Generating reports for System Architect/IBM Rational DOORS integration

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This section describes the steps to run the reports from IBM Rational Publishing Engine. Before running the reports, ensure that:

•the REST Service is running. If it is not, in System Architect, click Reports > Report Server Manager, and then click Start Service.

•IBM Rational DOORS is running.

To run the reports

1 In the Document Specification pane, under the Data Sources pane, expand the Templates node and the Data sources* node.

2 Click the first REST Data source.

3 In the Properties pane, click the URI property and enter the URI for your Encyclopedia, which must be in the following format:

http://localhost:8889/SARest/SQL/sqlexpress/Samples/1

4 Click the second REST Data source, and in the Properties pane enter the same URI provided to the first Data source.

5 For DOORS data Source, provide the path to the DOORS executable file. This will be automatically saved in the template and you will not have to enter it again.

6 Click Variables->Variable(vDiagram_Name) and supply the name of the Business Process diagram on which the report is to be run. The report output report contains the following information:

•the Diagram name and image

•a table consisting of the Process Symbol names from the selected diagram and their process Definition descriptions

•a Related Doors Requirement section with the Symbol names and the DOORS Requirements that are linked.

Note The reports do not provide information on child diagrams.