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Release Date
14 September 2023
Abstract
IBM Rational Functional Tester 10.5.4 has been made generally available and contains new features as well as fixes to 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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The How critical is this fix 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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The Prerequisites section provides important information to review prior to the installation of this release. |
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The Download package section provides the direct link to obtain the download package for installation in your environment. |
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The Installation instructions 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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Click to view, browse, and search online information related to the product. |
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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. |
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Find technical developer content and resources. |
Prerequisites
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Installation Instructions
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How critical is this fix?
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This is a service release. It contains new features, as well as fixes for client-reported and internally found defects. |
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There are no known regressions to report. |
Problems Solved
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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
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| TP-88149 | When you run Rational Functional Tester on MacOS Ventura, the Preferences option in the Rational Functional Tester menu is displayed as Settings. |
| TP-88201 | The drag and drop action that is manually added to the Web UI test script does not play back when you run the test on Rational Functional Tester. |
| TP-83188 |
Bounds property verification points might capture incorrect values
When you play back functional test scripts by using Google Chrome on the Linux operating system, the bounds property verification points of the document objects might capture incorrect values. |
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When you use the double quotation marks ("") for the labels or user comments options to run the test by using integration plugins, then the Labels in the test result or the User Comments row of a report do not include the double quotation marks.
The integration plugins that do not support double quotation marks ("") for the labels or user comments options are as follows:
To work around this problem, you must create a command-line config file, and then run the test by using the config file option.
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| TP-71725 | When you export the unified report as a PDF, if the text in a table contains the greater than symbol ">" in the unified report, the symbol is printed as ">" in the generated PDF. |
| TP-79833 | In UI Test Statistical Report, if you select only the devices listed under the All Sources tab, then the test data for parameters, such as Step Performance, Transaction Performance, and Overall data, are not displayed. |
| TP-82960 | When you want to install Rational Functional Tester, Rational Integration Tester, or Rational Performance Tester on Mac OS Big Sur (11.x) by using the IBM Rational Test Workbench Setup, you must download all the product offerings to prevent installation errors. |
| TP-79924 | When you associated a test value with an encrypted dataset column, the setDatapool API does not set the data after the test run is complete. The setDatapool option must be applied to set the values of a non-encrypted dataset columns. |
| TP-73105 | You cannot shell share Rational Functional Tester with 10.1.3 or later of Rational Application Developer or Rational Software Architect at this moment. If shell sharing Rational Functional Tester with Rational Application Developer or Rational Software Architect is essential, then you must use Rational Functional Tester V10.1.2 with Rational Application Developer V9.7.02 or Rational Software Architect V9.7.0.2 until future versions of Rational Application Developer or Rational Software Architect is released. |
| TP-72726 | When you use a calendar dialog box to select a value in an SAP transaction session and record the SAP test in your product, the Test Generation page and the Error Log page display a warning message. The warning message states that the SAP calendar object has an unpredictable behavior when you play back the test and you must set the date in the value fields by using the string format. Therefore, when you select the Hide GUI during execution option from the SAP Options tab in the Test Details section to play back the SAP test, the product is unable to create a calendar object. Hence the test run fails. To work around this problem, you must perform the following steps: 1. Open the SAP test.
2. Perform the following actions to set the calendar date in a text format:
a. Expand an SAP transaction, and then expand the test element (For example, IDoc List/WE05) that has the calendar control data.b. Select Set focus on <date>. c. Right-click the date from SAP Protocol Data, and then click Create Element. The Create Element page is displayed. d. Select Set text, and then enter the date in the Input value text field. e. Click Finish. 3. Right-click the calendar control (For example, Calendar/WE05), and then click Disable to disable the test elements that have the calendar control. 4. Save the changes, and then run the test. |
| TP-62444 | After you import a Web UI project from Git to Rational Functional Tester workspace, when you execute the AFT suite from the command-line, the execution fails. This is because the Web UI project is not copied to Rational Functional Tester workspace and the workspace contains a reference only. To work around this problem, you must first copy the Web UI project to the workspace, and then execute the test. |
| TP-69141 | When you install V10.1.2 of the product, you must decrypt and encrypt each dataset by using the CSV Editor to apply the strongest encryption on each dataset that you used in the earlier version of the product. |
| TP-59612 | You must install Rational Functional Tester V10.0.2 on Mac OS by using Installation Manager V1.9.1. For more information, see Product installation issues on Mac OS while using IBM Installation Manager V1.9. |
| TP-68671 | Using multiple monitors with workbench running on one monitor and browser on another for an extended view is not supported. |
| TP-62667 | When you install Rational Functional Tester V10.1.0 on Red Hat Linux Enterprise 8.0 and later, the installation fails with an error message. To work around this problem, you must first install libnsl.so.1 on your computer for a successful installation of the product. Alternatively, you can create a soft link from libnsl.so.2 by running the following command on the command-line interface: sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/libnsl.so.2 /usr/lib64/libnsl.so.1 |
| TP-67053 | On Windows, there is an incompatibility between the version of Java packaged with the product (OpenJDK OpenJ9 V1.8.0_252) and AdoptOpenJDK14. To work around this problem, uninstall the AdoptOpenJDK14 product or remove it from the PATH before using the product. |
Change History
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Review the Rational Functional Tester Release Notes for other new features. |
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Modified date:
14 September 2023
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