8/27/2003 --

IBM announced this week that it will be releasing a new version of its IBM Certified Deployment Professional, Tivoli Workload Scheduler title next month.

The exam for the new version, 8.2, will debut on Sept. 3. The current exam, version 7.0, will retire on Sept. 30.

More information about this update can be found here.

In other IBM certification news, the company has decided to extend its deadline for updating eserver xSeries certifications to Dec. 31, 2003. Previously, candidates were required to update their titles by this weekend. IBM gave no reason for the extension.

More information on this announcement can be found here. -Becky Nagel