IBM® Rational® Programming Patterns 9.7.0 iFix 4

Purpose

This Interim Fix applies to IBM® Rational® Programming Patterns 9.7.0. It contains fixes for defects that were reported by clients or discovered internally.

Installation prerequisites

This update requires that you have already installed one of the packages listed in the above section.

Installation instructions

Rational Programming Patterns Client

1. Extract RPP970_iFix004_Client.zip to a temporary directory.

For example, on Windows:

c:\temp

2. Installation Manager Updates.

Start Installation Manager and add the "diskTag.inf" file path (of the sub directory "disk1") in the Repositories list of the Preference tool of Installation Manager

For example:

c:\temp\RPP970_iFix004Client\disk1\diskTag.inf

Click OK and go back to the Installation Manager main page.

3. Installation.

In Installation Manager, click on "Update" and choose the Package to update then follow the Installation Instructions.

Rational Programming Patterns Server

For an installation on z/OS, see the explanations in “Rational Programming Patterns Server for z/OS”.

1. Extract RPP970_iFix004_Server.zip to a temporary directory.

For example, on Windows:

c:\temp

2. Installation Manager Updates.

Start Installation Manager and add the "diskTag.inf" file path (of the sub directory "disk1") in the Repositories list of the Preference tool of Installation Manager

For example:

c:\temp\RPP970_iFix004Server\disk1\diskTag.inf

Click OK and go back to the Installation Manager main page.

3. Installation.

In Installation Manager, click on "Update" and choose the Package to update then follow the Installation Instructions.

Rational Programming Patterns Server for z/OS

1. Extract RPP970_iFix004_Server_zOS.zip to a temporary directory.

For example, on Windows:

c:\temp

2.The extraction produces the IBM.HAL3970.UInnnnn file.

3. Upload the file to z/OS and install it with SMP/E.

See the details in the Rational Programming Patterns Installation Guide, chapter 10, subchapter “Updating the server on z/OS”.

Associated level of Pacbase

It is recommended to use the Migration procedures packages provided in RPP 9.7.0 iFix 4 when working on the migration process from Pacbase to RPP.

APAR corrected in RPP 9.7.0 iFix 4

APAR	Summary
PH24684	The COBOL rules fail with an exception in Software Analyzer when RPP rules are invoked