Is called CommManagerSettings.xml and is located in C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Cognos\OFfice Connection\ . It contains the data source settings (tm1 app server, tm1 server name), nice to ‘preset’ those in PaX silent installations across a wide user community, you don’t everyone to know how to configure URLs. This info is relatively tricky to find, it’s still only in…
TM1 / Planning Analytics team is doing an impressive amount of work to make TIs run in parallel, however, the ‘grunt’ part of TurboIntegrator processes is still (as of 10.2.2 / PA 2) limited by one core. Even if you have a beefy server with multiple cores, they would only be utilised in ‘preparing source…
Now that we can be sure that Internet is here to stay cloud computing is a real thing I’ve finally got around to ticking AWS cert of the ‘would be good to do’ list. I’ve been using EC2 for a fairly long time, but AWS is many (and many doesn’t even start to cover how…
I’ve recently updated the script that runs application maintenance utility for TM1 when you got CAM Security with Single SignOn enabled on Cognos BI. See this post for the description of the issue, I’m publishing a better take on a solution. So why am I kicking the dust on this one? I was using the…
Work has been quite intense and very high-level recently, so I was missing the state of flow and the builders high that accompany coding. And I thought it’s a good time to learn something new and since I’ve been reading heaps of good things about Apache Spark, a course on it sounded like a worthwhile…
was the year when: – This blog turned 10 years old – I moved from PMsquare to Cornerstone – Opened up my own company – Got roughly the same amount of IM and TM1 work, very happy about that – Got a chance to work with 10Tb+ dwh, not many of these down under. Even…
It’s Xmas time again and we get the big bag of presents this time: Planning Analytics on Premise is finally here. There’s a ton of new things to like in new Planning Analytics (and all those need to be throughly tested, so I wouldn’t be upgrading just right now). I just wanted to highlight a…
There’s been a flurry of news on SSL certs topic in past 2 weeks. Main ones are: Automated updaters are released (yay!) for all client versions and not all server versions (nay, but not a big deal) There’s a manual way to update certificates if you can’t do it automatically So all is now ready…
Update 02/10/2016: Fix pack / updater from IBM still not released, but a manual update instructions + a set of new certificates are published at http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21990588 . I’ll post am update once we try them out, but it’s really good news. Update 07/09/201t6: Corrected the post to reflect the fact that TM1 will not ‘crash’,…
A quick note on the decades-old topic of dimension order. In a nutshell: don’t really trust System Order, it ignores changing the last dimension and it’s always the most impactful one. Ignore the rest of the post and move on, carry on if you’re interested in my ramblings on it. There’s a metric ton of…