Configuring the BIRT Report Designer RCP for Rational ClearQuest reporting

Copy the Rational® ClearQuest® Reporting Driver plug-ins to the plugins directory of the BIRT Report Designer to enable reporting from ClearQuest data sources.

Before you begin

Rational ClearQuest supports only a subset of the Report Designer RCP software versions available in the Business Intelligence and Reporting tools collection. Before beginning the installation, review technote 1509579 to determine which version to install.

The Rational ClearQuest Reporting Driver requires the Java™ Runtime Environment (JRE) version 1.6.0 or higher. Reporting tools that use older versions of the Java Runtime Environment cannot load and use the Rational ClearQuest Reporting Driver. If you already have a Java Runtime Environment installed on your system, run this command from a command prompt to check the version number:java -version.

About this task

The BIRT Designer is a simple to use RCP Version of the BIRT Report Designer for report developers on the Windows platform. You must configure this application with the Rational ClearQuest Reporting Driver to enable reporting from ClearQuest data sources.

For help using BIRT to create Rational ClearQuest reports, see Using the BIRT Report Designer.

Procedure

  1. Download the BIRT RCP Designer from http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/
  2. Extract the contents of the BIRT RCP Designer archive.
  3. Copy the Rational ClearQuest Reporting Driver plug-ins from the ClearQuest reports directory to the .\plugins directory of the report designer. The plug-ins are in one of this directory
    On Windows:
    %CLEARQUEST_HOME\reports\driver\plugins
    On UNIX or Linux:
    $CLEARQUEST_HOME/reports/driver/plugins

What to do next

Start the BIRT Report Designer and begin designing your Rational ClearQuest reports. For help designing reports, use the resources available from the BIRT Project.