IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center 5.2.3 Cognos Reporting

COURSE OUTLINE:

Description

Learn to create Cognos reports in the Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Web-based GUI. The course also covers Cognos configuration to email your reports and export them to file systems.

Audience

This intermediate-level course is designed for storage administrators.

Prerequisites

You should understand storage virtualization, SAN management, and zoning.

Learning Objectives

Generate the predefined reports in the web-based GUI
Use Query Studio in the web-based GUI to create new reports
Define schedules to automate reports
Define output formats
Connect your Cognos server to a second TPCDB database
Restore deleted reporting packages

Introduction to Tivoli Cognos reporting
Query Studio
Customizing Cognos
Multiple server access for Tivoli Common Reporting
Restoring deleted predefined reports

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