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IBM Rational Performance Tester 8.5.1.2 has been made generally available and contains fixes to version 8.5.1 including all predecessor fix packs.
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Prerequisites
Version of IBM Installation Manager required: IBM Installation Manager 1.7. |
Installation Instructions
Review Installing Rational Performance Tester or Rational Performance Tester Agent on Windows or Linux. |
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How critical is this fix?
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Corrective |
This is a maintenance release. It contains fixes for client-reported and internally found defects. |
There are no known regressions 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. |
APAR | Description |
PI08099 | javaw.exe doesn't terminate at end of cmd line playback; stuck in Stats export |
PI08148 | RPT DCI instrumentation does not recognise WAS version if installed with non-English language pack |
PI08686 | Auto-correlation of AMF transform test takes over 6 hours |
PI10739 | Over time, JVM heap size of playback engine grows in almost linear rate even though workload is being repeated |
PI11074 | Encoding used for the test log is not the "raw ascii" encoding expected by the Binary editor. |
PI11235 | StringIndexOutOfBound Exception if RPT identifies a datapool candidate at the beginning of text data in HTTP Requests |
PI11335 | Schedule execution fails at codegen if test name contains white spaces |
PI11413 | Nested error handling not behaving as expected |
PI11472 | Test Editor doesn't highlight newly created references in response content |
PI12093 | Unexpectedly large heap growth in playback JVM (with custom code hotfix installed) |
PI12233 | Add/Remove Resource Counters doesn't work in RPT 8.5.1.1 |
Change History
No new features or functions. |
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Modified date:
07 May 2019
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