Best practices to run the Cognos reports in a large data deployment scenario

Follow the best practices when you run IBM Security Identity Manager or IBM Security Privileged Identity Manager Cognos reports in a large data deployment scenario.

Use parameters or filters when you run PDF report

When you run the reports with the default report parameters, all the records rendered. Use the reporting parameters or filters to scope down the records.

Prefer HTML format

IBM Security Identity Manager Cognos reports in the HTML format support pagination. When you run the report in HTML format, it renders one page at a time. Click the page down link on the report to display the next page.

Tune the database

See the Performance section at http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSRMWJ/welcome.

Parent topic: Troubleshooting report problems