Preference Settings or Environment Variables

You can also use environment variables to set preferences. Cognos® Transformer recognizes the following preference settings or environment variables.

For more information, see Controlling Processing with Preference Settings or Environment Variables.

Preference or environment variable

Settings
CenturyBreak Default: 20
ChildRatioThreshold

Default: 35

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 4294967295
CubeSaveDirectory Default: On Windows, the default is the \Transformer\PowerCubes subdirectory under your home directory. On UNIXand Linux®, the default is the temp subdirectory in the installation_location directory.
DataSourceDirectory Default: The data subdirectory in the installation_location directory
DataWorkDirectory Default: The temp subdirectory in the installation_location directory
DecimalPoint Default: A period (.)
DefaultSeparator Default: A comma (,)
FilenameVariables Default: FALSE

This setting is not supported on Windows.
IncUpdateWarning Default: TRUE
LogDetailLevel

Default: 4

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 4
LogFileAppend Default: FALSE
LogFileDirectory

Default: On Windows, this is the \Transformer\logs subdirectory under your home directory. On UNIX and Linux, this is the logs subdirectory in the installation_location directory.

If the logs subdirectory does not exist, then the default is the current working directory.
LogFileName Default: ""
LoggingFrequency Default: -1
LunarFiscalLabeling Default: TRUE
MaxTransactionNum Default: 50000
ModelSaveDirectory Default: On Windows, this is the \Transformer\Models subdirectory under your home directory. On UNIX and Linux, this is the temp subdirectory in the installation_location directory.
ModelWorkDirectory Default: The temp subdirectory in the installation_location directory
MultiFileCubeThreshold

Default: 0 (disabled)

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 4294967295
OrderByCategoryLabeling

Default: 0 (disabled)
ThousandSeparator Default: a comma (,)
WorkFileMaxSize

Default: 1500000000

Minimum: 100000000

Maximum: 1500000000