Upload of InfoCube 0SD_C03 fails due to "#" in 0PO_NUMBER

Question

Hello everybody,
I cannot upload data into 0SD_C03, due to the error "#" is invalid character.
I have checked the data coming into the cube and in 0PO_ORDER we have vale like this: "SIBN /#3".
What is confusing me a little bit is this: if I change the update rule and set the constant "SIBN /#3" it is fine. But if the value is coming from the ODS before, it fails
The ODS is of course not BeX enabled.
Any help appreciated.
Pawel

Answer 1

Hello everybody,
I have reproduced this error while loading into BeX Enabled ODS (it failed during activation).
Then I have checked the long text of he error. There was a magic link: <i>if you want to know more about special characters in BW click here</i>. As I would like to know more about special characters, I have pressed and there was a nice documentation regarding this topic:
according to this documentation (see below) it is not possible to have "#" within a string.
For me it is the end of the story. If anybody knows something new about this, please let me know.
I will close the topic.
Pawel
<b>Invalid characters
The following characters are not permitted in characteristic values and cause errors in the system:
</b>!
Control characters with the hex-display 00 to 1F, if lower-case letters were permitted
Characters with a hex-code that represents lower-case letters in one of the installed languages
You can validate lower-case letters for any characteristic. You change the settings in the InfoObject maintenance screen- on the 'General' tab page- by selecting the lower-case letters option. If you select this indicator, the system does not run a consistency check for the characteristic values, and the system makes no distinction between capital and lower-case letters in the maintenance screens for variables.