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Question
How to setting up Rational Publishing Engine (RPE) to generate report from IBM Rational Rhapsody 7.5.1
Answer
Configuration:
- Rational Publishing Engine (RPE) 1.1.1 Build 1 is recommended to use with Rational Rhapsody 7.5.1.
- RPE requires a license server to be installed and running.
- Example is License Server Telelogic V2.0.0 for Windows English
The RPE license must contain the RPE_PUBLISH feature
Example:
FEATURE RPE_PUBLISH telelogic 2011.0115 15-jan-2011 1
Components Involved:
Currently, to run the integration, three program components should be running
- Rhapsody itself
- Rhapsody Web Server (to process HTTP requests from RPE)
- RPE (ether Launcher or Document Studio, depending on goals).
Rational Rhapsody:
- Open the model (for a test, use Dishwasher under samples) in Rhapsody on which report needs to be generated
- Load any profiles you need for report generation
- Launch the Rational Publishing Engine -> Generate Report utility
- This will start the Application Server (located in the Rhapsody root) and the RPE Publish Wizard
Application Server
It will start the web server on a predefined port. In the command prompt window, the port number (27463 on the picture) on which server is available will be displayed.
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It is possible to change the port number by running “startserver.bat” by specifying port number as an argument. For example: startserver.bat 8080 will launch server on 8080 port number
RPE Wizard:
Click “Next” and specify the document template to be used. An example can be found in the Rhapsody root: Rhapsody751\RPE\Templates\ProjectContentReport\ProjectContentReport.dta
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Specifying the URL:
- Click “Next” and specify the URL for data source in “Configuration” field
- In the Configure REST Data source dialogue specify the URL how it appears in the Application Server console window (as above)
Configure the Output:
- Click “Next” and configure the report output types and file paths.
- Add a path to your generated report
- You can also choose the RPE.dot file in the RPE\Templates\ProjectContentReport directory. This adds a table of contents and more formatting such as headers.
Then click Next
Summary:
Click “Next” to display Summary Page, press “Finish”. You may get an option to save the current Document Specification (this saves the paths and URL information as a .dsx file)
Generated Report:
You should get a progress bar and a window displaying the reports generated
[{"Product":{"code":"SSB2MU","label":"IBM Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody"},"Business Unit":{"code":"BU059","label":"IBM Software w\/o TPS"},"Component":"General Information","Platform":[{"code":"PF033","label":"Windows"}],"Version":"7.5.1","Edition":"","Line of Business":{"code":"LOB59","label":"Sustainability Software"}}]
Product Synonym
Rational Rhapsody
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27 May 2022
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