IBM Cognos SDK Set Up in Eclipse

Step by Step with SDK in IBM Cognos

       As per the previous article on same topic https://innovatechanalytics.blogspot.com/2019/12/ibm-cognos-sdk-developer.html, we could understand the pre-requisite to implement SDK in IBM Cognos. Therefore, we need first eclipse and .jar files primarily. Make sure, your Computers should have java installed, which is compatible to eclipse version. There are many eclipse version, which has java compatibility issues. 

Below are the steps to set up to create new project in eclipse –

1.      Launch Eclipse, Create a java project from File > New > Java Project

2.      Name to Java Project

It looks like as below –

3.      Import .JAR files from Cognos Content manager location /SDK/java/Lib

a.      Right Click on JRE System Lib > Build Path > Configure Build Path

b.      Add External Jars, Ref snip below -

4.      Once you set up these entire necessary pre requisite, and then go to design custom java code. You are going to create .Java files in Src folder. After importing external jar files, you no need to give any other path in your java code.

Custom java code automatically refer these jar files, its classes and functions. If you need, you can expand the jar files and read all its function along with descriptions mentioned over there. Upcoming article includes first java program with Cognos.

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