Planning Analytics

Modeling, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, multidimensional analysis-there are a lot you can do with IBM Planning Analytics. Chances are you're just scratching the surface.
Join us live for our monthly "Ask me Anything" session, designed to answer all of your burning IBM Planning Analytics questions from product roadmap to upgrades, hosted by a member of our Product Management team. Each month we'll feature different members of the IBM Planning Analytics team from development, to quality assurance, to lab services.

Please join us in this on-demand recording. Share your questions below and register to watch here.





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Michael McGeein
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#PlanningAnalyticswithWatson

Hi,

Given none of my questions were picked up in April I am posting them again in the hope of having more luck in May:

Q1) It would be useful if PAW included more Audit features, and I wondered if that was on IBM's radar.

       One such feature, among many potential others, would be the user who last updated a Book, and possibly what they updated.

       We have encountered a few examples recently where Books were effectively 'broken' because a user had updated and saved a book.

Q2) In PAW, is there any way to delete an application item from the application tree as we can do in architect (we can also do it in PAX)?

        I don't mean the new applications and plans feature, I mean the other definition of application!

        On that front, any proposal to change the name of either of them to avoid any confusion!

Q3) This is a new question:

In PAW, you can add in an Action Button and attach a Process to the button, and then set the parameters.

However, if you were to change the process by updating the Prompt Question, it doesn't seem to recognise that the prompt question has updated. Therefore, you have to select another process to use with the action button, close the action button, and then open again, select the original process and it then recognises the prompt question has updated.

I could probably live with this but it makes me wonder, if it doesn't recognise that the prompt question has been updated what else may it not recognise should anything else be updated.

regards,

Mark

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Mark Wragg
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Original Message:
Sent: Thu March 31, 2022 12:47 PM
From: Michael McGeein
Subject: Ask Me Anything: Planning Analytics - May Edition

Modeling, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, multidimensional analysis-there's a lot you can do with IBM Planning Analytics. Chances are you're just scratching the surface.
Join us live for our monthly "Ask me Anything" session, designed to answer all of your burning IBM Planning Analytics questions from product roadmap to upgrades, hosted by a member of our Product Management team. Each month we'll feature different members of the IBM Planning Analytics team from development, to quality assurance, to lab services.

Please join us on Thursday, May 12th, 2022 at 11AM EDT. Share your questions below and register to join here.





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Michael McGeein
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#PlanningAnalyticswithWatson

Hi Mark, 
Thank you for the questions and suggestions.

I could only confirm for now that soon the "Applications" folder in the Data Tree would be re-named to "Websheets".
This way the Applications and Plans would be the place where this term is being used.

Best Regards,

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Svetlana Pestsova
IBM Planning Analytics Product Manager
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Original Message:
Sent: Thu April 14, 2022 12:02 PM
From: Mark Wragg
Subject: Ask Me Anything: Planning Analytics - May Edition

Hi,

Given none of my questions were picked up in April I am posting them again in the hope of having more luck in May:

Q1) I would please like an update on the issue in the following link: MDX Attribute and Subset correct Syntax

Q2) It would be useful if PAW included more Audit features, and I wondered if that was on IBM's radar.

       One such feature, among many potential others, would be the user who last updated a Book, and possibly what they updated.

       We have encountered a few examples recently where Books were effectively 'broken' because a user had updated and saved a book.

Q3) In PAW, is there any way to delete an application item from the application tree as we can do in architect (we can also do it in PAX)?

        I don't mean the new applications and plans feature, I mean the other definition of application!

        On that front, any proposal to change the name of either of them to avoid any confusion!

regards,

Mark

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Mark Wragg

Original Message:
Sent: Thu March 31, 2022 12:47 PM
From: Michael McGeein
Subject: Ask Me Anything: Planning Analytics - May Edition

Modeling, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, multidimensional analysis-there's a lot you can do with IBM Planning Analytics. Chances are you're just scratching the surface.
Join us live for our monthly "Ask me Anything" session, designed to answer all of your burning IBM Planning Analytics questions from product roadmap to upgrades, hosted by a member of our Product Management team. Each month we'll feature different members of the IBM Planning Analytics team from development, to quality assurance, to lab services.

Please join us on Thursday, May 12th, 2022 at 11AM EDT. Share your questions below and register to join here.





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Michael McGeein
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#PlanningAnalyticswithWatson

Hi Michael,

I would like to know how we can interact with PAW/PAA via the REST API to get the following information:
1) PAW users, groups and user/group assignments
2) Agent stats - Health, memory, CPU etc. per Administration, Databases

Thank you.

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George Tonkin
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Original Message:
Sent: Thu March 31, 2022 12:47 PM
From: Michael McGeein
Subject: Ask Me Anything: Planning Analytics - May Edition

Modeling, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, multidimensional analysis-there's a lot you can do with IBM Planning Analytics. Chances are you're just scratching the surface.
Join us live for our monthly "Ask me Anything" session, designed to answer all of your burning IBM Planning Analytics questions from product roadmap to upgrades, hosted by a member of our Product Management team. Each month we'll feature different members of the IBM Planning Analytics team from development, to quality assurance, to lab services.

Please join us on Thursday, May 12th, 2022 at 11AM EDT. Share your questions below and register to join here.





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Michael McGeein
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#PlanningAnalyticswithWatson

Totally agree with George,
An equivalent of the PAL REST API to interact with Planning Analytics Workspace (assets, users, agent stats...) is absolutely mandatory !!
Regards,

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Bob
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Original Message:
Sent: Wed May 11, 2022 06:20 AM
From: George Tonkin
Subject: Ask Me Anything: Planning Analytics - May Edition

Hi Michael,

I would like to know how we can interact with PAW/PAA via the REST API to get the following information:
1) PAW users, groups and user/group assignments
2) Agent stats - Health, memory, CPU etc. per Administration, Databases

Thank you.

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George Tonkin

Original Message:
Sent: Thu March 31, 2022 12:47 PM
From: Michael McGeein
Subject: Ask Me Anything: Planning Analytics - May Edition

Modeling, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, multidimensional analysis-there's a lot you can do with IBM Planning Analytics. Chances are you're just scratching the surface.
Join us live for our monthly "Ask me Anything" session, designed to answer all of your burning IBM Planning Analytics questions from product roadmap to upgrades, hosted by a member of our Product Management team. Each month we'll feature different members of the IBM Planning Analytics team from development, to quality assurance, to lab services.

Please join us on Thursday, May 12th, 2022 at 11AM EDT. Share your questions below and register to join here.





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Michael McGeein
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#PlanningAnalyticswithWatson

Hi Mike,
Thanks for sharing this news and organizing this tremendous "Ask Me Anything: Planning Analytics" events. It's a webinar full of useful information and the fact that everybody could ask really anything about Planning Analytics is awesome !
May I suggest two enhancements (at least IMHO) ?
Once the event is over, publish a text transcript of the questions/answers which have been addressed. I think that, as me, all the attendees are not native english and this would reassure them/me that we do not miss or misunderstood any question/answer.
Then, a central place with a global calendar with all the upcoming events will also be, once again IMHO, a great improvement as it will give us the ability to organize ourselves and be able to attend the meeting.
Regards,

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Bob
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Original Message:
Sent: Thu March 31, 2022 12:47 PM
From: Michael McGeein
Subject: Ask Me Anything: Planning Analytics - May Edition

Modeling, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, multidimensional analysis-there's a lot you can do with IBM Planning Analytics. Chances are you're just scratching the surface.
Join us live for our monthly "Ask me Anything" session, designed to answer all of your burning IBM Planning Analytics questions from product roadmap to upgrades, hosted by a member of our Product Management team. Each month we'll feature different members of the IBM Planning Analytics team from development, to quality assurance, to lab services.

Please join us on Thursday, May 12th, 2022 at 11AM EDT. Share your questions below and register to join here.





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Michael McGeein
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#PlanningAnalyticswithWatson

Hello,

I would like to ask (again) for having the parameter values at runtime stored in the tm1s.log or via a different logger to another file.
It's always extra work to provide this functionality ourselves. The customer says: "the process does not work".
And we need to ask: "dear customer, what were the parameter values you used ?"
Unless we add in the Prolog tab a bunch of code, every process again, to have that information stored.

Given what is already in the over 700 loggers, this one is low hanging fruit to program, with a great benefit.
When processes execute in a chain, we can also see in the logs if parameter values are passed correctly.

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Wim Gielis
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Original Message:
Sent: Thu March 31, 2022 12:47 PM
From: Michael McGeein
Subject: Ask Me Anything: Planning Analytics - May Edition

Modeling, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, multidimensional analysis-there's a lot you can do with IBM Planning Analytics. Chances are you're just scratching the surface.
Join us live for our monthly "Ask me Anything" session, designed to answer all of your burning IBM Planning Analytics questions from product roadmap to upgrades, hosted by a member of our Product Management team. Each month we'll feature different members of the IBM Planning Analytics team from development, to quality assurance, to lab services.

Please join us on Thursday, May 12th, 2022 at 11AM EDT. Share your questions below and register to join here.





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Michael McGeein
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#PlanningAnalyticswithWatson

I agree Wim, this would be very useful and provide enhanced application support and debugging.

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Mark Wragg
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Original Message:
Sent: Thu May 12, 2022 03:37 AM
From: Wim Gielis
Subject: Ask Me Anything: Planning Analytics - May Edition

Hello,

I would like to ask (again) for having the parameter values at runtime stored in the tm1s.log or via a different logger to another file.
It's always extra work to provide this functionality ourselves. The customer says: "the process does not work".
And we need to ask: "dear customer, what were the parameter values you used ?"
Unless we add in the Prolog tab a bunch of code, every process again, to have that information stored.

Given what is already in the over 700 loggers, this one is low hanging fruit to program, with a great benefit.
When processes execute in a chain, we can also see in the logs if parameter values are passed correctly.

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Wim Gielis

Original Message:
Sent: Thu March 31, 2022 12:47 PM
From: Michael McGeein
Subject: Ask Me Anything: Planning Analytics - May Edition

Modeling, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, multidimensional analysis-there's a lot you can do with IBM Planning Analytics. Chances are you're just scratching the surface.
Join us live for our monthly "Ask me Anything" session, designed to answer all of your burning IBM Planning Analytics questions from product roadmap to upgrades, hosted by a member of our Product Management team. Each month we'll feature different members of the IBM Planning Analytics team from development, to quality assurance, to lab services.

Please join us on Thursday, May 12th, 2022 at 11AM EDT. Share your questions below and register to join here.





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Michael McGeein
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#PlanningAnalyticswithWatson

Hello,
Totally agree with Wim and I don't understand why this kind of logger couldn't be implemented quite quickly.

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Bob
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Original Message:
Sent: Thu May 12, 2022 03:37 AM
From: Wim Gielis
Subject: Ask Me Anything: Planning Analytics - May Edition

Hello,

I would like to ask (again) for having the parameter values at runtime stored in the tm1s.log or via a different logger to another file.
It's always extra work to provide this functionality ourselves. The customer says: "the process does not work".
And we need to ask: "dear customer, what were the parameter values you used ?"
Unless we add in the Prolog tab a bunch of code, every process again, to have that information stored.

Given what is already in the over 700 loggers, this one is low hanging fruit to program, with a great benefit.
When processes execute in a chain, we can also see in the logs if parameter values are passed correctly.

------------------------------
Wim Gielis

Original Message:
Sent: Thu March 31, 2022 12:47 PM
From: Michael McGeein
Subject: Ask Me Anything: Planning Analytics - May Edition

Modeling, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, multidimensional analysis-there's a lot you can do with IBM Planning Analytics. Chances are you're just scratching the surface.
Join us live for our monthly "Ask me Anything" session, designed to answer all of your burning IBM Planning Analytics questions from product roadmap to upgrades, hosted by a member of our Product Management team. Each month we'll feature different members of the IBM Planning Analytics team from development, to quality assurance, to lab services.

Please join us on Thursday, May 12th, 2022 at 11AM EDT. Share your questions below and register to join here.





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Michael McGeein
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#PlanningAnalyticswithWatson

+1 for @Wim Gielis's request

Besides logging the parameters, it would be great to have some sort of "process chain ID" / "transaction ID"  or any other way to track the entire process chain in the logs

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Vlad Didenko
Founder at Succeedium
TeamOne Google Sheets add-on for IBM Planning Analytics / TM1
https://succeedium.com/teamone/
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Original Message:
Sent: Thu May 12, 2022 03:37 AM
From: Wim Gielis
Subject: Ask Me Anything: Planning Analytics - May Edition

Hello,

I would like to ask (again) for having the parameter values at runtime stored in the tm1s.log or via a different logger to another file.
It's always extra work to provide this functionality ourselves. The customer says: "the process does not work".
And we need to ask: "dear customer, what were the parameter values you used ?"
Unless we add in the Prolog tab a bunch of code, every process again, to have that information stored.

Given what is already in the over 700 loggers, this one is low hanging fruit to program, with a great benefit.
When processes execute in a chain, we can also see in the logs if parameter values are passed correctly.

------------------------------
Wim Gielis

Original Message:
Sent: Thu March 31, 2022 12:47 PM
From: Michael McGeein
Subject: Ask Me Anything: Planning Analytics - May Edition

Modeling, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, multidimensional analysis-there's a lot you can do with IBM Planning Analytics. Chances are you're just scratching the surface.
Join us live for our monthly "Ask me Anything" session, designed to answer all of your burning IBM Planning Analytics questions from product roadmap to upgrades, hosted by a member of our Product Management team. Each month we'll feature different members of the IBM Planning Analytics team from development, to quality assurance, to lab services.

Please join us on Thursday, May 12th, 2022 at 11AM EDT. Share your questions below and register to join here.





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Michael McGeein
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#PlanningAnalyticswithWatson

Jedox provides this functionality of monitoring single loads and entire jobs, out of the box.
You can get all kinds of information. You can right-click such a job or load, and choose to re-run.
Jedox will offer you the same parameters as were used for that run... No need to do anything for that.

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Wim Gielis
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Original Message:
Sent: Thu May 12, 2022 09:56 AM
From: Vlad Didenko
Subject: Ask Me Anything: Planning Analytics - May Edition

+1 for @Wim Gielis's request

Besides logging the parameters, it would be great to have some sort of "process chain ID" / "transaction ID"  or any other way to track the entire process chain in the logs

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Vlad Didenko
Founder at Succeedium
TeamOne Google Sheets add-on for IBM Planning Analytics / TM1
https://succeedium.com/teamone/

Original Message:
Sent: Thu May 12, 2022 03:37 AM
From: Wim Gielis
Subject: Ask Me Anything: Planning Analytics - May Edition

Hello,

I would like to ask (again) for having the parameter values at runtime stored in the tm1s.log or via a different logger to another file.
It's always extra work to provide this functionality ourselves. The customer says: "the process does not work".
And we need to ask: "dear customer, what were the parameter values you used ?"
Unless we add in the Prolog tab a bunch of code, every process again, to have that information stored.

Given what is already in the over 700 loggers, this one is low hanging fruit to program, with a great benefit.
When processes execute in a chain, we can also see in the logs if parameter values are passed correctly.

------------------------------
Wim Gielis

Original Message:
Sent: Thu March 31, 2022 12:47 PM
From: Michael McGeein
Subject: Ask Me Anything: Planning Analytics - May Edition

Modeling, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, multidimensional analysis-there's a lot you can do with IBM Planning Analytics. Chances are you're just scratching the surface.
Join us live for our monthly "Ask me Anything" session, designed to answer all of your burning IBM Planning Analytics questions from product roadmap to upgrades, hosted by a member of our Product Management team. Each month we'll feature different members of the IBM Planning Analytics team from development, to quality assurance, to lab services.

Please join us on Thursday, May 12th, 2022 at 11AM EDT. Share your questions below and register to join here.





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Michael McGeein
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#PlanningAnalyticswithWatson

Hi Michael

I would like to ask about the TASK TS006382866. This has been raised 282 days ago , when we found performance issues while importing data from SQL into TM1 in the PA 2.0.9 version. A recent release of 2.0.9.12 was supposed to fix that , but we didnt find significant improvement. We have been informed that developers are working on it and found a good result. 

We would like to know when this version is expected to be released for us.

Regards
Dipan Chowdhury

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Dipan Chowdhury
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Original Message:
Sent: Thu March 31, 2022 12:47 PM
From: Michael McGeein
Subject: Ask Me Anything: Planning Analytics - May Edition

Modeling, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, multidimensional analysis-there's a lot you can do with IBM Planning Analytics. Chances are you're just scratching the surface.
Join us live for our monthly "Ask me Anything" session, designed to answer all of your burning IBM Planning Analytics questions from product roadmap to upgrades, hosted by a member of our Product Management team. Each month we'll feature different members of the IBM Planning Analytics team from development, to quality assurance, to lab services.

Please join us on Thursday, May 12th, 2022 at 11AM EDT. Share your questions below and register to join here.





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Michael McGeein
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#PlanningAnalyticswithWatson

Hi everyone,

You can watch the on demand recording here and download the slides here.

Please share any of your questions below.

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Michael McGeein
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Original Message:
Sent: Thu March 31, 2022 12:47 PM
From: Michael McGeein
Subject: Ask Me Anything: Planning Analytics - May Edition

Modeling, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, multidimensional analysis-there are a lot you can do with IBM Planning Analytics. Chances are you're just scratching the surface.
Join us live for our monthly "Ask me Anything" session, designed to answer all of your burning IBM Planning Analytics questions from product roadmap to upgrades, hosted by a member of our Product Management team. Each month we'll feature different members of the IBM Planning Analytics team from development, to quality assurance, to lab services.

Please join us in this on-demand recording. Share your questions below and register to watch here.





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Michael McGeein
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#PlanningAnalyticswithWatson