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2. Installation

The Pentaho Report Designer download is a archive file that needs to be extracted before the report designer can run. Use your operating system's unzip tool to extract the report-designer and run either the *.bat (Windows) or *.sh (Linux) file.

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http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/features/jdbc/index-091264.html
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MS-SQL-Server

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http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/aa937724.aspx or http://jtds.sourceforge.net/

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PostreSQL

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http://jdbc.postgresql.org/

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JNDI is a method of separating data source configuration information from the actual use of the data source. Each data source has a unique name, under which the reporting engine can find the actual connection. A JNDI provider (usually part of a application infrastructure) manages all data sources and is responsible for connecting to the database.

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Within the Pentaho Report Designer, you can define your common data sources in a local configuration file. The JNDI configuration for the Pentaho Report Designer is stored "$HOME/.pentaho/simple-jndi". Editing the contents of "report-designer/configuration-template/simple-jndi" has no effect, as the report designer is not using that directory at runtime.

The Pentaho BI-Server uses its own configuration. You can edit the BI-Server's configuration via the BI-Server's Administration Console.


Within the "simple-jndi" directory, edit a file called "default.properties", which should list all your data sources.

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To increase the memory, edit the "report-designer.batsh" file. Locate the following line:

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