Planning the installation

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.

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:
  • Web 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 Web Services application. The Web Services application also includes a Central Management component and a Monitor & Control component. The Central Management component is a common asset storage system for accessing commonly used files in your organization. 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.
  • Data Services application and Reporting Data Services Adapters: Rational Publishing Engine provides REST interfaces for IBM Rational ClearCase®, IBM Rational ClearQuest®, and IBM Rational RequisitePro® through the Reporting Data Services Adapters. If your data source already has a built-in XML data service, you do not need these features.
  • Add-ins: These add-ins are available for IBM Rational DOORS® and IBM Rational Tau integrations. You can use the add-ins to start publishing processes directly from Rational DOORS or Rational Tau. If a valid installation of one of those products is found, the add-ins are automatically installed.

If you installed the web applications and the Rational Publishing Engine clients on a server for remote document generation, the web applications are ready to deploy on the application server when the installation is complete.


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