Create Application in 10.1

[lotsaram]

Greetings All,

I have suffered a long and frustrating afternoon at the hands of IBM InstallStream, Java and Tomcat but finally most things seem to be working. Maybe I'll get around to a blow by blow description and analysis of the install at some point but let's just say a summary is:
- nice to have everything packaged into a single install, including tomcat and all the 32bit client components on a 64 bit server
- nice to finally have a GUI console to set up TM1 services (many of us know how to do it with cmd blindfolded and backwards but I still think this is nice to finally have all the same)
BUT
- why does the install take such an inconceivably long time to complete? (even unpacking all the bloody .gz zip files was an hour's work in itself)
- why oh why is the TM1 Operations Console deployment and configuration so confoundedly complex, technical and manual? (seems to me like a half done rush job and I hope this is automated with GUI in the future)
- if tomcat can be bundled into the install then why can't JRE 6?
- if running Tm1Web with .Net 4 is supposed to be such a leap forward to .Net 3.5 then why isn't this preconfigured?

Anyway to my issue.
all is working ... except the ability to create a new "Application" (in the re-branded "Contributor" sense not the Application Folder entry sense). We weren't previously using Contributor so I don't know if an existing Application would be OK or if importing a previously exported application would work but there is simply no option to create new application. It just isn't there!
All seems to be OK logging on to http://<server>:9510/pmpsvc but the Application pane is simply empty with no create new application up the top where it should be. This seems to also be impacting the ability to launch Performance Modeler as this produces an error message "unable to connect to planning service". Other symptom is that the "IBM Cognos" service won't start.

So everything that we did have is working, plus Ops Console, plus stand-alone Cognos insight. But I really wanted to get my hands on Performance Modeler and start a proper evaluation.

Anyone come up against this already and got any tips on getting the complete package running?

[declanr]

I have a personal disdain for both Contributor (applications) and performance modeler...

but if you load up performance modeler you should be able to create a new application in there

There is a model design and application design tab, you want application design.
Then up teh top there should be a blue box with a white "zaggy" arrow in it and a red star at the top... that symbol is the create application button.


Edit - Just read the bit about performance modeler not starting

I have had that error a few times and have noticed that I can only connect to services created through the new interface as opposed to the CMD prompt... which I still have to use since the GUI version is broken for me now

[declanr]

A google did bring this up however...

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forum ... 9&tstart=0

[lotsaram]

A google did bring this up however...

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forum ... 9&tstart=0

Yeah I found that but it doesn't seem relevant to my situation, that was an upgrade where there was an issue with the }tp objects and recreating them fixed it. My issue is that there isn't even an option to create or deploy an application (and I think performance modeller not starting is another symptom of the same underlying rot cause whatever it may be.)

[sla]

Hi lotsaram,

I'm having quite the same issue with PM after upgrading to 10.1.1... Did you manage to have it working now?

Thanks!

[lotsaram]

Hi lotsaram,

I'm having quite the same issue with PM after upgrading to 10.1.1... Did you manage to have it working now?

Thanks!

Our issue was due to some views that PM didn't like. Removed the views and it is now "working" (although miles too slow on a decent sized model to be of any practical use).

[sla]

Thanks lotsaram, unfortunately it is not the case here as it just won't start even with an empty model. I'll keep on investigating...

[tm1novice]

Hi sla,

Did u resolve the issue ?

I am facing the similar issue with new install as well

Please let me know.

Thanks
TM1Novice