Cognos Content iView Issues

Hello,
I imported the Cognos Business package that included some cognos iViews. The main iViews that I'm using are the viewer, navigator, search. I'm currently on SAP EP 7 SP13. There are two problems that I'm having and currently the issues been log with Cognos.
The first problem is the defualt settings per iView. When ever I set the default settings by clicking on "Edit the properties for all users" link in the personlize settings of the iView, the changes take affect for the current iView but the changes are relected on other iViews as well. The second problem is not being able to to change the name of the iView.
Is anyone using these iViews having the same problem?

Hello Harman,
Cognos did provided me with a fix to the defualt settings problem and the iView name changing problem. Currenlty the fix is in place and testing has been successful. I would probably inquire about this if you plan to utilize the other Cognos iViews.
Are you running into perfomance issues when navigating through the Cognos Connection hierarchy with the Cognos Navigation iView? When you select a report, the performance is fine becuase the request is to open in a separate browser window and not through another Cognos Viewer iView. I'm running into a performance problem when trying to navigate through the folders. The response is really slowly. This in my portal development environment and overall portal performance is fine. When navigating directly in Cognos Connection the performance is fine. Is there a way to improve the connection with the Cognos iView and Cognos servers?
Also, do you happen to know how personalization works. Where is the settings stored? I ran into an issue where the personalize settings got wiped out and we had to set the default settings again. Nothing was changed to the Cognos iViews in our portal dev environment prior to the persolize settings wipe out.
Regards,
Francis

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