Use cases for planning your reporting deployment

This topic presents several use cases that can help you decide which reporting configuration is best for your environment.

Use case 1: Your existing ClearQuest deployment uses Crystal Reports, and you want to continue to use Crystal Reports to design new data-pull reports

In this scenario, you have a version of ClearQuest earlier than 7.1 deployed that uses Business Objects Crystal Reports to design and run data-push reports, and you want to continue to leverage Crystal Reports to design new data-pull reports.

Recommendation:
  • Purchase one or more licenses for Crystal Reports version 11 release 2.
  • Configure your ClearQuest clients to run existing data-push reports as described in Table 1.
Report management options:
  • To manage data-push report formats, use the ClearQuest for Windows client with the Crystal Reports Designer.
  • To manage and share data-pull reports, you must install and configure the following software components on the same host computer. Both are optional subcomponents when you install ClearQuest using the IBM Installation Manager:
    • Report Server for ClearQuest
    • Report Server for Crystal Reports

Table 1. Software configurations that support Crystal Reports traditional data-push reports
ClearQuest client Client and server software configurations
ClearQuest Client and ClearQuest Client for Eclipse Two options for running traditional data-push reports:
  • To run data-push reports on the client:
    • Download and install the Crystal Reports Report Design Component (RDC). The RDC is available to licensed IBM Rational ClearQuest users as a free download from the Business Objects Web site at http://www.businessobjects.com/ibmrational.
  • To run data-push reports on the ClearQuest change-management server:
    • Install the ClearQuest Report Server for Crystal Reports, which is an optional subcomponent when you install ClearQuest.
    • Configure the ClearQuest Report Server for Crystal Reports with the Crystal Reports Java Reporting Component (JRC). The JRC is available to licensed IBM Rational ClearQuest users as a free download from the Business Objects Web site at http://www.businessobjects.com/ibmrational.
    • ClearQuest Client and ClearQuest Client for Eclipse users must configure the Reporting page of the Preferences dialog box (Window > Preferences > ClearQuest > Reporting):
      • Select the Enable remote reporting check box.
      • In the Remote reporting host field, specify the reporting host. By default, this preference is set to the URL for the ClearQuest Report Server for Crystal Reports. Here is the URL structure:
        http://server-name:12080/cqwebreport/CRInvoker

ClearQuest Web client
ClearQuest for Windows client
  • On the client:
    • Install the Crystal Reports Report Design Component (RDC), which is available to licensed IBM Rational ClearQuest users as a free download from the Business Objects Web site at http://www.businessobjects.com/ibmrational.
    • To maintain and create new Crystal Reports report formats for the data-push model, you must purchase a license for Crystal Reports version 11 release 2 from Business Objects.

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Use case 2: Either you have a new ClearQuest deployment, or your existing deployment does not have any saved data-push reports and you want to design new data-pull reports

In this scenario, either you have a new ClearQuest deployment, or you have a version of ClearQuest earlier than 7.1 deployed that does not have any saved data-push reports and you want to design data-pull reports.

Recommendation:
  • Use BIRT with the ClearQuest Reporting Driver to design new reports.
Report management option:
  • On the server, install the Report Server for ClearQuest, which is an optional subcomponent when you install ClearQuest using the IBM Installation Manager.

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Use case 3: Your existing ClearQuest deployment uses Crystal Reports, and you want to use BIRT to design new data-pull reports

In this scenario, you have a version of ClearQuest earlier than 7.1 deployed that uses Crystal Reports to design and run traditional data-push reports, and you want to use the BIRT Report Designer and runtime engine to design new data-pull reports.

Recommendation:

  • Purchase one or more licenses for Crystal Reports version 11 release 2.
  • To run traditional data-push reports, use the client and server software configurations described in Table 1.
  • To design new reports, use BIRT with the ClearQuest Reporting Driver.
  • (Optional) Migrate existing Crystal Reports data-push reports to BIRT.

Report management options:

  • To manage data-push report formats, use the ClearQuest for Windows client with the Crystal Reports Designer.
  • On the ClearQuest change-management server, install the Report Server for ClearQuest, which is an optional subcomponent when you install ClearQuest by using the IBM Installation Manager.

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