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Rational Quality Manager 3.0 M5 Milestone

Early Access Milestone | April 23, 2010 | Documentation
This is not the recommended version. We recommend Rational Quality Manager 6.0.6.1 . This is made available for archival purposes and may contain bugs and/or security vulnerabilities. If you do download this version, it is being provided AS IS, without warranties of any kind, including the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. We strongly advise you review the support pages for this version and update the product or take actions recommended therein. Security bulletins contain instructions for the security vulnerability addressed therein, and may require upgrading to a newer version. Link to security vulnerability blog: IBM PSIRT blog.

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Rational Quality Manager 3.0 M5 - Release Notes

Rational Quality Manager 3.0 M5 - Release Notes

The following notes provide the installation process for Rational Quality Manager 3.0 M5 release and describe issues that users and consumers of RQM should be aware of.


System requirements

For information about hardware and software requirements, review the user privilege requirements and the software and hardware requirements detailed in the System Requirements page on the Rational Quality Manager product site.

Installing Rational Quality Manager v3.0 M5

To install Rational Quality Manager 3.0 M5, including the Rational Test Lab Manager component, follow these steps:

  1. Create a working directory to extract the RQM 3.0 M5 ZIP file.
    • Windows example: c:\RQM
    • Linux example: /opt/IBM/RQM
  2. Copy the ZIP file to the working directory and extract it. The RQM30 subdirectory is created.
  3. Change the directory to the RQM30\server directory.
  4. Start Rational Quality Manager using the server_startup script.
  5. Once Rational Quality Manager starts, point a browser to https://host:9443/rqm/setup, and run the setup wizard.

NOTE: The setup wizard for Rational Quality Manager 3.0 M5 does not create the initial Quality Manager project area. Follow these steps to create the project area manually after running the setup wizard:

  1. Point a browser to https://host:9443/rqm/admin, and log on as a JazzAdmin user.
  2. Click Project Area Management.
  3. Click Create Project Area.
  4. Type the name "Quality Manager" for the project area.
  5. Click Deploy predefined process templates.
  6. Select the Quality Manager Default Process.
  7. Add your project area members and administrators, and then save your changes.

Known issues

Many known problems are documented in the form of individual technotes in the IBM Technical Support knowledge base at www.ibm.com/support. As problems are discovered and resolved, the IBM Support team updates the knowledge base. By searching the knowledge base, you can quickly find workarounds or solutions to problems.

The following link launches a customized query of the live Support knowledge base for known issues pertaining to Rational Quality Manager Standard Edition. View all known problems for Rational Quality Manager Standard Edition.

The following list contains additional issues that are unique to the Rational Quality Manager v3.0 M5 release. Many of these issues can also be found in the IBM Technical Support knowledge base.

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