Starting and stopping background activities

You can start and stop background activities that are running on Content Manager.

About this task

Stopping background activities decreases the processing load on Content Manager, allowing performance to increase. You can start background activities after Content Manager completes the job that required a higher volume of resources.

Procedure

  1. Launch IBM® Cognos® Administration.
  2. On the Status tab, click System.
  3. In the Scorecard pane, from the change view menu of the current view, click Services > Content Manager.
    Tip: The current view is one of All servers, All server groups, All dispatchers, or Services.
  4. Click the arrow to view the Actions menu next to the Content Manager service, and then click Start background activities or Stop background activities.