If you have any issues during uninstall and reinstall of Rational® Functional Tester,
you can perform a few tasks to verify whether the required processes
are stopped and all the files are deleted from the computer.
About this task
To uninstall
Rational Functional Tester cleanly:
Procedure
- To uninstall the packages, you must log in to the system
using the same user account that you used to install the product packages.
- Before you uninstall Rational Functional Tester,
close the Eclipse and Visual Studio IDEs, as well as any open Web
browsers, and all other applications that are enabled by Rational Functional Tester.
To ensure that all the processes have stopped, you can use any of
the following tools:
- Use the Task Manager to kill all the Rational Functional Tester processes
such as java.exe and javaw.exe.
- You can use Process Explorer from Microsoft to search and stop
all the Rational Functional Tester processes.
- In the Process Explorer, click .
- Type rtx in the Handle or DLL
substring field.
- Kill all the processes that are listed in the Process
Explorer Search window.
- Uninstall Rational Functional Tester using
the IBM® Installation Manager For more information see, Uninstalling Rational Functional Tester
- After uninstalling Rational Functional Tester,
verify if the uninstallation process has deleted the assembly entries.
- Click and type assembly.
- Delete the following assembly instances if they still
exist:
- rtxftnet
- SiebelDomainProxies
- SiebelIEHelper
- SiebelNotificationListener
- policy.7.0.rtxftnet
Note: If you are unable to delete the assembly entries, open
the Windows Registry editor and search for the assembly. Delete the
entries from the Registry and then try to delete the assembly instance.
- Click and type regedit to open the
registry editor. Expand and delete the 8 folder.
- Delete all the files and folders in the Rational Functional Tester installation
directory if they still exist. For example, C:\Program Files\IBM\SDP70 or C:\Program
Files\IBM\SDP.
- To delete the configuration and customization files, delete
the RFT folder that is available by default at C:\Documents
and Settings\All Users\Application Data\IBM location.
- To delete the user preference settings of Rational Functional Tester,
delete the RFT folder that is available by default
at C:\Documents and Settings\<user name>\Application
Data\IBM location.
- To delete the workspace data, delete the rft_private_workspace folder
that is available at C:\Documents and Settings\<user
name>\IBM\rationalsdp location if it still exists.