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IBM COG-122 DEMO (2)

2009-05-11T05:42:11+02:00

Exam : IBM COG-122
Title : IBM Certified Cognos 8 BI Administrator exam

6. An administrator wants to show the folder hierarchy of Cognos Connection in a portlet. Which portlet
must the administrator use?
A. Cognos Viewer
B. Cognos Search
C. Cognos Navigator
D. Cognos Extended Applications
Answer: C
7. Why would an administrator want to copy a user profile?
A. The user was deleted using a third-party authentication provider.
B. The administrator wants to copy trusted credentials for multiple users.
C. The user has changed names and the administrator is setting up an account in the new name.
D. The user requires enhanced security permissions before logging on to Cognos 8 for the first time.
Answer: C
8. An administrator creates a shortcut that points to an invoice report. What happens if the invoice report is
renamed?
A. The shortcut contains the original name and can be used to view the latest output before the report was
renamed.
B. The shortcut contains the original name and no longer works because the link to the report is broken.
C. Cognos Connection automatically updates the report name in the shortcut, and the shortcut remains fully
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D. Cognos Connection automatically deletes the shortcut.
Answer: B
9. A user must be able to only view the contents of the Americas Inventory folder. What permissions must
be granted to the user for the folder?
A. Write
B. Execute
C. Traverse
D. Set policy
Answer: C
10. Before sending a report by email, where must the administrator specify the mail server account?
A. Cognos Connection
B. Cognos Administration
C. Framework Manager
D. Cognos Configuration
Answer: D

IBM COG-122 DEMO (1)

2009-05-11T05:41:35+02:00

Exam : IBM COG-122
Title : IBM Certified Cognos 8 BI Administrator exam

1.What can an administrator create to ensure that multiple users do not have to enter database credentials
when they run reports?
A. Signon
B. Single signon
C. Collation sequence
D. Connection sequence
Answer: A
2. When creating the following Cognos 8 data sources, which one requires specifying a local path or a
network path?
A. Cognos Planning - Contributor
B. Cognos PowerCube
C. XML
D. SAP BW
Answer: B
3. From within Cognos Connection, what must an administrator deploy to move an entire Cognos 8
application into a new and empty environment?
A. Content store
B. Public Folders
C. Cognos namespace
D. Content manager
Answer: A
4. When an administrator exports entries from Cognos 8, what file gets created?
A. Content store file
B. Object extract file
C. Deployment archive file
D. Configuration export file
Answer: C
5. The Report Upgrade task in Cognos Connection provides options for upgrading report specifications.
Which of the following is one option?
A. By folder
B. By role
C. By group
D. By namespace
Answer: A

Blogs v. Forbes: Blogs win

2007-09-21T15:56:42+02:00

Lyons, D. (2007). Snowed by SCO. Forbes.com. September 19, 2007. Available online: http://www.forbes.com/2007/09/19/software-linux-lawsuits-tech-oped-cx_dl_0919lyons_print.html (from Slashdot).From the confession of error:

In the print edition of Forbes there's a great (albeit sometimes painful) tradition of doing "follow-through" articles where a reporter either takes a victory lap for making a good call or falls on his sword for making a bad one. Online publications don't typically ask for follow-throughs. But I need to write one.For four years, I've been covering a lawsuit for Forbes.com, and my early predictions on this case have turned out to be so profoundly wrong that I am writing this mea culpa. What can I say? I grew up Roman Catholic. The habit stays with you.The case is SCO Group v. IBM. In March 2003, SCO sued IBM claiming that IBM took code from Unix--for which SCO claimed to own copyrights--and put that code into Linux, which is distributed free. Last month a judge ruled that SCO does not, in fact, own the Unix copyrights. That blows SCO's case against IBM out of the water. SCO, of Lindon, Utah, is seeking bankruptcy protection.In June 2003, a few months after SCO Group sued IBM over the Linux operating system, I wrote an article that bore the headline: "What SCO Wants, SCO Gets." The article contained some critical stuff about SCO but also warned that SCO stood a chance of winning the lawsuit. "SCO may not be very good at making a profit by selling software. ... But it is very good at getting what it wants from other companies," I wrote. ...I reported what they said. Turns out I was getting played. They never produced a smoking gun. They never sued any Hollywood company.Over time my SCO articles began to carry headlines like, "Dumb and Dumber," "Bumbling Bully" and "SCO gets TKO'd."But I still thought it would be foolish to predict how this lawsuit (or any lawsuit) would play out. I even wrote an article called "Revenge of the Nerds," which poked fun at the pack of amateur sleuths who were following the case on a Web site called Groklaw and who claimed to know for sure that SCO was going to lose.Turns out those amateur sleuths were right. Now some of them are writing to me asking how I'd like my crow cooked, and where I'd like it delivered.

For some reason, a lot of technology journalism has devoled into hit-piece journalism, like the recent factually untrue CNET review of Lotus Symphony. Forbes, seeing blood in the water, did the same, attacking both a respected global services provider (IBM) and bloggers following the case (GrowkLaw), helping the corporate scheisters of SCO spread fear, uncertainy, and doubt.But IBM was right, the blogs were right, and SCO (and the mainstream media in Forbes) were wrong. Now Forbes admits it.Good.

IBM Lotus Symphony

2007-09-21T01:56:37+02:00

How cool is this:

“Lotus Symphony is based on the Open Document Format (ODF) standard-which means you’re not locked into proprietary file formats, software licensing agreements and upgrades. Finally, free tools and freedom of choice!”

And this:

Besides committing 35 China developers to OpenOffice.org, IBM plans to make its voice heard -- immediately and loudly. IBM will "work within the leadership structure that exists," said Sean Poulley, vice president of business and strategy in IBM's Lotus Software division. "But we will take our rightful leadership position in the community along with Sun and others."

A boost for open source software (OpenOffice.org), a boost for open standards (OpenDocument), free trade in services, and retro (I was confused how the new Lotus Symphony would relate to Lotus SmartSuite, until learning that there had not been a new SmartSuite since 1999!Elsewhere online: CNET has a factually incorrect hit-piece (among other errors, Google Docs supports OpenDocument just fine). And Dana Blankehorn examines IBM's wider open source strategy.

Bill Gates on Technology and Strategy

2007-03-29T16:13:20+02:00

Over the past few days, I had the great pleasure to savor a 1989 speech by Bill Gates to the Computer Science Club of the University of Waterloo. My previous exposure to Bill Gates' thought had been rather disappointing -- Business @ The Speed of Thought has to be one of the emptiest collections of cliches ever written -- so I tuned in mainly for the nostalgia.Little did I know that I was in for 93 minutes of brilliance.Bill Gates speech in 1989 reveals two things: he is an expert at technology and an expert at strategy, both theoretical and applied. Except for the parts of his speech which deals with the specific environment of the late 1980s, most of Gates' technological statements are timeless. Listening him to talk about his vision for programming I kept having to tell myself that .Net wouldn't be released for another 14 years. Likewise, listening him to how he structures teams at Microsoft, and how he forms goals and sets release schedules, I kept being reminded of Chet Richards' Certain to Win: The Strategy of John Boyd, Applied to Business.The grand view of Gates' ability is emphasized through his repitition of a near-disasterous decision. At the time, Microsoft and IBM were collaborating on a new operating system called (with typical IBM finesse) OS/2 (short of Operating System / 2). The relationship would collapse the very next year. IBM and Microsoft have very different operating philosophies, and Microsoft assisting in building and promoting IBM's "successor" to Windows was in retrospect unimaginably dangerous. It was as if Queen Elizabeth I had supplied timber and workers to build the Spanish Armada.Of course, like in that war, it didn't matter.IBM's islamic, top-down, one-true-way philosophy was outclassed by Microsoft's theory of embrace and extend. Just as the British defeated the Armada, not because of luck but because of the Spanish inability to change in respond to changing events, Microsoft defeated IBM because of International Business Machine's inability to change in respond to changing event. On paper IBM had the advantages

Man power
Hordes of cash
Business Contacts
Experience (IBM had previously been outmaneuvred by Microsoft in the release of DOS)

But Microsoft had a unity of purpose, iterative design, and flexibility. IBM had none of these.Within half a decade, the war was essentially over. IBM released the last commercial version of OS/2 in 1996. The overwhelming power & success of Microsoft Windows, by contrast, needs no elaboration.

Jesusism-Paulism, Part VI: Embrace and Extend

2007-03-13T15:40:00+01:00

"Nobody ever got fired for buying Big Blue."For years IBM's strength rested on vendor-lock in and vendor-compatibility. A company that wished to buy electronic computer equipment had one choice, Big Blue, which offered complete systems that were entirely under the control of IBM. IBM keyboards communicated in IBM EBCDIC to IBM terminals, connected through IBM wires to IBM mainframes, IBM harddrives, IBM tape backups, and IBM power supplies. The complete solution set took the world by storm, offering One Ruleset (Buy IBM) which entailed numerous sub-products. The system worked.

The Islam of the 1970s

In the same way, the One Ruleset of the Koran swept aside the old Roman world, tearing up the Orthodox and Arian peoples it subjugated, rolling back much of the Christian 4GW revolution. Islam did this almost as an afterthought, as it also spread into formerly Zoroastrian, Hindu, Buddhist, and Animist countries. No one ever got fired for buying Big Blue, and no one ever got beheaded for embracing Islam.

The IBM of the Dark Ages

But IBM met Microsoft.

The Microsoft of the Dark Ages

And Islam met Catholocism.

Pratique du KM

2006-06-19T12:45:00+02:00

Travaillant actuellement pour IBM dans un des centres de communication (helpdesk) de la region EMEA, je m'interroge sur les pratiques KM en interne. La compagnie est reconnue pour une expertise forte dans ce domaine, que ce soit en terme d'organisation ou de culture : l'intranet est un espace technologique qui offre de nombreux outils : blogs, wiki, tagging, workgroups, forums, chat, Jam, moteurs de recherche, annuaires, KB, learning tools, webfountain, traduction ... La societe KM est representee par des experts de renommee internationale (L. Prusak, T. Nagano ...) et dispose de moyens technologiques importants. Tout employe peut s'inscrire a des listes de diffusion et faire partie de communautes KM : KM Institute, KMBlue (IBM Knowledge Management Community) - dont je fais partie; La compagnie fait aussi de la recherche dans ce domaine depuis tres longtemps (voir les quelques publications).. Or, il faut bien reconnaitre que cette competence est encore loin de sa limite possible. Le KM est un domaine interdisciplinaire et transdisciplinaire dont le developpement n'aura pas de limites.

Aussi, j'ai presente recemment un projet KM a la DG France. C'est un projet innovant pour articuler la Veille et la Politique.. Comme toujours on se heurte aux problematiques de la vision cout terme et des resultats tangibles immediats, mais j'ai bon espoir que ce projet aboutisse. Je publierai donc dans quelques semaines (ou mois) ma note de presentation sur ce site. En attendant, je recherche des contacts et des opportunites pour une participation plus active a ce Projet.