Shared members are those that share data values with other members. For example, in the Sample.Basic database, Diet Cola, Diet Root Beer, and Diet Cream are consolidated under two parents: under Diet and under their product types—Colas, Root Beer, and Cream Soda. The members under the Diet parent are shared members, as shown in Figure 125, Calculating Shared Members. See Understanding Shared Members.
A calculation on a shared member is a calculation on the actual member. If you use the FIX command to calculate a subset of a database and the subset includes a shared member, Essbase calculates the actual member.