OBIEE and ESSBASE federated queries..

Hello all ,
I am working on a requirement that requires configuring federated queries using OBIEE and Essbase as an aggregation layer. I am able to configure everything except for one dimension where this dimension in Essbase uses shared members. Any help /guidance is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Sunil

Thanks for the response. I did go further from that day on the issue. But this is where I currently am stuck.
The issue is on this:;
1. Have a Measure in Essbase at a Grain higher than then OBIEE grain for a dimension and I need to create a report which calculated based on both the essbae measure and the OBIEE measure.
I have to create a report which would take the Essbase Measure, Divide by the OBIEE measure and display the value (Note: This OBIEE measure and the grain is only available at the OBIEE layer)
Ex:
Essbase Info:
D1 D2 Amount
x y 200
OBIEE Info:
D1 D2 D3 Percentage
x y z1 30
x y z2 70
Desired Output
Is
D1 D2 D3 New Amount
x y z1 60
x y z2 140
The behavior I am noticing is , since D3 has no relationship to Essbase Measure, the report results with a null for the Essbase Measure (Amount in this case). I understand this is natural but am not able to figure out any other means to address this requirement. I am exploring using EVALUATE and MDX, but am not sure, if I would be able to get the desired output.
Thanks
Sunil

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