Release notes for IBM® Rational® Integration Tester

Tools page

The list of agents changed for a release was updated. Review the Tools page of Rational® Test Control Panel to see each tool and the version that it was last changed.

The latest version of the agents is displayed

The IBM WebSphere MQ agent for z/OS and IBM CICS DPL agent now display the latest version when they are started. The latest MQ agent and CICS DPL agent have the same functions as the previous version of agents. Therefore, you need not upgrade them to the latest agent versions.

Previously, when you published stubs to Rational® Test Control Panel that contained the git directories in a compressed folder, the performance of Rational® Test Control Panel was affected.

Now, the git directories are not included in the compressed folder when you publish stubs and thus the performance of Rational® Test Control Panel is enhanced.

You can use a sample application that is in the same cluster as Rational® Test Automation Server to record the HTTP traffic through the Istio service mesh to and from the sample application. Recording the Istio traffic in Rational® Integration Tester is a Tech Preview feature.

To achieve the recording of the Istio traffic, you must install Rational® Test Automation Server by using the demo configuration, and then install the Bookinfo application in a namespace called bookinfo on the same Kubernetes cluster as Rational® Test Automation Server. You must configure a physical web server in Rational® Integration Tester that enables you to record the requests from and to the service that are generated when the Bookinfo application is run. You can then create stubs from these recorded events in Rational® Integration Tester and then run the stubs as virtual services on Rational® Test Automation Server instead of the actual service.

Rational® Integration Tester now supports GraphQL schemas to be used in GraphQL queries or mutations in messages. You can either use the predefined GraphQL schemas or add custom-defined GraphQL schemas to messages.

You can build GraphQL queries or GraphQL mutations in messages based on the GraphQL schema that you add from the Schema Library view. You can also paste the GraphQL queries or mutations into the message editor and the schema is recognized by Rational® Integration Tester as a GraphQL schema.

You can send GraphQL messages either as Query Parameters without a message body or messages that have either a JSON body or a GraphQL body.

You can also perform negative testing when you have an externally defined schema. See GraphQL schema overview.

JSONPath is a query language for JSON. Similar to XPath for XML, a JSONPath expression specifies a path to an element which can be stored for subsequent usage or validated. You can now use JSONPath expressions within a Store action, Validate action, or the legacy/ECMAScript built-in function to query the JSON data. You can also use the option to generate JSONPath actions when treating a JSON node as plain text.

Previously, you were able to synchronize the resources on integration servers that were connected to IBM® App Connect Enterprise integration nodes from Rational® Integration Tester.

Now, you can connect Rational® Integration Tester directly to a stand-alone integration server and synchronize the resources by using the synchronization feature.

IBM® Rational® Quality Manager V7 is now referred as IBM® Engineering Test Management. Rational® Integration Tester is enhanced to supportIBM® Engineering Test Management V7.

Previously, you manually configured an OpenID Connect refresh token for an HTTP transport, which the transport used to obtain an access token at test runtime.

Now, you can use an authorization server to obtain the refresh token, the generated token is received by a configurable local URI and added to the transport.

You can now sign, encrypt, and decrypt the individual fields in a SOAP message body by using the Web Service-Security feature in Rational® Integration Tester. See Encrypting SOAP messages and Adding signatures.

Previously, the Maximum Optional Fields limit that you set for messages in the project preferences was also applied to the number of optional nodes displayed for a schema in the Schema Library view. This behavior is changed.

The maximum number of optional nodes that are displayed in the Schema Library view is now limited to 500 and cannot be changed. The limit that is set as the project preferences is applied to other areas such as in the Schema Selector menu.

-Dhttp.reenable.deprecated.rootresourcepath.processing=true

The same limitations that led to the deprecation and ultimate removal of the feature still apply. The configuration can be seen in the transport panel but cannot be edited in transports where this configuration was used.

You can now configure a proxy server for the file transport in Rational® Integration Tester for both FTP and SFTP protocols. You can configure the proxy type that supports either an HTTP or SOCKS protocol.

You can now use a new line character in field editor names so that the text is displayed in different lines.

Db2 z/OS stubs now display warnings when they encounter unsupported cursor types.