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Reference Guide
This guide describes the additional topics to gain more knowledge about Rational® Functional Tester.
Reference for the Functional Test perspective
In this section, you will learn all the reference or additional information about the Functional Test perspective.
Command line interface
In this section, you will learn all the actions from the graphical user interface can also be performed from the command line.
Command line usage in Linux®
The command line format is: /opt/IBM/RFT/jre/bin/java /opt/IBM/RFT/FunctionalTester/bin/rational_ft.jar <product options>

Rational® Functional Tester
- Release Notes
  This document contains information about what's new, installation instructions, known problems in and contact information of IBM Customer Support.
- System Requirements
  This document includes information about hardware and software requirements for Rational® Functional Tester.
- Getting Started Guide
  This guide provides an overview of Rational® Functional Tester. You can find the task flows to get you started with Rational Functional Tester. This guide is intended for new users.
- Tutorials
  This section contains the tutorials which explains the main features of Rational® Functional Tester.
- Samples
  This section describes about the sample project which can be used with Rational® Functional Tester to test the functionality of an application.
- Administrator Guide
  This guide describes how to install IBM® Rational® Functional Tester software. After you install the software, you can perform administration tasks such as license configuration and integration with other products. This guide is intended for administrators.
- Test Author Guide
  This guide describes how to create test scripts and enhances them by applying different test elements such as dataset, variables, and verification points.
- Test Execution Specialist Guide
  This guide describes how to automate the playback of the tests by using different methods such as Docker, IBM® Cloud Private, Jenkins and so on. The test results can be pushed to Rational® Test Control Panel.
- Test Manager Guide
  This guide describes how to keep track of the performance of the application by evaluating the test results. Following topics cover how you can work with the test results.
- Troubleshooting
  This guide describes how to analyze and resolve some of the common problems that you might encounter while you work with Rational® Functional Tester.
- Reference Guide
  This guide describes the additional topics to gain more knowledge about Rational® Functional Tester.
  - Reference for the Web UI Test perspective
    In this section, you will learn all the reference or additional information about the Web UI Test perspective.
  - Reference for the Functional Test perspective
    In this section, you will learn all the reference or additional information about the Functional Test perspective.
    - Test application domain support
      Rational® Functional Tester is an object-oriented automated testing tool that tests Windows®, .NET, Java™, HTML, Siebel, SAP, AJAX, PowerBuilder, Flex, Dojo, Visual Basic and GEF applications.
    - Command line interface
      In this section, you will learn all the actions from the graphical user interface can also be performed from the command line.
      - Command line usage examples
        A list of examples for some of the tasks that can be performed using the command line interface.
      - Command line usage in Linux®
        The command line format is: /opt/IBM/RFT/jre/bin/java /opt/IBM/RFT/FunctionalTester/bin/rational_ft.jar <product options>
    - UI reference
      In this section, you will learn all the UI references and its additional information for the Functional Test perspective.
- All Guides (PDF)
  You can find the link to view or download the content of the release notes, system requirements, and persona guides of IBM® Rational® Functional Tester as a PDF file.
- Security Considerations
  You can take certain actions to ensure that your installation is secure, customize your security settings, and set up user access controls.
- Notices
  This document provides information about copyright, trademarks, terms and conditions for the product documentation.

Command line usage in Linux®

The command line format is: /opt/IBM/RFT/jre/bin/java /opt/IBM/RFT/FunctionalTester/bin/rational_ft.jar <product options>

If you use the above command-line format, you must explicitly set the functional test environment variables. Alternatively, you can use the script ft_cmdline..

Examples:

Enable all environments in Linux®

	/opt/IBM/SDP7.0/ft_cmdline -enable ALL

Execute a script with command line arguments on Linux®

/opt/IBM/SDp7.0/ft_cmdline -datastore 
/opt/IBM/RFT/workspace/Project1 -log testscript -playback Script2 -args arg1 arg2