PI27735: CREATING CUSTOM FILTER CAUSES ANS-MES-0005 ERROR ON ANALYSIS STUDIO CROSSTAB REPORT WITH MANY NESTED ITEMS

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• Creating custom filter causes ANS-MES-0005 error on crosstab
  with many nested columns which are inserted by "Insert" > "After
  selected set".??Once the problem occurred, error continued to be
  displayed on any operation until closing and re-open browser.??-
  Error does not happen if items are added by drag&drop.?Crosstab
  created by "Insert"> "After selected set" and inserting by drag
  and drop are a little different.?Value seems to be same, but
  item set is displayed differently.?Customer is worrying about if
  inserting items by drag and drop works to avoid error for other
  cases.??- Error does not happen if nested column is deleted.?-
  Error does not happen if many items are excluded.?- Issue can be
  recreated on Internet Explorer 8, 10, Fire Fox 32.0.3.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

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Problem conclusion

• Code Fix
  

Temporary fix

Comments

• A fix for this APAR is targeted for IBM Cognos Business
  Intelligence 10.2.1 Fix Pack 6
  
  The Fix Pack Release Schedule can be found at
  www-01.ibm.com/software/analytics/cognos/support/fixpacks.html
  

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

  PI38645

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  COG ANALYSIS ST

• Fixed component ID

  5724W12AS

Applicable component levels