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 Average / Recommended Size of saved Report Outputs

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Christine Hatt posted Tue June 10, 2025 12:16 PM

I have recently started to analyze our Content Store, more specifically searching the number and size of saved report outputs.  Now that I have some numbers and more context on what our environment has, I have no idea if our we are in good shape, way overboard, or possibly even under the average environment size.

Any information would be greatly appreciated, as I am new to working in the Content Store and have nothing to use as a reference.

Thanks, 

Christine

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Thomas Wolf

Stating the obvious, this depends largely on your company's size, on the use cases Cognos is applied for at your company and so on.

Yet, as a rule of thumb: up to three versions of a report are normal; up to seven might be sustainable; anything obove seven probably is paranoia driven and nobody will look at those old reports ever again. Stored versions that are older than a year probably are useless, too. In short, look a the extremes and don't mind the rest.