SDK Solutions and Diagnostic Tools

Learn more about diagnostic tools

IBM Cognos developed a number of diagnostic tools to help verify your environment, identify and troubleshoot issues, provide you with a way to automate data collection and detailed systems information. Diagnostic results can be attached to PMRs. If you have any comments or suggestions for new diagnostic tools, please email diagtool@ca.ibm.com.

NEW: IBM Cognos From Log Errors to Technotes Utility

This tool shows the IBM Cognos technotes associated with an error code from the cogserver.log file.

IBM Cognos Architecture Diagram Diagnostic

This diagnostic shows the architecture diagram of Cognos installation components and some settings.

System Overview Diagnostic

This diagnostic gathers information about the system and retrieves the Cognos configuration file cmplst.txt file.

IBM Cognos BI Diagnostic

This diagnostic will retrieve system and product information about IBM Cognos BI.

IBM Cognos BI Content Store Diagnostic

Retrieves Content Store Database Information. This diagnostic is executed when customer has problems with getting tables created in IBM Cognos BI.

IBM Cognos BI Health Check Diagnostic

This diagnostic gathers information about your system and checks the installed software on your machine if compliant with the supported IBM Cognos software environments.

IBM Cognos Framework Manager Diagnostic

This diagnostic will retrieve system and product information about IBM Cognos Framework Manager.

IBM Cognos PowerPlay Server Batch Administration

Execute administration commands for IBM Cognos PowerPlay Server for Cognos administration commands directly from the Microsoft Windows DOS command prompt or UNIX command shell.

Update IBM Cognos BI PowerCube DataSources Utility

To update IBM Cognos BI PowerCube data sources whose source cubes have changed locations.

Validate Report Specifications Diagnostic

The validation tool is command line driven and requires the IBM Cognos SDK be installed. The Validate tool runs a health check of the report specification in the Content Store and reports any errors returned by the Validate capability. To find out more about this tool, please read the Validate Tool document.

Copy Reports Between Servers Tool

The following IBM Cognos SDK tool was written to address the need for copying reports between IBM Cognos BI servers. This tool allows for the copying of reports from a development to a production box.

IBM Cognos BI Dispatcher Diagnostic

This tool will assist you to diagnose and troubleshoot your IBM Cognos BI environment regarding all Dispatcher settings. You can use it to find out any inconsistencies within the Dispatcher settings or to save the settings on a regular basis to track any changes

IBM Cognos BI Content Manager Browser Diagnostic

The IBM Cognos BI Content Manager Browser Tool reports detailed information for all objects in the Content Manager database. For each object within the Content Manager database, the user can review the properties and their respective value settings.

Dynamic Report Specification Updater Diagnostic

For the most part, JavaScript applications written in IBM Cognos ReportNet version 1.x upgraded well to IBM Cognos 8 BI version 8.1 or 8.2 as there were few changes in IBM Cognos Viewer to account for. In IBM Cognos 8 BI version 8.3 or 8.4, IBM Cognos Viewer was re-architected to allow it to run within Report Studio to provide the live data view for the Express Authoring Mode. This necessitated changes to the source code resulting in JavaScript applications not upgrading cleanly.

Upgrading JavaScript Applications

This document provides advice and guidance on for upgrading JavaScript applications which run in the IBM Cognos Viewer from IBM Cognos ReportNet version 1.x or IBM Cognos BI version 8.1 or 8.2 BI to IBM Cognos 8 BI version 8.3 or 8.4.

IBM Cognos BI Content Manager Size Diagnostic

The Content Manager Size (CMSize) and SQL scripts reports size and count of all objects in the Content Store database. It returns the count, approximate size (total size of LOB properties for the objects of interest). The CMSize diagnostic also gives the option to specify search scope and type of objects.

Report Specification Analyzer Diagnostic

This Diagnostic provides a faster navigation through report objects and html items. The syntax will be highlighted and formatted for IBM Cognos functions, operators and most used JavaScript keywords. It also provides the means to analyze complex report objects and their dependencies.