Applied Dimensionality

Recent posts

Dec 14, 2022
Processing a billion+ cells in Planning Analytics
This is post is updated on 2022/12/20 to correct a couple statements below based on the Linkedin discussion we had and add an example of commit timing. I remember reading
Oct 12, 2022
Display time in different timezones in Planning Analytics
Quick write-up on how to display time in different timezones in Planning Analytics while we’re waiting for a timezone aware format to be added. We end up using a cube to display messages to end users in every project, something as simple as:
Sep 11, 2022
Planning Analytics Workspace security
Going through a security set up for a project now with Planning Analytics Workspace as front-end and thought I’d share how we set up PaW & PA security in hte last few ‘largish’ deployments, i.
Jul 14, 2022
TM1 Git integration - why it doesn't work for me
Thought it’d be interesting to write out the things that stop me from using TM1 Git integration so far. There’s been a few discussions on tm1forums that highlight some of them:
Feb 19, 2022
Configuring keepalive for Oracle connections in Google Compute Cloud
We’ve spent a bit of time trying to figure it out recently, so putting it out there for future Google search :) GCP network is using a 10 minute connection tracking and drops the connection deemed ‘idle’ once they exceed this limit.
Mar 22, 2021
What do I think about when I think about TM1 TI performance
This post is an outline of the presentation I did at our internal knowledge share session recently. There’s no new or ground-breaking stuff here, just a review of well-known ideas and some of my takes on them.
Feb 23, 2021
Got a GCP associate cert as well
Decided to make some of my GCP forrays official (I did use it on a few projects) during a bit -gardening- upskilling XMas break and passed the entry level GCP cert.
Feb 12, 2021
Why I don't like 'silent' Itemskips
There’s a very innocent-looking code snippet that gives me chills whenever I encounter it (especially in a largish TIs) that goes like this: If (something something); Itemskip; Endif; nothing really complicated, nothing to wrack your brain about, nobody’s doing their best go at IRR calcs or any other fancy things, so why the dread?
Dec 11, 2020
tm1login cube
And in case you’re using the tm1logins log file as per the previous post, here’s a TI that builds a very simple analysis cube that shows you the user logins per hour.
Sep 11, 2020
my default tm1s-log.properties file
Thought I’d share the ‘standard’ tm1s-log.properties file I regularly use. tm1s-log.properties controls how and where tm1 logs things and the config file below generates you 4 files: tm1server.log – I’m adding the Debug level for locks to see the name of the objects locked at that point in time.