Release notes for IBM Rational Performance Test Server

Product description

Rational® Performance Test Server is an automated performance testing product that includes capabilities to create and run performance tests. See Rational Performance Test Server overview.

What's new

You can find information about the features introduced in this release of Rational® Performance Test Server and Rational® Integration Tester.

The following sections list the new features, enhancements, or other changes made in this release.

Rational® Test Automation Server

For information about Rational® Test Automation Server, see Release notes.
Rational® Test Control Panel
- 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 IBM® z/OS® andIBM® 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.
Technologies
- Recording and stubbing calls to Db2 on z/OS without configuring the Profile Service
  You can now record and stub calls made from batch jobs to Db2 on z/OS without configuring the Profile Service.
- Configuring the log levels of Test Suites
  You can now configure the level of information in messages in tests contained in a Test Suite that are to be written to the results database. You can select only the summary information about the messages to be written or select the details about the messages to be written to the results database that include information in the headers and body of the messages.
  See Test Suites: Overview and tasks.
- Support for running multiple CTG/DPL-based stubs
  When you want to run multiple stubs, you can now specify the port and bind address to be used for CICS Transaction Gateway and Distributed Program Link stubs within the physical resource definition.
- Specifying a project to delete results in the results database from the command line
  You can now specify a project as an option in the command line to delete the results of tests in a project that are stored in the results database configured for that project.
  See Deleting historical test results data by using the command line.
- Enhanced Jenkins plugins to run tests from a Jenkins pipeline project
  The Rational Integration Tester Jenkins plugins are enhanced so that you can now run tests as a job in a Jenkins Pipeline project.
  You can also view the test results by using the Test Results Analyzer feature in Jenkins if you have installed the Test Results Analyzer plugin in Jenkins.
  See Rational Integration Tester and Jenkins.
- Setting the timeout for IMS Connect virtual service connections
  You can now set the time after which the connections to the IMS Connect virtual services are disconnected when the connections are idle or are not used.
- The MQTT transport is enhanced
  The limitation that existed in earlier versions of the specification which prevented the use of client IDs with more than 23 characters is removed in 10.2.2.
- HTTP tests automatically decompress data
  HTTP tests now automatically decompress data that were compressed by using the Brotli encoding format.

Deprecated capabilities

You can find information about the capabilities that are deprecated in this release and are planned for a removal in a future release.

Note: You can contact the IBM Support team if you have any concerns.

No capabilities are deprecated in this release.

Removed capabilities

Support for the following operating systems or supported software that were announced in previous releases as deprecated are removed in this release:

No capabilities are removed in this release.

Installing and upgrading

You can find information about the installation and upgrade instructions for Rational® Performance Test Server and Rational® Test Control Panel.

Installing Rational® Performance Test Server

For information about installation, see Installing Rational Performance Test Server.

Installing Rational® Test Control Panel

For information about installation, see Installing Rational Test Control Panel.

Upgrading Rational® Performance Test Server

If you use Installation Manager, you can find the upgrade requirements in Upgrading Rational Integration Tester Agent.

Upgrading Rational® Test Control Panel

If you use Installation Manager, you can find the upgrade requirements in Rational Test Control Panel upgrade information and requirements.

Known issues

You can find information about the known issues identified in this release of Rational® Performance Test Server.

Table 1. Release documents - Fix list and known issues
Product	Download document	Knowledge base
Rational® Integration Tester	Release document	Knowledge articles

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.

Contacting IBM Rational Software Support

For contact information and guidelines or reference materials that you might need when you require support, read the IBM Support Guide.
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- What software versions were you running when the problem occurred?
- Do you have logs, traces, or messages that are related to the problem?
- Can you reproduce the problem? If so, what steps do you take to reproduce it?
- Is there a workaround for the problem? If so, be prepared to describe the workaround.