IBM® Rational® Programming Patterns 9.7.2 iFix 12

Purpose

This Interim Fix applies to IBM® Rational® Programming Patterns 9.7.2. 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 section below.

Installation instructions

Rational Programming Patterns Client

1. Extract RPP972_iFix012_Client.zip to a temporary directory.

For example, on Windows: c:\temp

2. Update the client in Installation Manager.

Start Installation Manager. Select File > Preferences. Add the diskTag.inf file path (of the disk1 subdirectory) to the Repositories list.

For example: c:\temp\RPP972_iFix012Client\disk1\diskTag.inf

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

3. Install the RPP client.

In Installation Manager, click Update and choose the package to update. Then, follow the installation instructions.

Rational Programming Patterns Server

The server is not provided in this iFix. It is recommended to use this Rational Programming Patterns Client iFix with the Rational Programming Patterns 9.7.2 iFix 008 server patch.

Note: You can check which patch version of the RPP server is installed in your environment. To do so, log as an administrator into https://[fully-qualified hostname]:9443/ccm/admin?internal. Click Status Summary. In the Status Summary page, under the Build information section, a line displays the RPP server patch that is installed.

Associated level of Pacbase

The migration procedures are not provided in this iFix.

To work on the migration process from Pacbase to RPP, it is recommended to use the migration procedures package provided with RPP 9.7.1 iFix 4.

APAR corrected in RPP 9.7.2 iFix 12

APAR	Summary
PH57908	Changing level of SF under a CO breaks