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If your IBM Cognos servers operate within a load balancing infrastructure, you can turn off the weighted round robin format of load balancing for the dispatcher. Otherwise, load balancing may be duplicated by the cluster and by IBM Cognos software, which can degrade performance.

You can set the dispatcher property named loadBalancingMode either to weightedRoundRobin or clusterCompatible.

References: IBM Cognos Administration Version 10.1.0, Administration and Security Guide, page 163