Connecting to a license server

You must have the licenses for all of the products you are integrating or taking data from to use with IBM® Rational® Publishing Engine.

Before you begin

Before you begin using Rational Publishing Engine to generate documents, a license key server must be set up with valid licenses. See Rational License Key Server.

About this task

If you specified a license server path during the Rational Publishing Engine installation, you are not prompted to enter a licensing option as outlined in this task.

Procedure

  1. Start Document Studio or Launcher.
  2. When prompted to choose a licensing option, select Specify the License Server System.
  3. Enter the license server path. By default, it is port_number@hostname.

What to do next

After you are connected, you can use the Rational Publishing Engine Document Studio to create templates. Then you can use the Rational Publishing Engine Launcher to build document specifications and generate reports.

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