cognos sdk 开发手记

Cognos 8 is a solution designed to address the challenges of
enterprise-scale reporting, analysis, scorecarding, and event notification.

The Cognos 8 architecture is based on a typical three-tiered Web
architecture that consists of
*a Web server
The Cognos 8 Web server tier contains one or more Cognos 8 gateways.
*applications
The Cognos 8 applications tier contains one or more Cognos 8 servers. A
Cognos 8 server runs requests, such as reports, analyses, and queries,
that are forwarded by a gateway.
*data
The Cognos 8 data tier consists of the content store, data sources, and
the metric store.

Service-Oriented Architecture

Developers can use a collection of cross-platform Web services, libraries,
and programming interfaces provided with the SDK API to access the full
functionality of Framework Manager. You can use the Framework Manager SDK
to model metadata and publish packages without the use of the Framework
Manager application.

Script Player is a command line utility that runs previously created
action logs to create or modify models, or to publish packages for report
authors. Script Player can run an entire action log or only the part that
is required for a specific task.

Virtually everything you can do with the Cognos 8 graphical user
interface, you can do using the appropriate API, XML file, or command line
utility.

You can manage authorization in Cognos 8 in the following ways:

You can modify users, groups, and roles as defined by your authentication
provider or in Cognos 8. You cannot create users in Cognos 8.

You can control access to objects in the content store, such as folders,
reports, data sources, and configuration objects through the use of
policies.

You can grant capabilities to users, groups, and roles to control access
to specific functionality in Cognos 8.

You can assign access permissions to certain profiles, limiting Report
Studio functionality to specific users, groups, and roles. For more
information about managing profiles,

Running an Object Using the Schedule

The URLs provide a quick and efficient way to start Cognos 8 components
and open specified content, such as reports, metrics, folders, or pages.

You can use the URLs to

start Cognos 8 components

access a Cognos Connection page

You create an extended application by using the CreateURI, URIParameter,
Cognos8Connect, and EncodeNamespace tags in a JSP document.