In case you missed the news, Cognos Software Development Kit became a part of BI Administrator license during the latest IBM license revamp. That’s fantastic news, because you get heaps of functionality for free. You don’t need to be particularly savvy with Java and .Net, there dozens of sample utilities released by IBM where you only need to substitute parameters and use them straight-away.

Just a few samples:

• Get all Groups that user belongs to
• List all Groups / Roles and their members
• Add Group / Roles
• List Reports by package
• Copy objects from one user My Folders to somebody else
• Recovering My Folders of deleted user
• Get all members of role or group
• Adding member to role or group
• Change schedule ownership
• Download PDF / CSV output of report like this or this

You can find a good introduction to Cognos SDK here and here.

I wrote about SDK a few times (1, 2) and am thinking about open-sourcing everything I have ever written in SDK. Let me know if you’d find it helpful.

To my infinite amusement, the only way I know to get a list of IBM SDK samples is a google query like this