Copy Cognos Database Function Files

You cannot use IBM® Cognos® User Interface and Error String Customization Toolkit to coordinate the customization of some database function files supplied with your product.

You must copy these database function files manually to each computer to which you copied the customized resource files.

If you do not perform the following steps, product users will not be able to use some database functions in the expression editor.

Procedure

  1. Go to the following product directory:

    installation_location\configuration\functions

  2. Make a copy of the file with the name FileList_xx.xml, where xx is a language code.

    An example is FileList_fr.xml.

  3. Open the copy of the file in an XML editor and replace all occurrences of the original language code with the new target language code.

    For example, change every occurrence of fr to es if your target language is Spanish.

    For more information about editing this file, see the IBM Cognos Software Development Kit Developer Guide or the IBM Cognos Framework Manager Developer Guide.

  4. Save the file as FileList_yy.xml, where yy is the target language code.

    For example, save the file as FileList_it.xml if your target language is Italian.