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Cognos
Cognos ReportNet SDK and Visual Studio.Net
Do you need to add a Web Reference using the WSDL but don’t have an Internet connection from your development box?
Before we begin, let’s give credit where credit is due; many thanks to an anonymous Cognos employee for pointing us in the right direction with this one.
The problem we had here is that we had to add a web reference to Visual Studio.Net to the Cognos WSDL but we didn’t have a connection to the Internet from our server or our development machine. Don’t ask why, let’s just call it the government’s absolute security solution.
Why is this a problem? Well, when the WSDL is called, it has a link to a web page on the Internet at http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/. However, as we said, we have no connection to the outside world. So, adding the web reference fails!
Now what? Actually, thanks to our anonymous friend, it’s easy. Follow these instructions:
- Download the XML definition at http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/ on any machine that is connected to the Internet - go home early if you have to.
- Save the XML as ENCODING.XML to a disk.
- Copy ENCODING.XML to a web server that is accessible from the development computer.
- Stop the Cognos ReportNet service.
- Open REPORTNET.WSDL with any text editor. It can found in this location: C:\Program Files\cognos\crn\webapps\p2pd\WEB-INF\classes
- Change the following line. It should be approximately line 13: <xs:import namespace="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" schemaLocation="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"/>
- Change schemaLocation to http://
/encoding.xml
- Save REPORTNET.WSDL
- Restart the Cognos ReportNet service.
- Add the Web Reference as usual.
You are in business. Happy coding from here.
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