Rational Rhapsody Software, Version 7.5.1 Release Information

Content

What's new

Last-minute information

Fixed defects

Migration issues

Known problems

System requirements

Supported RTOSes

Supported IDEs

Supported Compilers

Integration with IBM Rational products

Supported third-party applications

Environments for which Webify Toolkit is supported

IBM Rational Software Support

What's new

For information about the new features and enhancements in Rational Rhapsody 7.5.1, see Rational Rhapsody Software Version 7.5 Releases: New Features and Enhancements.

Last-minute information

• MISRA98 Compliancy:
  Do not use the Misra98 profile together with the following profiles:
  • AR3x_BMT
  • AutomotiveC
  • MicroC
  These profiles already include MISRA compliancy.
  
• Installation:
  During the installation of Rational Rhapsody, you will be asked to provide a license key. Below are the steps for obtaining a license key:
  1. Go to Rational support at http://www.ibm.com/software/rational/support/licensing/.
  2. Click the link to the License Key Center.
  3. Click Continue.
  4. To log in to the center, type your e-mail address and your password. This password was sent in a Welcome letter to your e-mail address when your name was added to the License Key Center at the time of purchase or by your License Key Center administrator. If you do not have an account in License Key Center, you need to select "Don’t have a password" from the Login screen and enter the requested information including your IBM site ID and your sales order. If you do not know either of these, ask your company’s Primary Site Contact to add you to the account.
  5. If you are a member of more than one account, select the account you wish to access.
  6. In the License Key Center, select the task you wish to perform, such as Get Keys, Return Keys.
  For more information, see the Quick Start Guide or view the instructional videos on the License Key Center.
• WebComponentsDLL.dll:
  If you are building WebComponentsDLL.dll for a specific environment, add the following line to the file ..Share\LangJava\src\webComponentsDLL.bat:
  set include=%include%;%JDK_INCLUDE_PATH%;%JDK_INCLUDE_PATH%\win32
  and replace %JDK_INCLUDE_PATH% with the path to the include subdirectory of your JDK directory.
• Web Services library:
  For specific instructions on building the Web Services library for different environments, see Building the Rational Rhapsody WebServices Library.
• Documentation for previous releases of the product:
  The Information Center (documentation) included with the installation of Rational Rhapsody 7.5.1 is applicable to this version of the product. However, you can always view the documentation for previous versions of the product by viewing the Information Center for that release on the Web. Help content for previous product releases can be found here.

Fixed defects

For a list of the APARs resolved in this release, see the Fixed APAR list for IBM Rational Rhapsody Software version 7.5.x.

Migration issues

For detailed information on migrating existing projects to the new version of Rational Rhapsody, see the Migrating topics in the Information Center.

Known problems

For a list of known problems / limitations in the current release of Rational Rhapsody, see Known Problems and Limitations in IBM Rational Rhapsody 7.5.1.

System requirements

For information about hardware and software requirements, see Detailed System Requirements for Rational Rhapsody Software version 7.5.x.

Supported RTOSes

Rhapsody support for different real-time operating systems (RTOSes) is generic and can be customized to most existing systems.

The supported Rhapsody capabilities, platforms, and third-party product integrations have undergone formal testing. Although not explicitly listed or formally tested, other integrations are available.

Contact your sales representative or Customer Support with specific inquiries.

Rhapsody provides pre-customized support for the RTOSes shown below. Pre-customized support in Rhapsody means that a set of preconfigured code generation properties are provided for the environment:

• Precompiled versions of the relevant framework libraries are provided.
• The precompiled framework libraries have been fully tested.

RTOS support is available only in the Developer package. The Designer package includes makefiles for building the framework on Windows only.

INTEGRITY® (Green Hills)

• 4.0.8 - Windows version of Rhapsody - C, C++, Ada
• 5.0.4 - Windows version of Rhapsody - C, C++, Ada
• 5.0.7 - Linux version of Rhapsody - C and C++ only

For the latest version, contact support.

The Release version of Integrity was not tested. You can modify the framework and application build files for use in Release mode.

Itron (MicroItron)

4.0 - Rhapsody in C++

For the latest version, contact support.

Linux® (MontaVista®)

Professional Edition 5.0 - Rhapsody in C and C++ - only available in Linux version of Rhapsody

LynxOS® (LynuxWorks™)

4.0 - Rhapsody in C++

For the latest version, contact support.

Nucleus® (Mentor Graphics®)

1.13.7 - Rhapsody in C and C++

ObjectAda® (Aonix®)

V7.2 (Raven™/PowerPC) - Ada

OSE Delta (Enea)

4.5 - Rhapsody in C++

Phar Lap Embedded ToolSuite (ETS™) (VenturCom®)

Rhapsody in C++

For the latest version, contact support.

QNX® Neutrino® (QNX)

Neutrino 6.3.2 (QNX Momentics 6.3.0 Service Pack 3) - Rhapsody in C++

Red Hat® (Enterprise Linux®)

4.0, 5.0 - Rhapsody in C and C++

RTX™ (VenturCom®)

5.5 - Rhapsody in C++

For the latest version, contact support.

Solaris™ (Sun™)

2.8, 2.9 - Rhapsody in C and C++

Note that Solaris targets are not supported by Rhapsody in Ada.

ThreadX® (Express Logic)

Rhapsody in C and C++

For the latest version, contact support.

VxWorks® (WindRiver®)

5.5, 6.5, 6.6 - Rhapsody in C and C++

Windows® Embedded CE (Microsoft®)

6.0 - Rhapsody in C++

Supported IDEs

Rhapsody support for different integrated development environments (IDEs) is generic and can be customized to most existing environments.

The supported Rhapsody capabilities, platforms, and third-party product integrations have undergone formal testing. Although not explicitly listed or formally tested, other integrations are available. Contact your sales representative or Customer Support with specific inquiries.

Eclipse

• 3.4 (with CDT 4.0)
• 3.5 (with CDT 6.0)

MULTI® (Green Hills)

• 3.5 - Windows version of Rhapsody - C++ and Ada only
• 4.0.5 - Windows version of Rhapsody - C, C++ and Ada
• 4.2.3 - Linux version of Rhapsody - C and C++ only

For the latest version, contact support.

Tornado® (Wind River)

2.2 (VxWorks 5.5) - C, C++

Workbench (Wind River)

3.0 (VxWorks 6.6), 3.1 (VxWorks 6.7) - C, C++

Supported compilers

When using compiler versions other than the ones listed in the following table, you must recompile the OXF libraries. See the Frameworks and Operating Systems Reference for details.

Cygwin

2.427 - C, C++

Diab Data

• 4.3f (Nucleus) - Rhapsody in C++ and C
• 5.0.3 (OSE Delta) - Rhapsody in C++

Forte

6.1

Rhapsody in C++ and J on Solaris

To properly build an application with the Sun Forte 6.1 compiler, the following patches must be installed with the compiler: 107355-05, 107357-09, 107311-10, 107295-01, and 107289-05.

gcc

• 2.95.3 (Solaris)
• 2.95.3 (QNX Neutrino) - Rhapsody in C++ on Windows
• 2.9.6 (Tornado 2.2)
• 3.4.3 (Red Hat EL4)
• 4.3.2 (Cygwin) - Rhapsody in C++ and J

GNAT

6.0.2 - Rhapsody in Ada

Java 2 SDK

1.4.2, 1.5, Java SE 6, or IBM Java 6.0 - Rhapsody in Ada and J
To use the Eclipse integration features, version 1.5 or higher is required.

MULTI 2000

• MultiWin32 => Windows target + Multi 3.5 Standard (ANSI/ISO) C++ compiler
• INTEGRITY => INTEGRITY 4.0 target + INTEGRITY 4.0 Standard (ANSI/ISO) C++ cross-compiler (running on Windows and generating binaries for INTEGRITY)
  - Rhapsody in C++
• AdaMULTI 2000 for native x86
  - Rhapsody in Ada

ObjectAda (Aonix)

7.22 - Rhapsody in Ada only

Visual C++ Studio (Microsoft)

6.0 SP-3

Visual Studio .NET (Microsoft)

Visual Studio .NET 2005

The Microsoft Visual Studio .NET compiler is supported; however, .NET features are not supported.

Integration with IBM Rational products

IBM® Rational® DOORS®

• Rhapsody DOORS Interface supports: 8.3, 9.2
• Rhapsody Gateway supports: 8.3, 9.2

IBM® Rational® SDL Suite

6.2

IBM® Rational® Statemate®

4.3

IBM® Rational® Synergy

6.5, 7.1

IBM® Rational® System Architect®

11.2

IBM® Rational® Tau

4.2

IBM® Rational® Team Concert™

1.0

Rational Rose (IBM®)

Rose® 2003 - Rhapsody in C++ and Rhapsody in J

Rational® ClearCase® (IBM®)

• 4.2
  ClearCase patch number p4.0-5 is required on Solaris 2.8.
• 6.0
• 7.0

Supported third-party applications

Internet Explorer (Microsoft)

5.5 or higher

MATLAB, Simulink (The MathWorks)

Matlab 7.1 with Simulink 6.3, Matlab 7.3 with Simulink 6.5, or Matlab 7.5 with Simulink 7.0, with Real-Time Workshop® Embedded Coder component.

Microsoft® Office

ReporterPLUS is supported on Microsoft® Office 2000 and 2002.

Mozilla

1.4.3 - supported in Linux version of Rhapsody only

PVCS Dimensions™ (Serena)

9.1 - supported in Windows version of Rhapsody only

Tao

1.4

Teamcenter Systems Engineering (UGS)

7.1

Visual Basic®/VBA (Microsoft)

6.3

Environments for which Webify Toolkit is supported

Webify Toolkit is supported for the following environments:

• Integrity mbx800
• Integrity5 mbx800, rpx-cllf
• Integrity5ESTL mbx800, rpx-cllf
• IntegrityESTL mbx800
• Linux Red Hat x86
• Microsoft Windows
• Microsoft Windows CE 4.2 x86
• MultiWin32
• Nucleus PowerPC
• QNX Arm
• QNX Mips
• QNX PowerPC
• QNX Windows
• QNX x86
• Sun Solaris
• VxWorks PENTIUM - VxWorks 5.5
• VxWorks PENTIUM_RTP_diab - VxWorks 6.5, VxWorks 6.6
• VxWorks PENTIUM_RTP_gnu - VxWorks 6.5, VxWorks 6.6
• VxWorks PENTIUMdiab - VxWorks 6.5, VxWorks 6.6
• VxWorks PENTIUMgnu - VxWorks 6.5, VxWorks 6.6
• VxWorks PPC32_RTP_diab - VxWorks 6.5, VxWorks 6.6
• VxWorks PPC32_RTP_gnu - VxWorks 6.5, VxWorks 6.6
• VxWorks PPC32diab - VxWorks 6.5, VxWorks 6.6
• VxWorks PPC32gnu - VxWorks 6.5, VxWorks 6.6
• VxWorks PPC403 - VxWorks 5.5
• VxWorks PPC403diab - VxWorks 6.5, VxWorks 6.6
• VxWorks PPC403gnu - VxWorks 6.5, VxWorks 6.6
• VxWorks PPC603 - VxWorks 5.5
• VxWorks PPC603diab - VxWorks 6.5, VxWorks 6.6
• VxWorks PPC603gnu - VxWorks 6.5, VxWorks 6.6
• VxWorks PPC604 - VxWorks 5.5
• VxWorks PPC604diab - VxWorks 6.5, VxWorks 6.6
• VxWorks PPC604gnu - VxWorks 6.5, VxWorks 6.6
• VxWorks PPC860 - VxWorks 5.5
• VxWorks SIMNT - VxWorks 5.5
• VxWorks SIMNTdiab - VxWorks 6.5, VxWorks 6.6
• VxWorks SIMNTgnu - VxWorks 6.5, VxWorks 6.6
• VxWorks SIMPENTIUM_RTP_diab - VxWorks 6.5, VxWorks 6.6
• VxWorks SIMPENTIUM_RTP_gnu - VxWorks 6.5, VxWorks 6.6

IBM Rational Software Support

For FAQs, lists of known problems and fixes, and other support information, visit the product support page for Rational Rhapsody Software

For contact information and guidelines or reference materials that you will need when you require support, read the IBM Software Support Handbook.

Before you contact IBM Rational Software Support, gather the background information that you will need to describe your problem. When describing 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.