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IBM Cognos 10 Platform => Cognos 10 BI => SDK => Topic started by: AshokG on 25 Jul 2014 07:26:55 AM

Title: How cognos can render pdf reports (Internally)?
Post by: AshokG on 25 Jul 2014 07:26:55 AM
Hi Gurus,
Actually i want to render a report in pdf using sdk. So can you please give me idea about this?  :)
Title: Re: How cognos can render pdf reports (Internally)?
Post by: Song on 24 Aug 2014 06:25:13 PM
Install SDK, then go to sdk/java directory and open runReport.java which shows you simple steps to render report via SDK calls. Look at run.bat/.sh to find which lib you need to compile and run SDK client program.
Title: Re: How cognos can render pdf reports (Internally)?
Post by: AshokG on 07 Oct 2014 06:09:25 AM
Thank you song,
But I know that process. I want to know how the cognos will going to render pdf?
Title: Re: How cognos can render pdf reports (Internally)?
Post by: bdbits on 07 Oct 2014 08:48:11 AM
Why? It's probably a java program, but what does it matter? I have my doubts that there is a documented Cognos API to produce arbitrary PDFs.

If you just want a method to create your own pdfs from code, there are many canned solutions, some free, you can incorporate into pretty much any program you write. Cognos is not needed. If you are really ambitious, PDF is a standard file format (you can google for documentation) anybody can use.
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