Dataload problem in Ouline having duplicate members enabled

Hello All,
I have changed the 'Duplicate member name allowed' option in an essbase Outline properties from 'false' to 'true' in ver 9.3.1. Now, when I am going to load data through SQL rule file, then it is showing following errors--
ODBC Layer Error: Native Error code [936]
Failed to Establish Connection With SQL Database Server. See log for more information
Transaction [ 0x280001( 0x4905b7d3.0x1e848 ) ] aborted due to status [1021001]
and nothing is being loaded. The same SQL script is running fine in SQL Plus. Suppose, Outline has 3 dimentions as follows ------
Year------FY07
FY08
FY09
Category---Cat A
X(duplicate member-child of cat A)
Y
Cat B
X(duplicate member- child of cat B)
P
Q
Accounts---- Counts
Amounts
in sql script, data is retrieved as
FY08 [Cat A].[X ] 50 100
FY08 [Cat A].[Y ] 50 100
FY08 [Cat B].[X ] 50 100
(where 50 is counts and 100 is data of Amounts)
Is any changes is required for the aforesaid outline property changes? How essbase handle the matter internally?
Can anyone give me an illustrative example about how to handle dataload as well as Data retrieve part as far as Duplicate member option enabled Outline is concerned? Is there anything we will need to take into mind related to that?
As the option has newly came in ver 9 and not there in the previous essbase versions, so it is a little bit confusing. Please elaborate accordingly.
Thanks for all of your inputs.
Regards,
Raj
Edited by: ess_ess on Oct 27, 2008 4:26 AM
Edited by: ess_ess on Oct 27, 2008 6:38 AM

Hi,
To ensure duplicate member outline hierarchies are built correctly, use qualified member names in data source or use the rules files to construct qualified member names from fields in the data source
Example:-
suppose we have this data set-
West India Delhi 12344
West India Bangalore 46544
East "New york" "New york" 126787
Here I am using the RULE FILE to construct qualified member names--
Step 1:- Create the additional TEXT fields, create one field each for the
following text elements-
Step 2:- Using the MOVE operation, move the fields to the following sequence:
1 . .2 . .3 . .4 ..5 ... 6 . 7 . . . 8
[   west ].[ India ].[ Delhi ] 12344
step 3:- Using JOIN operation, join together fields 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 to create a
signle field as
1     .     . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
[west].[India].[Delhi] 12344
OR
you should specified the full qualified name in your DATA SOURCE.
Hope it will help you.
-Mohit

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