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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Cognos Analytics
Components Administration
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 16, 2023

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New option for load balancing

See this idea on ideas.ibm.com

Especially at the beginning of a month our customers execute masses of reports at once. The queue within Cognos is huge.

Most of the reports run fast, but there are also many reports that run longer (> 30 min. and runtime is even longer in this high utilization scenario). We then run into a situation where all batch report server processes are in use for a longer time, so the next report in the queue must wait until a long running report has been finished executing. The queue is getting longer and longer then.

The idea would be to be able to configure maximum time a report can use the batch report server process (e.g. 30 min.) in a high utilization scenario. After expiration of this time, the report execution is being paused (or even killed) and put back to the start of the queue. This should happen without the user being aware of it.

The maximum time as outlined above, should not be applied, when batch report server processes are available. Then the property "Maximum execution time for the batch report service (seconds)" is relevant.

Another idea would be to prioritize report executions in a high utilization scenario according to their run history. Fast reports should be first, slow reports last.

The above would help us that 90% of the reports will finish earlier in a high utilization scenario and only 10% will run (much) longer than today.

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