Before you can create a report, you must have BIRT v2.2.1 or greater installed. You can only create reports from the Eclipse client.
Managing software assets goes beyond submitting them to a repository and managing them through consumption. Over time, looking at the changing elements, the models and trends of asset details, consumption use cases, and users information can help companies evaluate the needs of their current business strategies.
Users with different roles need different reports:
Business analysts, administrators, asset owners, and asset consumers need different information to evaluate the repository use. For example, administrators want to know when a role was given to a user. Asset owners want to know who is subscribed to their assets. Asset consumers want to know what the most popular assets are.
Users retrieve data from Rational Asset Manager by using URLs:
The data that is used in the reports comes from a user-created URLs that return repository and asset information. The data is XML that can either be downloaded from a web browser or accessed directly from a reporting tool like BIRT. Different report paths, or URLs, return different types of data. Report paths can also take parameters that allow for query-like functionality; for example, the fromTime and toTime parameters can be used to retrieve only activities that occurred between timestamps.
Create the following types of reports:
To learn how to create reports with BIRT, use the following example of how to create a community download report. This sample report will show the download activity for the month of May for a given community. It will also list downloads by asset name for assets in the community.