Cognos integration with Windows Sharepoint Services

[Ravisha]

Hello,

Is there a way to integrate Cognos with Windows Sharepoint Services?

I know that we can integrate it with Miscrosoft Sharepoint. But in our organization we are using WSS.

Kindly please advise

Thanks

[bdbits]

WSS is really old at this point and I think Microsoft no longer offers extended support (could be wrong). For myriad reasons, I'd suggest upgrading if at all possible, which would also allow you to use the IBM-supplied and supported web parts.

That said... the only workaround that comes to mind is using an <iframe>. I believe the Page Viewer Web Part is how WSS implements it.

Or I suppose with custom coding, you could call Cognos web APIs and pull the content into SharePoint. Cognos does have pretty extensive APIs, so if you have WSS developers that might be the best workaround.

[Ravisha]

Hi,

Thanks a lot for your advise. I really appreciate you taking the time to answer my question.

It would be great if you can please help me in locating the Cognos API's from its installation directory.

Thanks a lot !

[bdbits]

You don't "locate" APIs in an installation directory, you make calls to them from other usually custom-written software. You need to know how to program.

Give this link to your developers. This should get them started.

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEP7J_10.2.2/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.dg_sdk.10.2.2.doc/c_introduction_sdk.html%23id_Introduction_sdk