Very Important BICS Notes for BW 7.40

[marcio_evaldt]

Hello BW People!

Recently, here at Product Support, we have been informed by our development team that they had detected some BICS issues mainly in BW 7.40 SP 8 and SP 9.

They affect all the reporting tools which make BICS usage, such as WebI, Design Studio, Analysis for Office, BEx Web Java Runtime, etc.

Those issues are related to filters, hierarchy usage and variables. So, in case you have BW 7.40 and see any issues with filters not being applied, hierarchies not correctly displayed/validated in prompts/variable screen, variables not being filled or executed in case of customer exits, please take a look at the notes below.

Note	Applicable for BW 7.40 SP
2101236 - Missing data in query with artificial characteristic Currency/Unit			7	8	9
2050425 - BICS: Dynamic filter missing and inconsistent state (N_SX_META_DATA)	5	6	7	8
2101188 - BICS: Filter on structure element is reset to initial selection			7	8	9
2092810 - Filter variable on structure becomes ignored				8	9
2064630 - BICS: Compoundment on Hierarchy Node Variable does not work	5	6	7	8
2096560 - BEx Web 7.40: Termination when using exceptions or conditions		6	7	8	9	10
2068075 - BICS: Values of exit variables remain empty after refresh		6	7	8	9
2052141 - Variable values not correctly resolved	5	6	7	8
2109550 - Bookmark deletes filter selection				8	9	10
2107060 - RSBOLAP: Correction for SAP Note 2065089 (reader reset)			7	8	9	10
2094538 - BICS: struc. member change after submit incomplete				8	9

As clearly stated in SAP Note 2000326, please do apply these notes in any case, as they solve known issues and have no reported side effects.

With this you will avoid many known BICS issues that many times are not that easy to detect, trace and have a quick resolution, even with SAP Support help.

Kind Regards,
Marcio