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Overview

Utilising a predominately hands-on approach, this workshop provides a comprehensive introduction to the latest version of the Tivoli Common Reporting product, which is based on the industry leading IBM Cognos platform. With more and more Tivoli products, particularly within the IBM Tivoli Monitoring family, now shipping with IBM Cognos based reports, learning how to exploit the new functionality offered by IBM Cognos can significantly enhance the value these products provide. Customers who previously found the development of reports using the BIRT-based offering too onerous, will relish the Query Studio, where reports can literally be created on the fly in a matter of minutes simply by dragging and dropping the required data items onto a page. For more complex and sophisticated reports, the Report Studio offers a wealth of functionality. Workshop attendees will learn how to work with existing reports, and to use the IBM Cognos report authoring tools to write new reports in order to satisfy specific business requirements.

Audience

This course is aimed at Administrators, responsible for the set-up, maintenance and authoring of reports for an IBM Tivoli environment.

Pre-Requisites

There are no pre-requisites for this workshop.

Objectives

• Identify the Tivoli Common Reporting infrastructure components and understand the installation options available for an implementation
• Understand how to import IBM supplied report packages
• Use the Cognos Connection environment to work with existing reports; how to run them, schedule them and modify their properties
• Learn how to use the Query Studio to produce basic reports
• Learn how to use the Report Studio to create more complex and interactive reports
• Appreciate the purpose of the Framework Manager

Course Content

Unit 1: Introduction to Tivoli Common Reporting

• IBM Cognos Architecture overview
• TCR Installation Scenarios – single and distributed system installations

Unit 2: Working with Reports

• Running and saving report output
• Configuring Report properties including default prompt values, run history, output versions
• Creating and using Report Views to customise report runs
• Using Schedules and Jobs

Unit 3: Query Studio

• Using the Query Studio to create simple reports on the fly, demonstrating the use of lists, charts and conditional formatting

Unti 4: Report Studio

• Developing more complex reports with the Report Studio, including the use of prompts and conditional variables

Unit 5: BIRT based reporting

• Importing and configuring BIRT based reporting packages

Unit 6: Framework Manager

• Introduction to the Framework Manager and data models

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