PDF Rendering

[ComplexQry]

My C8 Reports are taking FOREVER to render in PDF.  What was a 20 Page IWR Report that took 30 seconds, now is a 20 page Report Studio Report that takes 5 minutes.  Are there any Server Settings/Hardware/etc. that could be changed/upgraded or anything to make this go faster?  Our users are very irritated.

EDIT:  This is 8.2

[cdallum]

Are you running and rendering the report real-time or in the background?  I've noticed Cognos 8 tends to render reports much more quickly in the background.  I don't think it is acceptable to expect users to always run reports in the background, but in the short-term it may alleviate some pain.

If running it in the background doesn't make a difference in the report run-time, check the SQL generated by the report and run that alone to make sure it's still efficient.  It's certainly possible C8 generates the SQL differently than Series 7.

[Suraj]

Welcome to the club.
I'm facing the same issue but particularly in reports with Graph.
IWR reports take around 2 minutes to render 300 graph pages while C8 is taking around 18 minutes.
We are still trying to figure where the issue is.

[DustPanMan]

Can this report be scheduled?  Have does it take forever when rendered to html as well, or only PDF?  Are there multiple queries?