Overview of the Cognos Dynamic Cubes API

The IBM® Cognos® Dynamic Cubes API automates the functions available in the IBM Cognos Cube Designer. The API uses the representational state transfer (REST) web services architecture.

Use the Cognos Dynamic Cubes API to send HTTP requests to the IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson server to work with dynamic cubes, including creation, modification, deployment, and startup. The HTTP response from the server contains data about any actions that are run, along with any error or warning messages that are generated by the request. Data sent to and retrieved from the server is in the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format.

Sample Cognos Dynamic Cubes model creation describes the steps in the creation of a simple model using the StartToFinish.java sample program as an example. The commands that are used and the input and output JSON objects are described. This topic shows you how the results of operations are used to do subsequent operations.

Cognos Dynamic Cubes command reference documents the commands available in the Cognos Dynamic Cubes API.