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Cog Page Break

The document discusses a workaround for a performance issue when generating PDF reports with page sets in Cognos. The workaround involves: 1. Creating a list report and groups without using page sets 2. Adding a group list footer and inserting a new footer row 3. Setting the footer size overflow to prevent pagination issues when the report is rendered to PDF.

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Cog Page Break

The document discusses a workaround for a performance issue when generating PDF reports with page sets in Cognos. The workaround involves: 1. Creating a list report and groups without using page sets 2. Adding a group list footer and inserting a new footer row 3. Setting the footer size overflow to prevent pagination issues when the report is rendered to PDF.

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Cognos - PDF Page Breaks

When Page Sets are used with a report that will be rendered in PDF, there is a serious performance problem,as the number
of pages increase. The expressed solution by IBM involves generating the report one page at a time and then using SDK to
bring the individual pages together.

The workaround we have discovered uses the following steps to efficiently generate the PDF output. Note: this approach
prevents us from using the pagination controls to reset page numbers on changes in the group (in the standard approach
this would be accomplished by using pagination controls in the page set).

1. Create list report.


2. Create groups.
3. Add group List Footer.

4. Select a cell within the List Footer and Insert List Row Cells Below from Structure, Header & Footers.

5. Select a List Cell within the new footer row and set the Footer Size Overflow (in the Positioning menu)to 8 inches if
Portrait, or 11 inches if Landscape.
Cognos–Fixing a report with Page Sets

1. Move report Detail Page outside of Page Set(s).

2. Delete Master Detail Relationship on Detail Page(s).

3. Select Detail Page List and delete Master Detail Relationship.

4. Select a cell within the List Footer and Insert List Row Cells Below from Structure, Header & Footers.
5. Select a List Cell within the new footer row and set the Footer Size Overflow (in the Positioning menu)to 8 inches if
Portrait, or 11 inches if Landscape.
6. Delete Page Set(s).

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