Cognos Analytics

I'm working on a Java SDK app for querying Content Store data.

Ideally, it should be configurable and allow retrieval of any Classes and Properties available via SDK.

Basic functionality: 

• Rest API is used for the authentication ( either Namespace/Username/Password OR API Key)   
• Environment Parameter file in JSON format specifies Control parameters  and Cognos connection/authentication
• Query parameters specify SearchPath and Class/Prosperities for the required objects. Object Name, Type, SearchPath are returned for each object by default.
• Java Reflection is used to retrieve/initialize required Properties.
• The program can be run as a command line utility.

Can you please suggest any other functionality for this utility ?

Specify Filters for selected Properties

Provide Query Templates for common objects

Parameter files:

environment.json  

{
	"environment": {
		"control": {
			"max-error-count": "10",
			"verbose": "false"
		},
		"connection": {
			"uri": "https://congos-url.domain",
			"authentication": {
				"parameters": [
					{
						"name": "CAMAPILoginKey",
						"value": "yourapikey"
					}
				]
			}
		}
	}
}

query_parameters.json

{
	"queries": [
		{
			"id": "query1",
			"searchPath": "//Schedule",
			"class": "schedule",
			"properties": [
				"disabled",
				"defaultDescription",
				"active",
				"everyNPeriods",
				"intradayRecurrenceInterval"
			],
			"output": {
				"file": "<output-path/filename1>",
				"format": "TXT|CSV|JSON"
			}
		},
		{
			"id": "query2",
			"searchPath": "//Report",
			"class": "report",
			"properties": [
				"disabled",
				"defaultDescription",
				"active",
				"defaultOutputFormat",
				"defaultPortalAction"
			],
			"output": {
				"file": "<output-path/filename2>",
				"format": "TXT|CSV|JSON"
			}
		}
	]
}

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Andrei Istomine
Open to work - anything Cognos
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreii/
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