When a data source
requires authentication, each authentication type that is supported
by Rational® Publishing Engine (Form, Basic,
or OAuth) is tested until the correct type
is found. You can circumvent the testing process by designating an
authentication type.
When you specify
the authentication type, Rational Publishing Engine ensures
that the correct protocol is used first and unnecessary requests are
not performed. You might see a significant performance improvement
in document generation time if your data source requires Basic,
or OAuth authentication or if you are using
a complex template that requires many requests from the data source.
If no authentication type is specified, each type is tested.
About this task
Complete this task to improve the performance of generating
HTML, XSL-FO, and Legacy PDF documents.
Note: For the Rational RequisitePro® adapter
provided by Data Services, you must specify Basic authentication.
Procedure
- Open the Launcher application.
- Create a document specification.
- Configure a data source.
- Select the data source. The Properties view
opens.
- In the authentication field, enter
the authentication type that applies to your data source. You can
enter one of the following case-sensitive authentication types:
- If necessary, enter the credentials to authenticate with
the data source including the user name and password.
- Save the document specification.
What to do next
Update the authentication properties in existing document
specifications.