IBM Installation Manager 1.6.3.1 required
For more information about Installation Manager, see the IBM Installation Manager 1.6.3.1 Information Center.
Eclipse 4.2
Rational Publishing Engine is now built of Eclipse 4.2. For more information about Eclipse, see the Eclipse Juno Information Center.
Load balancing
You can create a clustered environment for your Rational Publishing Engine nodes. For more information on configuring load balancing on WebSphere® Application Server, see Configuring load balancing for Rational Publishing Engine document generations on WebSphere Application Server.
Suppressing desktop shortcuts in silent installations
When you are performing silent installations, you can configure the property to prevent the creation of desktop shortcuts. For more information about silent installations, see Installing IBM Rational Publishing Engine clients for design use silently.
Translation
The Remote services application has been translated.
Apache Tomcat 7 supported
Apache Tomcat 7 is now supported for deploying Remote services and Data services applications.
Component name changes
The Web services application is now called the Remote services application. The Central Library component is now called the Central Management component.
Report scheduling
From the Launcher application, you can schedule remote document generation jobs to run one time or at specified intervals of time. For more information about configuring report scheduling for your Remote services application, see Configuring report scheduling on WebSphere Application Server orConfiguring report scheduling on Apache Tomcat.
Monitor & Control component flags deprecated
You can no longer use the -Dcom.ibm.rational.rpe.mc.url, -Dcom.ibm.rational.rpe.mc.user, or -Dcom.ibm.rational.rpe.mc.password flags in the Document Studio or Launcher config.ini file. Set the same information with the -Dcom.ibm.rational.rpews.url, -Dcom.ibm.rational.rpews.pwd, and -Dcom.ibm.rational.rpews.usr flags instead. For more information about these flags, see Run time and formatting flags reference.
Remote document generation results only accessible to users who are assigned the rpe_scheduler_user or rpe_scheduler_admin roles.
The remote document generations results now display results both from immediate remote document generation jobs and scheduled document generation jobs. Because of this change and to ensure that the security of the results is not compromised, users who previously were assigned the rpe_docgen_user role can no longer access the remote document generation results. These users must also be assigned either the rpe_scheduler_user or rpe_scheduler_admin role to view remote document generation results.
JavaScript for master page properties
You can now use JavaScript to configure the page size, page borders, and orientation properties for master pages.
OAuth-OSLC authentication
You can set the -Dcom.ibm.rational.rpe.config.oslcServiceProviders, -Dcom.ibm.rational.rpe.config.oslcServiceProviders.pwd, and -Dcom.ibm.rational.rpe.config.oslcServiceProviders.usr flags for configuring OAuth-OSLC authentication for data sources such as Rational DOORS® Web Access. For more information about these flags, see Run time and formatting flags reference and Creating oslcServiceProviders.xml file for OAuth-OSLC authentication.
Defining a memory limit for Rational DOORS document generations
You can set the -Dcom.ibm.rational.rpe.dxl.enable.memory.management flag to allow users to set a registry key with a memory limit for background processes. When the memory limit is reached, the background processes close when they complete reading the current object and only reopen the object again if necessary. For more information about the flags, see Run time and formatting flags reference. For more information about configuring the memory limit, see Troubleshooting a Rational DOORS document generation.
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) v1 modes
You can configure the -Dcom.ibm.rational.rpe.ssl flag so that Rational Publishing Engine communicates only in the correct Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) or Transport Layer Security (TLS) v1 mode. For more information about this flag, see Remote flags reference for the Remote services application.
Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.2 mode
You can configure the -Dcom.ibm.rational.rpe.tls12only flag so that Rational Publishing Engine communicates only in Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.2 mode. For more information about this flag, see Remote flags reference for the Remote services application.
Java API classes
You can customize the Java API from a list of available classes. For more information about these classes, see Java API Reference.
Retry settings for failed license requests
You can configure the -Dcom.ibm.rational.rpe.license.attempts.count and -Dcom.ibm.rational.rpe.license.retry.timeout flags for the Remote services application to set a maximum number of times connections to a license server is requested and the amount of time between requests. For more information about the remote services flags, see Remote flags reference for the Remote services application.
Remembered credentials
Clearing data from a template element
The names of the options available for clearing data from template elements has changed. In Rational Publishing Engine 1.2.0.1, you could right-click an element, click Data, and the options available to you were Clear data, Clean references, and Clear conditions. The same functionality exists, but these options are now named Clear all, Clear queries, and Clear conditions.
Watermarks
You can create a text or image-based watermark through a master page. For more information about creating watermarks, see Creating a watermark.
License timeout
If the application is not used for sixty minutes, floating licenses are checked back in and you are prompted to attempt to check the license out again. If a document generation is in progress and the application is not in use, the license is not checked back in until sixty minutes after the document generation completes.
New internal variables for displaying session details
Wildcard characters in template searches
When you search for references contained in a template, you can include wildcard characters to get a list of similar search results. For more information about these wildcard characters and the search option selections for defining those wildcard characters, see the table in Searching within a template.
Properties tab reset
Each tab in the Properties view can be Reset to the default values for the properties in that tab.
Report scheduling
From the Launcher application, you can schedule remote document generation jobs to run one time or at specified intervals of time. For more information about scheduling a job, see Scheduling a document generation.
Simplified Document Generation wizard
The document generation wizard has been redesigned to streamline the document generation process. The wizard includes a progress bar that displays all of the items in the document specification that require configuration. You can review each one or jump to the ones you want to configure. For more information about using the document generation wizard, see Generating a document with the document generation wizard.
Read ahead document generation properties
You can control how data sources are processed during a document generation through the read ahead properties. If a data source has the Allow read ahead property set to true in the document specification, the run time metadata property Data read ahead can be configured to handle how those data sources are processed. For more information about the Data read ahead property, see Run time metadata properties reference.
Retry settings for failed data requests
You can configure theData request retry count and Data request retry interval properties in the run time metadata for a document specification to set a maximum number of times connections to a data source is requested and the amount of time between requests. For more information about the run time metadata properties, see Run time metadata properties reference.
License timeout
If the application is not used for sixty minutes, floating licenses are checked back in and you are prompted to attempt to check the license out again. If a document generation is in progress and the application is not in use, the license is not checked back in until sixty minutes after the document generation completes.
Ordering templates in a document specification
Configure using metadata options for data sources and variables
You can specify configuration data from a template in the document generation wizard or from the Document specification view by right-clicking a data source or variable and clicking Configure using metadata.
Max width and height of images and OLEs
You can set maximum height and width values for images and OLEs in the Metadata properties for a document specification. Enter a value in pixels in the Image max width and Image max height properties. For more information about run time metadata properties, see Run time metadata properties reference.
OLEs and field updates can be handled by Rational Publishing Engine without macros
If you want some fields to be updated with the Update fields property, but not all fields, you can specify which field codes to omit from the update by listing them in the Exclude fields property.
For more information about Microsoft Word output properties, see Microsoft Word output properties reference for document specifications.
Chunking Microsoft Word output generations
When you are generating documents with large amounts of data, you can choose to break the generation of Microsoft Word output documents into chunks by using the Multipart property. For more information about Microsoft Word output properties, see Microsoft Word output properties reference for document specifications.
When remote document generation
is enabled, you can switch between local and remote document generations
on a document by document basis by toggling the icon.
To enable remote document generations, enter a URL to the remote services in the Remove services preference. For more information, see Setting the remote services preferences.
Stop Rational DOORS generations if the view or baseline cannot be accessed
Use the Stop if view or baseline are unavailable to control how Rational Publishing Engine handles document generations when the selected view or baseline in a module are not available. For more information about Rational DOORS document specification properties, see Rational DOORS data source properties reference.
Security considerations
Review the security considerations for how Rational Publishing Engine handles the storing of authentication information. For more information about security, see Security considerations for IBM Rational Publishing Engine.
Interactive installation guide
You can customize your installation instructions based on the components you are installing, the data source you are using, and the application server you have. Select the options in the form and generate an HTML file that compiles the topics you need from the information center. See the Interactive installation guide.
Expanded integrations documentation
The integrations documentation has been expanded so that each data source includes topics about Configuring the integration, Designing templates, and Generating documents. If there are examples, troubleshooting information, or other tasks for the data sources, these topics are also included in the integration documentation. See the Integrating section for your data source.
Configuration layer tutorial
Rational Publishing Engine video tour
See the Introduction to Rational Publishing Engine video tour.