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Recently I had a chance to work a fair bit with Cognos Analytics Rest API to automate security and thought I’d share some learnings and lessons along the way. In the initial stage of the project when we were debating whether to use REST API or SDK for automation and I was pushing for REST API as I wanted to use Python, one of the team members mentioned that “Python has way too many libraries”, so I had to create another one by publishing the Python wrappers for Cognos Analytics calls I used :) |
Recent posts
Cognos Analytics Rest API and Python
ExecuteHttpRequest in Planning Analytics version 11
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There are a few new TurboIntegrator functions in Planning Analytics Engine (or version 12) that do not exist (yet?) in the server version 11 that I’m working with all the time. |
Installing PA at scale
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Thought I’d describe how we installed / upgraded Planning Analytics and Cognos Analytics on 100+ servers. TLDR: pretty much like in the picture above :) We had a couple of iterations in this environment over the years, first for a 10. |
Processing a billion+ cells in Planning Analytics
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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 |
Display time in different timezones in Planning Analytics
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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: |
Planning Analytics Workspace security
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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. |
TM1 Git integration - why it doesn't work for me
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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: |
Configuring keepalive for Oracle connections in Google Compute Cloud
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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. |
What do I think about when I think about TM1 TI performance
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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. |
Got a GCP associate cert as well
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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. |