Runs a health check of the report specification in the Content Store and reports any errors returned by the Validate capability.
Download Description
The IBM Cognos Validation tool was developed using the IBM Cognos 8 BI and IBM Cognos ReportNet Java Software Development Kit (SDK) to validate reports in the Content Store. Two separate versions are available, one for IBM Cognos 8 and one for IBM Cognos ReportNet.
Use this tool to automate the process of manually validating reports through the Report Studio user interface.
Certain Advantages
To prepare for an upgrade
To validate reports
After an upgrade, to ensure that the upgraded reports are still valid
Schedule to run periodically and detect any potential problems with reports.
Prerequisites
Sun Microsystems Java Runtime Environment (JRE)
JRE version 1.4.x or higher must be installed
Sun Microsystems Java must be in the system path
IBM Cognos Software Development Kit (SDK) must be installed
Installation Instructions
To run this Diagnostic do one of the following steps: For Microsoft Windows:
From a Microsoft Windows DOS command, run the batch file.
This is the recommended way, as progress will appear in the command window.
Run the jar file
This will run in the background, no progress will appear, only the result once the diagnostic has been completed.
