Request 65381:
Description
Use CaseI wrote:I refer to the IBM Page "Deprecated and discontinued functionality in IBM Cognos TM1" ( http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.w ... wg21661245 ) Specifically, "TM1 Top is no longer supported and is not available in theTM1 10.2 product (replaced by Operations Console). (note: TM1 Top may be available on Developer Works in the future)"
How about we not make that "may", but make it WILL. And that we make it not "in the future", but rather "now". First of all there are a lot of third party products which reply on TM1 Top. Second, oddly enough not everybody is wildly enthused by the current crop of bloated, slow moving Java interfaces (just look at the hoops you have to jump through to even get the thing to work on page 118 of the install guide) and want quick, clean, simple tools that help us do what we need to do FAST, unencumbered by layer upon layer of obstructionist GUI.
I can see this being like the .Net API help file that they "accidentally" left out of later versions and announced that they "would" put it up for download and never bothered doing so.I wrote:You're a TM1 Administrator. You want to know what's happening on your TM1 server. You can either spend hours reading through manuals just to try to get the new improved tool to even work (when it does), then spend an obscene amount of time just firing it up to get it to run, OR you can launch a quick, simple utility that we've had for years. Which is more efficient? Which benefits the administrator in the field more?
Conversely, which makes the administrator pine for a different tool that has yet to try to do everything in its power to keep the engineers' hands away from the engine?
It costs you nothing to release a tool that we've relied on for years. It reduces the annoyance that is felt by you pulling such a tool. There is no bad in implementing this suggestion. And not some time in a theoretical future, maybe.
Anyone at IBM who thinks that the Operations Console is a realistic, useful replacement for TM1 Top has never run an operational instance of TM1 and probably thinks that Planning Sample is a reasonable and accurate representation of what we actually need to do with the thing.