Improving document generation performance

You might shorten the time Rational® Publishing Engine takes to generate an output document by trying these steps.

Procedure

  1. Use lists and paragraphs in your template instead of tables whenever possible.
  2. Replace scripted sorts and filters by native sorts or filters wherever possible. If you are using Rational Publishing Engine filters in your template, Rational Publishing Engine is processing the data from the data source. Instead, use native filters to reallocate the filtering work to the data source application or the Reporting Data Services Adapters rather than Rational Publishing Engine. See Extracting data by using native filters and Sorting data from a query for more information.
  3. Specify authentication types for data sources and templates in the document specification properties. See Specifying the authentication type for a data source in a document specification for more information.
  4. Minimize the number of requests that Rational Publishing Engine has to make from the template to the data source. The fewer requests you have, the less time is required for a document to generate.
  5. Remove output types that you are not using from the document specification. See Deleting output formats for more information.
  6. If you are generating documents remotely, but you are not using the Central Management component, enter an individual Remote document generation URL in the Remote services preferences instead of one Remote services URL for all of the components.

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