IBM Cognos 10 Report Designer Certification

Back in March 2012, I had completed COG-612. That's another great certification and prerequisite to become IBM Cognos Specialist. The exam checks your knowledge of report designing, precisely the features of report studio that come alive when you are designing your intelligent reports.

For someone doing the report design, this test would be easy however it is still advised to go through the books. I used IBM's documentation to prepare for the test and that's a good place to learn from.

There are other books too, smaller ones like cookbook etc. You'll learn a lot from them even if they don't come in exam. I'm attaching the screenshot of certification, like earlier to keep readers motivated.

If anyone needs help in preparing, or got any question, feel free to contact me.

IBM's Documentation of deploying Cognos on Websphere

Some of the folks have been wondering about my earlier post that, is it the official documentation? What if it doesn't work?

Well, I didn't know that documentation existed for deploying Cognos on Websphere and tried multiple combinations, many of which didn't work out. I wouldn't say it was the discovery of something great, I'd rather say it's how I made it work and I continue to make that integration, with small changes for 64-bit versions.

A colleague of mine was searching for official documentation so I thought of sharing that with everyone. It's not easy to find as it doesn't contain the word "deploy" which is daily used by people dealing with application servers.

Here's the plain ibm's textual documentation link.
Feel free to explore the other sections around it for other application servers.