What is a BIRT Report, And How Useful is It?
Important: Viewing BIRT reports in the Data Management Portal's BIRT Report Viewer (BIRT Runtime Engine) is not secure and is disabled. After importing the IBM® Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager (TADDM) reports into Tivoli Common Reporting (TCR), it is advised to see BIRT reports using TCR. If the risks are recognized, BIRT Report Viewer can be restored and used as described in the following paragraphs. TADDM includes the open source BIRT runtime engine as an integrated component. Additionally, TADDM contains hundreds of predefined database views and predefined reports. Using the BIRT designer tool, you can develop new reports with the TADDM BIRT runtime engine in addition to the predefined reports. These reports can take advantage of JDBC data sources that extract data using predefined database views. You can manage these BIRT reports using the Data Management Portal interface. You can add new reports, download selected reports, delete uploaded reports, and run repor...