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Create a service for Cognos reports in Integration Designer

You can browse Cognos business intelligence reports, view them and select to import a report as a web service. These web services can be used to access the Cognos reports from an application.

Cognos business intelligence reports provide insight into the management and performance of your enterprise. Using data from across an organization, these reports can be useful in decision making situations. You can view, import, and create services accessing these reports with the editors in Integration Designer.

You must access a server with Cognos 8.4.1 or higher to use these functions. You can also use the Cognos BI 10.1 that is built-in to IBM Business Monitor. You can then have your processes dynamically react to values in reports against those processes; for example, it could offer a discount if the monthly sales report against your Sales process returns a value that is too low.

• Set up the preferences page for Cognos reports
  The preferences page for Cognos reports specifies the default Cognos Universal Resource Identifier (URI) address and manages credentials saved from connecting to a Cognos server using the External service wizard.
• Viewing and importing a Cognos report as a web service
  

  You can browse a Cognos report on a server, view it and import the report as a web service.

• Work with Cognos reports
  Developing services that use Cognos reports requires you to use SOAP headers, be aware of security requirements and keep track of the state of the report being retrieved. Cognos reports use the SOAP header to pass state between invocations, such as security between logon and report retrieval, or the state when looping on report retrieval. Cognos reports support single sign-on and logging on providing security credentials. Examples of how to work with Cognos reports are provided below.