Create Application in 10.1
Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 6:36 pm
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?
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?
