If you have ever had an issue with security before, chances are you have used the ‘Refresh Security’ function on your IBM Planning Analytics (TM1) server. It is usually the first thing someone suggests when they learn your security settings have not updated as expected, and you are not sure why that is. The ‘Refresh…

Keeping track of both public and private subsets and views within a TM1 or Planning Analytics model is somewhat daunting since there has been no simple administrative function available to accomplish this task. There are, of course, some “for-sale” tools available as well as various shell commands that offer partial solutions but if you don’t…

IBM has rebranded IBM Cognos TM1 to IBM Planning Analytics however the server is still referred to as the “TM1 Server”, hence references to TM1 in the rest of the article. Running a full TM1 Save Data to commit in-memory changes to disk locks up the entire model and depending on the size and number…

Planning Analytics Local, Workspace, and Excel Download Guide This download guide will walk you through the steps of getting the download package for Planning Analytics Local (PAL), Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW), and Planning Analytics for Excel (PAx) from IBM Fix Central. Please ensure that you have an active IBM ID as this will be required to…

In a previous article, we reviewed how to manually create Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) hierarchies based on attributes. This allows you to create “virtual dimensions” based on these attributes that can be used for further analysis…but what happens when the attribute values change? Today, we’ll show you how to use TurboIntegrator (TI) to maintain your…

Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) administrators should plan how they would like to manage and distribute their content before users access it. In PAW, books and views can be grouped into folders, which save valuable screen real estate, improve the user experience, and simplify security administration. Screen Real Estate is Valuable. Screen real estate is highly…

So, you’ve built a suite of beautiful input templates, reports, and dashboards in the PAW development environment, and now you want to deploy them to production. Migrating books and views can be done quickly and easily by following these steps: Click your name in the upper right corner of the PAW screen and select Administer.…

In another #AskQueBIT article (Drag and Drop a File to Create a Dimension in PAW), we demonstrated how easy it is to build a dimension by dragging and dropping a file into the dimension editor in PAW (Planning Analytics Workspace) . In this article, we’ll take our prototyping one step further by loading data into…

Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) is a lot more than just a pretty face – it’s the primary tool for developing and maintaining Planning Analytics models. It can be used for everything from building structures, to writing rules or TI processes, and even maintaining security. Development and prototyping in PAW is a lot faster and easier…

IBM has adopted an AGILE development cycle and is releasing new versions of PAW Local approximately every 4-6 weeks. These PAW upgrades have been thoroughly tested and already released to IBM PA Cloud customers four weeks before they are made available for download, so there’s very minimal concern of any software issues arising. With these…