IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: PAx – Rebuild Book vs Recreate Book
Are you familiar with the difference between the “Rebuild Book” button and the “Recreate Book” button in IBM Planning Analytics for Excel (PAx)? Both buttons are used to update the rows which appear on your Dynamic Reports and both buttons refresh the…
February 15, 2022
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Updating ODBC Connections for Multiple Processes
As of version 2.0.69 of IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW), you are now able to update the ODBC connection for multiple TurboIntegrator (TI) processes at once. For prior versions, you would have needed to open each process to update the connection. To utilize…
February 8, 2022
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips and Tricks: Adding a user in Planning Analytics Workspace
Do you know how to add a user in IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW)? The steps are detailed below. As an Administrator, navigate to the Administration Users and Groups page. You can get there from the home page as follows: Click the…
February 1, 2022
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: The SCAN Function
Have you ever needed to parse data by looking for a specific character within your source records? Maybe you want to filter an employee’s last name from a “Lazarow, Lee” or maybe you want to define the year from “12/25/2021”. All of…
January 25, 2022
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IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Modeling Books
Did you know IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) update 57 introduced a new type of PAW book? This new type of book is called a “Modeling Book.” A modeling book can be created by selecting the “Data and Models” tile at the…
January 18, 2022
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Combining the DIMIX and DIMNM Functions
In a previous blog, we defined how to convert an alias back to the original element name within a TurboIntegrator script. The DimensionElementPrincipalName function is only valid for TI scripts, so what happens if you need to perform the same logic in a…
January 11, 2022
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: TM1PRIMARYDBNAME
Did you know there is a function to dynamically retrieve your database server name in IBM Planning Analytics for Excel (PAx)? When creating reports and input templates in Planning Analytics for Excel you must reference the TM1 server name you are pulling/pushing…
January 4, 2022
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IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: How to Download IBM Software
IBM has recommended a new IBM Planning Analytics Workspace patch to address the recently discovered Apache log4j vulnerability. Many of our clients have asked questions about how to download their software from IBM. Here are the basic steps you can take to download…
December 28, 2021
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Converting an Alias Back to the Element Name in TurboIntegrator
Have you ever needed to convert an alias back to the original element name within an IBM Planning Analytics TurboIntegrator script? Maybe you have a data source where the value entails an alias but further logic references the element code. You can…