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RPT Command Line -- need new "-exportstatspattern" option to specify "Custom pattern" for "CSV file name format"

Bottom line: All assets produced by RPT should be able to have the same filename prefix. From the command line, the name of the results files can be specified, but the filename prefix of the "CSV/JSON" stats exports can only be specified from the ...
almost 3 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Performance Tester 3 Delivered

Create a Reference using JSON expression extractor

We are looking for a new feature to create a reference using JSON expression instead of Regular expression. And also at rules file. All our upcoming applications are developed using JSON requests and responses, which are changing dynamically for e...
almost 5 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Performance Tester 4 Delivered

I want to be able to delete rows from custom code through the IDataSetController

Currently, I can overwrite rows and I can add rows. I do not have the ability to delete rows. As a "pre test" operation I want to issue a request to get new data from my server and overwrite what currently exists in the dataset with it. If there w...
over 1 year ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Performance Tester 4 Delivered

RPT should not report Dropped Connections as Server Timeouts -- a new Error Condition "Dropped Connection" is needed

A new Error Condition "Dropped Connection" or "Connection Forcibly Closed" needs to be created to account for cases where the System Under Test drops a connection before the configured Server Timeout value. E.g. for cases such as: "java.io.IOExcep...
over 5 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Performance Tester 7 Delivered

provide a hyperlink to web reports on RPT Preferences -> Test -> Performance Test Reports -> Web Reports

RPT has a web reports feature, has for years and years. The URL for the web reports is documented in the KC at https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSNKWF_10.0.1/com.ibm.rational.test.lt.doc/topics/t_rem_acces_web_rep.html but better yet av...
over 4 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Performance Tester 4 Delivered

display a property for references in RPT tests if they were auto or manually generated

I get a lot of tests from customers who've done some manual correlation or perhaps correlation done for them in the course of a PMR. The test sooner or later may fail to run, so I have to debug it. When looking at a test I usually look at referenc...
over 6 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Performance Tester 6 Delivered

Dataset APIs to get general dataset properties

I was recently doing to custom code to provide an example to a customer and noticed that methods did not exist for some general concepts like getRowCount() and getColCount(). Discussed briefly with RPT development team and it was suggested that I ...
over 3 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Performance Tester 2 Delivered

Include a URL decoder, XML, JSON formatter, string split function for manipulating request and response data

I order to do manual correlation you have to understand and parse response content or post data. The data is typically unreadable, here's a real life example: Cookie: securityToken=%7B%22serviceDeskEmail%22%3A%22john.doe%40noone.biz%22%2C%22showRu...
over 7 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Performance Tester 5 Delivered

need enhanced error messaging for not able to bind to agent port in RPT

when RPT is configured to listen to an agent, say default port 7080, and another instance of RPT is running and also configured to accept connections on the same port say 7080 (default), then when the second instance of RPT is started it won't be ...
about 5 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Performance Tester 8 Delivered

RTWW - Add data to DataPool, while creating a data pool reference

Currently in RTWW product, when user is associating the test script data to newly created DP,a variable is created but the data is not copied to the datapool. Because of this after creating the DP, user need to manually enter the data by copying i...