How to create SAP BW as a data source for cognos? - sap

I am new to IBM Cognos and I am using Cognos 10 trail version.
I did some of reports using DB2 as a data source. Now I trying to use SAP as a data source and I surfed the web and have seen the IBM cognos guide and in that I went through the steps to connect with SAP BW and when I am doing same using my framework manager I got stuck at 8 step, please have a look into the following link
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSVRFT_1.1.0/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.dyn_query.10.2.1.doc/t_dqm_crt_proj_sap_bw.html
I only have the following drivers while I am trying to create Data source in it,
Drivers in Cognos:
IBM DB2, IBM Informix Dynamic server, Microsoft SQL server(ODBC), Microsoft SQL server(OLE BC),Microsoft SQL server( 2005 Native client), Microsoft SQL server(2008 Native Client), Microsoft SQL server(2012 Native Client), Microsoft analysis services 2008(ODBO), Microsoft analysis services 2012(ODBO), Netezza, ODBC, JDBC, Oracle, Progress OpenEdge(ODBC), IBM Red Brick(ODBC), Sysbase Adaptive Server Enterprise(CT-Lib), Sysbase Adaptive Server Enterprise(CT-15),
Teradata, IBM Cognos TM1)
In the 8 step of the above link they tell simply that use type SAP BW as a driver but in my framework manager I did not have the same driver as they said that in the above documentation link. I stuck there, I did not find any solution please tell me solution if any one knows.
Thank you in advance.

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