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Rational® Performance Tester
- Release Notes
  This document contains information about what's new, installation instructions, known issues in IBM® Rational® Performance Tester and contact information of IBM Customer Support.
- System Requirements
  This document includes information about hardware and software requirements for IBM® Rational® Performance Tester.
- Getting Started
  This guide provides an overview and describes the task flows to get you to start with Rational® Performance Tester. This guide is intended for new users.
- Tutorials
  This section contains the tutorials which explains the main features of Rational® Performance Tester.
- Samples
  This section describes about the sample project which can be used with Rational® Performance Tester to test the functionality of an application.
- 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.
- Test Author Guide
  This guide describes how to create test scripts in Rational® Performance Tester and enhances tests by applying different test elements such as dataset, variables, and verification points. This guide is intended for testers.
- Test Execution Specialist Guide
  This guide describes tasks that you can perform on schedules, test execution with custom code, and Extending Rational® Performance Tester to support other protocols. This guide is intended for testers or test execution specialists.
- Test Manager Guide
  This guide describes how to keep track of the performance of the application by evaluating the test results. This guide is intended for test managers.
- Troubleshooting Guide
  This guide describes how to analyze and resolve some of the common problems that you might encounter while you work with Rational® Performance Tester.
- Reference Guide
  This guide describes, additional topics to gain more knowledge about Rational® Performance Tester.
- All Guides (PDFs)
  You can find the link to view or download the content of the release notes, system requirements, and persona guides of Rational® Performance 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.

Operating systems

You can find the operating systems that are supported, organized by operating system family for IBM® Rational® Performance Tester.

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Bit version support

Different parts of a product might run on the same operating system but support different application bitness. For example, one part of the product might run only in 32-bit mode, whereas another might support 64-bit tolerate mode.


Bitness	Description
32	The product or part of the product runs as a 32-bit application in the 32-bit platforms listed as supported.
64-Tolerate	The product or part of the product runs as a 32-bit application in the 64-bit platforms listed as supported.
64-Exploit	The product or part of the product runs as a 64-bit application in the 64-bit platforms listed as supported.

AIX


Operating system	Hardware	Bitness	Components
Operating system	Hardware	Bitness	Desktop	Agent
AIX 7.2 TL5	POWER System - Big Endian	32
AIX 7.1 TL5	POWER System - Big Endian	32

Linux


Operating system	Hardware	Bitness	Components
Operating system	Hardware	Bitness	Desktop	Agent
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.5	x86-64	64-Exploit
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.4	x86-64	64-Exploit
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.3	x86-64	64-Exploit
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.9	x86-64	64-Exploit
Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS	x86-64	64-Exploit
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS	x86-64	64-Exploit

Mac


Operating system	Hardware	Bitness	Components
Operating system	Hardware	Bitness	Desktop	Agent
macOS BigSur 11.6	x86-64	64-Exploit
macOS Catalina 10.15	x86-64	64-Exploit

Windows


Operating system	Hardware	Bitness	Components
Operating system	Hardware	Bitness	Desktop	Agent
Windows 10 Enterprise	x86-64	32, 64-Exploit
Windows 10 Pro	x86-64	32, 64-Exploit
Windows Server 2019	x86-64	32, 64-Exploit
Windows Server 2016	x86-64	32, 64-Exploit