Cognos .dmp files - Removing them

[rocket]

I recently started noticing performance dragging downward on my C8.4 machine, and today it occurred to me that my machine was running out of disk space which was causing the issue.  When I looked for large files, I found the notorious .dmp files in the <COGNOS INSTALL PATH>\bin directory (i.e. BIBusTKServerMain_seh_4080_3028.dmp).  Each of these .dmp files were ¼ GB in size!

After doing some research, it seems completely acceptable to delete these files.  Not only did this free up 10 GB of disk space, but performance was back to lightning fast!  I then stumbled across a little secret.  You can disable the .dmp file creation by Cognos all together.  Is anyone aware if this creates a problem?

Steps to disable the .dmp file create:

1.   Navigate to your installation path of Cognos
2.   Open the \configuration directory
3.   Locate the cclWin32SEHConfig.xml file and make a backup of it before changing.
4.   Locate the following line and change 2:2 to 0:0

<env_var name="CCL_HWE_ABORT" value="0:0"/>

5.   Save the file

[kolonell]

Hi Rocket

That won't create a problem at all. However, Ideally those dump files ought to be investigated by IBM Cognos as they indicate some software failure.

edit: btw, this secret you discovered will only work on Windows platforms ;-) 

[A152257]

Thank You Very Much Guys..

Yall Are far too Kind  :)


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