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Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install Rational® Performance Tester. After you install the product, you can perform administration tasks such as license configuration and integration with other products. This guide is intended for administrators.
Configuration of the product
You must configure Rational® Performance Tester when you want to run SAP tests, collect response time breakdown data, or use the product in the Docker container.
Configuring the environment for SAP tests
Some of the capabilities of service tests require that you manually install additional libraries and files or that you configure some elements of the test environment.
Configuring the environment for batch input tests
To play back SAP batch input tests, you must install the SAP Java™ Connector (JCo) libraries provided by SAP on local and remote computers running the IBM® Rational® Performance Tester agent.

Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install Rational® Performance Tester. After you install the product, you can perform administration tasks such as license configuration and integration with other products. This guide is intended for administrators.
- Installation of Rational® Performance Tester
  Installing the product involves verifying requirements, planning, managing licenses, and configuring web-based help. This section lists all such topics.
- License management
  Licensing for your installed IBM® software and customized packages is administered through the Manage Licenses wizard in the IBM Installation Manager. The Manage Licenses wizard displays license information for each installed package.
- Product upgrade and migration
  No upgrade is supported to the current major version of the product. You must uninstall the existing version of the product before installing the latest version of the product.
- Configuration of the product
  You must configure Rational® Performance Tester when you want to run SAP tests, collect response time breakdown data, or use the product in the Docker container.
  - Configuring the environment for SAP tests
    Some of the capabilities of service tests require that you manually install additional libraries and files or that you configure some elements of the test environment.
    - Configuring SAP for performance testing
      Performance test recording and execution requires scripting to be enabled on the SAP application server and on all SAP GUI clients that are installed on remote computers. The following instructions are for SAP version 6.40 and might vary with other versions. Refer to SAP documentation for further information.
    - Configuring the environment for batch input tests
      To play back SAP batch input tests, you must install the SAP Java™ Connector (JCo) libraries provided by SAP on local and remote computers running the IBM® Rational® Performance Tester agent.
  - Configuring the data collection infrastructure
    If you want to collect response time breakdown data from remote computers used in distributed applications, you must install and configure the data collection infrastructure on the remote computers.
  - Configuring Docker containers
    Instead of reading through system requirements list and installing the products, you can now deploy the Docker containers on any computer and get started with testing. To automate playing back tests, you can push the product images to the Docker container.
  - Configuring IBM® Cloud Private
    To make use of automated workflows in IBM® Cloud Private, you can install it and push the Docker containers to it.
- Integration with other products
  You can integrate Rational® Performance Tester with certain products to run tests, manage test assets, and create defects.

Configuring the environment for batch input tests

To play back SAP batch input tests, you must install the SAP Java™ Connector (JCo) libraries provided by SAP on local and remote computers running the IBM® Rational® Performance Tester agent.

Before you begin

The following files are required:

sapjco3.jar
sapjco3.dll

Contact SAP for instructions on obtaining these files.

On each local and remote computer used for running batch input tests and schedules, you must prepare an environment with these libraries, set the class path of the Java™ Runtime Environment (JRE) that the Rational® Performance Tester Agent uses.

Procedure

To configure a computer for SAP batch input tests:

Copy sapjco3.jar into the jre/lib/ext directory of the JRE.

By default, this is the following directory: C:\Program Files\IBM\SDP\jdk\jre\lib\ext.
Copy sapco3.dll into the C:\Windows\System32 directory. If you are using a 64 bit machine, you must copy the file to C:\Windows\SysWOW64.
Click Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services, and then stop and restart the Majordomo service.

What to do next

When running a simple SAP batch input test, results should appear in the Batch Input Transaction Rate page of the SAP performance report. If not, look at the test log for connection and transaction execution information.