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Getting Started with TPTP's Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) Statistical Reports

Author: Paul Slauenwhite (paules@ca.ibm.com)
Last Updated: January 18, 2010

 

Getting Started with TPTP's Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) Statistical Reports

The following document provides the necessary information for getting started with the Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) Statistical Reports in TPTP.

Table of Contents:

1.0 Introduction
2.0 Dependencies
3.0 Installation
4.0 Documentation

 

Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) Statistical Reports are used to aggregate and summarize numerous statistical events over a period of time. The BIRT statistical reports present statistical events in tables and charts so users can easily locate trends and effectually analyze.

 

The following dependencies are required by the BIRT Statistical Reports:

·                               Perfmon monitoring agents

·                               Statistical views

·                               Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT)

·                               Graphics Editor Framework (GEF)

·                               Data Tools Platform (DTP)

For more information, see the As-Is and Requirements sections of the download site for this TPTP release.

 

1.     Install the necessary dependencies.

2.     If exists, remove the following plug-ins from the <Eclipse installation directory>/plugins and <Eclipse installation directory>/dropins/eclipse/plugins directories:

o                              org.eclipse.tptp.platform.statistical.report.birt_<version>

o                              org.eclipse.tptp.platform.statistical.report.birt.ui_<version>

o                              org.eclipse.tptp.platform.statistical.report.birt.doc.user_<version>

o                              org.eclipse.tptp.platform.statistical.report.birt.source_<version>1

1 SDK only.

3.     If exists, remove the following features from the <Eclipse installation directory>/features and <Eclipse installation directory>/dropins/eclipse/features directories:

o                              org.eclipse.tptp.platform.statistical.report.birt_<version>

o                              org.eclipse.tptp.platform.statistical.report.birt.source_<version>1

1 SDK only.

4.     Extract the BIRT Statistical Reports archive to the <Eclipse installation directory>/dropins directory.

5.     Start Eclipse with the -clean option.

 

4.0 Documentation

For more information on how to use the BIRT Statistical Reports, see A Guide to Using TPTP's Reports.

For a flash tutorial on how to use the BIRT Statistical Reports, watch the Generating BIRT Reports.