Running reports programmatically using an API call

[rmcaninc]

Hi

My company is looking at Informatica and during this tire kicking phase I have been asked to see if I can do two things, the first is to call an existing informatica report from an outside program and also to try and customize one at run time. I was hoping that there would be an API for reporting that I would be able to use to accomplish this and some documentation/examples. I assume that this is possible. Can anyone give me the heads up on where I can find out how to do this. The ability to do this is one of the basic requirements we have for our ETL tool.

thanks,
Robin

 

[ArtieChoke]

The ETL tool does not include reporting. Are you talking about the Power Analyzer package?

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[rmcaninc]

I have a Metadata Exchange SDK ver 7.1. I am not exactly certain what comprises the Power Analyzer package I am afraid. Does this answer the question?

Thanks.

 

[ArtieChoke]

The SDK only let's you query the meta repository. What reports are you looking at? Or is this just a requirement of yours? I haven't seen an ETL tool that supplies any reports. They do have some views that allow you to query the meta data.

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