Special Characters usage in member names

All,
As we are aware, essbase member names cannot contain special characters. But as per our business requirement we are in need to use special characters in some member names. Can anyone advise me if there are any work-around available to achieve this. Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Ramesh

866969 wrote:
Thanks a lot for your response Vasavya. Let me describe my problem clearly. We are having planning application and we use ODI to refresh Master data/Meta data in planning application. One attribute dimension member contains special character and its getting rejected everytime since planning will not accept special characters in member names/Alias names. Is anything that we can do from planning side to avoid the rejection?. Thanks in advance.Is the application been created in unicode mode? Are you able to enter characters directly into planning? have you read the restrictions sections - http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E17236_01/epm.1112/hp_admin/frameset.htm?apb.html
Cheers
John
http://john-goodwin.blogspot.com/

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