Deployment Lag issue in Cognos Cloud

Typically on-premise environment, we keep a shared drive of deployment folder to share across environment so that  we don't need to copy them over each dispatchers and it's readily available for import in target environment.

In Current IBM Cognos Cloud on 11.0.9, now there is script to sync up between environments and  it copies the deployment archive.

We need to create new import for each new import and wait for 10-15 minutes before it will appear in new environment. 

This was not the case in C10.2.2 Cloud Environment.


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