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BIRT Community Tested Operating Environments for 2.2.1

Introduction

Due to the finite resources available to the BIRT project, we would like to encourage the BIRT community to contribute to testing BIRT in operating environments other than those listed as target operating environments for the 2.2.1 release of BIRT and to share this information with the rest of the community. If you have been able to test BIRT in a non-targeted operating environment please take a few minutes to update this wiki page and report this information here. If you have encountered bugs during your testing, please report these in bugzilla.

Testing Guidelines

Please indicate the status of the following tests:

  • Status of running unit tests for BIRT
  • Status of viewing sample BIRT reports available in Report Examples view
  • Status of viewing sample BIRT charts available in Chart Examples view

Community Tested Environments

AIX 5.2

Testing of the BIRT Designer was performed with two versions of BIRT, 2.1.3 and 2.2.0. The results were basically the same. Environment uname -a AIX tf620a 2 5 0009886A4C00 mozilla -version Mozilla 1.7.13, Copyright (c) 2003-2004 mozilla.org, build 2006042800

Both SQL Server and DB2 LUW databases were accessed by reports.

BIRT 2.1.3 java -version java version "1.4.2" Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2) Classic VM (build 1.4.2, J2RE 1.4.2 IBM AIX build ca142sr1a-20050209 (JIT enabled: jitc)) BIRT 2.2.0 Java –version java version "1.5.0" Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build pap32devifx-20070725 (SR5a)) IBM J9 VM (build 2.3, J2RE 1.5.0 IBM J9 2.3 AIX ppc-32 j9vmap3223-20070426 (JIT enabled) J9VM - 20070420_12448_bHdSMR JIT - 20070419_1806_r8 GC - 200704_19) JCL - 20070725 AIX Status

Our testing with the BIRT Designer on AIX there has been two problems found. Bugzilla 199136 and 200672. Each has been reported and we expect fixes for both will be available in the BIRT 2.2.x Release.

Circumvention The problems affect the Preview Panel of the BIRT Report Designer. When preview is clicked an error will appear and the report output is not viewable. There is another way to view the output of the report. There is an icon in the tool bar that will display “View Report” when you place the mouse over it. This tool will allow the report to display in the Web Viewer, as HTML or as PDF. This set of choices can also be found by clicking File on the Menu Bar. Before the circumvention these selections also fail. After the circumvention these selections will open a new window and display the report. The Preview Panel is not fixed by this circumvention.

The circumvention is applied by changing the Report Design Preferences. These can be located by selecting Windows, Preferences from the Menu Bar of Eclipse. Under preferences you will see Report Design. Expand Report Design and click on Preview. Set “Always use external Browser” and then set the path to the Mozilla browser in the Custom Browser Command. Click apply and then click OK. You now should be able to see the report output displayed when one of the Tool Bar options are selected.

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