Concurrency and Security of Reports

[itsan713]

Hi Everyone -

Is there a way to determine the concurrency of Reports (i.e. what is the max number of users that can run a report at the same time)? Regarding security, how can we identify the number of users who can access and run the reports?

[goose]

Only your hardware resources (both cognos and report data sources) limit the amount of report requests a Cognos installation can successfully process. There is no way to easily determine what that number is, but you have a few options: a) Liaise with cognos/partner and they can help via a predefined process to attempt to establish what you can do or will need based on the outcome of the docs completed, or b) you can run your own load testing via JMeter and simulate user load and then use that as a starting point (http://support.cognos.com/en/resources/roles/gcs_1_3.html)

Identifying the amount of potential users that run a report depends on your security config. For example if you use AD for security then it will depend on what permissions have been assigned in cognos for users/groups within AD. Im not sure if this info is accessible via cognos sdk, I presume you will have to tackle this from the security provider side for exampe AD.