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by TM1nowhere
Fri Jul 17, 2015 11:51 pm
Forum: IBM TM1, Planning Analytics, PAx and PAW
Topic: Using VBA to connect to TM1 application
Replies: 22
Views: 29856

Re: Using VBA to connect to TM1 application

thought this post would contain the solution to my problem... that wasn't the case... still found a solution... :D
For anyone having issues connecting Excel to TM1 via VBA, check out this: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.w ... wg21959177
by TM1nowhere
Thu Jul 10, 2014 1:51 am
Forum: IBM TM1, Planning Analytics, PAx and PAW
Topic: calculated VERSUS stored & frozen historic data
Replies: 20
Views: 16779

Re: calculated VERSUS stored & frozen historic data

Hi all, it's been a while but this calc'ed vs stored/frozen data hasn't stopped bugging me - mainly b/c i want to create reports using DBRW() function. In the meantime i've learned though, why the reports i've created took sooooo long to refresh/recalculate. From my understanding the Excel TM1 add-i...
by TM1nowhere
Tue Apr 08, 2014 6:47 pm
Forum: IBM TM1, Planning Analytics, PAx and PAW
Topic: calculated VERSUS stored & frozen historic data
Replies: 20
Views: 16779

Re: calculated VERSUS stored & frozen historic data

Hi... and a BIG thx! even the laymen understood... ;) one concern though... how to you deal with hierarchy changes in for instance the costcenter dimension? If it's policy to restate historical data to align with the new / current org structure would mean historic data would have to be re-calc'ed an...
by TM1nowhere
Fri Apr 04, 2014 12:21 am
Forum: IBM TM1, Planning Analytics, PAx and PAW
Topic: calculated VERSUS stored & frozen historic data
Replies: 20
Views: 16779

Re: calculated VERSUS stored & frozen historic data

unfortunately that's all i have on the cache... i'll try to poke and find out more and will share if there's any meat... reading again through Jim's post explaining what TM1's ASO and BSO is, can i in laymen's talk "put this into a nutshell" like this: ASO: aggregation rules aggregate leaf...
by TM1nowhere
Thu Apr 03, 2014 7:52 pm
Forum: IBM TM1, Planning Analytics, PAx and PAW
Topic: calculated VERSUS stored & frozen historic data
Replies: 20
Views: 16779

Re: calculated VERSUS stored & frozen historic data

:idea: one thing that my BI folks told me: IBM is working on "In dex ed Caching" for the next version of TM1... supposedly that will resolve some of the issues/waiting I'm seeing... have you / has anyone heard of this?
by TM1nowhere
Wed Apr 02, 2014 4:53 pm
Forum: IBM TM1, Planning Analytics, PAx and PAW
Topic: calculated VERSUS stored & frozen historic data
Replies: 20
Views: 16779

Re: calculated VERSUS stored & frozen historic data

Hi Jim, i'm not a TM1 admin... in an old role i wrote the specs for an Essbase planning application and had external implementers do the heavy lifting... i just reviewed, added some KPIs and made some small rules changes in Essbase's admin consol... now in a new role i'm working for the first time w...
by TM1nowhere
Wed Apr 02, 2014 12:22 am
Forum: IBM TM1, Planning Analytics, PAx and PAW
Topic: calculated VERSUS stored & frozen historic data
Replies: 20
Views: 16779

Re: calculated VERSUS stored & frozen historic data

hi Alan, thx so much for your answer and input - very helpful! to address some of your questions and give you a real look at what i was talking about i made screen capture of a sample Excel report - it's in Excel where i intend to pull data to then design reports... it's a 5 min video where you can ...
by TM1nowhere
Fri Mar 28, 2014 11:28 pm
Forum: IBM TM1, Planning Analytics, PAx and PAW
Topic: calculated VERSUS stored & frozen historic data
Replies: 20
Views: 16779

Re: calculated or stored & frozen historic data

thx for the quick replies... are you confirming then, that extracting 1,000 data points from TM1 via DBRW should take maybe a few seconds instead of >10 minutes...? my fin. systems / BI folks are telling me that all is perfectly set up and that there is nothing that can be done... with the Essbase e...
by TM1nowhere
Fri Mar 28, 2014 10:01 pm
Forum: IBM TM1, Planning Analytics, PAx and PAW
Topic: calculated VERSUS stored & frozen historic data
Replies: 20
Views: 16779

calculated VERSUS stored & frozen historic data

Hi all, i'm new to TM1 and to this Forum so please bear with me... have a question about calculation and about retrieving data from historic periods & scenarios... I used to work with Essbase were i could easily retrieve (via ad-hoc or HsGetValue function) data at pretty much every level of a di...