1. Installation and Configuration Guide
  2. Configuring EPM System Products in a New Deployment
  3. EPM System Configurator Task Reference
  4. Essbase Configuration Tasks
  5. Configure Essbase Server
  6. Essbase Configuration Settings

Essbase Configuration Settings

  • Enable UTF-8 Unicode for worlwide language support:
    1. In Windows, Open Control Panel > Clock and Region > Region, select Administrative tab.
    2. Click Change System Locale and select the check box Beta: Use Unicode UTF-8 for worldwide language support.
    3. This will update the values of the following fields in the registry:
      [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Nls\CodePage]
"ACP"="65001"
"OEMCP"="65001"
"MACCP"="65001"
    4. Reboot your sytem. Reboot is required for each host that contains Essbase.

  • The default and only supported value for ESSLANG is .UTF-8@Binary. Upon migration, the value of Esslang is automatically updated.

  • Essbase 21c supports only Unicode applications. All the newly created Essbase applications are Unicode by default. You can still create non-Unicode apps with Cluster API (CAPI), Java API (JAPI), MAXL, and Essbase Administration Services (EAS) lite.