Software Development Kit Developer

Introduction
This document is intended for use with IBM® Cognos® Software Development Kit.
Understanding the IBM Cognos Software Development Kit
Getting started
Virtually everything you can do with the IBM Cognos graphical user interface, you can do using the appropriate API, XML file, or command line utility. The IBM Cognos Software Development Kit provides a platform-independent automation interface for working with IBM Cognos services and components. You can use the Software Development Kit to create custom reports, manage deployment, and integrate security and portal functionality to suit your individual needs, locale, and existing software infrastructure. The Software Development Kit uses a collection of cross-platform Web services, libraries, and programming interfaces.
Managing security
Managing content
Running tasks
Dispatchers and services
Deploying content
Coding practices and troubleshooting
Upgrading SDK applications
Schema reference
Services
Method sets
Methods
Classes
Enumeration sets
Secondary requests
Code samples and language-specific coding practices
Language-specific data type mappings
Performing tasks using URLs
The URLs provide a quick and efficient way to start components and open specified content, such as reports, metrics, folders, or pages.
URL API reference
Passing environment variables to external applications
Using report specifications
A report specification is an XML document that defines the structure and layout of a report. A report specification is stored as a string in the specification property of a report object. You can create and format reports programatically by creating an IBM Cognos Software Development Kit application that edits report specifications.
Creating custom report functions and function sets
This chapter describes how to create custom report functions and custom function sets for report authors to use in IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson.
Using lineage specifications
Lineage is the process of determining how objects in a report, package, or model are derived through transformations from other objects, back to source data.
Lineage specification reference
For each layout data specification element, this section provides
Understanding dynamic drill-through
Drill-through is the process of navigating from a source resource, such as a report or a PowerCube, to a target resource. To preserve context during navigation, the values selected in the source resource are usually mapped to parameters defined in the target resource.
Drill-through specification examples
A drill-through specification contains the information necessary to perform a drill-through operation between two resources. This specification identifies the target resource and the action to be performed on that resource by the target provider agent. This specification also contains rules that define how the context from the source should be converted to a form that can be consumed by the target resource.
Drill-through specification reference
This section provides reference information for each drill-through specification element.
Edit specification examples
An edit specification defines the actions, such as filters, to apply to a target resource during a drill-through operation.
Edit specification reference
This section provides reference information for each edit specification element.
Search path syntax
Advanced settings configuration
This section describes settings that you can use to perform advanced configuration with IBM Cognos Software Development Kit.
Initial content store settings
Metadata schema reference
Event specification reference
An event specification instance is used to query events in either the monitorService or the eventManagementService.
Using selection context
A selection context instance is a dynamically created XML document that represents the values selected in a source resource. The selection context also contains information about the values that are dependent on the values selected.
Selection context reference
This section provides reference information about each selection context element.
Repository Service API reference
You can navigate and retrieve resources stored in an external repository using the Repository Service REST API.
New in lineage specification
The following changes have been made to the lineage specification.
New in Version 11.1.2
New in Version 10.2.2
New in Version 10.2.1
New in Version 10.2.0
New in Version 10.1.1
New in Version 10.1.0
New in Version 9.0.0
New in Version 8.4 GA
New in Version 8.4
New in Version 8.3
Notices
Glossary