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Fix list for DevOps Test Performance and DevOps Test Performance for SOA Quality

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This document contains a complete listing of releases, refreshes, fix packs, and interim fixes sorted by version for IBM DevOps Test Performance and IBM DevOps Test Performance for SOA Quality.

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Release 11.0.1
Link Date Released Status
APAR / ID Description
PH58341

DevOps Test Performance test generator omits null parameters in JSON data transform. This problem is fixed.

Release 11.0.0
Link Date Released Status
APAR / ID Description
PH56829 Previously, there was an issue with the Substitute menu in the Test Editor. Even when the Show Recently Used Data Sources option was selected, the Substitute menu did not display any recently used data sources. This problem is fixed.
PH56661
Previously, when you made a test call to getRow with a specific index and updated the dataset, an issue occurred, where the dataset service did not return the row data if the file on the agent was not the latest. This problem is fixed.
PH56551 Transaction Net Server Time incorrectly reported as 0 when nesting transactions. This problem is fixed.

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Table of Contents: Release 10.1

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Release 10.5.4
Link Date Released Status
APAR / ID Description
PH55674 Previously, when you opened a failed event from the Execution Event Console in Rational Performance Tester and then selected the Show in Test Log option, this option did not direct you to the corresponding failed step. This problem is fixed.
PH56051
Previously, when there were multiple images used for synchronization, there was a display issue where the hash code would not display correctly. Although the values were correct, the display would not refresh to show them. This problem is fixed.
PH56060 Reference extraction fails with auto-generated JSON regular expressions.
TP-88193 Previously, it was not possible for you to use Git Actions to run tests when Rational Performance Tester is installed on MacOS Ventura 13. This problem is fixed.
Release 10.5.3
Link Date Released Status
APAR / ID Description
PH53317 Dataset modifications by API are not seen when using multiple agents.
PH55030
Codegen failure for HTTP test due to bad JSON regular expression.
PH54467     Renaming Rational Performance Tester playback results does not change name shown when viewing results.
Release 10.5.2
Link Date Released Status
APAR / ID Description
PH50844 Rational Performance Tester imposes an undocumented 50MB limit on dataset size.
PH51442 SOAP Envelope cannot have children other than SOAP Header and Body error when playing back service test.
PH51533 Rational Performance Tester test shows "null" for response when JSON data transform applied.
PH51443 Rational Performance Tester data correlation auto-generated JSON reference reports Reference Extraction Failure during playback.
PH53086
POST content of failed request not shown in Test Log if logging not All.
TP-86421
Handling of WebSocket traffic during the HTTP test run is improved.

Release 10.5.1
Link Date Released Status
APAR / ID Description
PH50121 Requirements/Error Handling in RPT 9.0 test cause problem with RPT 10.2.3
PH41326 Unable to get dataset error if encrypted communication used with agents.
PH50474 Discard Changes error while resolving merge conflicts for testsuite files during branch merge with Egit.
TP-84064 Previously, the Browser tab in the Protocol Data pane did not display the recorded web pages when you performed the following tasks:
  • Installed Rational Performance Tester on Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS.
  • Highlighted any page from the recorded test.
This problem is fixed.

Release 10.5.0
Link Date Released Status
APAR / ID Description
PH47813
Meaningless GUID comments in HTTP test created from playback of Web UI test.
PH41326
Values in Requirement Target column in Requirements Report not modifiable.
TP-82527 Previously, when you ran the performance schedule by enabling the Resource Monitoring sources, the quick view report had issues in the counter name when you refreshed or reopened the report. This problem is fixed.
TP-83532 Previously, when you viewed or saved the executive summary from the Web Analytics report, you were not able to print the entire report. This problem is fixed.
TP-82509 Previously, the pie chart in the quick view report overlapped with the names of the legends when you set the Show legend option to At the top side. This problem is fixed.
Release 10.2.3
Link Date Released Status
APAR / ID Description
PH43050 Performance Report Elapsed Time inconsistent between report in workbench and exported HTML report
TP-78644 During substitution of dataset values, the current row is always skipped and the number of iterations is less than the total number of rows in the dataset. This problem is fixed.

Release 10.2.2
Link Date Released Status
APAR / ID Description
PH41805 Invalid Image Synchronization failures reported intermittently on the Citrix Monitoring Panel
TP-77904 Resource Monitoring->Windows Performance Monitor does not use supplied Authentication credentials
TP-78348 Rate Schedule playback fails with RUNFAIL error from agent

Release 10.2.1 iFix1
Link Date Released Status
APAR / ID Description
PH40038 Rational Performance Tester 10.2.0 hangs at Guid.java when opening tests
PH39095 Citrix test editor behaves erratically when working with multiple values in Image Synchronizations
PH40035 HTTP Preprocessor getContent() returns content prior to substitution
PH37417 Rational Performance Tester WebSocket playback on secure connection sometimes loses responses
TP-78247 SAP test playback is failing with Exception: java.lang.RuntimeException: SapGuiController.exe

Release 10.2.0
Link Date Released Status
APAR / ID Description
PH35641 Image Synchronizations with OCR fails for large-sized image areas in Long Run mode
PH34955 TN3270 recording in Rational Performance Tester 10.1.2 not working with BlueZone client
PH32171 Misleading statistics for HTTP test when no primary request on page
PH35726 Sequential Number built-in data source access, when shared across users, is unreasonably slow
PH32206 Rate Generator in Compound Test is not executed
Release 10.1.3
Link Date Released Status
APAR / ID Description
PH33825 Image Synchronizations with OCR fail in Long Run Mode
PH32980 Resource Monitoring using JVM Monitoring data source fails in Rational Performance Tester 10.1.0 with ClassNotFoundException
PH32204 Rate Generator in Random Selector->Weighted Block of a schedule fails with NullPointerException
PH32948 Inconsistent reporting of 401 response code in HTTP playback
PH32171 Misleading statistics for HTTP test when no primary request on page
PH19461 Rational Performance Tester doesn't allow newlines in regular expressions associated with references
TP-74141 In Rational Performance Tester 10.1.2, when you export a report that contained any percentile counters, such as the Transaction Percentile or HTTP Page Percentile reports, to CSV or JSON file, only one percentile counter would have exported. This problem was fixed.

Release 10.1.2
Link Date Released Status
APAR / ID Description
PH31427 Rational Performance Tester CSV Editor import of large (>11 Mb) CSV into dataset is not working
PH30618 Page Element Sizes report page is empty
PH30481 In Rational Performance Tester, 10.1.1 end of dataset reached an error when we run schedule from more agents
PH29661 Citrix web-interface recording does not work for full-screen desktops
PH27893 Rational Performance Tester 10.0.0 not capturing traffic when recording TN3270 session
TP-66568 On Mac operating systems, when you use Rational Performance Tester to record a test by using Safari 13.x was showing an error. This problem was fixed.
TP-67544 Previously, when you configure IBM Rational Performance Tester test on the UCD server and the Overwrite Results file option is checked in the Edit Properties, the results file was not geting overwritten during the test execution. This problem was fixed.
TP-69252 Previously, the user could have select the incompatible counters from the Quick View report which causes the graph to empty. This problem was fixed.
TP-68990 The start and end of a Timed Section can now be bound to an iterate action.
TP-69636 Previously, there was an issue upgrading Rational Performance Tester when the Jazz Eclipse Client for Rational Team Concert and Rational Quality Manager feature was enabled. This problem was fixed.

Release 10.1.1
Link Date Released Status
APAR / ID Description
PH28538 Rational Performance Tester Test Editor does not include response when content is chunked and deflated
TP-69304 The Quick View in statistical reports did not support the visualization of resource monitoring counters in new executions. This problem was fixed.
TP-67548 Any existing offline user token that is used in Rational Performance Tester Agent becomes invalid when you upgrade from the previous version of Rational Performance Tester to 10.1.0. This problem was fixed
TP-67383 In Rational Performance Tester 10.0.1, when you use the Share Execution Result URL option to access the reports from an external web browser, the generated URL consists of two consecutive slashes (//). Therefore, the reports were unable to display in the browser. This problem was fixed.
TP-67832 Earlier when you enable the domain security in Rational Test Control Panel and then run integrations tests with the Rational Performance Tester schedule or a compound test, the test runs were failing with an error message. This problem was fixed.
TP-64030 Previously, there was an issue to rename the new datasets that were created in Rational Performance Tester 10.0.2, Fix Pack 1. This problem was fixed.
TP-59612 Previously, there was an issue when you use IBM Installation Manager 1.8.6 to install Rational Performance Tester and Rational Service Tester for SOA Quality on Mac OS. This problem was fixed.

Release 10.1.0
Link Date Released Status
APAR / ID Description
PH25834 Test Generation hangs while correlating Text-based WebSocket requests
PH24553 Conversion of a Jmeter script to VU schedule does not work when the script contains Property functions
PH20920  "Save selection as a new test" disabled in tests containing WebSocket traffic
PH20255 Screen size becomes unmanageable when the Citrix server sets resolution parameters for seamless mode
PH19215  Citrix recording wizard prevents editing display resolution parameters when recording with an ICA file
PH24844  Allow variable substitution in Jenkins plugin
TP-64567 When you add a language by using the Modify option in IBM Installation Manager, the configuration gets corrupted and the product becomes unusable. This problem was fixed.
TP-64546 When you created and edited a dataset, and then try to add a column to the dataset from a test, there was an issue because the editor would have locked the file. This problem was fixed.
Release 10.0.2, Fix Pack 1
Link Date Released Status
APAR / ID Description
PH21760 Option to "Keep Children" doesn't appear when deleting a Transaction in a WebSockets test
PH21753 Issue with STX / ETB Unicode chars (observed on MQ)
PH19471 Web Analytic report uses Simplified Chinese when Traditional Chinese specified
PH20919 Updating 10.0.1 to 10.0.2 fails with an install phase error - "Fail to extract zip..." 
TP-62566 Previously, there was an issue to upgrade the Rational Performance Tester from 10.0.0 to 10.0.1, and then 10.0.1 to 10.0.2. This problem was fixed.

Release (10.0.2)
Link Date Released Status
APAR / ID Description
PH17890 Schedule playback does not start if the Japanese dataset path used in a test
PH17376 Disable TRACE method in wb mode
PI91682 Statistical report zip filename on RQM results page garbled
PH16952 Jmeter built-in functions do not work in a VU Schedule
PH18100 Deploying Service Stub on the local server fails with a NullPointerException
PH19215 Citrix recording wizard prevents editing display resolution parameters when recording with an ICA file
PH19281 Rational Performance Tester does not include needed jaxrpc.jar in runtimes upload for ITCAMfT
TP-60461 Previously, schedules were not showing in the Test Navigator after you upgrade the Rational Performance Tester from 10.0.0 to 10.0.1 on Windows 7. This problem was fixed.
TP-60556 When you upgrade Rational Performance Tester from 10.0.0 to 10.0.1 on RHEL, the error message, "VM terminated. Exit Code=1", was displaying during the installation. This problem was fixed.
TP-60565 Previously, when you install Rational Performance Tester 10.0.1, Rational Service Tester for SOA Quality 10.0.1, and Rational Performance Tester Agent 10.0.1 by using the launchpad program, the launchpad was displaying a script error. This problem was fixed.

Release (10.0.1)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PH03517 Playback of HTTP POST requests fails if it contains request data with SAP Web Dynpro to Ascii transform applied on it
PH11525 Rational Performance Tester test generator incorrectly groups WebSocket traffic when mixed with HTTP
PH14056 Report Filtering not working in Rational Performance Tester 9.5
PH14992 Test Flow Control of Outermost for loops incorrectly works same as Innermost
PH15042 Not able to enable line speed control in Rational Performance Tester VU HTTP schedule in Rational Performance Tester 9.1.1.1 and later

Release (10.0.0)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PH02034 Jenkins, ANT, and UCD Performance plugins build reports a failure for a successfully run schedule if it contains a socket test
PH09761 Using Field Reference for 30MB text response causes Rational Performance Tester to hang
PH10151 TN3270 test not correctly identifying Terminal Input field
PH11786 Datasets editor does not work with Internet Explorer 10
PH11846 Requirements defined for SNMP Resource Monitoring counters not available in Performance Requirements Report
PH11862 HTTP recording with client certificate not working with 9.2.1, 9.2.1.1, and 9.5
PH13053 Unable to view web analytics reports hosted on a web server
PH07574 Inconsistencies in user load distribution when there are a mix of absolute and relative user groups

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Release (9.5.0)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PI96261 Rational Performance Tester converts a newline to carriage return/newline when using CSV to create datapool
PH00977 Certain Rational Performance Tester playbacks won't exit with Rational Performance TesterStopScheduleEvent() or Terminate Run from error handling
PH02034 Jenkins, ANT, and UCD Performance plugins build reports a failure for a successfully run schedule if it contains a socket test.
PH04359 Copying custom code with datapool-initialized Test Variable argument causes NullPointerException
PH06140 Rational Performance Tester caching doesn't handle Expire correctly when running in Japanese
PH06238 Rational Performance Tester 9.2.1 Export to HTML Compare report only shows one set of results
PH06239 Not able to enter text in newly added Text view when editing Rational Performance Tester 9.2.1 report
PH06585 Citrix client launched via web-interface doesn't honor DesiredHRES and DesiredVRES parameters
PH06739 Citrix Receiver crash after executing all playback steps
PH07370 Error Handling on failed VP ineffective in Socket test
PH08640 Not able to publish 2nd set of Rational Performance Tester results to RTCP for command line playback using "-overwrite true"
PH08809 Unable to record Web UI traffic if HTTP traffic is also captured as of chrome V72

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Fix Pack (9.2.1.1)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PH02942 Execution Schedule that contains multiple Rational Performance Tester scripts launched from RQM stops after the first script
PH02998 Siebel test generation failure related to beacons
PH03713 Socket I/O recorder not working with secure TN3270 client
PH03727 Large reports fail to get published automatically to Unified Reporting for command line executions
PH04380 Rational Performance Tester WebSocket playback timing out (KTimeoutException) on Text Response
PI98380 Rational Performance Tester is incorrectly refreshing krb5.ini, resulting in an empty kdc entry and playback error
Mod Pack (9.2.1)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PH00225 Managed Application recording of BAT reports "Invalid Exe" on Windows 10
PH00277 Transction Percentile Report not working in Rational Performance Tester 9.2.0.1
PH00977 Certain Rational Performance Tester playbacks won't exit with Rational Performance TesterStopScheduleEvent() or Terminate Run from error handling
PH01177 Rational Performance Tester HTTP test generation failing with StringIndexOutOFBoundsException for a session with NTLM authentication
PI97388 Rational Performance Tester test generator shows HTTP traffic as Chinese characters due to misapplying UTF-16LE charset

Fix Pack (9.2.0.1)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PI98737 Rational Performance Tester 9.2 HTTP test generation with JSON traffic taking too long
PI98242 With Rational Performance Tester 9.2, virtual testers unexpected exit during Rate Generator playback with an agent
PI98537 Upgrade Execution Results to Web Analytics fails for SAP Web test playback results
PI98536 Conversion of Legacy Reports to Web Analytics format fails for results generated in non-English language setting
PI97820 Rational Performance Tester 9.1.1.1/9.2 reports NullPointerException when exiting user due to end of the data pool
PI97388 Rational Performance Tester test generator shows HTTP traffic as Chinese characters due to misapplying UTF-16LE charset
PI97032 Rational Performance Tester 9.2 playback does not start if legacy reports (-DltStats=1) enabled
PI96922 Varinit file changes fail to refresh in the design tab of editor UI on Streamlined Eclipse
PI96904 Rational Performance Tester EnTrust TruePass authentication failing on playback with NullPointerException
PI96584 Large POST content lost when upgrading Rational Performance Tester 9.1.1 test to Rational Performance Tester 9.2
PI95750 Rational Performance Tester recording causes many Insert Smart Card dialogs if there are unsupported Smart Card certificates
PI94902 Rational Performance Tester TN3270 playback fails if the server sends DO NEW-ENVIRON command
PI91417 Unable to run 5 user playback with RTW 9.1.1 floating license configured for PVU
PI25810 Rational Performance Tester SAP NetWeaver 7.3 resource monitoring doesn't maintain Resource selections
Release (9.2)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PI93367 Rational Performance Tester upgraded hyperlink in schedule's Variable Initialization brings up a misleading dialog
PI91664 Rational Performance Tester recording not working with "The client requires a specific server certificate" option
PI91615 Create Field Reference not working properly in Rational Performance Tester 9.1.1/9.1.1.1
PI91045 .NET requirement for RQM adapter in Rational Performance Tester documentation is incorrect
PI89794 Rational Performance Tester 9.1.1 "Automatically add users to maintain desired user population" option behaves incorrectly
PI89167 Rational Performance Tester Web Analytics does not implement "Only store All Hosts Statistics"
PI87952 Errors and failures are reported in Rational Performance Tester Test Log even when options are set to not log
PI82691 A copy-pasted and renamed Compound Test fails to open
PI25217 Rational Performance Tester Perfmon resource monitoring fails for network interface with French name -- Carte réseau

Fix Pack (9.1.1.1)
Link Date Released Status

APAR Description
PI30235 SUBSTITUTION USING THE BUILT-IN DATA SOURCE SEQUENTIAL NUMBER SLOWS DOWN PLAYBACK CONSIDERABLY
PI77361 Rational Performance Tester test generator specifying wrong Domain name in NTLMV2 test
PI84366 INCONSISTENCIES IN THE WEB ANALYTICS REPORT WHEN WORKSPACE IS ON A SHARED FOLDER
PI88672 SUBSTITUTING BOTH REQUEST HEADER NAME AND VALUE ISN'T WORKING CORRECTLY WITH Rational Performance Tester
PI88774 SETTINGS TABS NOT VISIBLE WHEN EDITING LARGE Rational Performance Tester WEB ANALYTICS PAGE PERFORMANCE REPORT
PI88857 Rational Performance Tester 9.1.1 MISHANDLES KERBEROS TICKET STRING
PI88883 EXECUTION EVENT CONSOLE "SHOW IN TEST LOG" OPTION DISABLED
PI89129 UNABLE TO VIEW EXPORTED HTML Rational Performance Tester 9.1.1 REPORT WHEN HOSTED ON WEB SERVER
PI89758 Rational Performance Tester 9.1.1 PLAYBACK HANGS BECAUSE OF INVALID SUBSTITUTION
PI91045 .NET REQUIREMENT FOR RQM ADAPTER IN Rational Performance Tester DOCUMENTATION IS INCORRECT

Mod Pack (9.1.1)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PI77951 Test Data Sources view allows substitution of Array Variables into normal HTTP requests and Web UI tests
PI79557 PLAYBACK TO HTTPS SITE FAILS, REPORTING "SSLENGINE IS CLOSING/CLOSED"
PI79643 Rational Performance Tester PLAYBACK HANGING ON PARTICULAR REQUEST DUE TO INVALID SUBSTITUTION
PI80141 Rational Performance Tester 9.1 DOESN'T DISPLAY HTTP OPTIONS ON LINUX SYSTEMS
PI81287 Rational Performance Tester DOESN'T RUN USER GROUPS WITH VERY SMALL PERCENTAGES
PI83418 PAGE PERFORMANCE TAB OF PERFORMANCE REPORT BECOMES NON-READABLE WHEN THE NUMBER OF PAGES ARE LARGE
PI83993 HTTP TEST GENERATION FROM A SIEBEL RECORDING FAILS WITH AN UNEXPECTED EXCEPTION
PI84419 CLIENT PROCESSING DELAY IS NOT EFFECTIVE, CAUSING REQUESTS TO BE ORDER
PI84913 Rational Performance Tester 9.0.1. CAN'T RECORD SECURE SITES WITH CHROME VERSION 58
PI85301 Rational Performance Tester VIRTUAL USERS EXITING ON ERRORS INSTEAD OF CONTINUING TO OUTERMOST LOOP
PI85887 MULTIPLE RATE GENERATORS PER USER DO NOT GIVE EXPECTED OUTCOME
PI85951 PLAYBACK OF SERVICE TEST STOPS SENDING REQUESTS AFTER RAMPING DOWN NUMBER OF USERS
PI86006 Rational Performance Tester PLAYBACK HANGS BECAUSE OF INVALID SUBSTITUTION
PI86850 WRONG USAGE OF THE MEMORY WHEN USING THE JAVA MQ PROTOCOL.

Fix Pack 1 (9.1.0.1)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PI78624 Rational Performance Tester reports NumberFormatException for unusually large max-age in Cache-Control
PI78858 Unable to export CSV report for Page Percentile Report
PI79785 Rational Performance Tester Export to CSV is incomplete for Page Element Performance Report (64077)
PI81131 SAP Long Run Mode ineffective when a script is run by ITCAM Agent
PI78178 Rational Performance Tester socket test not including some traffic from recording.

Initial Release (9.1)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PI70046 CITRIX OCR EXTRACTS AND DETECTS INCORRECT TEXT CAUSING IMAGE SYNCHRONIZATIONS TO FAIL
PI70462 Rational Performance Tester 9.0.1 AIX AGENT DIES DURING PLAYBACK START-UP
PI71994 Rational Performance Tester 9.0.1 EXPORT TO CSV MISSING INFORMATION FROM PREVIOUS VERSIONS
PI72451 Rational Performance Tester DOESN'T DISPLAY PLAYBACK RESULTS CORRECTLY IF SCHEDULE NAME CONTAINS AMPERSAND
PI72916 FIRational Service Tester for SOA Quality OPERAND IN AN IF CONDITION ELEMENT IS INVISIBLE IF ITS SOURCE IS SET TO A DATAPOOL VARIABLE
PI72938 COMPLETED AND TOTAL USERS COUNTS ARE INCORRECT FOR SOME COMPLETED PLAYBACKS
PI73161 UNABLE TO VIEW WEB ANALYTICS EXPORTED HTML Rational Performance Tester REPORT WHEN HOSTED ON WEB SERVER
PI73214 INCORRECT REGULAR EXPRESSION FOR SUBSTITUTION SITE IN ACCUMULATED RULE
PI74206 Rational Performance Tester SOCKET I/O RECORDER NOT AVAILABLE ON WINDOWS 2012 R2
PI75174 UNABLE TO RECORD SECURE SITES USING CHROME BROWSER BECAUSE OF BROKEN HTTPS ERROR
PI75483 SAP WEB DYNPRO DATA TRANSFORM CAUSES EXCESSIVE CPU USAGE DURING Rational Performance Tester PLAYBACK
PI76163 Rational Performance Tester 9.0.X REPORTS JAVASE-1.7 WARNING RELATED TO BUILD PATH

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9.0.1 Fix Pack 1
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PI67769 Rational Performance Tester 9.0 CRASHES WITH SEGMENTATION ERROR WITH JAVA 1.8 WORKBENCH ON RHEL 6.2 IS ALSO ATTACHED
PI69988 THE GENERIC SERVICE CLIENT PROPOSE NON WORKING ALGORITHM FOR THE XML NODES ( NON SOAP NODES INTO ENDPOINTS ).
PI70491 Rational Performance Tester AUTO-GENERATED PAGE TITLE VP FAILS ON SAP NETWEAVER WEB TEST
PI70516 Rational Performance Tester SIEBEL CORRELATION DOESN'T CORRECTLY HANDLE COMMA-SEPARATED ROWIDS
PI71496 ERROR WHILE EXPORTING A WEB REPORT SAVED IN A FOLDER WITH NON-ENGLISH UNICODE CHARACTERS
PI71994 Rational Performance Tester 9.0.1 EXPORT TO CSV MISSING INFORMATION FROM PREVIOUS VERSIONS
PI72033 Rational Performance Tester 9.0.1 WEB ANALYTICS REPORTS DON'T SHOW PAGE DATA
PI72108 Rational Performance Tester 9.0 LISTS SUPPORT FOR WINDOWS 10; Rational Performance Tester 9.0.1 DOES NOT

9.0.1 Mod Pack
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
IV84415 SECURE PAGES DON'T LOAD CORRECTLY IN BROWSER WHEN RECORDING WITH Rational Performance Tester PROXY RECORDER
PI48723 Rational Performance Tester DOESN'T USE 5 POOLED VIRTUAL TESTER PACK FLOATING LICENSE KEY
PI53114 Rational Performance Tester COMMAND LINE INTERMITTENTLY EXPORTS VP REPORT IN SIMPLE CSV FORMAT INSTEAD OF FULL CSV WHICH IS SPECIFIED IN PREFERENCES
PI53232 UNABLE TO ADD/REMOVE RESOURCE MONITORING COUNTERS INTO PERFORMANCE REPORTS AFTER COMPLETION OF RUN
PI58058 Rational Performance Tester WILL INTERMITTENTLY HANG WHEN ATTEMPTING TO EXPORT PAGE PERCENTILE REPORT
PI58804 PERFORMANCE REPORT CHARTS NOT RENDERED PROPERLY IN RED HAT WHEN A VNC VIEWER IS USED
PI59132 Rational Performance Tester TEST GENERATOR REPORT INTERNAL ERROR IF "GWT RPC TO XML" DATA TRANSFORM IS ENABLED
PI59394 Rational Performance Tester 8.7 DOES NOT REPORT FAILED RESPONSE CODE VP FOR UNEXPECTED 302 RESPONSE
PI59685 LOOP ITERATION RATE IN CLOUD SCHEDULE'S GENERATED AUDIT TEST INCORRECT AND DOESN'T MATCH THE SPECIFICATION
PI60095 THERE IS A LACK OF SUPPORT FOR WSDL 1.1 OVERLOADED METHODS FOR THE SOA EXTENSION.
PI60565 Rational Performance Tester 9.0 NOT WORKING WITH RTW PVU LICENSE FROM LICENSE SERVER
PI61192 Rational Performance Tester WEB REPORT DOESN'T USE PROPER DECIMAL SYMBOL FOR ITALIAN FORMAT
PI63447 MAJORDOMO MDSTART.SH AND MDSTOP.SH DON'T WORK AS EXPECTED ON RECENT LINUX VARIANTS
PI64305 HTTP PATCH REQUESTS ARE NOT PROPERLY HANDLED IN Rational Performance Tester
PI65293 ERROR HANDLING CONDITION FOR CONTENT VP NOT HONORED IN A SERVICES TEST
PI65536 DATAPOOL EDITOR THROWS EXCEPTION IN MAC OS
PI66184 Rational Performance Tester RECORDER NOT RECOGNIZING HTTPS TRAFFIC THROUGH PROXY SERVER DUE TO "200 OK" RESPONSE TO CONNECT
PI66335 CUSTOM VP COUNTER NOT LOGGED BY CUSTOM CODE ITESTLOGMANAGER METHOD REPORTVERIFICATIONPOINT(VERDICT)
PI67044 UNNECESSARY WS SECURITY VALIDATION ARE EXECUTED AGAINST THE SERVICES SOAP ANSWER FOR THE ENCRYPTEDKEYALGORITHM

9.0.0.2 Fix Pack
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PI60565 Rational Performance Tester 9.0 NOT WORKING WITH RTW PVU LICENSE FROM LICENSE SERVER
PI61720 Rational Performance Tester 9.0.0.1 TEST GENERATION FAILS WITH INTERNAL ERROR IF GWT DATA TRANSFORMATION ENABLED
IV84415 SECURE PAGES DO NOT LOAD CORRECTLY IN BROWSER WHEN RECORDING WITH Rational Performance Tester PROXY RECORDER

9.0.0.1 Fix Pack
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PI48723 Rational Performance Tester DOESN'T USE 5 POOLED VIRTUAL TESTER PACK FLOATING LICENSE KEY
PI58633 HTTP TEST GENERATION FAILS WITH AN EXCEPTION IF ANNOTATED WITH USER ACTIONS
PI59132 Rational Performance Tester TEST GENERATOR REPORT INTERNAL ERROR IF "GWT RPC TO XML" DATA TRANSFORM IS ENABLED
PI59394 Rational Performance Tester 8.7 DOES NOT REPORT FAILED RESPONSE CODE VP FOR UNEXPECTED 302 RESPONSE
PI59685 LOOP ITERATION RATE IN CLOUD SCHEDULE'S GENERATED AUDIT TEST INCORRECT AND DOESN'T MATCH THE SPECIFICATION
PI60095 THERE IS A LACK OF SUPPORT FOR WSDL 1.1 OVERLOADED METHODS FOR THE SOA EXTENSION.

Initial Release (9.0)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PI46890 Rational Performance Tester error "driver has reported a nok" when user group name contains comma
PI50199 Userinfo object unavailable in protocol extensions runtime when there are test variables defined in schedule or user group
PI50530 Citrix web-interface recording doesn't work when ica file is sent in chunked transfer-encoding
PI53194 \Name of http performance report csv file exported after schedule run is incorrect
PI53365 Test execution fails with java out of memory
PI53779 Find and substitute does not find more substitution sites
PI54651 Rational Performance Tester playback includes secure cookies with non-secure requests
PI55313 SSL configuration dialog does not propose the ok button.
PI55551 Cannot playback siebel test due to compilation errors
PI55739 Rational Performance Tester test editor search/replace doesn't replace when using regular expressions to search
PI57289 Rational Performance Tester HTTP test generator doesn't recognize set-cookie during ntlm negotiation as a serversuppliedcookie
PI58373 Rational Performance Tester 8.7 and later will not record HTTPS sites with less cipher suites abstract

Table of Contents: Release 8.7

Fix Pack 1 (8.7.1.1)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
IV77067 ITCAM unable to invoke CitrixRuntime.exe when space is in the path
IV77367 (ITCAM execution only) MQ Manager connections remain in the established state.
IV77895 In Rational Performance Tester test logs, VPs related to unexpected redirects appear under the wrong request.
PI50542 Unable to play back SAP and Citrix schedules on a 32-bit agent installed on 64-bit Windows
PI50576 Rational Performance Tester Socket recorder is not available on 64-bit Windows 8.1
PI50754 Rational Performance Tester handles expire on set-cookie differently than browser
PI51335 Rational Performance Tester doesn't handle options method correctly
PI51796 On Linux, Rational Performance Tester datasource reference link is not shown for variable assignments

8.7 Mod Pack 1
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PI25540 Content missing from test log of a schedule playback with user load of 200 or more
PI36193 Attempting to change the name of an rpt field reference results in npe
PI36200 Rational Performance Tester test editor gui doesn't update properly when removing field reference
PI36206 Rational Performance Tester test editor doesn't initially properly indicate field reference on large response
PI38489 No resource monitoring counters collected for rpt 8.7 command line playback
PI38878 Rational Performance Tester test generation fails for a session with entrust truepass
PI39894 The Rational Performance Tester workbench listens on an extra port
PI41669 When Rational Performance Tester is integrated with itcam, rpt http tests sometimes appear as gibberish
PI42360 Unable to open test artifacts in the test perspective
PI42512 Rational Performance Tester test editor does not correctly display some japanese text
PI42671 Rational Performance Tester intermittently reports 'syntax error on token "}"' for valid auto-generated java files
PI44063 In finnish locale, numbers are shown incorrectly for rpt reports generated through rqm
PI44207 Test generation fails with an exception during data transformation
PI46148 Rational Performance Tester test generator creates substitution using reference from later page

Fix Pack 2 (8.7.0.2)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PI37761 Rational Performance Tester sometimes doesn't preserve test variable substitutions with copying to a new test
PI37919 A mismatch between page element status code information in 'overall' and 'server health summary' tabs of performance reports
PI39471 Rational Performance Tester stops the execution of schedule finally block when delay encountered
PI40048 Rational Performance Tester "loop iteration details" incorrectly reports loop complete under some conditions
PI41991 IP address not correlated in ica contents of login object in citrix web-interface test
PI41572 Rational Performance Tester does not include data content when the delete method is used
PI42619 Class cast exception during the execution of an xml signature over a soap message.

Fix Pack 1 (8.7.0.1)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PI34106 IMPORTING RTB DATA FROM ITM RESULTS IN Rational Performance TesterW002019E ERRORS
PI35967 MESSAGE FOR FAILING EXIT TEST CONTENT VP IS NOT LOGGED
PI38159 ERROR HANDLING SETTINGS AT LOOP AND SCHEDULE LEVEL INCORRECT WHEN 8.6 ASSETS ARE IMPORTED AND UPGRADED TO 8.7
PI38230 Rational Performance Tester 8.7 DOESN'T HONOR ERROR HANDLING ON FAILED CONTENT VP
PI40540 Split HTTP Page action doesn't work

Initial Release (8.7)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PI27151 USER COMMENTS FIELD NOT VISIBLE IN NON-DEFAULT TIME RANGE REPORT'S SUMMARY TAB
PI28609 CITRIX PLAYBACK WAITS FOR IMAGE SYNCHRONIZATION TIMEOUT IN SPITE OF SUCCEEDING BEFORE THE TIMEOUT
PI29352 Rational Performance Tester HTTP RECORDING AND PLAYBACK SHOULD SUPPORT TLS 1.1 AND TLS 1.2
PI30457 HTTP TEST GENERATION FAILS WITH MESSAGE "A RESOURCE PROBLEM OCCURRED"
PI30808 COOKIE WITH "SECURE= " ATTRIBUTE NOT SET DURING Rational Performance Tester PLAYBACK
PI30932 Rational Performance Tester DOES NOT CORRECTLY SET COOKIE CONTAINING HYPER-ASCII CHARACTERS
PI31132 Rational Performance Tester DESTROYS EXISTING TEST WHEN ATTEMPTING TO SAVE CORRELATION CHANGES
PI31355 DISCREPANCIES IN THE REPORTING OF CITRIX IMAGE SYNCHRONIZATIONS AND IMAGE SYNCHRONIZATION VPS
PI31456 UNABLE TO RECORD CITRIX APPLICATIONS PUBLISHED WITH A MINIMUM REQUIREMENT OF 128BIT ENCRYPTION
PI31505 ATTEMPTING TO IMPORT RESPONSE TIME BREAKDOWN DATA GENERATES ERRORS
PI31835 CITRIX WEB INTERFACE TEST GENERATION FAILS WITH NULLPOINTEREXCEPTION
PI31998 Rational Performance Tester CSV EXPORT OF REPORT COUNTERS SOMETIMES REPEATS TIMESTAMPS
PI33247 TIME STAMP INTO THE TEST LOG EVENTS FOR CALLS AND RETURNS SHOULD REFLECT THE START OF THE OPERATIONS.
PI33790 Rational Performance Tester GENERATION OF GWT TEST FAILING WITH ARRAYINDEXOUTOFBOUNDSEXCEPTION
PI33834 AGENT STATUS WINDOW CANNOT DISPLAY MORE THAN ~30 CONNECTED AGENTS
PM98364 CITRIX WFICA32.EXE DOESN'T EXIT AFTER VU COMPLETES IN A SCHEDULE IN LONG RUN MODE

Table of Contents: Release 8.6


Fix Pack 2 (8.6.0.2)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PI26389 Rational Performance Tester running less users than requested when schedule has many percentage-based User Groups
PI26634 USING MOVE TO MOVE Rational Performance Tester PLAYBACK RESULTS SOMETIMES CAUSES INVALID
PI26694 VERIFICATION POINT FAIL COUNT PER INTERVAL PLOTTED INCORRECTLY
PI26994 Rational Performance Tester incorrectly interprets cookie expiration dates like 21-Sep-44.
PI28189 SYNC POINT TIMEOUT IN COMPOUND TEST CAN'T BE CHANGED
PI28477 Rational Performance Tester IMPROPERLY ENCODES & IN GENERATED SECONDARY REQUEST
PI28702 MULTIPLE SUBSTITUTION ON THE QUERY DOES NOT WORK FOR XPATH
PI28855 Authorization header not inserted in an HTTP request for Basic Authentication during Test playback
PI29071 Rational Performance Tester NEEDS TO ALLOW LATEST JCIFS-1.3.18.JAR FOR NTLMV2
PI29104 Rational Performance Tester INCORRECTLY DETERMINING CACHING WHEN BOTH EXPIRES AND MAX-AGE ARE PRESENT

Fix Pack 1 (8.6.0.1)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PI25121 Rational Performance Tester HTTP recorder is not able to connect to specific SSL site.
PI26299 For long username and password, the HTTP basic authentication might not be recognized by the server.
PI22345 Unable to collect WebSphere PMI resource monitoring data if the server requires 256-bit SSL ciphers.
PI19064 Agent JVM Crashes due to abnormal exit of a Citrix module in Windows 2008 R2.
PI25719 User-defined Content VP Strings disabled in the test editor view continues to get evaluated.
PI21945 Events stop getting displayed on Execution Event Console after prolonged use of workspace.
PI25401 Substitute menu shows "Array Variable Declaration" instead of the actual array variable name.
PI25286 Rational Performance Tester schedule playback start-up hangs after successful playback.
PI21390 Reference to "Creating a digital certificate store" contains false information.
PI25188 Rational Performance Tester test generator discards non-standard Authorization request headers.
PI23708 Substitution into request headers does not work for generated secondary requests.
PI24261 Cut/Paste not working for Regular Expression in Rational Performance Tester 8.6 Reference Properties.
PI25132 Rational Performance Tester incorrectly invalidated some cached content if the response contained any references.
PI23557 Disable install of Citrix and OCR packages in Windows 64-bit.

Initial Release (8.6)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PI06544 Rational Performance Tester web reports do not display data under MOzilla Firefox v25
PI08099 javaw.exe doesn't terminate at end of cmd line playback; stuck in Stats export
PI12537 Rational Performance Tester does not collect resource monitoring counters from weblogic 10.3.6
PI14904 Test playback initialization fails for TN3270 tests which have reference variable created on screen content
PI15156 Rational Performance Tester doesn't apply preferences loaded using eclipse pluginCustomization command line option
PI15405 Rational Performance Tester should allow 303 (in addition to 301, 302, 304) as a relaxed match for a 200 response code VP
PI15494 Remote Agent gets unresponsive after SAP GUI starts generating errors
PI16992 When caching is enabled, Rational Performance Tester reports a failed content VP for a response with does not have a content VP.
PI17482 Rational Performance Tester test generator incorrectly omits a request which receives a 401 response code and is not resubmitted with authorization.
PI17644 Rational Performance Tester "EXPORT REPORT COUNTERS TO CSV" sometimes specifies "-" in time column of exported data.
PI18089 Rational Performance Tester playback JVM memory grows unexpectedly for looped SSL test
PI18306 Custom VP in TN3270/SOCKET test not executed if the test log not enabled
PI19679 Test generation from a citrix recording fails with an unexpected exception
PI20021 SOA stubs compute incorrectly for content-length
PI20451 Siebel playback reports nullpointerexception on attempted substitution
PI20893 Cannot select "RECORDING METHOD" with Rational Performance Tester 8.5.1.2 on Windows XP 64-BIT
PI21451 Highlighting of substitutions in post data is missing when the request is opened via double-clicking on a search result.
PI21470 Rational Performance Tester test playback hangs with line speed control used with caching
PM96784 Unable to add User Comments on a test report

Table of Contents: Release 8.5


Fix Pack 3 (8.5.1.3)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PI08148 Unhelpful error messages if Rational Performance Tester is started in workspace used by RFT
PI08148 Rational Performance Tester DCI instrumentation does not recognize WAS version if installed with non-English language pack
PI09018 Counters for rstatd not getting plotted on the line chart on the Resources tab on runtime
PI11074 The encoding used for the test log is not the 'raw ascii' encoding expected by the Binary editor.
PI11235 StringIndexOutOfBound Exception if Rational Performance Tester identifies a datapool candidate at the beginning of text data in HTTP Requests
PI11413 Nested error handling not behaving as expected
PI11335 Schedule execution fails at codegen if test name contains white spaces
PI11472 Test Editor doesn't highlight newly created references in the response content
PI12093 Unexpectedly large heap growth in playback JVM (with custom code hotfix installed)
PI12233 Add/Remove Resource Counters doesn't work in Rational Performance Tester 8.5.1.1 or Rational Performance Tester 8.5.1.2
PI12388 java.lang.NullPointerException generated by Test Editor on clicking custom code entries in Services test
PI13316 Rational Performance Tester 8.5.1.x Page Percentile Report intermittently hangs
PI13297 Response Size VPs fail if a test has the same request multiple times and the server responds differently each time
PI13380 Progress Bar messages 'Closing Performance Test Run' every time workbench is opened
PI13658 Abnormal behavior after Test Editor removes highlighting of substitutions in URLs
PI13855 Rational Performance Tester Protocol Data View Browser triggers ActiveX error dialog, hanging Rational Performance Tester
PI13940 Schedule execution fails with NOCLASSDEFFOUNDERROR exception if the test script has a dependency on the external JAR file.
PI14336 Rational Performance Tester mis-calculated content length for a particular post with a substitution in the content

Fix Pack 2 (8.5.1.2)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PI06746 Rational Performance Tester doesn't correctly handle datapools created via Copy/Paste
PI07026 Rational Performance Tester 8.5.1 Test Editor still much less responsive than Rational Performance Tester 8.3.0.3 Test Editor for large responses
PI07419 Rational Performance Tester 8.5.1 reports AMF transform error for POST content that worked with Rational Performance Tester 8.3.0.3
PI07615 SAP Web Dynpro XML Encoding to Ascii data transform causes truncation of response in the test
PI08007 Regular expression generated for manually added substitution is incorrect
PI08033 Transaction Net server Time not collected for SAP tests
PI08567 Rational Service Tester for SOA Quality - Pass/Fail and other text are missing in a functional report when the external web is not accessible
PI08698 When Rational Performance Tester 8.3 HTTP test is moved to Rational Performance Tester 8.5, error handling loop selection incorrectly specifies OUTER_LOOP
PI09019 Built-in variables data not updated when looping through the test
PI09181 java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: Array index out of range: 20000000 for large responses
PI10282 Substitution (Binary Content) is not executed when a resource proxy is used for the binary content.
PI10739 Over time, JVM heap size of playback engine grows in almost linear rate even though the workload is being repeated
PI10876 Unable to open reports with an error indicating no valid statistical data for all_hosts location
PI11011 Rational Performance Tester Siebel Message Bar page missing primary request
PM98977 Rational Performance Tester Resources graph counter selection deficient for ITM counters from multiple sources

Fix Pack 1 (8.5.1.1)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PM91459 NPE generated when using the XML Tree View with XSD schema validation engaged

Mod Pack 1 (8.5.1)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PI06846 Rational Performance Tester run from command line not reliably running 2 tests, one after the other
PM91459 Rational Performance Tester's Search (Ctrl-H) fails for Test Log Search
PM92978 Rational Performance Tester Proxy recorder unable to record HTTPS sites when the browser uses NTLMv2 authenticated proxy server
PM93649 Rational Performance Tester playback hangs on 16th attempt to access page requiring digital certificate
PM94414 Rational Performance Tester Test Editor takes a very long time to show Search match in HTTP test with large responses
PM94464 Protocol Data Viewer displays message box about ActiveX control and freezes
PM94976 Rational Performance Tester 8.3 fixpack 1 exit iteration on error not working correctly
PM95398 Problem specifying binary byte in Socket Receive regular expression
PM95627 Data Transformation (JsoAdapter) on Java Serialized Object throws an exception due to Invalid Content
PM95730 RTB data not available if request URL is modified by datapool substitution
PM96051 Misleading "Test Connection" link appears in Rational Performance Tester 8.3 and later Locations
PM96236 Unable to pick up individual percentile reports for "All Pages" and Page names not indicated in percentile reports
PM96538 Rational Performance Tester warns of "Conflicting requirements" for performance requirements that aren't actually conflicting
PM96650 Rational Performance Tester test generator not placing requests in correct transaction or page
PM96907 SAP Server Request Timeout resets to 3mins during test playback if a value larger than 30 mins is entered
PM97559 Recording of Firefox on 64-bit Windows 2003 fails
PM97678 Protocol Data Viewer doesn't display complete data while viewing long requests and responses
PM97700 Chrome browser not enabled for Rational Performance Tester recording on 64-bit Win 2003 even though installed
PM98978 Rational Performance Tester playback will unexpectedly delay a minute or more when "proxy-connection: close" appears in the response headers
PM99552 Plugin Test Core Plugin (com.ibm.rational.test.lt.core) has no valid license to run

Fix Pack 2 (8.5.0.2)
Link Date Released Status

There are no new defects resolved in this release.

  • The Rational Service Tester for SOA Quality 8.5.0.2 release is recommended if you want to shell share Rational Service Tester with the 8.5.0.2 versions of either IBM Rational Performance Tester or the Rational Test Workbench Eclipse Client component of IBM Rational Test Workbench.
  • The Rational Performance Tester 8.5.0.2 release is targeted solely for clients using Rational Test Workbench, Rational Performance Test Server or Rational Test Virtualization Server.

Fix Pack 1 (8.5.0.1)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PM85291 RTB for WAS 8.0 and Weblogic 10.x - ERROR: "iWAY0159E The data collection infrastructure does not appear to be running"
PM87635 Rational Performance Tester intermittently hangs when trying to generate Page Percentile report
PM89113 Execution of soa extension test suite can 'stop' without warning or errors.
PM89723 Rational Performance Tester including cookie on request even though it doesn't match Path in Set-Cookie
PM90127 Rational Performance Tester Proxy Recorder can't record SSL sites through HTTP proxy server if proxy server replies "Connection Established"
PM90207 Apache Rampart 1.6.2 should allow to define wsu:nonce and wsu:created for UsernameToken with a password type = text
PM90721 XML Escaped characters in a the regular expression for a reference is changed to unescaped form by Rational Performance Tester
PM90723 Rational Performance Tester Throws error - "value is not unique enough to generate a reference" - during manual correlation
PM91272 Migrated SOA extension tests from 8.2.1 release cannot be updated.
PM91329 Rational Performance Tester will eventually run out of memory when data correlation wizard is used on results of GWT test
PM91891 The Service Test, test generation preferences are not used when the test is generated.
PM91899 Rational Performance Tester sends wrong data when encrypted datapool used in test running in schedule
PM92502 WSDL Security Editor, associated algorithm stack is not preserved when the configuration is saved.
PM92550 When a policy is updated ( on the keystore side ) updated parameters are not used within the workbench session
PM93243 The code of method postDataClass_68(HTTPPostData) is exceeding the 65535 bytes limit" error on Rational Performance Tester playback
PM93355 Each Rational Performance Tester 8.5 project reports "Build path specifies execution environment JavaSE-1.6" warning
PM94622 Rational Performance Tester 8.5 playback hangs on Test Log Transfer if secure communication used with agent
PM95038 Unable to launch RTW Eclipse Client v8.5 with Floating license support

Initial Release (8.5)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PM81128 The processor time of a process that Rational Performance Tester monitors never exceed 100
PM84101 Socket Recording throws the error: "Dynamic_launcher64.exe - Entry point not found" under Win2003 64 bit
PM87631 Rational Performance Tester 8302: Using Watch Virtual User causes memory leak
PM88462 Unable to enter more than 1800000ms (30 mins) from SAP Server Request Timeout value field in Rational Performance Tester

Table of Contents: Release 8.3


Fix Pack 3 (8.3.0.3)
Link Date Released Status
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 Rational Performance Tester 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 Rational Performance Tester 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 Rational Performance Tester: SAPGui component could not be instantiated - MajorDomo service not able to generate SAP load
PM85090 Rational Performance Tester 8.3.0.2 unable to record secure site that works successfully in Rational Performance Tester 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 Rational Performance Tester can't make connection when unexpectedly redirected to non-secure URL from secure connection
PM86761 Rational Performance Tester 8.3 recording reports error on client certificate generated with Sun Java 6
PM86948 Rational Performance Tester 8.3.0.x locks up the computer when attempting to view large correlated response in Test Editor on Windows Server 2008

Fix Pack 2 (8.3.0.2)
Link Date Released Status
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 "Rational Performance TesterA4040IE 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

Fix Pack 1 (8.3.0.1)
Link Date Released Status
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, rptMaxResponseSizeRational Performance Tester, specified in Rational Performance Tester_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

Initial Release (8.3)
Link Date Released Status
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 Rational Performance Tester 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

Table of Contents: Release 8.2


Fix Pack 5 (8.2.1.5)
Link Date Released Status
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.

Interim Fix 1 (8.2.1.4_001)
Link Date Released Status
Defect Description
13696 (Internal) Error message when recording: BASE64 input is invalid because it is the wrong size

Fix Pack 4 (8.2.1.4)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PM58338 TN3270 timeout at replay when receiving blank screen through PA1 key
PM61467 Unexpected screen content in TN3270 Rational Performance Tester 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

Fix Pack 3 (8.2.1.3)
Link Date Released Status
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

Fix Pack 2 (8.2.1.2)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PM51009 Inconsistent Spanish translations in Rational Performance Tester 8.2 help
PM51490 SOA test log report should expose actual and expected extended properties
PM52333 Rational Performance Tester "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 Rational Performance Tester 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 Rational Performance Tester is incorrectly setting URL Encode on substitution in URI
PM56539 StoreICA custom code not generated when it should be
PM56619 Rational Performance Tester stops too many users when transitioning to stage with less users, causing error
PM56968 Rational Performance Tester 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 Rational Performance Tester always creates new project in default location even if different directory specified
PM57711 Unrestrained heap size growth possible in Rational Performance Tester playback engine when caching enabled

Fix Pack 1 (8.2.1.1)
Link Date Released Status
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 Rational Performance Tester 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 Rational Performance Tester workbench IP to agent controller

Mod Pack 1 (8.2.1)
Link Date Released Status
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 Rational Service Tester for SOA Quality: 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 Rational Performance Tester 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 Rational Performance Tester 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 Rational Performance Tester incorrectly parsing Set-Cookie with commas in value: preferences=TicketColumns=0,SortColumn1=1,SortOrder1= ...
PM49805 Rational Performance Tester playback reports "Driver has reported a RUNFAIL status" when user added to Absolute group
PM50019 Rational Performance Tester test generation takes almost 40 times longer in Rational Performance Tester 8.2.0.5 vs 8.1.1.2 due to auto data correlation
PM50284 Rational Performance Tester checkout of VT license keys uses random user IDs
PM50903 Putting test assets under source control
PM53669 Rational Performance Tester reports NPE for Siebel Message Bar

Fix Pack 6 (8.2.0.6)
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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 Rational Performance Tester not setting cookie like IE when "secure" is supplied twice in Set-Cookie
PM46104 ITCAMfRT Siebel transactions reported incorrectly with Rational Performance Tester 8.1.1.1 and later
PM47027 Application hangs at specific point when recording in Rational Performance Tester with IE8
PM47709 SiebelSubstituter no longer works in 8.2.0.x

Fix Pack 5 (8.2.0.5)
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APAR Description
PM30165 Rational Performance Tester 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 Rational Performance Tester 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.

Fix Pack 4 (8.2.0.4)
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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 an SAP GUI connection is lost
PM33894 Compilation failing with "Too many constants, the constant pool for would exceed 65536 entries"
PM34846 Rational Performance Tester 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 The proxy-based recording could skip parts of the traffic and perturbate recorded application behavior
PM37259 Rational Performance Tester playback using same SSL Session ID for different virtual users
PM38827 Limited edition steps with the Form View

Fix Pack 3 (8.2.0.3)
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APAR Description
PM28684 Rational Performance Tester 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 Rational Performance Tester test generation fails due to WWW-Authenticate without authentication scheme
PM29965 Rational Performance Tester playback doesn't handle Set-cookie with an embedded comma in its value
PM30065 org.apache.axiom.soap.SOAPProcessingException: Transport level information does not match
PM30705 Rational Performance Tester 8.2 test generator not handling Japanese annotations
PM31090 Rational Performance Tester WAS instrumentation incorrectly parses server.xml generic JVM arguments
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 "Rational Performance TesterO0002I Exception encountered: java.lang.NullPointerException"
PM32382 Stub server could serve WSDL files with incorrect
PM32451 Rational Service Tester for SOA Quality could fail at retrieving JMS or MQ response messages of String type if the Text Message option is selected
PM32526 NullPointerException during .rec conversation for test generation

Fix Pack 2 (8.2.0.2)
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APAR Description
PM26331 Rational Performance Tester workbench crashes when trying to use floating license from 7.x license server
PM20604 SSL connections failing with "Algorithm missing" when testing more than 40 users with Rational Performance Tester
PM24328 Playback JVM memory growth for certain types of Test Log logging
PM28477 Rational Performance Tester cannot checkout 100,000 virtual user license keys

Fix Pack 1 (8.2.0.1)
Link Date Released Status

Initial Release (8.2)
Link Date Released Status
APAR Description
PK84582 Deleting Rational Performance Tester results doesn't always remove them from the Test Navigator view
PK93506 Sync points still show up "Existing Synchronization Points" after being removed
PK96127 The start time for playback reported in Stats is earlier than the first event in Test Log
PM06661 Bugzilla 302322: Clicking on the page name in test causes ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException ONLY on Linux
PM09783 Rational Performance Tester recording will hang on SSL site through NTLM-authenticated Squid proxy server
PM13862 Spanish text on Page Throughput Report is incorrectly translated
PM17579 Rational Performance Tester allows % in schedule name when doing Save As
PM21223 JSO transform not working for POST multipart/form-data content
PM21507 Test generation fails 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

Original Publication Date

25 March 2024

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Document Information

Modified date:
25 March 2024

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