Automating Tasks

Virtually everything you can do with the product, you can achieve using the appropriate API, URL interface, or command line tool, as illustrated in the table below.
Table 1. Automating tasks

Goal

Automation interface

Information

Modify a model, or republish it to UNIX or Microsoft Windows operating systems.

Script Player tool

IBM Cognos Framework Manager Developer Guide and IBM Cognos Framework Manager User Guide

Modify an unpublished model using the updateMetadata and queryMetadata methods.

BI Bus API

IBM Cognos Software Development Kit Developer Guide

Retrieve the query items available in the published package using the getMetadata method.

BI Bus API

IBM Cognos Software Development Kit Developer Guide

Grant capabilities to users.

BI Bus API

IBM Cognos Software Development Kit Developer Guide

Administer and implement security.

BI Bus API

IBM Cognos Software Development Kit Developer Guide

Run, view, and edit reports through a hyperlink in an HTML page.

Use URLs to view, edit, and run reports.

URL Interface

IBM Cognos Software Development Kit Developer Guide

Manipulate objects in the content store.

Manage content manager.

BI Bus API

IBM Cognos Software Development Kit Developer Guide

Administer reports.

BI Bus API

IBM Cognos Software Development Kit Developer Guide

Administer servers and manage dispatchers.

BI Bus API

IBM Cognos Software Development Kit Developer Guide

Modify or author reports.

BI Bus API and report specification

IBM Cognos Software Development Kit Developer Guide