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System Requirements
This document includes information about hardware and software requirements for IBM® Rational® Performance Tester.
Supported software

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.

Supported software

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Application servers

Support for the following application servers is in reference only to the HTTP Response Time Break Down capability:


Supported software	Version	Components		Notes
Supported software	Version	Desktop	Agent	Notes
IBM® WebSphere Application Server	9.0		Not applicable	To collect response time breakdown data
IBM® WebSphere Application Server	8.5.5		Not applicable
IBM® WebSphere Liberty	17.0.0.1		Not applicable

Business process management


Supported software	Version	Components		Notes
Supported software	Version	Desktop	Agent	Notes
SAP GUI	7.7			To record and playback tests of SAP applications built with the SAP GUI client
SAP GUI	7.6

Development tools


Supported software	Version	Components		Note
Supported software	Version	Desktop	Agent	Note
IBM® Engineering Test Management	7.0.2		Not applicable	To initiate the test runs from Engineering Test Management
IBM® Engineering Workflow Management	7.0.2		Not applicable	To perform integrations with Engineering Workflow Management
IBM® Rational® Functional Tester	10.2.3		Not applicable	Eclipse shell sharing and to run WebUI integrations
IBM® Rational® Quality Manager	6.0.6		Not applicable	To initiate the test runs from Rational Quality Manager
IBM® Rational® Team Concert	6.0.6		Not applicable	To perform integrations with Rational Team Concert
Rational® Test Workbench	10.2.3		Not applicable	To integrate and run Rational® Integration Tester tests
JMeter	5.4.3		Not applicable	To integrate and run JMeter tests
JMeter	5.4.1		Not applicable	To integrate and run JMeter tests

DevOps tools


Supported software	Version	Components		Notes
Supported software	Version	Desktop	Agent	Notes
Apache Ant	1.9 or later		Not applicable	To initiate the test runs from ANT
Azure DevOps	Latest release		Not applicable	To initiate the test runs from Azure DevOps pipeline
IBM® UrbanCode Deploy	7.2.1.0		Not applicable	To initiate the test runs from UrbanCode Deploy
	7.1.2.1		Not applicable
	7.1.1.1		Not applicable
	7.0.2		Not applicable
Jenkins	2.339		Not applicable	To initiate the test runs from Jenkins
	2.303.3		Not applicable
	2.289.3		Not applicable
	2.277.4		Not applicable
	2.263.3		Not applicable
	2.235.1		Not applicable
Maven	3.5 or later		Not applicable	To initiate the test runs from Maven
Microfocus ALM	12.6		Not applicable	To initiate the test runs from Microfocus ALM

Eclipse Runtime Environment


Supported software	Version	Components
Supported software	Version	Desktop	Agent
Eclipse Runtime Environment	4.8		Not applicable

Message Oriented Middleware


Supported software	Version	Components
Supported software	Version	Desktop	Agent
IBM® MQ	9.2.1
IBM® MQ	9.0.5