Error: Invalid dimension member with special character / in BPC NW 7.5 SP7

[Former Member]

Hi experts,

We are encountering the following problem in our Financial Planning application.

We are migrating our existing BPC solution from one server to another through backup and restore. The existing solution was on BPC NW 7.5 SP 5. The profit_centre dimension in the existing solutions has several member ids with special character '/' (forward slash). The dimension never threw an error when processed in the existing solution and there is planning transactional data against these member ids.

While the entire configration , appset , files were successfully restored through UJBR on the new system (BPC 7.5 SP7) through UJBR (backup and restore), the masterdata could not be restored only for this Profit_centre (masterdata for other dimensions were processed successfullu). All the member ids with / are rejected for this dimension. The same error is thrown if processed through the admin client from the member sheet.

Error: Dimension member PC_FF/WS/NT is an invalid member ID

Error in Admin module

Is there any setting which need to be made to allow / character in member ids? Any suggestion to get around this problem would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Abhiman

[Former Member]

Hi,

Please refer to the SAP notes # 1490126, 1101617

Hope this helps.

[Former Member]

Thanks for pointing out the notes.

The note suggest that the members with / were allowed in support pack 5 due to a program bug and this has been corrected from support pack 6 on wards. Since I have to migrate the solution and data to support pack 7, I will have to replace these invalid members and transform the transactional records againsts these members to use the replacement member ids.

[Former Member]

Hi Abhiman,

Yes, you need to maintain the transformation file to correct all dimension member IDs. Can you please refer to the following link with a similar issue:

Hope this helps.

Rgds,

Poonam

[Former Member]

Thanks for sharing a related article