Setting language preferences

You can personalize the way data appears in IBM® Cognos® workspace by changing your preferences. You can set the product language or content language to get the preferred output format of the reports.

Before you begin

Install and configure the IBM Cognos Analytics Server.

Procedure

  1. In IBM Cognos, click Identity Manager Dashboard menu button.
  2. Click the Action Menu Action menu
  3. Click My Preferences.
  4. In the Set Preferences window, under the Regional options section, select Product language.
    Product language specifies the language that the IBM Cognos user interface uses.
  5. In the Set Preferences window, under the Regional options section, select Content language.
    Content language specifies the language that is used to view and produce content in IBM Cognos such as data in the reports.
  6. Click OK.

Results

You can view the reports or user interface in the language that you specified.