This resolves the problem of embedding the database user's credentials in the BIRT reports in production. Thanks to this special driver, the database credentials are no longer necessary and the BIRT report can reuse the Jira database pool in production while the BIRT report developers can use their own database users for developing. This is very easy to check since BIRT reports are text files by simply searching for the jdbc connect string: "jdbc:jira-db:". In addition, this feature is disabled by default and requires that someone copies the special driver into some directory in the Jira host.
Anyway, we strongly recommend using our SQL+JQL Driver as a data source to access to the Jira data, However, some times sometimes organizations might require to access to the Jira database directly. A JDBC Driver is supported for this. Read how to:
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