Release notes for IBM® Rational® Performance Tester

Rational® Performance Tester is a scripting-free environment for automating load and scalability testing of web, ERP, and server-based software applications. Rational® Performance Tester provides rich and customizable reporting to help you identify the presence and cause of system bottlenecks. It captures the network traffic that is rendered when the application under test interacts with a server. This network traffic is then emulated on multiple virtual users while playing back the test. See Product overview.

This release replaces IBM® Rational® Performance Tester 10.2.1 and includes all updates made in the 10.2.1 release.

These vulnerabilities are associated with the Rational® Performance Tester Apache JMeter™ Test Extension. Although the log4j libraries that are installed with the Apache JMeter Test Extension are never loaded by Rational® Performance Tester, the presence of log4j-core-2.11 might concern customers. Rational® Performance Tester 10.2.1 iFix1 removes the Apache Log4j version 2 library from Rational® Performance Tester.

For more information about remediation instructions, refer to Security Bulletin: Rational Performance Tester (RPT).

If you installed Rational® Performance Tester 9.5.0 or later, you must upgrade to Rational® Performance Tester 10.2.1 iFix1 unless you have used Installation Manager to modify the installation to remove the Apache JMeter Test Extension. For upgrade instructions, see Updating Rational Performance Tester.

• Support to add labels from the command-line interface

  You can now add labels by using a new parameter called -labels to test results when you run test assets from the command-line interface. See Running a test or schedule from a command line.

• The execution agent is now renamed as the UI Test Agent

  The execution agent that was delivered along with Rational® Performance Tester Agent 10.2.0 is now renamed as the UI Test Agent. Previously, you started the execution agent manually in 10.2.0. Now, the UI Test Agent is started automatically after the installation of Rational® Performance Tester Agent.

• Bug fixes

  Fixed customer-reported and internally found defects.

To download the product from IBM® Passport Advantage®, you must follow the instructions provided in the download document at Rational® Performance Tester 10.2.1.

For installation instructions, see Installation of the product by using IBM Installation Manager.

Known problems are documented in the download document for each product and in the form of individual technotes in the Support Knowledge Base:

The knowledge base is continually updated as problems are discovered and resolved. By searching the knowledge base, you can quickly find workarounds or solutions to problems.

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