A routing set is a tool in Cognos BI that allows you to route requests to specific folders based on either the user sending the request or the package on which the request was sent. Routing sets are often used to ensure that key users and key reporting requirements have the best possible performance. Imagine if your executives have reports that they like to run periodically that run in a server-intensive way. If you put them on the same server as all of the users, they could experience performance issues, as could the other users on that same server.

Now imagine that every request from an executive is routed to a specific server, maybe a beefier, more powerful server. In this scenario, the executives have better performance and the other end users are not affected. This is the real purpose behind the use of routing sets.

Routing sets can only be used in environments with multiple dispatchers.

In order to set up routing rules, we have to perform three...