Rational Asset Manager v7.1.1.1 Available
March 27, 2009
The latest release of Rational Asset Manager v7.1.1.1 was made available today. This is a service pack release. This release also includes some small enhancements that customers told us they needed. Here is where you can find more information:
Here are some of the value add “goodies” in this release.
Administrative improvements
- Platforms
- Added SUSE Enterprise Linux 10 SP1 (x86_64bit) – Kernel 2.6.16.46-0.12-smp (1)
- Added LDAP support for Tivoli Directory Server v6.2
- Asset Zip filenames now support multi-byte charset
- Provide the ability for admins to set the path of debug and log files for RAM
- Major improvements to the setup Assistant (will log/show in a nice HTML table) all WAS, and DB based updates/changes, or configurations
- Server Status
- View job status
- View active web sessions
- View active web service sessions
- Run RAM Batch Client headless
Asset Management Improvements
- Read only attributes
- Add option to “Cancel a review“
- From Asset, Visualize Asset link to visual browse
- Improvement in display order of asset attributes
- Link and user attributes allow multiple selection
- Support more URL formats for Asset URL artifacts like: notes://D25WEB1/8525727300578ED8/F2B15920D645AA7985256811006AA0E9/D81A579182B9B5C1852572AA004E7B5B
Other Usability Improvements
- Reports URL Activity Reports include “browse”
- Reports URL request multiple activities using tid=(value,value) now works
- SOA – Ability to publish xsl files to WSRR and to be able to relate them to current concepts
- Remove an asset from an Asset Library Task
- Turn off visual browse animation to improve performance
- Search improvements Now Index:
- Category name/description
- Asset type name/description
- Community name/description
- Ability to control policy execution order
To see some of these new features in action and to see how RAM can be used as a Definitive Software Library with Rational Team Concert and your Eclipse based IDE check out this demonstration by Dr Gili Mendel. The viewlet shows how technical assets (services & J2EE Ear/War) can be developed with RAM.
You must download and extract the files in the zip file. Click on the file ram711_sp1_viewlet_swf.html You can view the file with Internet Explorer or Firefox.
