There are no known defects to report.

Problems with installed 3rd party plug-ins

When installing 3rd party plug-ins like CCRC or SVN through the classic update manage (Help > Install Software) or 3rd party plug-ins like CCSCM through new extension location (Help > Manage Software Configuration), all the existing Rational Method Composer 7.5.1 feature patches can't be loaded and cause BIRT publishing and Diagram crook line issues.

To solve the problem:

1. Shutdown Rational Method Composer.
2. Find and open the platform.xml file for editing In the Rational Method Composer installation directory
   For example:

   C:\Program Files\IBM\RMC75\rmc\configuration\org.eclipse.update\platform.xml

3. Search for org.eclipse.birt.report.engine_2.5.2.v20100805.jar. You will find a site element that contains org.eclipse.birt.report.engine_2.5.2.v20100805.jar in its list attribute.
4. Replace the entire site with the following content:
5. Open a command prompt and change to the Rational Method Composer installation directory.
6. Run the following command to start the application: rmc.exe -clean

To verify that the feature patches are loaded correctly, click Help > About IBM Installation Manager > Installation Details > Plug-ins. Check the version of org.eclipse.birt.report.engine, it must be 2.5.2.v20100805.

Rational Method Composer floating and token licenses

IBM Installation Manager does not handle rollbacks with floating license using Rational Common Licensing 8.1.1 to a previous version that does not have the floating license capability. If you need to rollback to a previous release, you must disable your floating license before attempting to rollback.

The Rational Method Composer integration with Rational Synergy

During the installation of Synergy plugin using Help > Install Software, a duplicate conflict message is displayed. In addition, when upgrading a Rational Method Composer that includes the Rational Synergy integration, package update warnings are displayed. These warnings are harmless and can be ignored.

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 tp copy a plug-in
• The Tailoring perspective and other areas such as BIRT-based reporting

Special character in tag file names

Tag file names include "[" character which is a restricted character in file names for Informix that is used by Rational Synergy. As a result, these tag files cannot be placed under Rational Synergy source control. Review technote 1326060: Restricted characters within IBM Rational Synergy filenames for more information.
To add the .tag files under Rational Synergy source control, compress the initial .tag project and add it to Synergy.
To modify the tags, reserve check out the zip file to ensure other resources are not working on the same file, extract and make the changes, re-compress and check back in to the source control.

Exporting practices to Jazz Team Server

There is an Export feature available in Rational Method Composer that provides the ability to export a selection of practices to an XML file that can subsequently be imported to Jazz Team Server. If you want to try the import on the Jazz side and experiment with some early capabilities within the Jazz Team Server, you can do so by downloading and installing the following items from Jazz.net:

• RQM Workbench for CLM (includes JTS, RTC, RRC capabilities)
  https://jazz.net/downloads/rational-quality-manager/
• Jazz Process Authoring Application
  https://jazz.net/downloads/jazz-foundation/

Publishing configuration error

Publishing configuration of the RUP for small projects to Adobe PDF or Microsoft Word in ib.75.rup with configuration.rptlibrary generates an error message in the log file.
This is a known BIRT issue (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=324612).
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.

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 RUP and Practice libraries

When starting Rational Method Composer for the first time, the default RUP library and the Practice library are loaded. This might cause Installation Manager not to be able to update these libraries in the future because of the time flag changes in some library files. It is recommended to make a backup of your RUP and Practice libraries and load them when launching Rational Method Composer.

IBM Rational Method Composer Security Vulnerability

• Rational Method Composer is shipped with an IBM Java that is based on Oracle Java. Oracle has released a June 2012 critical patch update (CPU) that contains security vulnerability fixes and IBM Java is affected. Review Security Bulletin 1620862: Rational Method Composer Security Vulnerability: Multiple security vulnerabilities in IBM JRE 6 (CVE-2012-1713, CVE-2012-1716, CVE-2012-1717, CVE-2012-1718, CVE-2012-1719, CVE-2012-1720, CVE-2012-1721, CVE-2012-1722, CVE-2012-1725 CVE-2012-0551) for more information.
• SSLv3 contains a vulnerability that has been referred to as the Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption (POODLE) attack. SSLv3 is enabled in IBM Rational Method Composer. Review Security Bulletin 1688400: Vulnerability in SSLv3 affects Rational Method Composer servlet search and RSS feed (CVE-2014-3566) for more information.

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 Java applet for the search function on the published sites. On Linux, sometimes the Java applet is not enabled on Firefox and must manually be enabled.

Search finds orphaned role descriptors

If you remove a role from the task, Rational Method Composer does not delete all the related role descriptors in capability patterns or delivery processes. The deletion is not necessary, as Rational Method Composer ignores unneeded descriptors when browsing or publishing. A search will, however, detect that the role descriptors are still stored in the xmi file. You can ignore the role descriptors of a removed role when searching.

For Firefox 1.5 to 3.5 on RHEL5 or SUSE10:

1. Install JRE 5.0 or above. Assume that the JRE is installed at /opt/JRE.
2. Go to the browser plugin folder.
   1. On RHEL5u3, the plugin folder is /usr/lib/mozilla/plugin-wrapped.
   2. On SUSE10, the plugin folder is /usr/lib/browser-plug-ins.
3. Create a symbolic link to the java plugin at the browser's plugin folder:
   ln -vs $(find /opt/JRE/ -name libjavaplugin_oji.so)
4. To enable Java, start Firefox and type about:plugins to ensure the java plugin is installed. Then go to Edit > Preferences > Content tab and check Enable java.

For Firefox 3.6 and later:

1. Upgrade the JRE to 6.0_10 or later.
2. Use the following command to install the Java plugin:
   ln -vs $(find /opt/JRE/ -name libnpjp2.so)

Rational Method Composer 7.5.2.3 has been enhanced as follows:

Browsing on mobile devices:

• Skins have been updated so that published websites have an improved look and feel on mobile devices.
• Navigate on touchscreen devices using dropdown breadcrumbs instead of the treebrowser.
• Graphics and text scaled for small screens, like mobile phones.

Commenting:

• Skins have been updated to support discussions on individual published pages, which are stored as work items in a Rational Team Concert project area.
• This feature is turned off by default, and is considered a beta feature that will evolve in future releases.
• To use this feature, you must modify the skin named ContentComment.js to turn on the feature, and to reference the server and project area.
• For more information, refer to the RMC DeveloperWorks community.

Simple skin:

• A new skin is available with this release.
• This "Simple Skin" generates web pages with a simple look and feel. Much visual distraction is removed, such as dividers, unnecessary section headers, and collapsible sections.  

Preferences:

• Preference defaults have been changed to what most new users of Rational Method Composer are expecting.
•  Specific changes:
• • Auto select all the tag groups when creating a new configuration.
  • Use new extends semantics - now ON.
  • Link names with presentation names - now ON
  • Publish activity diagrams for unmodified activity extensions - now ON
  • Jazz integration settings (for source control of library files) - now all ON

Additional skins flexibility:

• The generation of the index.htm file in the published website can now be customized by using a new index.xsl file in the skin. This allows the overall web site settings to be adjusted, such as the IE browser mode meta tag.

Upgraded java certificate:

• This release includes the upgraded java certificate that was previously released via hotfix. (The previous certificate expired, which affected the java applet search feature.)