RSDRI_INFOPROV_READ and navigational attributes

Hi experts,
can you please share your knowledge and experience with me?
the issue:
within a custom ABAP program i am calling function module RSDRI_INFOPROV_READ with standard parameters. this works fine only if no characteristics or basic characteristics selection is applied. But the call will fail in case we select on navigational attributes of characteristics.
is there any experience in the field or at SAP about this restriction, or maybe some helpful workaround?
Many thanks for your feedback and assistance!
Cheers, Harry

Hello everybody,
I face the same problem that RSDRI_INFOPROV_READ doesn't work with navigational attributes. It throws an exception. I did some debugging and found out the following:
At some point in the call stack, the method CL_SQL_PARAMETERS->SET_PARAM_STRUCT is invoked.
This Method reads the structure of the fields:
cl_abap_typedescr=>describe_by_data_ref( struct_ref ).
struct_ref is filled with /BIC/V<Cube>2
This dictionary structure does not contain any navigational attributes.
Then, there is a loop on the InfoObjects that were transferred to RSDRI_INFOPROV_READ with the parameter I_TH_SFC (also nav. attributes). Within the loop, the fields are "compared" to the components of the structure /BIC/V<Cube>2:
READ TABLE sdescr_p->components ASSIGNING <comp>
WITH KEY name = <cf>.
Since the nav. attributes are not contained in the internal table sdescr_p->components an exception is raised and the function terminates with an error.
By the way, this problem only occurs after we have upgraded to BI 7.0.....
Can anybody help?
Thanks a lot!
Cheers
Michael

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