As an administrator or report designer, you can add and
edit Rational® Publishing
Engine data sources. For example, you can update the password that
is required to connect to a data source, or specify a new location
for a data source.
Before you begin
You must know the data source type, and depending on the
type and vendor, the properties that are required to connect to it.
About this task
Data sources identify the location of the data stores
that are used by reports.
Note: If a report has a data source,
you must create a data source connection for each data source that
the report uses. Otherwise you will not be able to generate the document
successfully.
Procedure
- On the Design page, click the Connections tab.
- Click Add Connection.
- Enter a Title for the
data source.
- Enter a Description for
the data source.
- Specify the URL for
the resource.
- If you want to generate documents for different configurations,
see Setting up a data source to generate configuration-aware documents
- If the resource is in a secured server, specify
the User name and Password.
- Select the Authentication
Method from the list.
- Enter any cookies properties.
- If you are connecting to Rational DOORS®, select the Rational
DOORS Details check box.
- Specify the DOORS View. Views
contain a subset of the objects or attributes that are in the module.
- Specify the DOORS Baseline. Baselines are read-only versions of a module. A baseline captures
and preserves a moment in time.
- Specify the DOORS data, for example -data port@doors_db_server.
The DOORS client must
be installed on the same server as the document generation service
(dgaas.war). When document generation is triggered, the document generation
service starts the DOORS client
in batch mode, extracts data from DOORS through
DXLs, and then shuts down the DOORS client.
- Click Save.
- You can also edit and delete data source connections in
the Connections tab.
Results
The data source is displayed in the list of data source connections
used by reports. When you generate a document, you are prompted to
specify the data source.