Introduction
The IBM Cognos Software Development Kit allows you to manage IBM Cognos processes and implement custom reporting solutions by using the cross-platform Web services, libraries, and programming interfaces provided with the IBM Cognos Software Development Kit. As a developer, you can use the Software Development Kit to create and modify reports and queries, schedule and deploy reports and other objects, and administer IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson servers and security.
This document describes in detail how you can develop applications using the IBM Cognos Software Development Kit. It also contains detailed reference information about the Software Development Kit.
This document uses notational conventions based on conventions used by the world wide web consortium (http://www.w3.org/standards/about.html). For example, the "this namespace" (tns) prefix is used as a convention to refer to the types of properties and arguments in the BI Bus API.
Audience
To use the IBM Cognos Software Development Kit Developer Guide effectively, you should know how to authenticate users and be familiar with the following:
- Reporting, Query Studio, and Framework Manager
- XML, HTML, WSDL, and SOAP
- active server page (.asp) or Java™ server page (.jsp) basics
- XSL style sheets and your standard Web page layout
- Java or Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
Finding information
To find product documentation on the web, including all translated documentation, access IBM Knowledge Center (http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter).
Forward-looking statements
This documentation describes the current functionality of the product. References to items that are not currently available may be included. No implication of any future availability should be inferred. Any such references are not a commitment, promise, or legal obligation to deliver any material, code, or functionality. The development, release, and timing of features or functionality remain at the sole discretion of IBM.
Samples disclaimer
The Sample Outdoors Company, Great Outdoors Company, GO Sales, any variation of the Sample Outdoors or Great Outdoors names, and Planning Sample depict fictitious business operations with sample data used to develop sample applications for IBM and IBM customers. These fictitious records include sample data for sales transactions, product distribution, finance, and human resources. Any resemblance to actual names, addresses, contact numbers, or transaction values is coincidental. Other sample files may contain fictional data manually or machine generated, factual data compiled from academic or public sources, or data used with permission of the copyright holder, for use as sample data to develop sample applications. Product names referenced may be the trademarks of their respective owners. Unauthorized duplication is prohibited.
Accessibility features
Consult the documentation for the tools that you use to develop applications to determine their accessibility level. These tools are not a part of this product.
IBM Cognos HTML documentation has accessibility features. PDF documents are supplemental and, as such, include no added accessibility features.