Maintaining localized object names when importing older archives

New releases of IBM® Cognos® BI introduce support for new locales. Importing older archives into newer versions of IBM Cognos BI can result in missing translations for object names in some locales. To avoid this problem, set the advanced property CM.UpdateInitialContentNamesAfterImport before the import.

About this task

For example, support for Catalan, Croatian, Danish, Greek, Kazakh, Norwegian, Slovak, Slovenian, and Thai locales was added in IBM Cognos BI versions 10.1.1 and 10.2. Archives created with earlier versions of IBM Cognos BI do not support these locales. When planning to import these types of archives, set the CM.UpdateInitialContentNamesAfterImport property before the import is started. This will ensure that object names, such as Public Folders or My Folders, in these additional locales are translated and display properly.

If you notice that object names do not display in the specified language after you import an older archive, see the IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Troubleshooting Guide.

Procedure

Follow the steps in the sectionConfiguring advanced settings for specific services.
For the ContentManagerService, type the parameter name CM.UpdateInitialContentNamesAfterImport.
In the Value column, type the affected locales and separate each with a comma.
For example, for Slovenian and Croatian content locales, type the following text string:

sl,hr

Results

Remove this advanced setting when support for the older archive is no longer needed because there is a performance impact associated with having this setting enabled.