Wednesday, 9 July 2014

How to setup and use IBM Cognos Rapidly Adaptive Visualization Engine(RAVE)?

Step 1) Extract 'Rave_JavaSDK_1.7.0.D20140507-0101.zip' file at local path



Step 2) Install jdk7 and set JAVA_HOME system variable
jdk7: jdk-7u51-windows-x64 
JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\Java70\jre\bin 

Step 3) Go to bin of extracted JavaSDK path
C:\Rave\Rave_JavaSDK_1.7.0.D20140507-0101\bin
<Rave_JavaSDK_1.7>\bin

Step 4) Hit below command
C:\Rave\Rave_JavaSDK_1.7.0.D20140507-0101\bin>visboard.bat
May 14, 2014 1:43:31 AM java.util.prefs.WindowsPreferences <init>
WARNING: Could not open/create prefs root node Software\JavaSoft\Prefs at root 0x80000002. Windows RegCreateKeyEx(...) r
eturned error code 5.

Step 5) It will launch VisBoard
VisBoard have JSON and VizML



Step 6) Launch VisCustomizer.jar
IBM Cognos Visualization Customizer framework.
Copy from here-  "https://www.analyticszone.com/homepage/web/displayMarketplacePage.action#catalog/assets_viscustomizer"
And put it at your local path.



Double click 'VisCustomizer.jar' file, it will open a new window to accept licenses-


Click I agree.
It will instantly update 'VisualizationCustomizer.properties' file with following details-
#Wed July 9 10:58:29 IST 2014
version=1.1
license.accepted=true


NOTE- Please install JRE7 32 bit (jre-7-windows-i586.exe) on your machine first. Then double click 'VisCustomizer.jar', it will open IBM Cognos Visualization Customizer window-



Step 7) Go to File -> open visJSON file
Look for file something like "implementation.json"

4 comments:

  1. Hi,

    Can you tell me from where we can download 'Rave_JavaSDK_1.7.0.D20140507-0101.zip'.

    Rajesh

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  2. Try looking for 'Rave_JavaSDK_1.7.0.D20140507-0101.zip' here-
    https://www.analyticszone.com/homepage/web/displayMarketplacePage.action#catalog/viz_assets_allvis

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  3. Hi,

    I am not able to find the file in the given path. Searched all over analyticszone.com without success.

    Can you share the files you have with you?

    Also is this plugin to existing customizer tool that IBM provide?

    Rajesh

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  4. It was very nice article and it is very useful to Cognos learners.We also provide Cub training software online training.

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