Setting usage peak periods

You can specify the start and end hours of the peak demand period for your organization.

Most organizations have a period of peak demand. This period is usually during business hours when employees are at work and run interactive reports.

During the peak period, you may want to set the number of connections and processes low enough so that jobs can run faster and system resources can process interactive requests from users. For more information, see Maximum Number of Processes and Connections. During the non-peak period, you can set the number of connections and processes higher because demands on the system are lower.

The default peak period is from 07:00 to 18:00. The default number of connections for each service during the peak period and during the non-peak period is four.

Before you begin

You must have the required permissions to access IBM Cognos Administration functionality. See Secured Functions and Features.

Procedure

  1. In IBM Cognos Administration, on the Status tab, click System.
  2. In the Scorecard pane, from the change view menu of the current view, click All dispatchers.
    Tip: In the Scorecard pane, the current view is one of All servers, All server groups, All dispatchers, or Services.
  3. From the Actions menu of the dispatcher, click Set properties.
  4. Click the Settings tab.
  5. Select Tuning from the Category list.
  6. In the Value column, type new values for the following settings:
    • Peak period start hour
    • Non Peak period start hour
    Tip: If you want to reset a configuration setting to its default value, select its check box and click Reset to default value.
  7. Click OK.
Parent topic: Tune Server Performance