Loading a decimal value to an infoobject of type char

I have an extract structure with field timestamp, which is of type dec and length 15. Now i want to load this value to an infoobject in ODS. But this infoobject is of type char and length 18. when infopackage loading is scheduled it is giving the following error. Record 1 :InfoObject /BIC/IFITMSTMP does not contain alpa-conforming value 20061206084944.
Is it because i tried to move a dec valu into a char field with a different length? If so how will i load a decimal value of length 15 to a char of length 18. Can anyone please help me with this?
Thanks in advance.

if u r using BI7.0
go to the datasource of the cube
in the general info tab of the datasource
there is a check box with PSA not typed
check it
if u check it all the values from the external source will be converted into character format irrespective of their data type

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Loading decimal value to an infoobject of type char

I have an extract structure with field timestamp, which is of type dec and length 15. Now i want to load this value to an infoobject in ODS. But this infoobject is of type char and length 18. when infopackage loading is scheduled it is giving the following error. Record 1 :InfoObject /BIC/IFITMSTMP does not contain alpa-conforming value 20061206084944.
Is it because i tried to move a dec valu into a char field with a different length? If so how will i load a decimal value of length 15 to a char of length 18. Can anyone please help me with this?
Thanks in advance.

if u r using BI7.0
go to the datasource of the cube
in the general info tab of the datasource
there is a check box with PSA not typed
check it
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Hi everyone,
I'm trying to load data from a database table to a text file using bcp on SQL Server 2000. When I'm loading the decimal values, the values before the decimal are not being loaded into the file. How could I load the values before decimals?
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Bangaaram
Known is a DROP, Unknown is an OCEAN.

You can modify the decimal column(s) in the table to varchar type before export. But it does not look good.
alter table [dbo].[Product_Sales]
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alter table [dbo].[Product_Sales]
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Does that make any sense?
Known is a DROP, Unknown is an OCEAN.
Basically you modify the decimal column to a varchar type before you run the bcp command for export. You can modify your source table or you can modify them on the fly. It is just a workaround.
Modifying the source wouldn't be a good idea. Never do that if you can't get your desired output.
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===================================
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