Rational Quantify 4.5.1 SunOS

Contents

• Changes from previous releases
  • New In This Release
  • New in Quantify 4.4
  • New in Quantify 4.3
  • New in Quantify 4.2
  • New in Quantify 3.1.1
  • New in Quantify 3.1
  • New in Quantify 3.0
• Supported systems
  • Operating system and Hardware
  • Compilers
  • Threads
• Restrictions and known issues
  • Data Collection
  • User Interface
  • Compilers
  • Threads

Changes from previous releases

New In This Release

• Bug fixes and compatibility with OS patches.
• This is the last release to support SunOS 4 and HP-UX 9.x. Apex Ada and Java are no longer supported.

New In Quantify 4.4

• Bug fixes and compatibility with OS patches.
• New product installation and licensing. Supports FLEXlm based licensing when installed as part of RSDSU.

New in Quantify 4.3

• Support for Apex 3.0.0 Ada and C++ on Solaris and HPUX.
• Please see the Restrictions and Known Issues section below for important notes about using Purify with Apex.
• bug fixes

New in Quantify 4.2

• bug fixes

New In Quantify 3.1.1

• Updated Japanese translations

  This release contains improvements in the Japanese translations for the Online Help.

New in Quantify 3.1

• Purela query script

  This release contains a new utility, purela_show, which generates simplified reports from license and usage data maintained in a standard or aggregate PureLA database.

New in Quantify 3.0

Pure License Advisor (PureLA)

The "Simple License" advisor, PureLA, offers a number of new features to further simplify the administration of licenses to Rational Software products. See the Installation Guide for more details.

Miscellaneous

• Updated -use-machine option

  When specifying a machine type for which to collect performance data, the clock rate may now also be specified. This avoids the need for Quantify to measure the speed of the machine on which it is currently running. The new syntax is:

  -use-machine=<machine>:<speed>Mhz

  e.g. -use-machine=sparcstation_5:60MHz

Supported systems

Operating system and Hardware

Quantify has been tested with SunOS versions 4.1.3, and 4.1.4 on SPARC platforms.

NOTE: This is the last release of Quantify to support SunOS 4.x.

Compilers

Quantify has been tested with the following compilers:

• Bundled cc (/bin/cc).
• SPARCWorks (cc, acc, CC) versions: 1.x, 2.x, and 3.0.1
• GNU gcc and g++ versions: 2.5.8, 2.6.3 and 2.7.2.

Threads

Quantify supports these threads packages:

• The native SunOS liblwp library.
• Transarc DCE threads.

Restrictions and Known Issues

• This release of Quantify does not support SunOS versions 4.1.1 and 4.1.2.

Data Collection

• Calls to dlclose() that would cause the library to be unmapped can cause qv to incorrectly attribute data to the improper functions. Quantify intercepts calls to dlclose() and prevents libraries from being unmapped.

User Interface

• Under most window managers, if a non-explicit focus policy is used, qv can steal the focus from a non-qv window. Click on the window title to reestablish proper focus.
• Under twm and tvtwm, Quantify dialogs can be iconified. Once iconified, however, they cannot be de-iconified and qv will no longer respond. You should avoid iconifying dialogs under these window managers.
• Under olvwm, dialogs are sometimes placed on the wrong virtual screen unless qv is running on the main virtual screen. This is fixed in the latest version of olvwm.
• A bug in the libX library shipped with OpenWindows 5.3 causes X client programs to either hang or crash when the display refuses a connection. This problem is especially notable when displaying to HP-UX displays. This bug effects all X programs (for example, xterm) and is not a Quantify bug.

  To workaround this problem, ensure that display permission for the client machine has been granted on the X server machine, e.g., % xhost + machineName

• There is a bug in version 3.3 of the OpenWindows X server shipped with Tadpole SPARCbooks. The server loses track of a client application's Graphics Contexts (GCs) after the first time the GCs are used. As a result, among other things, buttons and menus of client applications which are supposed to be greyed out don't look greyed out.

  You can see the same bug in other X applications such as xterm. In xterm, use control-middle-click in the xterm window to pop up the xterm VTOptions pop-up menu. Notice that the menu item "Show Alternate Screen" (close to the bottom of the menu) is greyed out. Now let go of the menu (without selecting anything), and popup the menu again. Note that the same menu item is no longer greyed out.

• The Quantify GUI menus and buttons become inaccessible if either the NumLock or ScrollLock key is activated. The workaround is to switch them off, or add the following line(s) to your $HOME/.Xdefaults file.

     ! Ignore the NumLock and ScrollLock keys on
     ! mouse buttons
     Quantify*ignoreModifierMask: Mod3|Mod2

  This second workaround will take effect for a new Quantify viewer after you restart your X-session or run a command like 'xrdb -merge $HOME/.Xdefaults'.

Compilers

• FORTRAN routines with multiple entry points are not supported when compiled -g.
• FORTRAN routines with formatted READ or WRITE statements which use the END= or ERR= specifiers are not supported when compiled -g.
• The GNU gcc extensions are not tested against Quantify. Most gcc extensions will probably work fine. Known limitations at present include problems with nested functions (e.g.: making a pointer to a nested function and attempting to call through it will not work).

Threads

• Customers using unsupported threads packages should contact Rational Software technical support (support@rational.com) to ensure compatibility.