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Rational® Performance Tester
Reference Guide
This guide describes, additional topics to gain more knowledge about Rational® Performance Tester.
UI preferences
Read the UI preferences topics.
Report preferences
Report preference settings apply to all protocols.
Percentile analysis preferences
Use this view to customize the percentiles that are reported in the Page Percentile report or to customize the performance requirements on a percentile response. The defaults, 85, 90, and 95, are sufficient for most purposes. However, if you need to report on a different percentile set, or to set a different percentile requirement, you can edit the percentiles or add new percentiles.

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.
  - Rational® Integration Tester accessibility features
    Users who have a physical disability, such as limited vision, can review the available accessibility features to use Rational® Integration Tester.
  - General reference for performance testing
    See these performance testing topics for general reference.
  - UI preferences
    Read the UI preferences topics.
    - HTTP preferences
      You can change the product behavior by changing these HTTP-related settings.
    - SAP test preferences
      You can change the product behavior by changing these SAP-related settings.
    - Citrix recorder preferences
      Citrix recorder preferences control the behavior of the recording wizard.
    - Socket Test Generation preferences
      With the socket test generation preferences, you can change how the test recorder generates new socket tests.
    - Citrix monitoring panel reference
      The Citrix monitoring panel is an optional panel that displays detailed information and control commands for each virtual user during the run of a schedule. When enabled, the Citrix monitoring panel is available during the run of a schedule.
    - Proxy recording preferences
      Use these preferences to specify a list of endpoints to ignore when recording a test with the proxy recorder.
    - Test editor preferences
      The General preferences control what happens when you move test elements, and how digital certificates are substituted. The Colors and Fonts preferences control how the editor displays dataset and correlation data. The Search and Replace preferences control the behavior of search and replace.
    - Report preferences
      Report preference settings apply to all protocols.
      - Test report preferences
        The preference settings for test reports control such preferences as the typeface, color, and graph style of reports, and whether a Compare report is automatically launched when a staged run completes. You can also display a warning when changing Page Percentile report options will cause data to be lost.
      - Default report preferences
        Use this page to select the default report that opens during a run. Typically, you select Determine default report based on protocols in test, which determines the protocols that you are testing, and automatically opens the appropriate protocol-specific reports. Select a specific default report to display a customized report or if the default reports do not meet your needs. Note, however, that you will have to change this setting when you record other protocols.
      - Export report preferences
        Use this page to automatically export reports to a comma-separated-values (CSV) file at the end of a run. The CSV file is useful when you run a schedule from the command line because you can automatically export results without opening the workbench. The CSV file contains metadata about the test run, a blank line, and the report counter data. Simple CSV format contains only the last data value in the run. Full CSV format contains all data values for every sample interval during a run.
      - Web report preferences
        Preference settings control access of reports from external web browser.
      - Percentile analysis preferences
        Use this view to customize the percentiles that are reported in the Page Percentile report or to customize the performance requirements on a percentile response. The defaults, 85, 90, and 95, are sufficient for most purposes. However, if you need to report on a different percentile set, or to set a different percentile requirement, you can edit the percentiles or add new percentiles.
    - Test editor references
      To understand the relevance of different UI fields in the test editor of various test extensions, read these topics.
    - VU Schedule editor reference
      Most VU Schedule editor settings apply either to the entire schedule or to individual user groups.
  - WSDL security editor reference
    With the Web Service Description Language (WSDL) security editor you can create and edit security configurations for a WSDL file.
- 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.

Percentile analysis preferences

Use this view to customize the percentiles that are reported in the Page Percentile report or to customize the performance requirements on a percentile response. The defaults, 85, 90, and 95, are sufficient for most purposes. However, if you need to report on a different percentile set, or to set a different percentile requirement, you can edit the percentiles or add new percentiles.

Open the Percentile Analysis Targets preference page. Click Window > Preferences > Test > Percentile Analysis Targets.