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Announcing the Rational Publishing Engine 2.0 Beta

The IBM® Rational® Publishing Engine 2.0 Beta is now available to try in the cloud on IBM Bluemix!

Rational Publishing Engine 2.0 Beta will help clients assess the capabilities that we plan for the GA version with a focus on:

  • Driving uniformity within the organization on document generation tools and capabilities.
  • Reducing the administration overhead of installing and configuring  multiple versions of Rational Publishing Engine to work with multiple versions of IBM Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management
  • Generating documents with minimal steps for everyday practitioners
  • Reduce the learning curve for report creation and document production
  • Effectively applying template reuse, enabling wider team collaboration

With Rational Publishing Engine 2.0 Beta, you can now assemble and generate documents that contain complex systems and software engineering data from a simplified web interface.

  • Any user can generate documents from preconfigured reports with a single click. No coding knowledge or additional configuration is required.
  • Built-in library support
  • Report designers can quickly create reports from existing or new templates. Templates can be reused in other documents.
  • Find the assets that you want to work with by tagging, pagination, sorting or searching.


Example templates are provided with this application that you can use to quickly evaluate the beta by creating reports and then generating documents. Documents can be in Microsoft Word, HTML, PDF, or XSL-FO formats.

Accessing the beta

  1. To access the application, go to https://rpe.mybluemix.net/rpeng.
  2. Log in to the application with your account from IBM, Facebook, LinkedIn or Google. The Rational Publishing Engine application will not store or manage your user data.
  3. Select the check box that applies to your profile and click Approve.
  4. Click I Agree to accept the terms and conditions of the IBM Cloud Services Agreement.
  5. The Rational Publishing Engine application opens.
  6. Go to the Design page and click the Create Examples link. Now you have some templates, reports, and data source connections to work with.
  7. To get started exploring or learning, see the tutorial here: RPE20_Beta_Help

Since this application is available on a public URL, all reports and documents are private to the user. For the beta, you can only access reports and documents that you created, so you will need to design reports as well as generate documents.

We encourage you to try the beta for yourself and provide feedback to  rpe20_beta_support@wwpdl.vnet.ibm.com by the end of March.

We look forward to your feedback on the design and usability of the system. If there are any use cases in your organization that is not addressed with the current system, please write to us at rpe20_beta_support@wwpdl.vnet.ibm.com.

Limitations of this beta

  • On the Generate page, if you select the Generate Later action, the scheduled run of the report is created but you cannot download the documents or the logs
  • If there is an error while scheduling a report using the Generate Later action, check if the date is in the past.
  • If after signing on you are redirected to an empty page by the IBM Single Sign-On you need to issue the original request in the browser, https://rpe.mybluemix.net/rpeng
  • Currently, the browser support is limited to Firefox and Chrome. We may add IE10 support in the final release.

Announcing Rational Publishing Engine 2.0 Beta

The IBM ® Rational ® Publishing Engine 2.0 Beta is now available to try in the cloud at https://rpe.mybluemix.net/rpeng.

Rational Publishing Engine 2.0 Beta will help clients assess the capabilities that we plan for the GA version with a focus on:

  • Driving uniformity within the organization on document generation tools and capabilities.
  • Reducing the administration overhead of installing and configuring multiple versions of Rational Publishing Engine to work with multiple versions of IBM Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management
  • Generating documents with minimal steps for everyday practitioners
  • Reduce the learning curve for report creation and document production
  • Effectively applying template reuse, enabling wider team collaboration

With Rational Publishing Engine 2.0 Beta, you can now assemble and generate documents that contain complex systems and software engineering data from a simplified web interface.

  • Everyday users can generate documents from preconfigured reports with a single click. No coding knowledge or additional configuration is required.
  • Built-in library support
  • Report designers can quickly create reports from existing or new templates. Templates can be reused in other documents.
  • Find the assets that you want to work with by tagging, pagination, sorting or searching.

Example templates are provided with this application that you can use to quickly evaluate the beta by creating reports and then generating documents. Documents can be in Microsoft Word, HTML, PDF, or XSL-FO formats.

Accessing the beta

  1. To access the application, go to https://rpe.mybluemix.net/rpeng.
  2. Log in to the application with your account from IBM, Facebook, LinkedIn or Google. The Rational Publishing Engine application will not store or manage your user data.
  3. Select the check box that applies to your profile and click Approve.
  4. Click I Agree to accept the terms and conditions of the IBM Cloud Services Agreement.
  5. The Rational Publishing Engine application opens.
  6. Go to the Design page and click the Create Examples link. Now you have some templates, reports, and data source connections to work with.
  7. To get started exploring or learning, see the tutorial here:

Since this application is available on a public URL, all reports and documents are private to the user. For the beta, you can only access reports and documents that you created, so you will need to design reports as well as generate documents.

We encourage you to try the beta for yourself and provide feedback to rpe20_beta_support@wwpdl.vnet.ibm.com by the end of March.

We look forward to your feedback on the design and usability of the system. If there are any use cases in your organization that is not addressed with the current system, please write to us at rpe20_beta_support@wwpdl.vnet.ibm.com.

Limitations of this beta

  • On the Generate page, if you select the Generate Later action, the scheduled run of the report is created but you cannot download the documents or the logs
  • If there is an error while scheduling a report using the Generate Later action, check if the date is in the past.
  • If after signing on you are redirected to an empty page by the IBM Single Sign-On you need to issue the original request in the browser, https://rpe.mybluemix.net/rpeng

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