Bringing the Cognos software up to date will protect us against the problem we still have occasionally with long load times [3].  The latest release from IBM/Cognos is known as Fix Pack 4.  It was applied to Cognos QA over the weekend.  If no problems are found in testing then Fix Pack 4 will be applied to Cognos production this weekend, Nov 14, 2014.  If you have a chance this week, please try some reports in Cognos QA [4] to confirm that Fix Pack 4 is ok.