Managing content

Content Manager is a service that maintains and retrieves all IBM® Cognos® information, including the following:

• content information, such as folders, reports, outputs, and jobs

• configuration information, such as the set of dispatchers and services

• security information, such as namespaces, groups, roles, accounts, and contacts

• external resource information, such as data sources

• administrative information, such as import and export deployments

The content store is a database that stores the information managed by Content Manager. Content is stored as a hierarchical collection of objects, similar to a hierarchy of folders and files. You can manage this content in Content Manager using methods such as the following:

• content » add(parentPath, objects, options)

• content » query(searchPath, properties, sortBy, options)

• content » update(objects, options)

• content » delete(objects, options)

• content » move(objects, targetPath, options)

• content » copy(objects, targetPath, options)

For information about methods, see Methods.

Before using the IBM Cognos Software Development Kit, you should be familiar with the content store and how to specify a search path to access the objects in it.

For information about search paths, see Search path syntax.