The IBM Planning Analytics (TM1) ODBCOutput function is used in TurboIntegrator (TI) script to execute a SQL Update or Insert query against an open ODBC data source. ODBCOutput is very useful but can be slow if exporting large numbers of records, especially in a cloud environment. A typical TI process that uses ODBCOutput will have…

Creating Picklists in Planning Analytics Picklists in Planning Analytics are the best way to help control the inputs users can put into a cell. When users are doing inputs into a cell, the possibility for error can be high. Imagine a rule that takes a value from an input cube and puts it into a…

IBM Planning Analytics is great at performing many rule calculations across cells in a cube. Rules are useful for instant, calculated results in a cube based on user inputs. But as the number of rules against a Planning Analytics cube increases, the harder it can get to keep track of them all. Lots of rules…

There are several factors to keep in mind when creating business rules in Planning Analytics. What are rules, you ask? Rules are dynamic calculations that enable analysts, department leads, and planners to transform their data into real-time insights. Rules are the secret sauce when reporting in PA, but with great power, comes great responsibility. Adding…

Planning Analytics (PA) sets and views can be created using multi-dimensional expression (MDX) language to make them dynamic and help to automate PA applications. One simple way to harness the power of MDX in your PA application is to create a “Current Time Period” set that can be used to make any view dynamically show…

In another #AskQueBIT (Drag and Drop Cube Load in Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW)) article, we showed you how to load data to a cube by dragging and dropping a .csv file onto the workspace. The cube that we used is relatively simple, with only 3 dimensions: Award Year Person Award However, both the Person and…

During the recent IBM Think 2019 conference in San Francisco, CA, I went to the “Planning Analytics Workspace for Power Users” session led by the PAW developers. They shared a lot of exciting new features that we can expect in upcoming PAW releases, along with some advanced tips and tricks that are already available today.…

TM1 is great at consolidating data, but what if you want to prevent that from happening? Consider the following example, where we have FTE data for an employee at the Month level that is being incorrectly consolidated at the Quarter level.   We can use business rules to pull the last month in the quarter…

QueBIT Webinar – Advanced Topics – Write TM1 Rules like a Pro! If you’re a TM1 user, you know rules are how you work business logic into your model. You probably calculate things like salaries and sales, and you may even have more complex calculations in your model such as exchange rates and allocations. Since…

QueBIT Webinar – New ETL Debugging Tool 091417 – quebit IBM has released a new tool to help you debug your Turbo Integrator code. This recording will walk you through utilizing this new tool to help you with your TI code.