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Problem Note 42827: Drill-through to detail data for an OLAP cube might fail if UTF-8 encoding is used and member values contain non-English characters
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When performing a drill-through to detail data on an OLAP cube where UTF-8 encoding is used, you might receive errors on the drill-through that are similar to the following:
The immediate MDX execution failed. The server encountered an error accessing a source data table.
Here is another possible error:
ERROR: Invalid member.
For example, this error was reported when member values contained Mandarin Chinese characters. The apparent cause is a transcoding problem occurring in the SQL generation for the drill-through.
In some cases, you can circumvent this issue by shortening the column width in the input table to the length of the longest value for that column.
For additional information regarding how language encoding can affect the length of member captions for your SAS OLAP cube, refer to SAS Note 43113.
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | SAS Release | |
| Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | SAS OLAP Server | z/OS | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 for x64 | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x64 | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Windows Vista | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Windows Vista for x64 | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| HP-UX IPF | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Linux | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Linux for x64 | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| OpenVMS on HP Integrity | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Solaris for x64 | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||