2.1 EA1 Bug No promt for substitution variables

Didn't see a post for this yet. In this release, I am not being prompted for replacement variables when I use & in my query.
SELECT &1 from dual;
ORA-01008: not all variables bound
01008. 00000 - "not all variables bound"
*Cause:
*Action:
SELECT &&1 from dual;
ORA-01745: invalid host/bind variable name
01745. 00000 - "invalid host/bind variable name"
*Cause:
*Action:

Substitution variables have to be defined:
define 1 = 'Defined'
select '&1' from dual;A current 2.1 EA1 bug will let you only execute this as script (F5).
Bind variables have to be given through the dialog:
select ':1' from dual;A current 2.1 EA1 bug will let you only run this as statement (F9).
To the development team:
Please log the bug that bind variables can't be used when executing as script.
Regards,
K.

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Hi - I'm receiving an error when I try to run the following using the substitution variable - but only when I enter a string; when I enter a numeric value it runs fine.
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begin
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Hi,
It looks like you just want one string there:
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I don't think MaxL is going to do this for you, although you could always use a positional parameter to set the value.
I'm not a big fan of passing the system date to an Essbase process as it so often varies from the data date.
Usually, I create an external scripting process (in my case, in the past, usually VBScript, I would probably tilt towards perl now) that read the file, found the year and month, and then called the MaxL with parameter lne variables to set the Substitution Variables. This is not fancy code -- the error checking is the majority of the work.
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Maxl statement for substitution variable..

Friends,
Do we have a maxl command that will return substitution variables at the server level along with their values.
This would help us do a quick check of the system at all environments using VLOOKUP before the cycle starts..
The manual check seems boring :(
Thanks,
RN.

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Someone else asked the same thing this morning:
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Hi,
You cannot provide multiple values to single substitution variable. If you want that a variable can contain multiple values then you can use User Variable.
Request you to please look into the below links
for Substitution variable - http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E17236_01/epm.1112/hp_admin/frameset.htm?ch07s05.html
For user variable- http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E17236_01/epm.1112/hp_admin/frameset.htm?ch07s05.html
Hope this helps.
Regards
SST.....
Edited by: ss1988 on Mar 9, 2013 11:14 PM

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null

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http://otn.oracle.com/docs/products/oracle9i/doc_library/release2/server.920/a90842/ch6.htm#1007141
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Hi All,
I am creating one dimension through SQL Dimension load rule writing by parent child build rule. The SQL query is like below---
distinct trim(dist_mobile),trim(ret_mobile) from dist_retailer al1 where al1.proc_dt=to_date(&Proc_date,'dd/mm/yyyy')
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Hi,
Sorry for delayed response. Appreciate your inputs. At last I have found out the solution which is as below----
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