SDK Solutions and Diagnostic Tools

Learn more about IBM Cognos SDK AVP tools

The IBM Cognos SDK Accelerated Value Program provides solutions and utilities on demand for your business requirements. It offers a handful of tools and utilities that can help with migration, system health check and other administrative tasks. When you need assistance with Best Practices implementations and solutions using IBM Cognos SDK and Mashup Services, we are here to help. To learn more about these tools and opportunities to develop new solutions, please email: diagtool@ca.ibm.com and check out http://download.boulder.ibm.com/.../accelerated_value_programs_for_sdk.pdf.

IBM Cognos Migration and Replication Capability

This IBM Cognos SDK based Java application replicates a users' My Folder content, preference, memberships of all groups/roles in IBM Cognos namespace, permission tabs of all objects, schedules, and more from an old namespace to a new namespace.

IBM Cognos Acceptance Test Tool

The purpose of running this tool is to provide indicators for performance changes, access problems or broken functionality. Some of the various tests performed include namespace authentication, data source connections, running reports and access to various components of IBM Cognos BI.

IBM Cognos SDK Application Upgrade Tool for IBM Cognos BI (version 10.1)

IBM Cognos BI (version 10.1) was developed using Axis 1.4. Performance improvement is an advantage of upgrading your IBM Cognos SDK Java application to Axis 1.4. Another advantage is Axis 1.4 addresses issues found in Axis 1.1. A small disadvantage is that your IBM Cognos SDK application requires upgrading with some syntax changes. This utility will help with upgrading your IBM Cognos SDK code.

IBM Cognos Report Version and History Management Utility

This utility will assist you in monitoring your IBM Cognos environment regarding reportVersion and history objects. Run this tool to find out which content store objects have reportVersion and history objects, as well as how many. Additionally, you can set the number of reportVersion and history objects retained to a specific number or to a number of days.

IBM Cognos List User Information Utility

This utility will assist you in monitoring your IBM Cognos environment regarding user information. Run this tool to check all users in a namespace to get their search path and username, as well as to determine if they have a profile, and credentials.

IBM Cognos Update User Preferences Utility

This utility will assist you in updating your IBM Cognos environment user preferences for a set of account objects.