IBM Cognos 8 Planning

Monitoring jobs and managing Job Servers

In this section, we will explore what jobs are, how they can be monitored in the Contributor Administration Console and how they can be managed by the Contributor Administrator.

Administrative activities or tasks such as a prepare import, reconcile, or publish are called jobs and these run on single or multiple job servers. When a prepare import is being executed, a prepare import job runs on the job servers. This job is split into job items for each e.List item. If you run a prepare import job for an application that contains 10 e.List items, there will be 10 job items. To increase the performance of jobs, additional job servers can be added that will pick up the different job items. This will speed up ...