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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Cognos Analytics
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 2, 2020

Add Hijri calendar support to IBM Cognos Analytics

Enable Hijri (Um Al Qura) calendar support in Cognos Analytics:

  • User profile preferences

  • "Calendar type" (like Gregorian and Japanese Imperial) in each of the following:

    • Reporting and Dashboards, the Data format dialog, when formatting as date or date and time

    • Reporting, properties of the "Date prompt" and "Date & time prompt"

    • Modeling and Framework Manager, in the Data Format property, when formatting as Date

This requires the below conversions to be implemented as well:

  • from the Gregorian date value to the Hijri date value when displaying data that is formatted as Date with Hijri calendar as the selected calendar type

  • from the Hijru date value to the Gregorian date value when sending parameters to the data source


Clients affected:
Major government and private sector clients in the gulf area of the Middle East require this feature as part of country regulations.

Needed by Date Jul 1, 2020