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How to set an Environment variable to reference the Rational Rhapsody installation directory

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Question

How do you set an Environment variable to reference the IBM Rational Rhapsody installation directory?

Cause

The purpose of setting an environment variable to the Rhapsody installation directory is to reference the files within the directory from the Rational Rhapsody Graphical Interface

Answer

You can define an environment variable to reference the Rational Rhapsody installation directory in the rhapsody.ini file. This variable can then be referenced from the Rhapsody graphical interface.

Apply the steps below to achieve the same:

  1. Navigate to Rational Rhapsody installation directory and locate the rhapsody.ini file

    Notes:

    For Windows XP, the rhapsody.ini file can be found in the location C:\Program Files\IBM\Rational\Rhapsody\7.x\

    For Windows 7 and Windows Vista, the rhapsody.ini file can be found in the Users directory in the location C:\Users\..\IBM\Rational\Rhapsody\7.x\

  2. Open the rhapsody.ini file in edit mode and define your environment variable in the General section of the file

    [General]
    .....
    ......
    ......
    APPLICATION_ROOT=C:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\Rational\Rhapsody\7.6.1

  3. Save the changes and exit


Note: The variable can be put into use by launching Rhapsody and referencing it by $APPLICATION_ROOT

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Product Synonym

Rational Rhapsody

Document Information

Modified date:
27 May 2022

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