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Creating a connection to PA Cloud from CA on-prem

  • 1.  Creating a connection to PA Cloud from CA on-prem

    Posted Fri October 20, 2023 09:35 AM

    Hi,

    My client is running on-prem Cognos Analytics (newer than 11.0.7, not sure of exact version, but not 12) and would like to connect to their PA on cloud ( not sure if that is still the correct term, but they have the <client>planning-analytics.ibmcloud.com URL ). The documentation I can find is not exactly comprehensive (the best I could find was https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/configure-datasource-ibm-planning-analytics-20x-ibm-cognos-analytics-1106 ), so if someone has made this work, I would be grateful for some tips:

    1. Is this even possible?
    2. What is the Host? Just the <client>planning-analytics.ibmcloud.com URL or some path (like /tm1/api/tm1 )? The port I suppose is the HTTPPortNumber from tm1s.cfg
    3. How should I sign on? I'm hoping Integrated Security will just log on using IBMids / SSO, but I'm not confident. If I select signons and enter User ID / Password, I suppose that is the non-interactive account in PA?

    Cheers,

    Anssi



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    Anssi Lehtinen
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  • 2.  RE: Creating a connection to PA Cloud from CA on-prem

    Posted Mon October 23, 2023 02:52 AM

    Hi Anssi,

    Unfortunately, the setup you describe is not supported. 

    It would require you to install the certificate used on PA Cloud on the on-prem CA server. However,
    handing over the certificate would poses a security risk, which is why IBM cannot do that.
    You can open a ticket with IBM Support to get it confirmed. It could be that something has changed recently, you never know.


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    Emil Malmberg Fosdal
    Solution Architect
    CogniTech A/S
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