SDK Forum

[cognosfreelancer]

First of all congratulations to all the movers and shakers that set this up.

The existing forum on the Cognos site was quite moribund. Hopefully this will be more dynamic.

One of the more interesting things about ReportNet is that it is based on Web services and SOAP messaging. This new product requires BI developers to be at least fair XML programmers.

While I am no expert I am surprised at the difficulties I am experiencing creating even a small SDK program. This is compounded by a total lack of documentation.

May I therefore suggest the formation of an SDK forum. I would be happy to start this forum.

Regards
NKT

[COGNOiSe administrator]

Hi NKT (cognosfreelancer),

Thanks for your kind comments though we're still experiencing a few teething issues (like our news feeds). But we're getting there.

Happy to setup an SDK board in fact one of our moderators also suggested a 'Scripts' board as well. We were debating where this would sit. How would you like to incorporate this new board - any preferences for structure (ie parent-child etc etc) and scope (ie a little blurb at the board index level).

Appreciate (and gratefully accept) your offer to run it - will set you up as moderator.

Please advise.

Cheers

[cognosfreelancer]

Dear Cognoise Administrator

I would be happy to run the SDK board as a moderator.

I think an appropriate place for this board would be under the section 'App Development and tools'.

We need to give some thought to formulating the scope of the board. I am aware that a significant number of Cognos installations still rely on programming using Cognos script with the older object model.

IMHO the SDK approach being so different warrants a separate board from 'Scripts'.

Regards
NKT

[COGNOiSe administrator]

Excellent. Just let me know when - as well as scoping that you would be happy with.

I was also thinking of a 'Tips & Tricks' section - questions/problems logged will always be lifeblood of user forums but it might be nice to turn the tide on that point of yours re documentation.

[cognosfreelancer]

Lets get started now.

Regards
NKT

[cognosfreelancer]

..... sorry , the scope of the proposed board would be restricted to SDK/XML coding and related tools such as Axis,Xerces.

Regards
Naveen