Cognos Analytics and REST APIs

Cognos Analytics 11.1.7 brings a long-sought REST API connector for Cognos Analytics. Join Director of Technology Ryan Dolley to explore how REST APIs interact with Cognos and get your questions answered!

0:00 Introduction
2:58 PMsquare Updates
8:16 Agenda Overview
12:43 Understanding the REST API Connector
20:02 Understanding the REST API
23:20 Interacting with REST API using Postman
26:54 Brief Recap of 1st half of livestream
28:13 Connecting to REST API using Sample Method
34:13 Using a More Advanced API
40:30 Using a REST File
47:09 OAuth 2.0 Authentication to Clickup
1:01:22 Q&A
1:02:52 Using a Wikipedia URL
1:06:28 Conclusion

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[JackMasterOfNone]

I realize this is a bit dated now, but did the Cognos API itself ever get a video? I'd love to iterate and pull report spec from the API, you mentioned that as a possibility at about 10:15 in this vid, but I have yet to get it working through the cognos API test page.

[nidhirai]

Can we pass values dynamically in Rest API config file?

[panosgeorgoulias]

Hello Ryan.
When you configured the connection to ClickUp (57:11) you used the property Authorization to pass the token. However, I couldn't find out how did you derive this usage, as there is nowhere in the Progress Datadirect PDF the word Authorization used as a connection property. It is reported only as a value to the AuthHeader property and actually this is the default value.
I'm asking because, while I did connect to various APIs without authentication, I still haven't managed to connect using authentication.

[spoiltbrat]

Can we connect "Box" to "IBM Cognos Analhytics" using above process?

[keithtidwell]

Did you figure out how to pass parameters from the report to the url for the data connection using a REST API? I'm trying to create a prompt report with many parameters that will need to be added to the url to pull the correct data from the REST API? is this possible?

[rcm]

Una duda cómo puedo compartir a un amigo mi dashboard en Cognos para que el interactúe con el pero sin que pueda modificar algo de la estructura, y es necesario que mi amigo tenga cuenta en Cognos, me sería de gran ayuda está información

[Barmorris]

Thank you for the grate explenation - however I will avoid the rest API - it's not user friendly, and customers will not be able to maintain without help