Selection screen issue with hierarchy variable, due to compounding

Hello people,
I'm having this odd effect with a Hierarchy variable in the selection screen of a query, the IObject is 0PROFIT_CTR.
When I display the hierarchy values and pick up one of them, it returns ok to the sel.screen in this format: CO_AREA + "/" + ProfitCtr Value, example: "CANI/AR03". (CO_AREA is compounding of 0PROFIT_CTR).
Now, if I hit the "check" button in the selection screen, the system converts the value to an different one, by repeating twice the compounding (CO Area) value, therefore creating an incorrect value like this: "CANI/CANIAR03". Note the string after the "/" is supposed to have only the profit center value, however now has also CO Area value (repeated).
This value goes effectively to the query execution, but because this value does not exist, I get a message "SID value not found" and the effect is that the query does not get filtered by the value I picked up.
Note, the same happens if I go directly to the query execution without hitting the check button, as it seems internally the system its doing the same conversion before sending the value to the query.
I can't figure out if this is a problem of the variable, the hierarchy or the selection screen mechanism.... but I cannot find an explanation/solution.
I trust someone has already facing this!!
cheers and happy August to everyone.
Fernando

Sorry, but actually its the parent that needs tagging with "Never Share", not the level 0 member, so Alt_Entity1 and Alt_Entity2 etc, see Essbase DBA guide
understanding Implied
Sharing
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members are shared even if you do not explicitly set them as shared. These
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If you do not want a member to be shared implicitly, mark the parent as Never Share so
that the data is duplicated, and is not shared. See Understanding Shared Members for an
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Alt_Entity3 - Set to "Never Share"E3 (sharedmember)
Alt_Entity4E4 (sharedmember
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