Understanding reports

Reports are generated by combining report pages and page templates that provide necessary information about the filtering and sorting of the report contents, as well as the displayed name and description of the report.

Reports (both Cognos® and JSP) are represented in a folder by a page template which lists the parameters that the source file needs in order to create a report. A report page is an instance of a page template, and contains a set of values for the parameters specified in the page template.

In this manner, a single page template can be supplied with multiple sets of values for its parameters. This allows the IBM OpenPages® with Watson™ application to create multiple reports based on the same layout and internal logic. Each report page represents a report as viewed in OpenPages with Watson.

Report pages and page templates reside on the OpenPages with Watson server.

Note:
  • Cognos reports can be published by using the Add Cognos report button on the Pages and Templates screen. This method automatically generates a corresponding report page and application text keys for localizing the selected report. For details, see Method 2: Automatically publishing Cognos reports.
  • Reports that are placed under the Reporting/SOX folder structure on the application server are published to the US English locale. To publish to a different locale, choose the /SOX folder under the locale you want (for example, ja_JP/SOX for the Japanese locale).
  • All Cognos report pages are based on the Cognos Report Redirect page template, which is located at the root of the Reporting folder on the IBM OpenPages server.