Release notes for IBM® Rational® Performance Tester
This document contains information about what's new, installation instructions, known issues in IBM® Rational® Performance Tester and contact information of IBM Customer Support.
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Product description
You can find the description of 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 the Product overview.
What's new
You can find information about the features introduced in this release of Rational® Performance Tester.
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Sorting the HTTP pages in a performance report
In a performance report, you can now sort the order of the HTTP pages that are captured in a test or schedule either by alphabetical order or order of execution of the HTTP pages. See HTTP performance test reports.
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Bug fixes
Fixed customer-reported and internally found defects.
Installing the product
You can find information about the installation and upgrade instructions for Rational® Performance Tester.
To download the product from IBM® Passport Advantage®, you must follow the instructions provided in the download document at Rational® Performance Tester V10.1.3.
For installation instructions, see Installation of the product by using Installation Manager.
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You can upgrade the product to V10.1.3 from V10.1.0 or later.
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If you installed Rational® Performance Tester that is earlier than 10.1.0, you cannot upgrade the product to the latest version. You must uninstall the existing version of the product before you install the latest version of the product.
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After you installed Rational® Performance Tester 10.1.3, at any point in time if you want to use earlier versions of the product, you cannot roll back to the previous version of the product. You must uninstall Rational® Performance Tester 10.1.3, and then install the required version of the product.
Known issues
You can find information about the known issues identified in this release of Rational® Performance Tester.
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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
You can find information about IBM technical support assistance for Rational® Performance Tester.
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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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For personalized support that includes notifications of significant upgrades, subscribe to Product notification.
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Before you contact IBM Rational Software Support, you must gather the background information that you might need to describe your problem. When you describe a problem to an IBM software support specialist, be as specific as possible and include all relevant background information so that the specialist can help you solve the problem efficiently. To save time, know the answers to these questions:
- 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.