Why DS does not return ISIN, NAME or static data?

Why DS does not return ISIN, NAME or static data?

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  • Here are R codes (using RDatastream library):
    > ds(user, stk,c("ISIN","ISINID"), date = "2019-01-10" )
    StatusType "Failure"
    StatusMessage "$$"ER", E100, INVALID CODE OR EXPRESSION ENTERED, U:IBM(ISINID)"

    > ds(user, stk,c("P","VO"), date = "2019-01-10" )
    StatusType "Connected"
    StatusCode "0"


    As seen, for same sec request: static data resulted failure, while time series worked!