String Manipulation in BI Publisher Report Paramater

Hi,
My Problem is that I am not able to do string manipulation on BI Publisher report Prameters.
Actually I want to Show Deptno-Dname in Menu(LOV).and when I select Certain combination like '10-Accounting',and while passing the parameter:Dept I wanted to Cut the department no(10) using string manipulation functions provided by oracle in Data Model(Query) in where clause like (where deptno=to_number(substr(:Dept,1,2)).
This query is working fine in other application like TOAD,But not giving results in BI Publisher Report.
It's also not giving any error while saving or running the report.
Please suggest any solution.

even I tried the following query in data model..
select DISTINCT EMP.EMPNO as EMPNO,
EMP.ENAME as ENAME,
EMP.JOB as JOB,
DEPT.LOC as LOC
from SCOTT.DEPT DEPT,
SCOTT.EMP EMP
where emp.DEPTNO=DEPT.deptno
and DEPT.deptno=nvl(to_number(substr(:department,1,2)),DEPT.deptno)
But the Parameter which I want to pass say Department('10-Accounting'),
Still it is showing employees from all departments.

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