Interactive installation guide for Rational Publishing Engine

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Select the options that best describe your installation environment.

Select one or more products to use as a data source:
Select one or more of the Rational Publishing Engine applications and components to install and configure:
  • Optional: This application is optional to install. You must install an application server and Rational Publishing Engine with the RPE Remote services feature before deploying the web app. You can use the Rational Publishing Engine web app to build, generate, and view documents.
  • Required: This application is required to install, even on servers where remote document generation is set up. In the Launcher, you create document specifications to organize the details required to generate the output document from the templates that are designed in Document Studio.
  • Optional: This application is optional to install and is only necessary on computers where templates are to be designed. In Document Studio, you create templates to provide the structure and formatting for the data that is included in the output document.

Remote Services applications:

  • Optional: This component is included in the Remote services application and enables you to remotely generate documents on a server rather than on your local computer.
  • Optional: This component is included in the Remote services application and enables you to store templates, document specifications, data source schema, and other information types for reuse across your organization.
  • Optional: This component is included in the Remote services application and enables you to manage remote document generation jobs that are requested by the users in your organization.
  • Optional: This component is included in the Remote services application and enables you to schedule remote document generation jobs.

To install and configure Rational Publishing Engine and related products:

Verify the system and licensing requirements

From the topic System requirements

From the topic License requirements

Install your data source

Refer to the Rational Change documentation for more information about installing the product.

Refer to the Rational Clearcase documentation for more information about installing the product.

Refer to the Rational ClearQuest documentation for more information about installing the product.

Refer to the Rational DOORS documentation for more information about installing the product.

Refer to the Rational Quality Manager documentation for more information about installing the product.

Refer to the Rational DOORS Next Generation documentation for more information about installing the product.

Refer to the Rational RequisitePro documentation for more information about installing the product.

Refer to the Rational Rhapsody documentation for more information about installing the product.

Note: If you use Rational Rhapsody with Design Management, you can connect Rational Publishing Engine to Design Management instead of directly to Rational Rhapsody. You might find Design Management easier to create templates in situations where you are using published models in Design Management and not in Rational Rhapsody itself.

Refer to the Rational System Architect documentation for more information about installing the product.

Refer to the Rational Team Concert documentation for more information about installing the product.

Install your application server

From the topic Application servers

Install the Rational Publishing Engine components and features

From the topic Installing IBM Rational Publishing Engine remote and data services on a server for organizational use

Deploying the web app on your application server.

Configuring users for the web app on your application server

Configuring authentication for the web app

From the topic Configuring authentication for the web app

Configure the Rational DOORS and Rational Publishing Engine installations

From the topic Extracting Rational DOORS data with DXL security settings

From the topic Configuring the Rational DOORS path for remote publishing

Deploy the Remote services application

Verify that the web applications deployed successfully

From the topic Verify the automatic deployment of the remote applications

Configure WebSphere Application Server for the Remote services application

Deploy the Reporting data services adapters

Configure the Reporting data services adapters

Create users

Create users for the Remote services components.

From the topic Remote services URLs

Configure report scheduling

Configure report scheduling for the Remote services.

Optional configurations

You can set remote, runtime, or formatting flags to set configurations for the users in your organization.

Configure the help content

From the topic Configuring the help content

Troubleshooting your installation

From the topic this topic