3188919 - Why are the results inaccurate or not meeting the search criteria when searching for Commodity Code or Primary Supplier Manager using Japanese language names?

When you searching fields (Ex: Commodity Code or Primary Supplier Manager) in Japanese language characters, the results are inaccurate or fail to meet the search criteria.
This symptom happens due to the search functionality using HANA MDS Advanced Search when called from any of the listed products.

• SAP Ariba Guided Sourcing
• SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle Performance Management (SLP) or SAP Ariba Supplier Information and Performance Management (new architecture)
• SAP Ariba Guided Buying

For example:
When searching Primary Supplier Manager by name  "東京 太郎", the input dataset of "東京 太郎" will be broken up to "東京" and "太郎" and search fails to retrieve data.

Examples using HANA MDS Advanced Search:

• 東京　太郎
  
  Searching using Advanced search {serviceUrl}/mds/api/search/users?contains(SharedUserKey.Name,'%東京%')
  will not return any data using the Name field

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