........................................................................... PATCH DESCRIPTION FOR PATCH 7.0.0.1-RATL-RRP-IFIX02 Product: IBM Rational RequisitePro Release: 7.0.0.1 iFix02 Platform: Windows Prerequisite: 7.0.0.1 (Fix Pack 1) ........................................................................... This document contains the following sections: - About this Interim Fix (iFix) - What's new in this iFix - Installing this iFix - Installation limitation - Prerequisites to installation on the RequisiteWeb server - Information on installing from a release area - Fixed defects - Known problems ........................................................................... About this Interim Fix (iFix) This IBM Rational RequisitePro Interim Fix02 (iFix02) is a patch for version 7.0.0.1 (Fix Pack 1). Version 7.0.0.1 is required for this update. This iFix includes fixes from the previous Interim Fix (iFix01) and new, previously unreleased fixes. The iFix download contains content for upgrading only RequisitePro; it can be installed independent of other Rational products. This iFix does not include the entire product, but rather a subset of fixed components and files. iFixes, Fix Packs, and other maintenance releases are available for IBM Rational Support on the Web at http://www.ibm.com/software/rational/support/upgrades/. ........................................................................... What's new in this iFix This iFix contains fixes to customer-reported problems (APARs - Authorized Program Analysis Reports). See the "Fixed defects" section below. ........................................................................... Installing this iFix You can install RequisitePro v. 7.0.0.1 and this iFix02 from a software package download from IBM Rational Support on the Web (http://www.ibm.com/software/rational/support/upgrades/). You can perform a single client or server installation using the Windows Installer service, or create a release area for performing multiple installations. For details on installing Rational software, see the IBM Rational RequisitePro Installation and Upgrade Guide v. 7.0.0.0, which is available at the IBM Publications Center (http://www.elink.ibmlink.ibm.com/publications/servlet/pbi.wss). You must install this iFix on a computer that has RequisitePro v. 7.0.0.1 installed. To roll back to previous version of the product after installing an iFix, you must uninstall the full product. You can then install a previous version that includes the full product. ........................................................................... Installation limitation: When installing RequisitePro, do not use non-ASCII or double-byte characters for the installation path. (RATLC01005677) ........................................................................... Prerequisites to installation on the RequisiteWeb server Prior to upgrading the installation of the RequisiteWeb components, perform the following steps: 1. Verify that all RequisiteWeb users are logged out of RequisiteWeb. 2. Reboot the RequisiteWeb server before installing iFix02. 3. Verify that all RqProxy.exe processes have been ended in the Task Manager. This information is also available in technote #1256183 (http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21256183). ........................................................................... Information for installing from a release area: RATLC00991284: In most cases, a release area created from a Baltic installation package will support all languages that a product is available in. However, when a release area is created from CD media or ISO files, and the product spans more than one CD/ISO, the release area will support only the language that the release area was created with. For example, if a release area is created on a Japanese operating system, in Japanese, then the release area will support only the Japanese language. The following two workarounds are available to create a multi-language release area with CD media or ISO files: 1. Create the release area using an image that was downloaded as a Web download. The problem that occurs when spanning CD/ISO files is not encountered when a Web download is used to create a release area. 2. Create the release area using CDs or ISO files. Place the IBM/Rational Product CD Disc 1 in the CD drive ~or~ mount the IBM/Rational Product CD Disc 1 ISO image. Run the MUI_RA_Console.exe tool that will update the release area with information to support all languages a given product is available in. For example: MUI_RA_Console where is the the letter of the CD drive that contains IBM/Rational Product CD 1 or the drive mapped to IBM/Rational Product CD 1 ISO image, and is the root directory location of the pre-existing release area created using a Baltic GA product installation CD. For more information, please see technote #1239528, available at http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?&uid=swg21239528. ........................................................................... Fixed defects This iFix02 release includes all fixes from the previous v. 7.0.0.1 iFix01 patch release, as well as the new fixes for the following software defects. See the descriptions below for more information. PK36693 (RATLC01137557), PK36708 (RATLC01008112), PK37322 (RATLC00507641), PK37480 (RATLC00507835), PK37486 (RATLC01009392), PK38880 (RATLC01011615), PK39068 (RATLC01187414), This patch corrects the following software defects: PK36708 (RATLC01008112): The discussions notification feature has been changed so that an e-mail notification is sent to the originator of a discussion or a discussion reply, as well as to all other participants in the discussion. Duplicate: PK36693 (RATLC01137557) PK37322 (RATLC00507641): When creating a requirement, if a user entered values for more than one attribute of the User Name type, a validation error occurred and the requirement could not be created. You can enter multiple user name values while creating a requirement. PK37480 (RATLC00507835): On a Japanese installation of RequisiteWeb, when filtering an Attribute Matrix view on the Contact attribute with a "Not=" operator set equal to blank or "", the view displayed all requirements regardless of the Contact attribute value. The filter function has been modified to resolve this problem. PK37486 (RATLC01009392): Japanese characters were corrupted when exporting a view to a CSV file. The export operation now exports Japanese characters properly. The fix applies to all attributes that contain text values. PK38880 (RATLC01011615): On the Japanese version of version 7.0.0.1 (Fix Pack 1), when installing to a release area, directories for the Composite, Traditional, and Use-Case project templates were not installed. The components are installed in this iFix. PK39068 (RATLC01187414): The batch refresh for the integration of RequisitePro and ClearQuest failed for projects based in an Oracle database. A query that is used in the batch refresh has been modified to support the data type requirements of Oracle databases. Notes on other resolved defects: IC48104 (RATLC00478515) - Unreproducible IC49293 (RATLC00987099) - Fixed indirectly in 7.0.0.0 iFix01 (APAR IC49124) PK16195 (RATLC01104339) - Unreproducible PK36446 (RATLC01007525) - No plan to fix PK36973 (RATLC01008575) - Unreproducible PK37480 (RATLC00507835) - Unreproducible in current release; fixed indirectly in 7.0.0.1 iFix01 PK38177 (RATLC00508757) - Unreproducible PK39013 (RATLC01011853) - Works as designed To search for information on these and other APARs, see the Web site: http://www-950.ibm.com/search/SupportSearchWeb/SupportSearch?pageCode=SBD&brand=rational ........................................................................... Defects fixed in iFix01 IC47330 (RATLC01098693), IC47741 (RATLC00762030), IC51355 (RATLC01006568), PK20615 (RATLC00144452), PK25030 (RATLC00988164), PK28191 (RATLC00992597), PK29174 (RATLC00492869), PK29496 (RATLC01185370), PK30887 (RATLC00997000), PK32861 (RATLC00498130), PK32912 (RATLC01000950), PK33585 (RATLC01002147), PK33905 (RATLC01002676), PK35268 (RATLC00501813), PK35453 (RATLC00057983), PK35714 (RATLC01186922), PK36058 (RATLC01006493), PK36436 (RATLC01092657), PK36672 (RATLC01008050), PK36708 (RATLC01008112), PK37309 (RATLC01009133), PK37966 (RATLC01187293) Fixed indirectly: IC47218 (RATLC00755062), PK28191 (RATLC00992597), PK33277 (RATLC00498765), PK36291 (RATLC01007244) Unreproducible: PK34331 (RATLC01003514), PK34331 (RATLC01003514), PK35907 (RATLC01006201), PK36268 (RATLC01007216) ........................................................................... Known problems RATLC01009865 - When integrating the Rational ClearQuest Web client with RequisiteWeb, the View, Refresh, and (Add from) RequisitePro buttons do not work in an associated record, such as a defect or enhancement request, in ClearQuest Web. To perform the View and Refresh operations, navigate to the ClearQuest requirement for the association. The use of the (Add from) RequisitePro button for creating associations is not supported in ClearQuest Web. .......................... RATLC01011175 - When you attempt to reach RequisiteWeb using the URL to the login page, an Internal Error 500 might be displayed. The error might include the following string: "%1 Is Not a Valid Win32 Application". This issue might occur if the path of the executable file for the service contains spaces. When Windows starts a service, it parses the path of the service from left to right. If both of the following conditions are true: - The path of a service’s executable file contains spaces. - There is a file or folder on your computer’s hard disk that has the same name as a file or folder in the path to the service's executable file. Windows may locate and try to run the file or folder before it locates and runs the executable file for the service; for example, if the path to the RequisiteWeb executable file is C:\Program Files\Rational\RequisitePro\bin\RqProxy.exe, and if a folder that is named C:\Program also exists on your hard disk, then the Windows operating system locates the C:\Program folder on your hard disk before the C:\Program Files\Rational\RequisitePro\bin\RqProxy.exe file, and the executable is not found. The same error may occur with the path to the RequisiteWeb application service: C:\Program Files\Rational\common\rwp\IHS\bin\apache.exe. For more details, see the Microsoft Knowledge Base article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/812486. .......................... RATLC01136349 - The Business Modeling project template, which was new in 7.0.0.1, is unavailable in that release. To obtain the template, see the technote #1252382 at the following link: http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21252382 ..........................