IBM® Rational® Application Developer for WebSphere® Software and IBM Rational Software Architect Designer family, V9.6.1 deliver:

• Tooling support for WebSphere Portal Server V9
• The inclusion of the WebSphere Portal Server V9, as a supporting program for use as a local test environment
• Support for Windows™ Server 2016
• Support for Oracle 12, as a database that can be targeted with the development tools
• Support for installation and execution on Mac OS X Sierra