Is the following statement true about out-of-the-box reporting?

No. IdentityIQ report results are not simply stored as files on the application servers as a universal rule. IdentityIQ is a database-backed governance platform, and generated report metadata/results are associated with task/report result objects and persisted through the platform’s data model. While report exports or generated files may be downloaded or temporarily handled by the application server at runtime, the statement “all report results are stored on IdentityIQ application servers” is technically inaccurate. In clustered deployments, relying on local application-server storage for all report results would also be problematic because multiple application servers may serve the same IdentityIQ environment. IdentityIQ centralizes configuration, task history, report metadata, identities, applications, and governance objects through its database-backed object model. Therefore, the correct understanding is that reports are run by the IdentityIQ task/reporting framework and report result information is managed by IdentityIQ, not universally stored as local application-server files. References/topics: IdentityIQ Engineer — reporting architecture, task results, report instances, application server versus database persistence.