2529372 - Float Type Key Figures

• An amount or quantity key figure is defined with data type FLTP
• When activate the key figure, a warining is raised: "Rounding inaccuracies occur with data type FLOAT for AMOUNT and QUANTITY" (R7B 136)
• When check data in transaction LISTCUBE with DB aggregation, the FLTP key figure value has some deviation when run the data selection multiple times. The deviation could be:
• the last digits has different values for a big number; or
• a value should get 0, but get very small float number with different deviation back.
• When the FLTP key figure is used in a planning scenario, very small key figure values that are not initial, such as -1.9876543209999999E-300, can get generated from reverse postings. When compressing cube with zero elimination, such small numbers can't be removed.
• If an FLTP key figure is used in a planning Query as the reference of disaggregation, some extreme big values are received as the result. Because the norminator is a very small number, the value to be disaggregated is divided by this very small number and then allocated to each record. It can also happen that the query gets 0 as disaggregation result due to data overflow and an information is displayed: "Number entered for ... has too many digits" (BRAIN 217)

• BW system independent.
• Release independent.

R7B136, BRAIN217 , KBA , BW-BEX-OT-OLAP , Analyzing Data , BW-PLA-IP , Integrated Planning , How To