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
- Download the BIRT RCP Designer from http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/
- Extract the contents of the BIRT RCP Designer archive.
- 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.