Analysis Studio Shows The Wrong Currency Symbol; Changes To Decimals In Currency Formats - IBM Cognos User Manual

Analysis Studio Shows the Wrong Currency Symbol

When published to IBM Cognos Analysis Studio, PowerCubes show a default
currency rather than the currency associated with the locale of your servers and
PCs. For example, GBP (£) is shown as $.
To resolve this problem, you can do one of the following:
v Create a currency table when you prepare your model in Cognos Transformer
v For PowerCubes that do not contain an embedded currency table, set the
Procedure
1. In Cognos Transformer, from the File menu, click Currency Table and click
2. Right-click each currency measure and click Allow currency conversion. This
3. Define a default currency by setting the fallbackCurrency parameter in the

Changes to Decimals in Currency Formats

When you open a PowerCube in an IBM Cognos studio or in IBM Cognos
Business Intelligence Mobile Analysis version 8.3, you may notice changes in the
number of default decimal places shown in currency formats.
This behavior is due to the following changes:
v The default decimal formatting in currency formats is now determined by the
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-v or verbose mode; text is output to standard output (stdout), indicating
v
what was done, including any error messages. If running in interactive
mode, -v is assumed. All text is output in English only.
-h for command-line help; if cubename is not provided, it prints the usage
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and options to the screen.
and embed a default currency symbol into the resulting PowerCubes, based on
the system locale used by your Cognos Transformer computer.
fallbackCurrency parameter as the default currency.
OK.
default currency table does not include currency information for any locales
other than your running locale. Also, you cannot convert to a different currency
while working in Analysis Studio.
installation_location\configuration\qfs_config.xml file to GBP (Great Britain
Pounds) or to an alternative currency code as listed in the installation_location\
bin\ccli18nrescr_xx.xml file.
Here is an example.
name="PowerCubeODP" libraryName="pcodp" connectionCode="PC">
<providerDetails> <parameters>
members within a query. -->
name="maxCalculatedMemberNestingDepth" value="30"/>
yen/won currency symbols - set to "false" to disable -->
name="normalizeYenWon" value="true"/>
with no default currency specified - set to USD, EUR etc. -->
<parameter name="fallbackCurrency" value="USD"/>
</providerDetails>
measure format selected in the cube, instead of from the data source currency
table definition.
<!-- execution layer providers-->
<!-- Max depth of nested calculated
<parameter
<!-- Fallback currency for cubes
</provider>
<provider
...
<!-- Normalize
<parameter
</parameters>