IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Writing Rules
Did you know that that way you write your rule could impact the performance of the model in IBM Planning Analytics? There are three parts to a rule. The area definition describes the section of the cube to which the rule will…
October 16, 2018
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Hiding Dimensions in Planning Analytics Workspace
Did you know that you don’t have to show all of your dimensions during an ad-hoc query in IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW)? TM1 cube views and formulas require a reference to every dimension within the cube. While all of these dimensions…
October 2, 2018
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Bookmarks in Planning Analytics Workspace
Did you know that you can bookmark items for quick navigation in IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW)? PAW’s navigation menu allows you to scroll through your entire system which includes cubes, dimensions, views and other aspects of your model. This ability to…
September 18, 2018
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM TM1 Tips & Tricks: When to Build Multiple Cubes
When working with clients to design a TM1 system, I sometimes have clients ask about an approach of building one cube for a model vs. building multiple cubes for a model. What do I mean by that? A cube consists of a…
July 31, 2018
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Cleaning Up Your TM1 Environment
Did you know there are some simple steps you can take to clean up your TM1 environment? A quick clean up gives you easier navigations for ad-hoc analysis, as well as smaller dimensions. In today’s world, memory is cheap. Hard drives that…
July 17, 2018
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Year-to-Date Hierarchies
Did you know you can create a single hierarchy that contains all year-to-date values within an entire year? As you know, TM1 is a consolidation tool which is designed to sum together a series of values. There are many ways to create…
July 10, 2018
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
Top 5 IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
Every week we publish a new blog post on IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks. Some of these focus on how to use new features in IBM Planning Analytics and others explain how to optimize key aspects of the core TM1 engine.…
June 25, 2018
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Regions with Planning Analytics Rules
Did you know that comments are an important piece of good rule development in IBM Planning Analytics? Comments help to describe your logic and can make it easier to navigate through many lines of code. A special type of comment in Planning…
May 15, 2018
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: GMT vs Local Time
Did you know that TM1 offers an easy way for you to convert GMT times to local times? Do you get tired of seeing your message log records in GMT? Are you frustrated that you have to convert times from GMT to…