules used by the HTTP proxies will typically be truncated. This is by design. The full text can be see in the Rational Test Control Panel activity log.
37069When Rational Test Control Panel is started, a large number of JAX-RS warnings will be output to the stdout (console) output.

These will be of the form "WARNING: The class com.greenhat.server.oslc.server.rest.oauth.OAuthService was already added to the JAX-RS runtime. The runtime is ignoring this value.

Check that this class was not returned in the javax.ws.rs.core.Application subclass getSingletons() and getClasses() methods." These can be ignored because they do not indicate a problem.

Linux root/non-root Installation Notes

The 8.5 components can be installed on Linux as a non-root user. Alternatively, components can be installed as root and then run as non-root. The Network Capture (pcap) component of Rational Integration Tester requires root access and cannot be installed as a non-root user.
Most Linux administrators will be aware of file/directory ownership issues when performing these types of installation. The following known issues should be considered.
31329All users must be in the same group to be able to run/view reports
When a report is generated in Results Gallery Tester will create a directory called /tmp/ghtester5reports. This directory will be owned by the user that creates it (which may be root). When another user attempts to run a report then, if they’re not in the same group, they will be unable to write to the same directory and the report generation will fail. The workaround is to ensure that all users can write to this directory (for example, by making them all members of the same group)
30778If RTCP is installed as root but run as non-root then it will fail
This is caused because directories used at runtime for logging information have been created by root and therefore cannot be written into by a non-root user. This problem does not occur if RTCP was installed as a non-root user. If RTCP was installed as root and a user wishes to run it as non-root then directory permissions must be changed.

RTCP should now run as a non-root user. An alternative solution that may be preferred by some administrators, is to change the directory that RTCP writes information into. A Tech Note has been published here describing how to do this: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21621855

Globalization issues

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Rational Integration Tester is a Swing based Java application. Java/Swing uses visual cursor movement when working with bi-directional text in user-editable fields. This means that the cursor arrow keys and the delete/backspace function will always operate visually (i.e. left moves left) which may not be the expected logical movement.

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Not all Unicode characters (especially the glyph-style characters) can be rendered using all fonts. For example, very few fonts contain a glyph for the U+0904 (DEVANAGARI LETTER SHORT A) character. Rational Integration Tester’s default behavior means that it will not attempt to find a font that does contain that character. This means that messages containing this character will not render correctly. The workaround is for the user to use the RIT font preferences to select a font that is capable of rendering these characters.

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Dates in ISO format in message nodes will not be rendered according to the preferred operating system date format (when not running in English) in the Message Difference Window. Changing this behavior would require making changes that could invalidate ‘expected messages’ in existing projects causing tests to fail. For this reason it has been decided not to change the rendering of these nodes.

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Attempting to publish a message to a WebSphere MQ Queue Manager using a character set that MQ will not support will result in a failure. This is as-expected and is not a RIT fault. For example, it is possible to publish a message containing the string 叱る亜うぃんをいはるいうはにぽげきんぼ if the character set on the publish action is set to 33722 but not if it’s set to 29626 as MQ doesn’t support that.

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When attempting to install multiple products at the same time (e.g. Rational Integration Tester and Rational Integration Tester Platform Pack) warning messages may be displayed in Installation Manager indicating that not all the products in the selected set provide the same set of languages. Both RIT and RTCP have been translated into the same set of 14 languages and this warning can be ignored.

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Attempting to connect to a DB2 database using non-ASCII usernames may result in the error “cannot convert Unicode string to Ebcdic string” being displayed. For example, attempting to connect using the default Russian administrator username of "администратор" will show the error, but connecting using “administrator” will not. The workaround is to use the ASCII forms.

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Arabic numbers pasted into a numeric control with up and down increment arrows (e.g. the Minimum length field when setting up length validation in the message editor) will revert to Western numerals when the up/down increment arrows are clicked.

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When running Library Manager on a non-English operating system the network card information displayed may contain corrupted characters. This is due to a problem processing Unicode characters in 3rd party software used by Library Manager to access the network card details.

Known issues from GH Tester that are still relevant to Rational Integration Tester

Test Cycles and Coverage Reports
If you are using Test Cycles and want coverage reports, the applicable tests must still be executed from within a test suite (i.e. coverage reports will not be produced for tests that are executed outside of a test suite).

Column Level Validation Cannot be Displayed in the Message Differences Window
Validation on table rows and cells performed within the SQL Query action works as expected and is displayed in the console accurately. If column-level validation is used, however, any differences are displayed correctly in the console, but they are unable to be displayed in the Message Differences window as it is currently only able to display row-by-row and cell-by-cell validation issues.

Duplicated Physical Resources when Using Source Control
Rational Integration Tester now uses a different method of creating filenames for physical resources. For this reason, source control users may see duplicate items due to the way the project was updated/committed after the resource change. In this case, the newer/newly named resource should be kept.

webMethods Broker Events
When recording webMethods Broker events, some fields may be seen to contain null rather than their actual content. This occurs because elements wired to a byte-array by an IS to publish can only be un-wired by another IS, this is an internal mechanism of IS and cannot be overcome. This has been seen with the MQ adapter notifications for the “MsgBody” and “MsgBodyByteArray” fields, but may affect others. Further information can be found via Software AG support, incident number 5019024.

Logical View
Sometimes adding a service component to the logical view will not add it to the diagram.

10905: User Names Containing “#” Character
The Eclipse framework (and therefore Rational Integration Tester) does not support user names that contain the “#” symbol. This issue may result in the deletion of project files as Rational Integration Tester cannot interpret the full path to the user’s “Documents and Settings” directory for application preferences.
The workaround for this issue is to create a folder to use as a Rational Integration Tester workspace (for example,C:RIT) and edit TestEngine.ini (found in C:\Program Files\IBM\RationalIntegrationTester, by default) to point to it. The line below “-data” should be changed from “@user.home/.rit8/perf-workspace” to “C:/RIT/..rit8/perf-workspace”.

UNC Paths as Current Directory in Run Command Action
Cmd.exe, used by the Rational Integration Tester Run Command test action, may return an error when trying to process a UNC path. More information regarding the resolution is available at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/156276/EN-US.

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Issue with SSL tab referencing one of a number of identity stores

In a project with multiple identity stores the GUI does not always correctly reflect the one selected.


If you select any identity store from the Identity Store drop down menu and click OK to close the transport window, Rational Integration Tester will select the correct identity store when processing the data. This can be seen when opening up the physical files in the Physical folder of the GH Project on your C drive. The HTTP file references the id of the selected Identity Store correctly.
Error scenario

If you select any identity store from the Identity Store drop down menu, but then reselect the Identity Store drop down menu it will not retain the selected id store and will default back to the first id store in the drop down menu. Clicking OK on the window will then rewrite the physical files on your drive to reference the first id store in the list. So this should be avoided until fixed.


Simultaneous Modifications
If a message is opened in a message editor (for example, a Subscribe action) and the message differences window at the same time, changes made in one window will be overwritten or reverted when closing the other window. More specifically, the content of the window that is closed last will overwrite the content of the window that was closed first.
This also applies if the message differences window is used to correct messages used in a stub if the stub editor window is open. Note that this problem can be avoided by selecting the user preference, “Run from Disk” as opposed to “Run from Memory”.

User Permissions on non-Windows Platforms
It is possible to perform actions in Rational Integration Tester that require the opening of IP ports less than number 1024. For example, if you create and run a stub configured to listen on port 80. On non-Windows platforms this operation requires the user to be an administrator. Before you can run Rational Integration Tester as an administrator, however, you must run the Library Manager as an administrator (this is due to the way the .rit8 directory is created under the user’s home directory). Similarly, if you want to run Rational Integration Tester as a non-admin user, you must first run Library Manager as that non-admin user.

Results Rendering
The third party rendering engine has performance issues when dealing with larger reports, this may be alleviated by increasing the amount of memory allocated to the application.

Invalid Schema Messages
Some message fields may be displayed as invalid (red “x”), even though they are valid fields/messages.

SCM
If a newer version of Rational Integration Tester is installed after adding team providers to SCM, the providers will have to be reinstalled unless their installation is outside of the Rational Integration install folder (detailed in Rational Integration Tester Installation Guide).

TIBCO BusinessWorks Private Processes
  • The BW private process transport uses HTTP as its primary communication method, but Rational Integration Tester’s “Publish” test action does not support HTTP. Therefore, the Send Request/Receive Reply action pair should be used for testing private processes.
  • Error schemas are not supported (for example, if a process outputs an error schema rather than an end schema, the error schema/output is not supported in Rational Integration Tester).
    • Rational Integration Tester does not support the following content in private process schemas:
    • A “Choice” content option at the root of the schema
    • Pointing to an AE message from anywhere (i.e. inner or at the root) causes a known deserialization issue
    • The “Java Object Reference” type is not supported at any level
    • The inline WSDL message content option is not supported
  • If you get a connection error when calling a private process, please check the network settings. If you open the Designer Engine Custom Properties in the Physical View of the Architecture School perspective, you will find the host and port number. The host/port in the Physical View menu must match the host/port in the GHEnable.proj design time library in the BW project. The BW host/port can be set when the project is deployed.

Data Transfer Objects (DTOs)
DTO support is currently limited to the following:
  • Classes with a default constructor and publicly visible member variables
  • Member variables must be primitives, wrapper objects, Strings or other objects within the JAR file
JMS providers who use the Context Class Loader to obtain message definitions

Change History

What's new

The following enhancements have been made to the product in this release:

43270

A new option was added to the physical TCP transport, which, if selected, causes the transport to pass a message with an empty body to any stubs that are running and that contain events connected to that transport when a TCP connection has been accepted. This change allows users to create a stub that sends a message on CONNECT without needing an incoming message to be received first. It is up to the user to configure the logic within the stub's events to detect the empty message and act appropriately. The parameter that is passed to the stub is an empty byte array (byte[]). The default setting for this new option is OFF, which means existing stubs are not affected.
42616 (devWorks RFE 29207)The Schema Validation options available in messaging actions were extended to support WSDL-based validation. A user can now choose to validate received or sent XML messages against either a WSDL file in the Schema Library or against the WSDL specified in the message itself (assuming it is resolvable).

Once configured, this validation option causes the test to fail on either the send or receive if the message is not compliant with the WSDL. If such a failure occurs, then the console window and Message Difference Window show the reasons for the failure. Note that the messages detailing the reason for the failure are provided by the WSDL validation library used by Rational Integration Tester and include details about non-failing warnings such as missing optional fields. Users must read through the messages to identify the cause of the failure.
42536 (devWorks RFE 41944)A number of improvements were made to the new style of HP Quality Center Integration that was released in Rational Integration Tester 8.5.0. This method of integration avoids reloading the Rational Integration Tester project on each test execution to give greater performance. In response to a customer RFE, a number of enhancements have been made to make it more applicable to enterprise environments.

1) Users can now opt to force Rational Integration Tester to load a new project when HP QC wants to run a test from a different project without prompting the Rational Integration Tester user for confirmation. This is useful in scenarios where Rational Integration Tester is running on a remote unattended machine where there is no user to confirm the project switch.

2) Users can now set a timeout to indicate how long the GHRunAgent.exe waits for results from Rational Integration Tester before timing out. This interval is effectively the amount of time that must pass before the integration reports an error back to HP QC. The default value is 10 minutes. Customers can tailor this to reflect how long their projects take to load. Users should be aware that this value needs to be high enough to allow the largest project in the test set to load.

3) Users can now force Rational Integration Tester to reload a project when it runs the first test instance in the HP Quality Center test set. This is useful in scenarios where Rational Integration Tester is running on a remote unattended machine. If a number of tests are run, then the remote instance of Rational Integration Tester remains with the last project loaded. If the tests are run again a week later from HP QC then, without this option, Rational Integration Tester would not reload the project because it still has that project loaded. This means that any changes that have been made to the project would not be loaded. With this option selected, Rational Integration Tester reloads the project on the first test and therefore picks up the changes that have been made.

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Document Information

Modified date:
20 July 2018

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