Override Special Characters

You can modify how special characters such as nulls, division by zero, and overflows appear in IBM® Cognos® Analysis Studio. For example, you can change the default format for cell values that contain division by zero from forward slash zero (/0) to four short dashes (----).

Procedure

  1. Open the analysis that you want in Analysis Studio.
  2. From the Settings menu, click Data Format.
  3. In the Data format dialog box, under General properties, click a property and type in the characters you want to use for that property.
  4. Click OK.
    Tip: To revert to the original format, click Reset.
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