It turns out I was passing the parameters incorrectly to the generateReportSQL method.
This is what I had: result=reportservice.generateReportSQL(rptRef, paramRpt, sessionid) This is what works: result=XMLservice.generateReportSQL({'reportPath':rptRef},sessionid) I have another issue. When I make the call to return data apparently the result set is too big for suds and I get a MemoryError. Here is my code snippet: print 'executing SQL Query:',len(logicalSQL) executionOptions={'async':False,'maxRowsPerPage':50,'refresh':True,'presentationInfo':False,'type':'Q1'} XMLservice=obiclient.service['XmlViewService'] result=XMLservice.executeSQLQuery(logicalSQL,'SAWRowsetData',executionOptions,sessionid) When I run it I get: executing SQL Query: 5968 Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\temp\obiee\obieetest.py", line 105, in <module> result=XMLservice.executeSQLQuery(logicalSQL,'SAWRowsetData',executionOptions,sessionid) File "build\bdist.win32\egg\suds\client.py", line 542, in __call__ File "build\bdist.win32\egg\suds\client.py", line 602, in invoke File "build\bdist.win32\egg\suds\client.py", line 643, in send File "build\bdist.win32\egg\suds\transport\https.py", line 64, in send File "build\bdist.win32\egg\suds\transport\http.py", line 79, in send File "C:\Python27\lib\socket.py", line 358, in read buf.write(data) MemoryError: out of memory -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list