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This document contains a complete listing of releases, refreshes, fix packs and interim fixes sorted by version for IBM Rational Performance Tester (RPT) and IBM Rational Service Tester for SOA Quality (RST).
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Table of Contents:
| Link | Date Released | Status |
|---|---|---|
17/08/2012 |
Current |
|
| APAR | Description |
| PM64175 | Context Help does not open for some Rational Performance Tester recording dialogs. |
| PM65189 | Rational Performance Tester freezes up system when attempting to look at data correlation substitutions |
| PM66083 | Basic authentication is lost when importing Rational Performance Tester version 8.2.0.6 (or 8.1.x) test into Rational Performance Tester version 8.2.1.2 |
| PM66591 | Resource monitoring for Apache HTTP server not working for non-administrator user on Windows 2008. |
| PM66738 | Rational Performance Tester Kerberos not accepted by AdNovum infrastructure |
| PM67868 | NTLM playback failing due to Rational Performance Tester including "Authorization: NTLM ..." in request header without doing NTLM handshake |
| PM69108 | Wrong handling of escaped characters in response from server |
| PM69308 | Incorrect correlation on redirect causing invalid URL like "GET/
|
| PM69310 | In Rational Performance Tester 8.2.1 test editor, Siebel test does not show any response when response is chucked deflated account |
| PM69523 | Think Time shown by Select > HTTP pages are incorrect if evenly divisible by 1000 |
| PM69565 | Rational Performance Tester playback failure due to substitution of URI with trailing carriage return |
| PM69678 | Rational Performance Tester hangs when trying to create a new Time Range in a report. |
| Link | Date Released | Status |
|---|---|---|
19/06/2012 |
Superseded |
| Defect | Description |
| 13696 (Internal) | Error message when recording: BASE64 input is invalid because it is the wrong size |
| Link | Date Released | Status |
|---|---|---|
05/06/2012 |
Superseded |
|
| APAR | Description |
| PM58338 | TN3270 timeout at replay when receiving blank screen through PA1 key |
| PM61467 | Unexpected screen content in TN3270 RPT recording |
| PM61942 | Issues when using both MIME file content substitution and common substitutions into the request. |
| PM63176 | Rational Performance Tester generates invalid URL due to setting URL Encode on substituted string |
| PM63432 | Rational Performance Tester OutOfMemory when doing "Find Data Correlation Errors" |
| PM64037 | Data correlation rule with ( in a character class [] incorrectly causes unbalanced () error |
| Link | Date Released | Status |
|---|---|---|
20/04/2012 |
Superseded |
|
| APAR | Description |
| PM55125 | Rational Performance Tester locks up the computer when attempting to view large response in Test Editor on Windows Server 2008 |
| PM57591 | Rational Performance Tester does not start enough users in first stage, causing error when moving to second stage |
| PM58539 | Functional report is not generated when the project do not belongs (copy) to the workspace. |
| PM59005 | Functional Report generation load a DTD and need the network |
| PM59014 | When using split tests with datapooling, the datapool substitutions are not maintained |
| PM59123 | Rational Performance Tester reports "Unhandled event loop exception" when Modify Filters is canceled when viewing Resource data |
| PM59792 | XSD types are not properly analyzed and linked to each other |
| PM59797 | Substitution of custom header with underscore in its name does not work |
| PM60963 | Test generation fails with message "Cannot pop at root level" for recording split into multiple tests |
| PM61314 | Cached Verification Point info can be incorrectly used when response is NOT 304 |
| Link | Date Released | Status |
|---|---|---|
27/02/2012 |
Superseded |
|
| APAR | Description |
| PM51009 | Inconsistent Spanish translations in RPT 8.2 help |
| PM51490 | SOA test log report should expose actual and expected extended properties |
| PM52333 | RPT "Cheat sheet" should default to English if selected language isn't available |
| PM53543 | Execution failure. No status received from location 162Agent3 in 130 seconds |
| PM55087 | *Lost* test execution results after starting RPT when no license key is available |
| PM55129 | Content Verification Point customized Error Handling not working in Siebel test; works OK in HTTP |
| PM55560 | JSO to XML transform can't be done with Change button in test's Advanced settings |
| PM55850 | Content VPs incorrectly passing when cache emulation is enabled |
| PM56059 | Protocol Data View display of transformed XML in Test Log has less information than exported Test Log |
| PM56527 | RPT is incorrectly setting URL Encode on substitution in URI |
| PM56539 | StoreICA custom code not generated when it should be |
| PM56619 | RPT stops too many users when transitioning to stage with less users, causing error |
| PM56968 | RPT should only add \r\n to binary POST content when doing multipart content |
| PM57524 | HTTP test generation failing for .NET session recorded with Socket I/O |
| PM57562 | RPT always creates new project in default location even if different directory specified |
| PM57711 | Unrestrained heap size growth possible in RPT playback engine when caching enabled |
| Link | Date Released | Status |
|---|---|---|
09/12/2011 |
Superseded |
|
| APAR | Description |
| PM52293 | "Timeout of 10s has elapsed" when playback TN3270 performance test |
| PM51490 | SOA test log report should expose actual and expected extended properties |
| PM47045 | RPT workbench is sending port value of 0 to agent:10005, causing failed attempt to connect to port 0 on agent |
| PM46510 | Cannot start more than 4 Locations (JVMs) on AIX agent computer; works on Windows and Linux |
| PM37394 | Need mechanism to specify RPT workbench IP to agent controller |
| Link | Date Released | Status |
|---|---|---|
11/11/2011 |
Superseded |
|
| APAR | Description |
| PM38141 | Citrix performance test generation moves all comments to the top |
| PM39698 | Support Policy for Performance Testing under Windows 2008 Server R2 |
| PM45519 | Correction Information Center article 'Percentile Report' |
| PM47718 | MQ libraries cannot be found. Please refer to the online help. |
| PM48051 | RST: Disconnect between the values in the WSDL. |
| PM50370 | SOA test EMF/Data initialization is not thread safe. |
| PM27095 | Citrix ICA file not exported to ITCAM and not exported as part of the test dependencies |
| PM36701 | RPT handling of Set-Cookie without Path is different than IE's |
| PM37609 | Re-ordering custom code args produces incorrect results |
| PM37661 | Not able to change X Axis after setting to Time (Absolute) |
| PM51119 | RPT hangs in running state while downloading files larger than 2GB |
| PM42026 | Need a way to recover Test Log if playback hangs during Test Log transfer |
| PM48073 | Double substitution corrupting Host header value in request |
| PM48915 | RPT incorrectly parsing Set-Cookie with commas in value: preferences=TicketColumns=0,SortColumn1=1,SortOrder1= ... |
| PM49805 | RPT playback reports "Driver
|
| PM50019 | RPT test generation takes almost 40 times longer in RPT 8.2.0.5 vs 8.1.1.2 due to auto data correlation |
| PM50284 | RPT checkout of VT license keys uses random user IDs |
| PM50903 | Putting test assets under source control |
| PM53669 | RPT reports NPE for Siebel Message Bar |
| Link | Date Released | Status |
|---|---|---|
20/09/2011 |
Superseded |
|
| APAR | Description |
| PM37476 | java.lang.RuntimeException error when trying to get French Windows 2008 resource counters from French OS |
| PM43543 | Stubs logging remove white space into terminal Xml nodes. |
| PM43626 | Names for WSDL and WSD files imported by URL are not correct when the query is complex. |
| PM45811 | RPT not setting cookie like IE when "secure" is supplied twice in Set-Cookie |
| PM46104 | ITCAMfRT Siebel transactions reported incorrectly with RPT 8.1.1.1 and later |
| PM47027 | Application hangs at specific point when recording in RPT with IE8 |
| PM47709 | SiebelSubstituter no longer works in 8.2.0.x |
| Link | Date Released | Status |
|---|---|---|
29/07/2011 |
Superseded |
|
| APAR | Description |
| PM30165 | RPT Test Editor performance is slow when interacting with Protocol Data View if Substitution Highlighting enabled |
| PM40746 | "Measured packet jitter is 1199176 milliseconds greater than expected" error for RPT HTTP recording |
| PM41519 | Stats data for entire playback is lost if playback gets stuck in Test Log transfer |
| PM42026 | Need a way to recover Test Log if playback hangs during Test Log transfer |
| PM42153 | Japanese POST content is not substituted correctly and Content-Length is wrong |
| PM42321 | Protocol Data view Browser doesn't have vertical scrollbar even though content is not completely shown |
| PM43356 | Stubs delay is not respected when the Stub server workload is increasing. |
| Link | Date Released | Status |
|---|---|---|
10/06/2011 |
Superseded |
|
| APAR | Description |
| PM33117 | NPE at datacorrelation.execution.harvest.CommonHarvestRule.logSuccess |
| PM33371 | Substitution in POST content may not work for content with multi-byte characters |
| PM33622 | Reported response times could be too high if a SAP GUI connection is lost |
| PM33894 | Compilation failing with "Too many constants, the constant pool for
|
| PM34846 | RPT incorrectly substituting Chinese POST content |
| PM35338 | Counters for ITM Monitoring Agent for SAP resource monitoring not available |
| PM35574 | SAP failures in sub-transactions are not reflected in higher-level transaction statuses in ITCAM |
| PM35927 | Binary requests are not properly handled when executing test suite |
| PM36569 | Proxy-based recording could skip parts of the traffic and perturbate recorded application behavior |
| PM37259 | RPT playback using same SSL Session ID for different virtual users |
| PM38827 | Limited edition steps with the Form View |
| Link | Date Released | Status |
|---|---|---|
23/03/2011 |
Superseded |
|
| APAR | Description |
| PM28684 | RPT will hang when attempting to Disable secondary requests using test editor |
| PM29156 | Empty strings are not taken into account in the XML default values (preferences) |
| PM29425 | Content Assist Mode (in the Form View Editor) could fail to add an element with a valid namespace |
| PM29502 | RPT test generation fails due to WWW-Authenticate without authentication scheme |
| PM29965 | RPT playback doesn't handle Set-cookie with embedded comma in its value |
| PM30065 | org.apache.axiom.soap.SOAPProcessingException: Transport level information does not match |
| PM30705 | RPT 8.2 test generator not handling Japanese annontations |
| PM31090 | RPT WAS instrumentation incorrectly parses server.xml genericJvmArguments |
| PM31339 | timeout in a 3270 screen after sending a TN3270 Enhanced positive response; sequence number is -128 |
| PM31662 | Invalid namespaces could be generated for attributes |
| PM32090 | Automatic Data Correlation does not for cookies |
| PM32176 | Test generation fails with "RPTO0002I Exception encountered: java.lang.NullPointerException" |
| PM32382 | Stub server could serve WSDL files with incorrect
|
| PM32451 | RST could fail at retrieving JMS or MQ response messages of String type if Text Message option is selected |
| PM32526 | NullPointerException during .rec conversation for test generation |
| Link | Date Released | Status |
|---|---|---|
15/12/2010 |
Superseded |
|
| APAR | Description |
| PM26331 | RPT workbench crashes when trying to use floating license from 7.x license server |
| PM20604 | SSL connections failing with "Algorithm missing" when testing more that 40 users with RPT |
| PM24328 | Playback JVM memory growth for certain types of Test Log logging |
| PM28477 | RPT cannot checkout 100,000 virtual user license keys |
| Link | Date Released | Status |
|---|---|---|
08/11/2010 |
Superseded |
| Link | Date Released | Status |
|---|---|---|
26/10/2010 |
Superseded |
|
| APAR | Description |
| PK84582 | Deleting RPT results doesn't always remove them from the Test Navigator view |
| PK93506 | Sync points still show up "Existing Synchronization Points" after being removed |
| PK96127 | Start time for playback reported in Stats is earlier than first event in Test Log |
| PM06661 | Bugzilla 302322: Clicking on page name in test causes ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException ONLY on Linux |
| PM09783 | RPT recording will hang on SSL site through NTLM-authenticated Squid proxy server |
| PM13862 | Spanish text on Page Throughput Report is incorrectly translated |
| PM17579 | RPT allows % in schedule name when doing Save As |
| PM21223 | JSO transform not working for POST multipart/form-data content |
| PM21507 | Test generation failes with NPE due to no Host in CONNECT request |
| PM05600 | WSDL Import failed when having |
| PM08668 | Usability problem when clicking on the Name field of a User Name Algorithm |
| PM16777 | Disablement of the Login nodes is not properly persisted in the test suite |
| PM17729 | Content or Equals VPs not properly evaluated when associating a regular expression os XML fragment value |
| PM23282 | Exception raised when creating a substitution on a variable in Text VP |
Table of Contents:
| Link | Date Released | Status |
|---|---|---|
03/05/2013 |
Current |
|
| APAR | Description |
| PM79097 | When opened for the 1st time, the label of the stub editor is 'test' versus 'Service Stub' |
| PM79158 | Viewing some large responses in Protocol Data view causes "No more handles" error |
| PM81352 | The host localhost was not found issue. |
| PM81534 | Could not instantiate the ARM Broker implementation class when trying to collect RTB data from schedule playback |
| PM82313 | RPT incorrectly calculating POST Content-Length after multiple substitutions into content; causing a read time-out |
| PM82773 | Unexpected page throughput drop over run due to stuck SSL handshake (?) |
| PM82941 | RPT reports "Could not create a Substituter at this location. Reason: -NPE" for Service test |
| PM83724 | Siebel correlation failing at playback |
| PM83350 | SSL_TLS and other ssl related protocols should be tunable for the end user. |
| PM83500 | Resource monitoring Oracle WebLogic returns no counter |
| PM83567 | Substitution sites not found and NPE when attempting to substitute in Services test |
| PM83826 | Find and Substitute functionality does not work on tests which have NTLM Authenticated proxy nodes |
| PM83968 | Siebel code gen fails on line ending with: false, "SWERowId_4", null, ); |
| PM84221 | Attempting to Enable Resource Monitoring against Apache Tomcat Application Server Fails when remote authentication is enabled |
| PM84823 | UI thread is interrupted while the FileAnnotation are written |
| PM84903 | RPT: SAPGui component could not be instantiated - MajorDomo service not able to generate SAP load |
| PM85090 | RPT 8.3.0.2 unable to record secure site that works successfully in RPT 8.2.1.5 |
| PM85119 | When editing SOA test, substitution sites not found after reference is created for JSESSIONID cookie |
| PM85175 | Some Siebel-specific correlation (SRN and SWEC) not done in Siebel 8.1.1.8 |
| PM85978 | Internal java.lang.NullPointerException occurred during: "Launch Test". |
| PM86669 | RPT can't make connection when unexpectedly redirected to non-secure URL from secure connection |
| PM86761 | RPT 8.3 recording reports error on client certificate generated with Sun Java 6 |
| PM86948 | RPT 8.3.0.x locks up the computer when attempting to view large correlated response in Test Editor on Windows Server 2008 |
| Link | Date Released | Status |
|---|---|---|
15/02/2013 |
Superseded |
|
| APAR | Description |
| PM78090 | Rational Performance Tester Common Function Report is incorrect for Korean and Chinese |
| PM78390 | SOA Dot Net Client is limited to 21 methods |
| PM78596 | Rational Performance Tester 8.3 playback SSL failure - 'handshake alert: unrecognized_name'; works in Rational Performance Tester 8.2.1.5 |
| PM78737 | SOA extension references should filter out RTB xml information returned by the server. |
| PM78927 | The Close methods of a client proxy should be exposed into the test suite |
| PM78975 | With Japanese locale, Rational Performance Tester schedule playback incorrectly shows Japanese page names in reports and various items in Test Log |
| PM79046 | NullPointerException when Rational Performance Tester attempts to record a Managed Application with HTTP proxy |
| PM79297 | GSC Transport should support TLS & SSL ( not only ssl ). |
| PM79390 | Schema catalog ignored as part of the preferences |
| PM80656 | Rational Performance Tester SAP test run yields Exception ... invalid argument |
| PM80838 | JBoss resource monitoring doesn't work if Administrative security is needed |
| PM81333 | Rational Performance Tester playback hangs in Running state when using invalid credentials with Basic-authenticated proxy server accessing SSL site |
| PM81388 | Code gen of HTTP (SAP Web) test fails with "RPTA4040IE Fatal error translating the element ..." |
| PM81432 | Exception when importing a WSDL using a complex url with a query. |
| PM81541 | Kerberos test code gen fails with "The constructor AuthInfo(String, String, null, String, String, String, null) is undefined" |
| PM81614 | The GSC creates url encoded transport information 'url' |
| PM81721 | Rational Performance Tester 8.3 is unable to delete results from a schedule playback if result name contains embedded space |
| Link | Date Released | Status |
|---|---|---|
07/12/2012 |
Superseded |
|
| APAR | Description |
| PM61175 | Rational Performance Tester rearranges datapool columns when they are renamed |
| PM73963 | Rational Performance Tester playback failure when accessing site requiring client certificate via NTLM-authenticated proxy server |
| PM75025 | Same client certificate used for each loop iteration even when separate fetch specified for datapool |
| PM75042 | Rational Performance Tester test editor displays some requests incorrectly when proxy server involved |
| PM76221 | Incorrect option name, rptMaxResponseSizeRPT, specified in RPT_LIMIT_REACHED error message |
| PM76267 | Filtering of Rational Performance Tester comparison report doesn't behave as expected |
| PM76401 | Rational Performance Tester playback fails with "Driver localhost has reported a NOK" if schedule's User Group name has Chinese characters |
| PM76416 | Rational Performance Tester protocol data browser view displays dialog about ActiveX controls for particular response, locking up Rational Performance Tester. |
| PM76637 | Report is frozen when tried to close an opened sub tab |
| PM76638 | Rational Performance Tester v8.3 report time bound changes are not refreshed |
| PM76639 | Only one of the two reports "Display Page Element responses" or "Display Page Response Time Contributions" are shown for any |
| PM76640 | Deselecting an item from the legend for a Pie chart is not working |
| PM76747 | Siebel-specific automatic correlation is done incorrectly when Siebel recording is split into multiple tests |
| PM76827 | Rational Performance Tester 8.3 installation does not set execute permission for dynamic_launcher shell script |
| PM77012 | Rational Performance Tester 8.3 instrumentation of WebSphere fails on French locale |
| PM77063 | GSC do not create the correct namespace for the appliNum element. |
| PM77073 | [FATAL]Test Generator: An internal error occurred while generating the test: NullPointerException |
| PM77267 | Rational Performance Tester secure upload of large file to Apache server via POST taking much longer than browser |
| PM77270 | Rational Performance Tester reports NegativeArraySizeException when attempting to upload > 2GB file in test |
| PM78156 | Citrix web recording no longer launches the Citrix recording window |
| Link | Date Released | Status |
|---|---|---|
23/10/2012 |
Superseded |
|
| APAR | Description |
| PM57350 | Maximum number of Virtual User on an Agent for SAP GUI test is not documented in infocenter |
| PM57818 | Two "Page Element" entries don't work for Performance Requirements |
| PM60399 | SOA contain VP are not detailed enough in the documentation |
| PM61762 | Italian translation of column headings for Performance reports are incorrect |
| PM67956 | SOA extension still report stats and logging once the engine is stopped |
| PM68939 | Functional Test Report shows incorrect "End time" (December 31, 1969 7:00 PM) for interrupted playback |
| PM72425 | Asynchronous testing do not allow to select the network interface to be used. |
| PM72736 | RPT playback will hang on attempt to connect to SSL site through NTLM-authenticated proxy server |
| PM72749 | SSL object left out of first configuration for recording session with NTLM |
| PM73570 | Ability to setup reports to show the number (count) of 400 and 500 HTTP Status codes |
| PM73945 | HTTP test generation from socket recording failing with "A resource problem occurred during test generation" |
| PM74685 | Managed Application cannot be launched from Rational Performance Tester for recording a test |
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