Rebranding or Localizing Cognos Office Components

If you are setting the IBM® Cognos® component for a multilanguage environment, you must compile both the language-neutral file and the language file for your locale. The program detects the user locale settings in Windows and uses the appropriate language file.

For example, suppose you installed IBM Planning Analytics for Microsoft Excel and your locale is set to French (France). You must make changes to the language-neutral files: cormsgs.resx and coimsgs.resx, and to the French files: cormsgs.fr.resx and coimsgs.fr.resx.

To customize or localize the component names and text messages, follow these steps:

• Edit the language-neutral resource files, and if necessary, the language resource files for your locale.
• Download and then run the Resource File Generator (Resgen.exe) required for compiling the updated resource files.
• Test your work.