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IBM Cognos Analytics Mapping Read Me First

This document describes files included in an IBM Cognos Analytics interim fix release. It includes updated administrative boundary data with over 30,000 new aliases and examples for correctly importing postal codes with leading zeros either by prefixing them with single quotes or formatting the column as text.

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IBM Cognos Analytics Mapping Read Me First

This document describes files included in an IBM Cognos Analytics interim fix release. It includes updated administrative boundary data with over 30,000 new aliases and examples for correctly importing postal codes with leading zeros either by prefixing them with single quotes or formatting the column as text.

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IBM Cognos Analytics R6 Interim Fix

Mapping Readme First


This IF is build number 17042617.
Files included in this ZIP and their purpose is documented here.
IBM CA 11 R6 Admin Boundary Types and Post Regions.xlsx
This file is the same as Cognos Analytics R6 and contains a list of the types of polygons
provided. For example, states, provinces, districts and so on without the actual polygon
names.
IBM CA 11 R6 IF Named Administrative Boundaries.xlsx
This file has been updated from R6 RTM and contains the names of the non0Zip/Post
polygons. This file includes over 30,000 new aliases.
Cognos Analytics R6 Mapping Postal Codes with Leading Zeros.docx
This is a discussion document on mapping zip/post codes with leading zeros.
Postal Codes with Leading Zeros as Numbers.txt
Postal Codes with Leading Zeros as Strings.txt
These files are example with zip/postal code leading zeros which will be lost and
demonstrates why you should not attempt to import such data using a text file even if
you use quotes to try to fool the system.
Postal Codes with Leading Zeros as Single Quotes.xlsx
This file shows you how to correctly import zip/postal codes with leading zeros b y
prefixing the data values with a single quote to force Excel to treat them as strings.
Postal Codes with Leading Zeros as Text Column.xlsx
This file shows you how to correctly import zip/postal codes with leading zeros. Note
that the Post Zip column is formatted as Text as so:

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