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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Cognos Analytics
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 23, 2016

Support for new SAP BAPI function for query data more than 1M cells

Currently, when use Cognos BI query data from SAP BW. If the result is more than 1M cells SAP will return error message "BAP-ERR-0002 A BAPI error has occurred in the function module BAPI_MDDATASET_GET_AXIS_DATA. MDX result contains too many cells (more than 1 million)".

This error caused from limitation of SAP BAPI function BAPI_MDDATASET_GET_AXIS_DATA that can't return result more than 1M cells per query. SAP has updated new function is "RSR_MDX_GET_AXIS_DATA" that haven't this limitation anymore.

We wish Cognos BI is able to support the new function. Currently, we have to workaround by separate data for query and this made query is take much time for completed result.