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BIRT Preview tab in Report Design perspective is not supported in RDi, RDAL, or RDz versions 9.x

Troubleshooting


Problem

In IBM Rational Developer for i (RDi), Rational Developer for AIX and Linux (RDAL) 9.x or IBM Rational Developer for System z (RDz) 9.x, using the Preview tab in the Report Design perspective to preview a BIRT report with an internal browser will result in error and no report review will be shown.

Symptom

No preview of the report will be shown. In some cases, the Rational product may crash with the JVM exit code of 255.

Cause

BIRT is an open source plugin in the base Eclipse product. The use of the preview tab has been discouraged and later on removed from the base Eclipse.

Resolving The Problem

  1. Select Window > Preferences > Report Design > Preview, enable Always use external browsers and click on the Apply button.
  2. Select Window > Preferences > General > Web Browsers and enable use external web browser and click on the Apply button.
  3. In the Report Design Perspective, select View Report in Web Viewer from the View Report pull down menu. You will see the preview of the report in your external browser

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Document Information

Modified date:
27 October 2020

UID

swg21687220