Rational
Publishing Engine

IBM Rational Publishing Engine makes the data in reported systems transparent. The data is presented in a clear way giving a comfortable and understandable presentation of it.

To use an external data source, you need only import a special XML description of available elements called data source schema. By the way, you can improve the schema creating additional elements there which is very useful if an external system can be customized and enhanced by the user in some way. Imagine, if user-created custom attributes in system and want to add this data into final reports.

One of the very interested elements on the palette is “JavaScript Code”. It adds a lot of flexibility into designing process. Essentially, a template will become a Javascript application that can do almost everything you want. You can define internal variables, save temporary data and use this for setting necessary behaviour during report generation.

Providing additional updates in properties of elements, you can define which data is extracted, how it's filtered and formatted. After a template is designed, you can use it for generation of required documents. Usually, you start to design a template for some specific data (for example, for module in IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation). But this doesn't mean that your template can work with this data only. You can be confident that if you apply the same template for other data of similar kind (for example, for another module in IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation), it will build the documents in the same style and based on predefined rules but with another data.

Providing additional updates in properties of elements, you can define which data is extracted, how it's filtered and formatted. After a template is designed, you can use it for generation of required documents. Usually, you start to design a template for some specific data (for example, for module in IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation). But this doesn't mean that your template can work with this data only. You can be confident that if you apply the same template for other data of similar kind (for example, for another module in IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation), it will build the documents in the same style and based on predefined rules but with another data.

You can build IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Publishing (IBM Rational Publishing Engine) templates for Jazz tools and use it within Jazz itself. After deploying a template in Jazz, you will see it in the list of available templates, and can run the document generation based on it.

IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Publishing can build reports based on multiple data sources in one report. For example, you can build a template that will report about tests passed last week in IBM Rational Quality Manager, and provide lists of blocking defects registered in IBM Engineering Workflow Manager (IBM Rational Team Concert) for those tests. Later, you can add references to requirements from IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation which are covered by executed tests and included in some test plans.

To design a template in IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Publishing, you have to purchase a license for this tool. But if you work in Jazz and use one of the licenses there, you can use any templates designed by somebody and published in Jazz for the generation of documents without any additional fees. In another word, Jazz license is enough to build documents in Jazz based on templates created in IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Publishing.