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  • 1.  Ask-Me-Anything: Planning Analytics - Jan. Edition Webinar

    Posted Wed December 07, 2022 03:13 PM
    Edited by System Fri January 20, 2023 04:21 PM
    Summary

    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


  • 2.  RE: Ask-Me-Anything: Planning Analytics - Jan. Edition Webinar

    Posted Tue December 13, 2022 11:52 AM
    I would like to raise a question about using regular/email accounts when connecting to IBM PA Cloud through TM1 REST API.
    Currently we are forced to use non-interactive accounts and there is a limit to request <=100 accounts.

    It significantly impacts clients using or developing 3rd party applications:
    • they have to manage an extra set of accounts
    • it complicates the audit & log tracing
    • 100 accounts are not enough for some companies
    I know there are some technical limitations for using Custom Java Authentication provider (CJAP) explained by @Bernd Siebert  here: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/businessanalytics/discussion/multi-user-access-to-tm1py-on-cloud
    But is it really something that complicated to solve for a software giant like IBM?

    Also I would like to clarify what is the IBM license policy for using the same non-interactive account by multiple users?

    Thanks!​

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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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  • 3.  RE: Ask-Me-Anything: Planning Analytics - Jan. Edition Webinar

    Posted Wed December 14, 2022 09:55 AM
    I agree Vlad, this is a very important and well overdue feature for the Rest API, we already have a robust security model with SSO federated access and Database access by user, we should be able to leverage this so we dont build a 3rd security layer (with limitations). 3rd being 1) PAW, 2) Database, now 3) a limited RestAPI access with layers of complexity.

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    Grantham Good
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  • 4.  RE: Ask-Me-Anything: Planning Analytics - Jan. Edition Webinar

    Posted Wed December 14, 2022 09:55 AM
    Hi Michael, Adding to Security Questions, would be good to know when cloud PA PAW security and TM1 Server DB security will be integrated as one? And what would this look like for us all?

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    Grantham Good
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  • 5.  RE: Ask-Me-Anything: Planning Analytics - Jan. Edition Webinar

    Posted Tue January 03, 2023 04:56 AM
    Hi Michael,

    I raised this question last month, but to the best of my knowledge it hasn't been answered yet:

    I've received a lot of security bulletins recently; the normal recommendation is to upgrade some or all of the PA components. Quite a few of our clients are using IBM PA Express and we use CA for authentication and in some cases for reporting and analysis - so, for the PA components it's fine, because they can be downloaded via Fix Central. However, the knock-on effect of upgrading PA components is that they will no longer be compatible with the installed CA version, and the CA version that we would require is NOT available via Fix Central. Is there any way that a compatible version of CA could also be released via Fix Central, or that PA Express could have a more regular release cycle which would allow us to protect our clients in relation to these security vulnerabilities?

    Regards,

    Mark Hackett

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    Mark Hackett
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  • 6.  RE: Ask-Me-Anything: Planning Analytics - Jan. Edition Webinar

    Posted Wed January 18, 2023 07:38 PM
    One more question regarding using TM1 REST API and IBM PA Cloud.
    Due to the IBM Cloud Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) policy (strict-origin-when-cross-origin), currently you cannot use JavaScript to call REST API directly from your web page / 3rd party web application.
    Is it possible for IBM PA Cloud customers to whitelist certain origins/domains so their 3rd party application can communicate directly to IBM PA Cloud REST API without using any additional back-end server?

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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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  • 7.  RE: Ask-Me-Anything: Planning Analytics - Jan. Edition Webinar

    Posted Thu January 19, 2023 04:12 AM
    Hi Mike,
    Simple one from me, any update on the release of DQR?
    Cheers,

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    Steven Rowe
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  • 8.  RE: Ask-Me-Anything: Planning Analytics - Jan. Edition Webinar

    Posted Thu January 19, 2023 06:30 AM
    Hi Michael,

    I have 3 questions for the AMA session in January:

    1. The new cube viewer looks great and will be a huge improvement. However several of our clients do not like the placement of the "Target selecting" functionality. Stuart commented on an enhancement request regarding this topic. Could you talk about what the plan is and if there is an ETA for the change? Also, are there more new formatting capabilities coming for the new cube viewer?

    2. Are there any plans to improve the formatting capabilities for both
    - "synchronization tiles" as they are called in the new cube viewer, meaning dimensions which are dragged out from cube views
    - "selector widgets" these are added by right-clicking a dimension in the data tree on the left. E.g. hierarchy formatting and text formatting in general would be great

    3. Are there any plans to provide the possibility to synchronize dimensions between books in "Applications"? That's the one thing preventing some of our clients to start using "Applications". Instead we have books with navigation buttons using the "Pass context" functionality. There is also an enhancement request which Stuart commented on.

    Thank you!
    Mario

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    Mario Hasler
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  • 9.  RE: Ask-Me-Anything: Planning Analytics - Jan. Edition Webinar

    Posted Thu January 19, 2023 12:13 PM

    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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