I'm working with a Cognos 10 installation trying to embed reports into a custom web application on another server on the same network.  I'm scraping the nets trying to find information on how to use a REST API to do this, but I can't find anything definitive about it.  What I need to get is a list of report names for an administrative function of the other web application, and then the report content as html that I can embed into the same web application.  

Is this doable via REST, or do I need to use a web service or some java api (the application server I'm calling this from is implemented in Java).  I'm hoping that REST can be used.  If I can, I need to authenticate by obtaining a token that would then go into my future GET requests, but where is the documentation that tells me just how to do that?  I have never even played around with Cognos so I don't know anything about it, but it seems that there might be some add on application that I would need to install alongside Cognos?  

Help will be appreciated..!!!

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Ishleen Kaur
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@Ishleen Kaur By what you are describing, you would need to use the Cognos SDK Mashup service ​. Details on the Cognos Mashup service can be found here

Also, I would suggest viewing the following blog as a starting point : https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/0a7c97bb-6cf9-4ddb-a918-80994e7b444d/entry/how_to_get_a_list_of_folders_and_reports_in_cognos_using_the_mashup_service9?lang=en

If you have any further questions or need assistance you can reach out to our IBM professional SDK services team at diagtool@ca.ibm.com






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Original Message:
Sent: Fri August 02, 2019 02:21 AM
From: Ishleen Kaur
Subject: Accessing Cognos reports from REST API

I'm working with a Cognos 10 installation trying to embed reports into a custom web application on another server on the same network.  I'm scraping the nets trying to find information on how to use a REST API to do this, but I can't find anything definitive about it.  What I need to get is a list of report names for an administrative function of the other web application, and then the report content as html that I can embed into the same web application.  

Is this doable via REST, or do I need to use a web service or some java api (the application server I'm calling this from is implemented in Java).  I'm hoping that REST can be used.  If I can, I need to authenticate by obtaining a token that would then go into my future GET requests, but where is the documentation that tells me just how to do that?  I have never even played around with Cognos so I don't know anything about it, but it seems that there might be some add on application that I would need to install alongside Cognos?  

Help will be appreciated..!!!

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Ishleen Kaur
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#CognosAnalyticswithWatson