Wildcard character when querying IHS Magellan

[jthodge]

The "@" symbol in the name of many series in the IHS Magellan databanks appears to be causing an issue when querying and/or fetching from the database using a wildcard character.

For example, neither of the fetch commands below will retrieve anything from the RFOR databank on IHS Magellan

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wfcreate(wf=regionalmacro) q 1960:01 2020:04 dbopen rfor fetch NR@*.Q fetch NR@??.Q

However, the following fetch command that replaces "@" with the ? wildcard (and ?? for state abbreviations) will retrieve the total population forecast series for all of the states (e.g. nr@ak.q, which Eviews automatically renames as nr_ak):

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fetch NR???.Q

This behavior seems to have popped up when Eviews 9.5 was released or shortly before. Is this a bug or an intentional change?

[EViews Jason]

A fix is in progress. It should not require an EViews patch since it is being fixed on the Magellan side. We will post when we believe it is fixed.

[EViews Jason]

The Magellan folks have reported that this has been fixed.