Ben Hill

CX/TM1 Monitoring on the App Store – Spark Mobile

Posted on Jul 24, 2013 by Ben Hill

Spark Mobile is now on the iTunes App Store. Thanks to all the beta testers. You can access and download the free iPhone / iPad App here. This brings the insights…

Testing Turbo Integrator Code

Posted on Jul 8, 2013 by Ben Hill

In the last post we talked about how we can output String and Numeric values in a Fixed Width Field Format. I realised just after writing the article that I…

Fixed Width File Format from TM1

Posted on Jul 5, 2013 by Ben Hill

When outputting data from TM1 usually we can get away with comma separated values format. Which is standard functionality from a Turbo Integrator process [See ASCIIOutput, TextOutput functions]. Every now and then we need…

TM1 at month-end

Posted on Jul 4, 2013 by Ben Hill

IBM Cognos TM1 is … what it has been developed to do within your environment. Unfortunately that means most companies aren’t getting the most out of their investment as it…

Woohoo! TM1 Tuts has cracked 100,000 visits!

Posted on Mar 13, 2013 by Ben Hill

This is just a shout out to all the administrators, support teams and developers who have browsed or subscribed to the TM1 Tutorials blog over the last two years. Thanks, your…

Broken Transaction Log?

Posted on Feb 27, 2013 by Ben Hill

With Windows Vista, 7 and many of the newer server editions of Windows a Microsoft security fix has removed a component which TM1 Perspectives & Architect use to display the Transaction Log…

Removing old TM1 Servers from "Services"

Posted on Feb 14, 2013 by Ben Hill

When upgrading a clients environment to IBM Cognos TM1 10.1 I noticed a bunch of older TM1 Services. A quick google reveals that you can remove services by using the…

Messaging users of IBM Cognos TM1

Posted on Sep 24, 2012 by Ben Hill

Did you know that you can send messages to your users through TM1? You would be surprised how many people don’t realise that its possible – and easy!!! 1. Open TM1 Server…

Back to Basics – Regions in Rules

Posted on Jul 29, 2012 by Ben Hill

If there is one basic technical best practise which makes TM1 Solutions more straight-forward thus sustainable which is most often not utilised it is #Regions in cube rules. Regions work the same way as…

Cognos Insight – Aligning using the Grid

Posted on Jul 27, 2012 by Ben Hill

Just found a cool little trick when organising widgets on a Cognos Insight Dashboard thanks to the team at IBM. You can hold shift while dragging or resizing widgets in Planning Analytics…

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