I somehow missed this thread.  Maybe could have helped speed my learning...

I can't get this working in 12.0.4 (didn't try in 11.2.4).  My problem is a timeout.  I am using an Active Directory external directory namespace with probably 14,000 users and many many groups.  I'd guess only users are being listed by this call because this seems to be about user profiles.  But 14,000 seems to be too much.  Although, I can get all 14,000 users and count them using Get-ADUser in PowerShell in about 12 seconds.  So I don't know where the slowdown is using the Cognos REST API.

If patternghost is still watching this thread...  How many users in the directory namespace where you had success?

I'm not seeing in the thin documentation IBM provides...  Is there an option to restrict the number of items returned per call, and iterate through to the next group of results?  Maybe something like:

$uriBase/api/v1/users?identifier=$namespace&top=$top&skip=$skip
I see in 12.0.x there is a new option under Accounts:  /namespace_folder/{id}/items

That looks promising.  I should be able to use...
$uriBase/api/v1/namespace_folder/$namespace/items?limit=$limit&offset=$offset...to limit my call to something of a reasonable size that should return in a reasonable time.

But...

id is required and is also labeled Folder id.  But nowhere is "Folder id" defined.  I tried using my namespace name (which has the appearance of a folder in the Security tab in Cognos Administration) and got:

Invalid id format.

Is anyone here aware of any actual documentation for the Cognos Analytics REST API?

Quote from: patternghost on 27 May 2021 09:56:54 AMAfter trial and error, I found that if I send /users?identifier=<namespace> will return all users in the namespace.  I can work with that.

Can you confirm this still works? I cant seem to get this to work on 11.2.4

My idea is that you have to use all methods of marketing. One might be better than the other but all channels should be used. There are companies who sell information of which company uses which software. Dun & Bradstreet is one of them. Global Software Leads is another. YouTube and other media can also be used. Users forums also. 

I would think that "../images/" leads to <CA Install>\images.  But that wouldn't work because images should be in <CA Install>\webcontent\bi\images.

I remember Cognos having trouble with images years ago.  I'm not 100% certain how (or if) I completely fixed it.  But it seems that presenting images in PDF and XLSX outputs is what the new Image Service is all about.  Have you tried that?

You can create a filter based on any data element available to the report.

I have experience with other tools and was wondering how to filter a report by date.

I'm curious how people in different industries go about finding new leads. Do you mostly run ads, rely on word-of-mouth, attend events, use social media, or something else? I figure every niche has its own way of doing things, so I'd love to hear a mix of ideas.
For me, I've been experimenting with a few options this past year. One that worked well was <link removed>, which is geared toward the moving industry. The leads I got were pretty solid, and I noticed both the number and quality of inquiries improved quite a bit.
Has anyone else here tried using a third-party lead provider? Did it end up being worth it, or did you find other strategies that delivered better results?

Hello All,

I have Cognos 11.1.7 instance running on Linux server for about 3 years now. I have 39 scheduled reports that are scheduled to email like daily/hourly/weekly. All these scheduled reports were running as expected until last 2 weeks. Since Start of this month, we are seeing many reports getting stuck in Waiting/pending status. If we have a report scheduled to run hourly, for example 9 AM report gets stuck in waiting/pending status. But 10 AM report runs fine and sends email to users. This is sporadic. Today, I have created a new report and add it to the schedules. But I do not see this report in "Upcoming Activities". I tried restarting complete Cognos services, nudging Batch report service. Nothing worked.

Does anyone have any idea or solution for this issue ?

Thanks.

Hello all, I am having issues getting the images to work.  I created a Virtual directory on the IIS server with webdav enable and authored the permissions like I've found on the internet.  I can get the image to show in html, but it doesn't work on PDF or Excel.

Any thoughts on this?

Also, where does "../images/" lead to?  I have yet to figure that out.

Agreed that for the complex reports, both would need technical developers but Power BI still scores on easier reports for which the users don't need technical knowledge. The interface is much more user friendly for easy stuff. They prefer to make 4 easy reports instead of one complex report in Cognos giving them their independence.