Before you install IBM® Rational® Publishing Engine,
make sure that you meet the installation prerequisites and that you
understand how to install the product for your specific environment.
Important: Do not install
more than one instance of
Rational Publishing Engine on
the same computer. If you do install more than one instance of
Rational Publishing Engine on
the same computer, the
RPE_HOME environment variable
might be affected which could result in the following issues:
- Document generations from Rational DOORS® might
fail because the DXL files and the .inc files
might not match.
- Microsoft Word macros
might not run because the runmacro.vbs script
and the rpe.dot macro files might require different
arguments than the ones being issued.
- HTML output might not be created because driver code might not
be able to find the correct JavaScript files.
If you deploy the web app as part
of the RPE Remote Services feature, you might not need the remote
services applications, unless you need to connect directly to the
desktop applications. Most of the tasks can be achieved via the new
web app.
Rational Publishing Engine
clients
Rational Publishing Engine provides the following clients for generating documents:
- Document Studio: Report authors can use this stand-alone application to create templates that
pull data from specified data sources. Document Studio creates document template archive files
(.dta).
- Launcher: You can generate documents from this stand-alone application. The Launcher configures
template output and generates reports through document specification files
(.dsx).
Additional components
When you install the
Rational Publishing Engine clients,
you have the option to install the following additional components:
- Remote services:
- 2.0 web app: Report designers can import templates created in Document Studio into the web app
and connect them to data sources. End users can then generate documents with a single click without
any knowledge of templates or data sources. You can also schedule document generation.
- 1.x remote services application: You can relocate resource and time-consuming publishing
operations to another computer or server by using the Remote document generation component contained
in the Remote services application. The Remote services application also includes:
- Central Management component: The Central Management component is a common asset storage system
for accessing commonly used files in your organization.
- Monitor & Control component: Administrators can use the Monitor & Control component
administrative user interface to check the status of all document generation jobs that are requested
from different clients to run remotely. The administrator can then help troubleshoot or cancel jobs,
if necessary.
- Report scheduler component: With the Report scheduler component, you can schedule remote
document generation jobs at a specific time or interval.
- Add-in: This add-in is available for IBM Rational DOORS
integrations.
You can use the add-ins to start publishing processes directly from Rational DOORS
.
If a valid installation of one of those products is found, the add-ins are automatically installed.
If you installed the remote applications and the Rational Publishing Engine clients on
a server for remote document generation, the remote applications are ready to deploy on the
application server when the installation is complete.