Configuring a WebFOCUS Reporting Server for NLS

To access the Web Console, type the following URL into your web browser address bar:

http://host:port

where:

host

Is the host name or IP address of the machine running the WebFOCUS Reporting Server.

port

Is one number higher than the port number specified when installing the server. For example, if at installation you accepted the default port number of 8120, to access the console you would specify port number 8121.

If you installed the server on a machine with the host name MyServer and chose the base port 9190, to access the console you would enter http://MyServer:9191.

The Workspace tab opens, as shown in the following image.

The NLS Configuration Wizard pane opens, as shown in the following image.

The following steps provide information on modifying the settings in the NLS Configuration Wizard.

The default code page for the WebFOCUS Reporting Server is 1252.

Several code pages are always selected by default and cannot be deselected. These are: 37--IBM EBCDIC United States; 137--U.S. English/Western Europe (Latin 1); 437--U.S. English; 1047--IBM EBCDIC Open Systems (Latin 1); 1252--Windows (Latin 1); 65001--Unicode (UTF-8); 65002--Unicode (UTF-EBCDIC). Other code pages may also be selected by default, depending on the LANG attribute chosen in the LOCALE settings.

The NLS Configuration Wizard creates conversion tables for these code pages to make them available for subsequent conversion.

Select any additional code pages for which you want tables to be created. For example, if you want to designate a particular code page to be generated in synonyms for flat (fixed) files or VSAM files, you must already have created a code page conversion table using the Customize code page conversion table option during NLS configuration. For related information, see the Synonym Creation Parameters section in the adapter chapter specific to your data source in the Adapter Administration manual.

This is recommended if the compatibility of the new and previous code pages is unknown.

TSGU (Translation Services Generation Utility) is a program that you can use to configure NLS settings. Usually, this program is not required since the NLS Configuration Wizard takes care of the configuration transparently. However, under the following circumstances, you may need to enter and execute the TSGU command manually:

• To create PDFXTBL. When TYPE 1 fonts should be included in PDF format file, the TYPE 1 font transcoding table must be generated. The syntax is:

  PDFX {font-name}

• To create PDFYTBL. When Unicode fonts should be used in PDF format file, the special font information tables (PDFYTBL) must be generated. The syntax is:

  KTBL {pdfy-name}

  For example, KTBL PDFX generates all the special font information files.

  If required, enter the command in the TSGU input box and click the blue arrow to execute it. The results are displayed in a separate window.

To access the Web Console, in the address bar of your browser, enter the following URL:

http://host:port

where:

host

Is the host name or IP address of the machine running the WebFOCUS Reporting Server.

port

Is one number higher than the port number specified when installing the server. For example, if at installation you accepted the default port number of 8120, to access the console you would specify port number 8121.

If you installed the server on a machine with the host name MyServer and chose the base port 9190, then to access the console you would enter http://MyServer:9191.

The Workspace tab opens.

The Change Core Engine Settings in the edasprof.prf page opens.

The following steps describe how to modify the LOCALE settings.

You can select one of the following options:

• CODEPAGE. CODEPAGE bases the collation sequence on the code page in effect, and is case-sensitive. This is the default.
• BINARY. Bases collation on binary vales. This is equivalent to CODEPAGE in most cases, except for Danish, Finnish, German, Norwegian, and Swedish localized environments using an EBCDIC code page.
• SRV_CS. Bases collation on the LANGUAGE setting and is case-sensitive.
• SRV_CI. Bases collation on the LANGUAGE setting and is case-insensitive.

By default, the ISO code will only be displayed when the currency symbol cannot be displayed. You can also set the ISO code to always be used, including in place of the currency symbol, or to never be used, even when no currency symbol is available.

By default, this is determined by the format of the individual field, but you can use this option to overwrite it.

By default, the separator character is taken from the USAGE specifications of the date field, but you can use this option to overwrite it.

Your options are a dot (.) or a colon (:).

To change the specified business days, replace any of the days of the week, represented by the first letters of each day in order (SMTWTFS), with an underscore.

For example, changing the BUSDAYS value to __TWTFS would specify that Tuesday through Saturday are business days. You can use the drop-down menu to reset the value to the default.

The value must be two, three, or four letters or numbers in the name of a .err file used to specify holidays. The name of the file must be HDAYxxxx.err. xxxx is the value that is typed into the HDAY field.

The file must be a text file containing the date of a holiday in YYMD format with no separators, followed by a space and the name of the holiday, one per line. Dates must be in chronological order. For example:

20161231 New Year's Eve
20170101 New Year's Day
.
.
.
20171231 New Year's Eve
20180101 New Year's Day

For more information, see Specifying Holidays in the Using Functions manual.

A message indicates that the server is restarting. At this point, the server is creating the necessary transcoding, sorting, and monocasing tables for the selected code page.

The Web Console is then redisplayed.