Installing IBM Rational Publishing Engine clients for design use

Use the IBM® Installation Manager wizard to install the IBM Rational® Publishing Engine clients on your computer to begin designing templates and document specifications.

Before you begin

About this task

This task is to be completed by document designers and document generators on their local computers. When the task is complete, the following features are installed:

Procedure

  1. Download the Rational Publishing Engine package from IBM Passport Advantage®.
  2. Extract the Rational Publishing Engine archive.
  3. Run the Rational Publishing Engine launchpad file by either:
    • Opening the extracted ratlPublishingEngine_version_Win_Linux/RPE/disk1 directory in an explorer window and double-clicking the launchpad file that corresponds to your operating system:
      • Windows icon: launchpad.exe
      • Linux icon: launchpad.sh
    • Opening a command prompt, navigating to extracted ratlPublishingEngine_version_Win_Linux/RPE/disk1 directory, and entering the command that corresponds to your operating system:
      • Windows icon: launchpad.exe
      • Linux icon: ./launchpad.sh
    The Rational Publishing Engine launchpad opens.
  4. Click Install IBM Rational Publishing Engine. Installation Manager opens.
  5. Select the IBM Rational Publishing Engine package and click Next.
    1. If you have an earlier version of Installation Manager installed than the Rational Publishing Engine version requires, you must update it before you can continue with the installation.
      • Rational Publishing Engine 1.2 requires Installation Manager version 1.5.2 or later.
      • Rational Publishing Engine 1.2.0.1 requires Installation Manager version 1.6.1 or later.
      The appropriate Installation Manager version is included with each version of the Rational Publishing Engine installation files. You do not have to download the required version separately.
  6. Select I accept the terms in the license agreement and click Next.
  7. Select a location for the shared resources directory and click Next. The default location is the application_files_directory\IBM\IMShared. Example: C:\Program Files\IBM\IMShared. If you used Installation Manager before to install another program, the shared resources directory might already be defined. If the shared resources directory is already defined, this page of the wizard is skipped. You can continue to the next step.
  8. In the Install Packages page, the Create a new package group option is selected by default. This selection installs a version directory for the application files in application_files_directory\IBM\Rational\Publishing Engine. Example: C:\Program Files\IBM\Rational\Publishing Engine. In the documentation, this location is referred to as %RPE_HOME% because an environment variable is created on your system during installation, which is named RPE_HOME for this directory. Click Next.
  9. In the Translations page, select the languages to install and click Next.
  10. Select the features to install. The Launcher and Document Studio features are selected by default.
    • Document Studio: The application used to create templates.
    • Launcher: The application used to create document specifications.
    • Install Addins: If you use IBM Rational DOORS® or IBM Rational Tau, you can start the publishing processes directly from your tool.
    Click Next.
  11. In the Help System tab of the Common Configurations page, select a method for accessing the documentation from the installation and click Next.
    • Access help from the Web: From the application, when you click Help > Help Contents, you open the online version of the documentation.
    • Download help and access the content locally: When you open the application for the first time, the documentation is downloaded automatically onto your local computer. When you click Help > Help Contents, you open the local version of the documentation.
    • Access help from a server on your intranet: From the application, when you click Help > Help Contents, you open documentation that is installed on a common server. Enter the server and port number for the common server.
  12. In the Common Licensing tab of the Common Configurations page, enter the license server key. If the license server key is not entered now, you are prompted to enter it when the applications are started after installation is complete. Click Next.
  13. Optional: In the RPE Remote Web Services tab of the Common Configurations page, you can enter the URL for the Web Services application, which allows you to connect to the remote document generation, Monitor & Control component, and Central Management component for your organization. Example: http://<server>:<port>/rpews/
    Note: If a Web Services application URL is entered during installation, the URL cannot be edited from the Remote services preferences.
    Click Next.
  14. Review the summary information. To change a selection, click Back to return to your selections.
  15. To begin the installation, click Install. When the installation is finished, click Finish.

What to do next

Configure the add-ins:
  • If you installed the IBM Rational Tau Add-in, activate it from the Rational Tau add-ins page of the Customize window. In the Customize window, you can enable the Rational Publishing Engine add-in in the application.
  • If you must extract Rational DOORS data with DXL security settings, see Extracting Rational DOORS data with DXL security settings.
Configure the help:
  • If you are installing the documentation locally, the files are downloaded when the Document Studio or Launcher applications are started for the first time.
  • If you are installing the documentation on an intranet server, see the Intranet help (Enterprise solution) section of the Methods for accessing help topic.
  • If you chose to access the help from the web, no additional configuration is required.
Optional: Configure the clients for remote document generation

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