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Problem Note 13365: Drill-through and ROLAP aggregation tables can fail if the MDX query contains a numeric member

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A request for drill-through data or a ROLAP aggregation table might return an empty table or an error if the query that is sent to the SAS® OLAP Server contains a long numeric value for one of the levels in the cube. For example, if the level PRODUCT_ID contains numeric IDs such as 2102002005, the query that is sent to the server will have converted the number into floating point representation, 2.102002005E+11. This causes the query to fail.

Depending on the Java locale for your environment, the exception returned by a client might be different. For example, some locales might format the value as 2,102002005e9. With an English locale, numeric values with an absolute value greater than 999999 will produce this problem.

As a workaround, before building the cube, make sure that all classification variables are stored as character.

The available hot fix resolves only the case where an empty set of data is returned. If your data contains numeric values as described above, an error message might still be returned after applying the hot fix.



Operating System and Release Information

Product FamilyProductSystemSAS Release
ReportedFixed*
SAS SystemSAS OLAP ServerTru64 UNIX9.19.2 TS2M0
64-bit Enabled AIX9.19.2 TS2M0
OpenVMS Alpha9.19.2 TS2M0
64-bit Enabled HP-UX9.19.2 TS2M0
HP-UX IPF9.19.2 TS2M0
Linux9.19.2 TS2M0
z/OS9.19.2 TS2M0
64-bit Enabled Solaris9.19.2 TS2M0
Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server9.19.2 TS2M0
Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server9.19.2 TS2M0
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional9.19.2 TS2M0
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server9.19.2 TS2M0
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition9.19.2 TS2M0
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition9.19.2 TS2M0
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition9.19.2 TS2M0
Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems9.19.2 TS2M0
Microsoft Windows NT Workstation9.19.2 TS2M0
Microsoft Windows XP Professional9.19.2 TS2M0
* For software releases that are not yet generally available, the Fixed Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be fixed.