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When you’re TM1-to-the-bone and somebody says “and then we need to send these reports out” , you think ”Well, that’s easy, it’s just an Active Form and a bit of vbs to convert TM1 formulas to values, pack and send”. |
Recent posts
TM1 Active Forms Excel Bursting — Cannot Empty Clipboard Excel Error
Splunk for Cognos?
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Was reading about Splunk the other day. I’ve heard about it a few years ago and recent post by Altis Consulting made me revisit their site. Basically, it’s a logs aggregator on steroids with search capabilities and nice dashboards. |
Using Amazon EC2
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Virtual machines are the greatest thing since sliced bread and most of us techies use them daily. In this post I would be talking about using Amazon EC2 as a VM hosting platform (we as a company moved everything up there over last 4 months) and as a bonus, will describe the process of converting existing VMWare Workstation images to EC2 instances. |
Using Cognos Connection Jobs for Orchestration (with Cognos Enterprise Planning and Controller in the pit)
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Most of the systems we implement don’t live in vacuum, they have to communicate with lots of neighbours. People often overlook the ability to call stored procedures from Cognos BI reports as a method of running some action, so I’d like to steal your 5 minutes for explaining how to use it to build better systems. |
TM1 Stress Test tool gets an update
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I’ve updated TM1 Stress \ Load Testing Tool over the weekend (vesrion 0.2, probably). Now it handles memory a lot better and has a new parameter called seconds_between_actionsin session configurations. Parameter is quite obvious, it just says how long will the coffee break between reading and writing bursts be within each session. |
Cognos BI SDK utilities
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Are you using Cognos BI seriously? Have you seen IBM SDK utilities? Keep in mind that link changes every now and then, I usually have to regoogle it. Some of them are really very good and I’ve used them a few times already. |
Tips for TM1 Applications Configuration Debug
Just a quick note on a few things I’ve found while trying to make TM1 application server (pmpsvc) behave. More like a note to myself, I’ve got dozen of these in Evernote, let’s see if they’ll be of any use to anyone ):
It’s a virtual world, part 1
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My working process these includes tossing around lots of virtual machines, so I’ve gathered a couple of tricks. Let’s talk about getting your back better (this post) and lightening your CapEx (next one). |
TM1MN
It’s time to open-source / make available a utility I wrote more than a year ago. I originally intended to develop it more whilst doing more TM1 projects, but my focus is mostly BI / DM these days, so I might as well just let it out and make changes by requests, if any.
Cognos BI logging setup
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Continuing our weekly, monthly, quarterly instalments, let’s talk about Cognos log files management. I’m really puzzled by the fact that whenever I walk in on a clustered Cognos install, error logging is always set up just wrong! |