Disable or Modify a Cognos Cache Session

About this task

By default, the session cache setting is always enabled in Cognos® 10.1.1 BI In Cognos 10.1.1 BI, you can either disable or modify the session cache setting to increase or decrease the number of cache requests for each session.

To disable or modify the default session cache setting, perform the following steps:

Procedure

  1. Rename the CQEConfig.xml.sample file, which can be accessed from the path <COGNOS_HOME>/configuration/, as CQEConfig.xml.
  2. Open the CQEConfig.xml file using a text editor such as Notepad.
  3. By default, the value of the queryReuse parameter is set to 5.

    To modify the session cache setting, change the value of the queryReuse parameter, as required, to increase or decrease the number of cache requests for each session.

    To disable the session cache setting, set the value of the queryReuse parameter to 0.

  4. Save the CQEConfig.xml file.
  5. Using Cognos Configuration, stop the Cognos 10.1.1 BI server, and restart it.