Byteman fails to start on IBM JDK (quickstart)

Running org.jboss.narayana.quickstart.jta.TestCase
byteman jar is /home/hudson/.m2/repository/org/jboss/byteman/byteman/3.0.3/byteman-3.0.3.jar
*** java.lang.instrument ASSERTION FAILED ***: "jvmtierror == JVMTI_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE" at JPLISAgent.c line: 1009
Setting org.jboss.byteman.allow.config.update=true
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:95)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:55)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:508)
	at sun.instrument.InstrumentationImpl.loadClassAndStartAgent(InstrumentationImpl.java:408)
	at sun.instrument.InstrumentationImpl.loadClassAndCallAgentmain(InstrumentationImpl.java:433)
	at com.ibm.tools.attach.javaSE.Attachment.loadAgentLibraryImpl(Native Method)
	at com.ibm.tools.attach.javaSE.Attachment.loadAgentLibrary(Attachment.java:309)
	at com.ibm.tools.attach.javaSE.Attachment.parseLoadAgent(Attachment.java:287)
	at com.ibm.tools.attach.javaSE.Attachment.doCommand(Attachment.java:168)
	at com.ibm.tools.attach.javaSE.Attachment.run(Attachment.java:128)
Caused by: java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: adding retransformable transformers is not supported in this environment
	at sun.instrument.InstrumentationImpl.addTransformer(InstrumentationImpl.java:100)
Exception in thread "Attachment 45368" Agent failed to start!
	at org.jboss.byteman.agent.Main.premain(Main.java:275)
	at org.jboss.byteman.agent.Main.agentmain(Main.java:305)
	... 11 more
JVMJ9TI064E Agent initialization function Agent_OnAttach failed for library instrument, return code 102