Specify Conversions for Series 7 PowerPlay Web Reports

IBM® Cognos® Series 7 supplies a limited solution for the Japanese Vendor Defined Characters (VDC) in Shift-JIS encoding. To ensure data integrity and consistency when using PowerPlay® Web reports with IBM Cognos Business Intelligence, you must set the character mapping to default values.

Procedure

  1. Stop IBM Cognos BI.
  2. Start the Round Trip Safety Configuration utility, see The Round Trip Safety Configuration Utility.
  3. From the Tools menu, click Restore defaults.
  4. From the Tools menu, click Configure.

    The conversion tables are set to use the default values in the background.

  5. Close the Round Trip Safety Configuration utility.
  6. Start IBM Cognos BI.
Parent topic: The Round Trip Safety Configuration Utility