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Release Date
15 September 2022
Abstract
IBM® Rational Test Automation Server 10.5 was made generally available and features and fixes for customer-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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Prerequisites
Review Prerequisites for installing the server software on Red Hat OpenShift or Prerequisites for installing the server software on Ubuntu in the IBM Product Documentation prior to installing. |
Installation Instructions
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Review the Upgrading the software page in the IBM Product Documentation before you install. |
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How critical is this fix?
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Recommended |
This is a service release. It contains new features as well as fixes for client-reported and internally found defects. |
There are no known regressions to report. |
Problems Solved
Known Side Effects
Review the following list of known issues. |
Rational Test Automation Server is a product of IBM's comprehensive test solution. Fix packs are made available separately. Review technote 1461170: Open APARs for Rational products available on the Web for information on how to configure your MyNotifications subscription account and subscribe to the APARs you are interested in following. |
Known issues in this release include: | |
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TP-83637
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When you install Rational Performance Tester Agent on AIX operating systems, you cannot select that Agent to run tests on Rational Test Automation Server.
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TP-84027
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When you run a schedule that has a custom code to write data into a dataset from a non-edit branch of Rational Test Automation Server, the Changes page does not list the updated dataset to publish the changes made to the dataset.
To work around this problem, you must run the schedule from an Edit branch.
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TP-84473
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When you configure IBM® Engineering Test Management and Atlassian Jira on Rational Test Automation Server 10.2.3, the information about Engineering Test Management and Jira is not visible after you migrate Rational Test Automation Server from 10.2.3 to 10.5.0.
To work around this problem, you must enter the details of Engineering Test Management and Jira again on Rational Test Automation Server 10.5.0. |
TP-78225
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You cannot migrate edited test assets that were created in earlier versions to Rational Test Automation Server 10.5.
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TP-83997
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When you run a compound test that contains an API test on Rational Test Automation Server and the API test uses a dataset or a different API test is selected at the time of test configuration, the unified report for the compound test does not provide the correct or complete information about the API test.
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TP-61311
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When you archive a project that has a running test, that test is not stopped. The test completes execution even though it was supposed to stop.
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Previous known issues that still apply | |
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TP-81800 | There is a time delay for the changes that you make to your personal details provided at the time of signing up on Rational Test Automation Server to be reflected in the UI. |
TP-82448 | When you run a performance test that contains integration tests on Rational Test Automation Server, the test log captures and displays all integration test steps under the first activity that was captured for the performance test. |
TP-80470 |
The default configuration of the Rational Test Automation Server provides access to requests that are coming from any domain. The request can be integrated into other web servers, thereby Rational Test Automation Server exposes to Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) attacks.
To work around this problem, you must overwrite the configuration properties value during the installation of the Rational Test Automation Server to restrict CORS to a specific allowlist by adding the following helm argument:
--set-string 'gateway.extraEnv.JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS=-Dgateway.cors.allowed-origin-patterns=*.example.com,*mydomain.net' Where example.com and mydomain.net are the domains that you want to provide access to CORS. Note: You can provide multiple domain names separated by comma (,). |
TP-80471 |
Rational Test Automation Server supports any Git repository accessible over the HTTP or SSH protocols. When you add or reconfigure a repository that is associated with a project, Rational Test Automation Server verifies the configuration by attempting to connect and issuing a request to the given URI of the repository.
You must ensure that only trusted URIs are provided as part of the configuration.
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TP-78028 |
The Engineering Test Management displays the status as Connected on Rational Test Automation Server even when Engineering Test Management is unavailable for any reason.
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TP-78146 |
If you update or delete a Project area that you used to configure Engineering Test Management on Rational Test Automation Server, then you cannot perform the following tasks:
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TP-78219 |
If you update the name of the project in Jira that you used to configure on Rational Test Automation Server, you cannot configure the updated project name in the CHANGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM tab of Rational Test Automation Server.
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TP-78225 |
If you edited test assets in your project on Rational Test Automation Server 10.2 and then migrated to Rational Test Automation Server 10.2.1. After migration if there were changes added to the remote repository related to the edited test assets then the values displayed in the Last Changed By field might be incorrect.
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TP-76496 |
When you restart the pods, the dataset service might fail to restart due to a lock on the dataset tables. To work around this problem, you must run the following commands before you restart the Kubernetes cluster: 1. Run the following command to get the password for the dataset service: kubectl get secret (my-rtas}-datasets -o yaml -n {namespace} 2. Run the following command to remove the lock from the dataset table: kubectl exec (my-rtas}-postgresql-0 -n {namespace} -i – sh -c 'PGPASSWORD=<password> psql -U datasets -d datasets -c "DROP TABLE databasechangeloglock"' 3. Run the following command to restart the Kubernetes cluster: sudo systemctl start k3s Note: You must substitute the following variables with the actual value in the commands: (my-rtas} with the release name of the server that you provided during the installation of the server software. {namespace}with the name of the namespace that you created during the installation of the server software. <password> with the value that you obtained from Step 1. |
TP-76105 |
TLS1.1 and TLS1 are not supported on Rational Test Automation Server. When you try to run those test assets, the test run fails with an error message about an unsupported security algorithm.
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TP-73109 |
When you install Rational Test Automation Server on Lightweight Kubernetes (k3s) and warnings about Ingress deprecation are displayed, you can ignore these warnings.
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TP-71416 |
When you attempt to run an API Suite on Rational Test Automation Server that is installed on OpenShift, and when the API project contains a vast set of resources, you might see that the Execute button in the Execute test asset dialog box is enabled after a delay.
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TP-67572 |
If a dataset is created on the server using a path within an integration tester project and the created CSV file is subsequently referenced in a file data source, then the server presents two datasets relating to the same CSV file.
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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.
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TP-71004 |
Stubs are a tech-preview feature, as such some functionality might not work in all environments.
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TP-71956 |
When you have Rational Test Automation Server on Ubuntu and you run performance test assets such as VU schedule or Rate schedule on a static agent, then the test runs fail with an error message. To work around this problem, you must add the following parameter to the helm install command during the installation of the server software: --set networkPolicy.enabled=false If you have already installed the server software, you can modify the helm parameter value by using the following commands: helm upgrade {my-rtas} ./ ibm-rtas-prod -n test-system \ --reuse-values --set networkPolicy.enabled=false Where {my-rtas} is the name of the release that you provided during the installation of the server software. |
TP-71030 |
After you install the product, if pods restart with the following log message:
ACCESS_REFUSED - Login was refused using the authentication mechanism PLAIN. For details see the broker logfile.
You must uninstall the product, delete the pvc data-{my-rtas}-rabbitmq-0, and then install the product. |
TP-71950 |
When the server is under high load, the results microservice might be restarted indefinitely. This happens when the server was killed while holding a database lock.
To work around the problem, perform the following steps: Note: In the following commands, <myrtas> refers to the release name of your choice and <namespace> refers to the name of the namespace that you created during the server installation process.
1. Increase the value of failureThreshold in the following command to start the service: kubectl patch sts -n <namespace> <myrtas>-results --patch '{"spec": {"template": {"spec": {"containers": {"name": "results","startupProbe":{"failureThreshold":120}}}}'}} 2. Get the database password by running the following command: kubectl get secret -n <namespace> <myrtas>-results -o jsonpath="{.data.postgresql-password}" | base64 --decode 3. Delete the troublesome database lock by running the following commands: kubectl exec -n <namespace> <myrtas>-results-postgresql-0 -i – sh -c 'PGPASSWORD=<PASSWORD> psql -U results -d results -c "DROP TABLE DATABASECHANGELOGLOCK"' kubectl exec -n <namespace> <myrtas>-results-postgresql-0 -i – sh -c 'PGPASSWORD=<PASSWORD> psql -U results -d analytics -c "DROP TABLE DATABASECHANGELOGLOCK"' kubectl exec -n <namespace> <myrtas>-results-postgresql-0 -i – sh -c 'PGPASSWORD=<PASSWORD> psql -U results -d upload -c "DROP TABLE DATABASECHANGELOGLOCK"' 4. Restart the pod by running the following command: kubectl delete pod -n <namespace> <myrtas>-results-0 |
TP-72106 |
When you expand a dataset from the Datasets page, you cannot navigate to all the cells in the dataset by using the keyboard keys.
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TP-69424 |
When you back up user data of V10.1.0 and restore it on V10.1.1 in the Ubuntu environment, one of the pods does not start. This problem occurs occasionally. For example, if the result pod does not start, to work around this problem, perform the following steps: 1. Increase the value of initialDelaySeconds in the following command to start the service: kubectl patch sts -n <namespace> <myrtas>-results --patch '{"spec": {"template": {"spec": {"containers": [{"name": "results","readinessProbe":{"initialDelaySeconds":180}}]}}}}' 2. Get the database password by running the following command: kubectl get secret -n <namespace> <myrtas>-results -o jsonpath="{.data.postgresql-password}" | base64 --decode 3. Delete the troublesome database lock by running the following command: kubectl exec -n <namespace> <myrtas>-results-postgresql-0 -i -- sh -c 'PGPASSWORD=<password> psql -U results -d results -c "DROP TABLE DATABASECHANGELOGLOCK"' 4. Restart the pod by running the following command: kubectl delete pod -n <namespace> <myrtas>-results-0 |
TP-66834 |
During the installation, when you migrate user data from the previous version to V10.1.0, the datasets database does not restore properly. As a result, Data classification information is disappeared from Rational Test Automation Server.
You must classify the encrypted dataset again by creating a new classification.
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TP-69650 |
When you run the ubuntu-init.sh script to set up the Kubernetes environment and if the snap command is unavailable, then the command-line interface incorrectly displays the following error message for snapd:
./ubuntu-init.sh: line 232: ehco: command not found
The intended message is: Error: snapd is not installed Please ensure that snapd and snap are installed correctly, for example: sudo apt-get install snapd |
TP-59943 |
If you configure Keycloak to use an LDAP directory service, you should import and synchronize LDAP users to Keycloak. This is a known issue with Keycloak: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/KEYCLOAK-13822
To workaround the problem in Keycloak, on the Add user federation provider page make sure the following settings are set as shown: Import Users = ON, Sync Registrations = ON, and Cache Policy = DEFAULT |
TP-66941 |
You cannot run tests on the remote static agents connected to Rational Test Automation Server that is installed in an OpenShift environment.
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TP-67215 |
When you configure Rational Test Automation Server test on the UCD server and you enter a value for any of the options available for Show Hidden Properties in the Edit Properties for Run Rational Test Automation Server test window, the values for the options do not work as designed during the test run.
To work around this problem, you must not set any values for any options for Show Hidden Properties. |
TP-61446 |
When you unregister a remote docker agent, running and schedule tests are not canceled.
To workaround this problem, stop any running tests and cancel any scheduled future executions for that agent before unregistering the remote docker agent.
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TP-61311 |
When you archive a project that has a running test, that test is not stopped. The test completes execution even though it was suppose to stop.
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TP-61494 |
If you unarchive a project that was archived while a test was running, the UI incorrectly shows that the test is still running after the unarchive.
To workaround this problem, make sure there are no tests running when you archive a project.
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TP-61446 |
When you unregister a remote docker agent, running and schedule tests are not canceled.
To workaround this problem, stop any running tests and cancel any scheduled future executions for that agent before unregistering the remote docker agent.
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TP-60059 |
When you schedule a test run and click the "Time" field a list of times displays. If you enter a value in the "Time" field, you cannot move the cursor by using the left or right (<- , -> ) keyboard keys. This is a known issue with the following date picker:
https://github.com/Hacker0x01/react-datepicker/issues/1834
To workaround this problem, use the cursor. |
TP-58061 |
A server shutdown will not stop currently running executions. It is recommended to not shutdown the server if there are active executions running. If the server is shut down while assets are executing the reported status of those executions might be incorrect.
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TP-58017 |
In case of a slow network, the cloning of a repository might fail with an error. In such a case, you can delete and add the repository again.
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TP-57198 |
When working in multiple Rational Test Automation Server tabs concurrently, a message “You are already logged in” might sometimes be displayed. This message occurs when your session has expired and you have since logged in again, but then attempt a navigation action in a browser tab other than the one in which you logged in. This is a known Keycloak issue. For more information, see https://issues.jboss.org/browse/KEYCLOAK-5179. To workaround this problem, close the tab and open a new one. |
Rational Performance Tester Agent |
With 10.0, you might expect a reduction in the number of Virtual Users (VUs) supported by IBM Rational Performance Tester Agent depending upon workload characteristics. This variation is the result of the product shipping with OpenJDK™ 8 with OpenJ9 instead of IBM JRE. OpenJDK 8 with OpenJ9 JRE exhibits a higher utilization of CPU for the workload. Up to 30% or more decrease in the supported VUs capacity may be expected for CPU-bound workloads. However, for memory-bound workloads, a much smaller, if any reduction in VUs capacity may be expected. If you need higher performance and have access to IBM JRE 8.0.5.35 or later that contains the latest security fixes, you can switch from OpenJDK 8 with OpenJ9 to IBM JRE. For more information, see http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10956413. |
Change History
Review the Release notes in the IBM Product Documentation for a complete list of new features and enhancements. |
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05 December 2023
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