Extracting an Essbase Dimension in Outline Order

Has anyone been successful extracting an Essbase dimension in outline order and loading the outline in the same order to another application? Our requirement is to extract an Essbase dimension in outline order so the results can be loaded using ODI to a Planning application. The desired result is the dimension order from the original Essbase outline be the same as the dimension order in the Planning application. Any support or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

John,
We are using ODI 11.1.6. We successfully extracted the Essbase outline, but the order of the extract is incorrect. We've tried a few things including a Order by query, but are unable to get the outline in an order that will load to Planning and provide the same outline order as the original outline.
Thanks for your reply,
Kim
Edited by: CooleyK on Sep 6, 2012 6:00 AM

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File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
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 at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
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2012-06-14 10:36:49,873 INFO [SimpleAsyncTaskExecutor-5]: ODI Hyperion Essbase Adapter Version 9.3.1.1
2012-06-14 10:36:49,873 INFO [SimpleAsyncTaskExecutor-5]: Connecting to Essbase application [A_USRDFD] on [prodbpm1]:[1423] using username [admin].
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2012-06-14 10:36:52,275 WARN [SimpleAsyncTaskExecutor-5]: Invalid value specified [ ] for member filter value. Using default value [TC Codes].
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2012-06-14 10:49:47,748 INFO [SimpleAsyncTaskExecutor-6]: Essbase Metadata extract LKM option DIMENSION = TC Codes
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ServerInfoTimeout=300000
I am getting the following error
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After i reduced the no of members considerably in Customer dimension, the issue got resolved.
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Regards,
Tharik

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http://john-goodwin.blogspot.com/

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