The XML or REST data provider, or the product you are integrating Rational® Publishing Engine with to generate reports, stores data structured by data source schemas. Rational Publishing Engine uses the data source schemas to build, collect, and organize the data from the data provider. With the Document Studio application, you use templates to format the data in a visually dynamic structure. Then with the Launcher application, you use document specifications to customize output properties for the document. When you publish a document, the Rational Reporting for Document Generation core engine takes the details of the document specifications and templates and generates the document on a server into the output formats you specified. The status of the document generation job is listed in the Monitor & Control component. You can view or save the output as you need.
The Central management and Report scheduling components are optional as indicated in the topology diagram by a dashed line style.
The Data services application and the Reporting data services adapters are optional as indicated in the topology diagram by a dashed line style.
If you are using Rational ClearCase®, Rational ClearQuest®, or Rational RequisitePro® as a data provider to generate reports, you must deploy and configure the Reporting data services application to structure the data with data source schemas. Then Rational Publishing Engine can use the data source schemas to build, collect, and organize the data from the data provider. With the Document Studio application, you use templates to format the data in a visually dynamic structure. Then with the Launcher application, you use document specifications to customize output properties for the document. When you publish a document, the Rational Reporting for Document Generation core engine takes the details of the document specifications and templates and generates the document on a server into the output formats you specified. The status of the document generation job is listed in the Monitor & Control component. You can view or save the output as you need.
If you are using a data source other than Rational ClearCase, Rational ClearQuest, or Rational RequisitePro, you do not need to configure the Data services.