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TM1 clients on Mac
Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2014 4:50 pm
by mvaspal
Hi,
I would be interested in experience of TM1 deployment on Mac client machines.
I assume these should work:
- web
- contributor
I assume these do not work (even if Excel for Mac is in use):
- perspectives
- architect
- Insight
- CAFE
I would be happy to hear about any experience.
Thanks!
Re: TM1 clients on Mac
Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2014 5:35 am
by macsir
Well, I think the only possible workable part is TM1 web on Mac Client although I have not tried to access them from mac.
Re: TM1 clients on Mac
Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2014 5:35 am
by macsir
Well, I think the only possible workable part is TM1 web on Mac Client although I have not tried to access them from mac.
Re: TM1 clients on Mac
Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2014 3:44 pm
by BrianL
Officially, TM1 supports "TM1 Application Web and TM1 Web only" with "Firefox browser only" on Mac.
See
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.w ... wg27043712 for more details.
Re: TM1 clients on Mac
Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2014 10:42 pm
by mvaspal
Officially, TM1 supports "TM1 Application Web and TM1 Web only" with "Firefox browser only" on Mac.
Thanks a lot, that was my assumption too
However it would be still good to hear about real experiences if there are any
Re: TM1 clients on Mac
Posted: Mon May 11, 2026 6:15 pm
by rdsjrcpa
Quick update for anyone landing on this thread today looking for a Mac-friendly way to get TM1 data into Excel.
The reason Perspectives and PAfE don't work on Mac Excel is architectural — they're COM add-ins, and COM doesn't exist on macOS. That hasn't changed. What has changed is that Microsoft's Office.js Web Add-in framework runs natively on Excel for Mac, Excel for Windows, and Excel on the web from a single codebase, and the Custom Functions API on top of it lets vendors register cross-platform =MYNS.MYFUNC() formulas.
Disclosure: I'm with ForQuest Solutions and we ship PAXcel, a TM1/PA Excel Web Add-in built on Office.js — it's on Microsoft AppSource. Custom functions cover the usual TM1 patterns (=PAXCEL.GET, =PAXCEL.VIEW, =PAXCEL.SEND, =PAXCEL.SUBSET, =PAXCEL.ATTR, =PAXCEL.SERVER), and because it's Office.js the same workbook opens identically on Mac and Windows. Per-user TM1 security still applies, and it works against both on-prem Planning Analytics and PA Cloud.
Happy to answer questions from anyone evaluating it for a Mac-heavy team.
— Rick Stevenson, ForQuest Solutions