Rational® Test Control Panel upgrade information and requirements
Before you upgrade Rational® Test Control Panel, learn about the general and release-specific considerations and instructions for the upgrade.
No direct upgrade paths to the latest version are supported. To upgrade Rational® Integration Tester, Rational® Test Control Panel or Rational® Integration Tester Agent packages to the latest version, uninstall any previously installed version and install the latest version. For install instructions, see Installing the product software.
Enabling HTTPS and changing the ports
If you upgrade from 9.1.0 or later, all communications with Rational® Test Control Panel by default use HTTP on port 7819. To use HTTPS by default during the upgrade of the Rational® Test Control Panel software, you must use the Install option in IBM® Installation Manager and click Check for Other Versions, Fixes, and Extensions in the Install Packages dialog; otherwise, you continue to use HTTP on port 7819.
You can change the port number and enable HTTPS even after the installation. For details, see Configuring the server HTTP Endpoint.
Reusing the workspace
Before you upgrade, or uninstall an older version to move to a newer version (when the upgrade is not applicable), back up the Rational® Test Control Panel workspace. The workspace is the directory where Rational® Test Control Panel stores its data (for example, published stubs), which is separate from the installation directory. After the upgrade or uninstallation, the contents of the workspace directory might change to work with the newer version of Rational® Test Control Panel. Because Installation Manager supports rolling back the Rational® Test Control Panel installation directory, but not the workspace directory, you must manually roll back the workspace while rolling back the installation.
To preserve your Rational® Test Control Panel workspace (published stubs, user configuration, domains, and environments) when you uninstall the previous version, ensure that you do not select the option to remove the workspace. When you install the latest version, ensure that the workspace directory is set to the same location as your existing workspace.
The uninstallation of Rational® Test Control Panel version 8.5 and later specifies the location of the workspace directory. Make note of this directory. For versions earlier than 8.5, the uninstaller does not provide this information.
Rational® Test Control Panel installation
directory\usr\servers\defaultServer\apps\RTCP.war\WEB-INF\classes
directory. Look
for the line that contains the workingDirectory
key. For example: - On Windows,
workingDirectory=C\:\\IBM®\\RTCP-Workspace
- Non-Windows,
workingDirectory=/var/rtcp