General Programming Considerations

Only Unicode mode clients can fully work with Unicode mode applications. In general, writing Essbase applications programs for Unicode must take into account the mode of the client and of the server. The assumption made for this discussion is that the Essbase Server is fully Unicode enabled, that is, the Essbase Server is the latest version.

There are three basic scenarios depicting three types of client communicating with the Unicode enabled Essbase Server. The three client types:

Unicode enabled programs in non-Unicode mode can access all data on Unicode servers, but can not change the database outlines for Unicode mode applications. Only Unicode enabled client programs operating in Unicode mode have full access to both the data and the database outlines on Unicode enabled servers.