Transaction Generator Changelog

What's new in Transaction Generator 0.92

Feb 15, 2010
  • Enhanced output messages for VERBOSE MODE
  • Verbose mode enables you confirm details of agent's activities, for example) "Running SQL Statements", "Result sets" and "Elapsed time" etc... In this version, you can choice verbose mode output as necessary. Specifically, you can check Elapsed time of each SQL Statements to make verbose mode show only Elapsed time section.
  • OTHERS:
  • New parameter "MAX_CONCURRENT_CONNECTIONS" is available. This parameter specifies the multiplicity of Agent's establishing connections.
  • "PL/SQL" is changed into "PROCEDURE" at JOB_TYPE parameter value.
  • The maximum value is changed into 1024 at LIST(LIST_INTEGER, LIST_STRING) variable.
  • Command "VERBOSE" usage is changed.
  • Improvement or elimination of parameters & Commands:
  • [PARAMETERS]
  • * NEW
  • MAX_CONCURRENT_CONNECTIONS : Specifies the multiplicity of Agent's establishing connections
  • [COMMANDS]
  • * CHANGE
  • - VERBOSE : Enables/disables Agent verbose mode and specifies message format
  • * SAMPLES)
  • VERBOSE AGENT 1 ON : Sets verbose mode for Agent which has Agent-ID#1
  • VERBOSE AGENT OFF : Clears verbose mode for all Agents
  • VERBOSE FORMAT 0001 : Shows only "Elapsed time" section in verbose outputs
  • VERBOSE FORMAT : Shows verbose message format
  • Bug Fixes:
  • BUG091001 : Agents connect to the target database sequentially

New in Transaction Generator 0.91 (Oct 5, 2009)

  • Installer is available:
  • You can install and uninstall TG automatically using installer. Incidentally This is available on windows platform only.
  • J2RE version was changed(J2RE1.4 -> J2RE1.5):
  • Previously, TG was running on J2RE 1.4.2_01. From TG version 0.91, supported J2RE version was changed into "1.5.0_18".
  • PRE/POST Transaction function is available:
  • New attribute "Transaction Type" was added on Transaction which is composed of some SQL statements. Previously, transaction was only executed on the basis of a transaction ratio which is specified by parameter "AVERAGE". Using this attribute, you can control transaction as follows :
  • -Execute a transaction only once when virtual clients start transactions (Pre Transaction)
  • - Execute a transaction only once when virtual clients disconnect from target database(Post Transaction)
  • Improved SQL executive function:
  • Previously, TG can execute a SQL using command "sql ".
  • In TG version 0.91, You can input and execute SQLs directly switching TG mode into SQL-MODE.
  • Improvement or elimination of commands & parameters:
  • TRANS_TYPE - Specifies transaction type.
  • SWITCH - Switches TG mode betweenn NORMAL-MODE and SQL-MODE.
  • CONNECT - Specifies database username and password, logon option in SQL-MODE.

New in Transaction Generator 0.90 (Mar 17, 2009)

  • Drawing graph function is available:
  • Drawing graph function is available in "TGC - TG Controller -" which is GUI based management tool for TG. You can confirm Agent(Virtual clients) activities visually, and check transaction status intuitively.

New in Transaction Generator 0.86 (Jan 13, 2009)

  • Command history function is available
  • When you push up-down arros key in "TG Console" window of "TGC - TG Controller -" which is GUI based management tool for TG, TG will display command history you have input before. This function is also available when you connect to TG which is running in SERVER mode using terminal software(ex. telnet client).
  • Improvement or elimination of commands & parameters
  • New:
  • - history : Displays command history
  • For more details about commands and parameters, please visit :
  • - Command reference
  • - Parameter reference
  • Bug Fixes in TG and TGC
  • TG version 0.86 contains following bug-fixes.
  • - BUG085002 : TG doesn't terminate when TGC terminates
  • - BUG085003 : TG website URL is invalid in TGC
  • - BUG085004 : Invalid connection between TGC and TG after tring to connect to TG
  • - BUG085005 : TG exits abnormally when you use VERBOSE commands at TG which is
  • running in command-line mode

New in Transaction Generator 0.85 (Oct 25, 2008)

  • BUG084001 : TGC seems to be hunged up temporally when TG and TGC synchronize
  • each configuration.
  • New
  • sql : Execute SQL manually
  • show columns : Show registered columns and lengths
  • [PARAMETERS]
  • New
  • COLUMN : Specify a length of column
  • OPERATOR_USERNAME : Specify DB username for administrative use
  • OPERATOR_PASSWORD : Specify DB password for administrative use
  • OPERATOR_LOGON_OPTION : Specify a logon option for administrative use
  • INPUT_ENCODING : Specify a characterset which TG recieves
  • OUTPUT_ENCODING : Specify a characterset which TG sends
  • OUTPUT_LINEFEED_STRING : Specify a linefeed string which TG sends
  • Change
  • USERNAME - > AGENT_USERNAME : Username of virtual client(Agent)
  • PASSWORD - > AGENT_PASSWORD : Password of virtual client(Agent)

New in Transaction Generator 0.81 (Aug 6, 2007)

  • At TG version 0.81, "Help" function is added. This supports you to configure transactions and control agents. With this function, you can learn how to use TG more easily.
  • Help guides your following tasks: Customize TGC window layout, Install JDBC driver, Verify and test the performance of your database, Load sample configurations
  • About executing transactions of Agents, following controls are available: Enable / disable "AUTO COMMIT" of JDBC, Selecting Isolation levels

New in Transaction Generator 0.80 (Jul 9, 2007)

  • Supporting various databases
  • Until TG version 0.72, TG was supporting ORACLE database only. But, TG version 0.80 has begun supporting various databases on a trial basis. Now "MySQL" and "PostgreSQL" was confirmed to work successfully with TG. About another databases with JDBC driver provided, TG would be able to connect to them.
  • Bug Fixes in TG and TGC
  • TG version 0.80 contains following bug-fixes.
  • BUG072001 : TGC exits abnormally #2

New in Transaction Generator 0.71 (Apr 30, 2007)

  • Improved logging function
  • Until TG version 0.70, TG has written logging messages into the logfile(tg.log) using "Enable spooling TG message" function of TGC (It is "spool" command in the command-line mode of TG). From TG version 0.71, you can specify the spool filename you want to use.
  • Some bugs of TG version 0.70 are fixed.

New in Transaction Generator 0.70 (Mar 23, 2007)

  • Multi-server mode