IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Ensuring Cube Logging is Reset in TM1
This is a guest post from Revelwood's Susan Musselman. Did you know you can easily reset cube logging in TM1? A previous tech tip was written to discuss when to enable and disable logging. As stated in that posting, it is best practice…
April 24, 2018
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Captions
Did you know TM1 allows users to create alias names for elements within your model? This is a great approach that allows you to give different names to the same element. For example, account 601 can also be displayed in reports as…
April 17, 2018
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Making Default Cube Views Dynamic with MDX
This is a guest post by Revelwood's Jay Apwah. Did you know you can easily update a cube value to control the period elements that will display in a subset used in views? In this blog post, I detail a scenario why you…
April 10, 2018
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: TurboIntegrator Logging
Did you know you can easily control your logs, making them easier to navigate? Your TM1 server tracks data transactions made in the system. When a cube value is changed, TM1 records the change in a transaction log file named Tm1s.log. The…
April 3, 2018
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: False options within an IF statement
Did you know that there are three different ways to define the false section of an IF statement? The approach you choose will impact how the cell calculates a result. In this blog post, we discuss these options and when to use…
March 27, 2018
TM1 Users Survey Reveals Plans for Migrating to IBM Planning Analytics
Revelwood's recent survey of TM1 users uncovered when and why many organizations are planning to migrate from IBM Cognos TM1 to IBM Planning Analytics. The survey, which was conducted in Q4 2017, found that more than one quarter of respondents who are…
March 15, 2018
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Performance Monitoring, Part 2
Did you know there are easy ways to address resource issues in order to have a finely tuned IBM Planning Analytics environment? This is the second in a two-part series about monitoring the performance of your server to maintain a working TM1…
March 13, 2018
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Performance Monitoring, Part 1
Did you know that server resources are vitally important to maintaining a working TM1 system? In this two-part blog series, I’ll review methods for monitoring the resources available on your server and the ways in which you can address most issues that…
March 6, 2018
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: New Configuration Setting for Dates
This is a guest post from Revelwood's Shane Bethea. Did you know IBM Planning Analytics 2.0 has a new feature that makes it easier to manipulate dates? Previously, when manipulating dates in IBM Planning Analytics / TM1, I always had to reach…