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IBM Rational Synergy 7.2.1 has been made generally available and contains new features as well as fixes for client-reported and internally found defects.
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The Change history section provides an overview on what is new in this release with a description of any new functions or enhancements when applicable. |
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This section provides information related to the impact of this release to allow you to assess how your environment may be affected. |
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This section provides important information to review prior to the installation of this release. |
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This section provides the direct link to obtain the download package for installation in your environment. |
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This section provides the installation instructions necessary to apply this release into your environment. |
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The Known side effects section contains a link to the known problems (open defects) identified at the time of this release. |
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Click to review the detailed system requirements information for a complete list of hardware requirements, supported operating systems, prerequisites and optional supported software, with component-level details and operating system restrictions. |
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The information center provides you with user assistance for the product. You can view, browse, and search online information related to the product. You can also visit IBM Product information page to browse for additional information centers. |
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Click to review a complete list of the defects (APARs) resolved in this release including a list of resolved defects for the entire version family. |
Prerequisites
Rational Directory Server 5.1.1.2 (Apache) or Rational Directory Server 5.2.1 (Tivoli) are recommended but see detailed system requirements for all supported versions. |
On UNIX and Linux, the tsort command must be in the search path. |
Installation Instructions
Click on the relevant links below for Installation Instructions for Windows, UNIX with Informix, or UNIX with Oracle. |
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How critical is this fix?
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Recommended |
This is a service release of Rational Synergy. It contains new features as well as fixes for client-reported and internally found defects. |
There are no known issues to report. |
Problems Solved
Click the Fix List link in the table of contents above to review a list of the problems solved in this release.
Known Side Effects
Review the following list of open defects in the Known Problems document. |
Change History
Review the Rational Synergy 7.2.1 announcement for the following information:
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Cache server
- A new cache server component improves the client-side performance for users who work in remote co-located teams. Day to day operations such as copy, update and sync projects become faster.
- Using cache server to serve static files takes the load of Synergy main server, thus improving the performance of core server as it is available to server other process requests
- Synergy splash screen dialog now shows the progress bar and provides the various stages of the startup activity. If the user experiences any problem during start up, he can look into the documentation of the concerned step and detect possible causes for the failure.
- Error messages are listed under information center
- Synergy Client interface :
- Synergy RTC Bridge :
- Synergy RTC Synchronizer imports data from Rational Synergy and export data to Rational Team Concert and vice versa. It enables synchronization of selected files and folders between both environments, essentially data can be migrated from Synergy to RTC over time.
- New CLI command to enable DCM administrators to perform DCM transfer package preview
- Compliance with new cryptographic-standard NIST SP800-131a
- Enhanced project grouping CLI command to update baseline projects
- Display warning when release of project grouping and current task don't match while resolving work area conflicts
- Enhance wording when check in of an object which is used in multiple project fails because of work area conflicts
- Display a confirmation dialog in Java GUI before publishing a baseline
Enhanced Documentation
- For installing Synergy in secure Windows environments
- For Synergy GUI startup problems
- For archive conversion and tips on problem solving
Updated Platform Support
- Added support for AIX 7.1
- Added support for Windows 8 for clients
- See Detailed System Requirements for more details
Problems (APARS) fixed
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Modified date:
22 December 2020
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