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Sasidaran has 10 years of experience in Information Technology industry. He has worked as a developer to build Data warehouses across multiple industries. During this time, Sasidaran has had exposure to numerous Data warehouse tools like Informatica, Cognos BI, Business Objects and database tools like Oracle and SQL Server.
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Navigating the Storm: A Double Migration

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The past few weeks have been a whirlwind, a high stakes balancing act that tested the limits of our team's resilience and expertise. We simultaneously managed two major client migrations. Both were for high profile large clients and part of their IBM Planning Analytics Modernisation initiative: The clients News Corp - News Corp Australia tells the stories that matter to 18.2 million Australians every month as an important part of News Corp, a diversified global media and information services company. From breaking news in the morning to deciding dinner that night, Australia trusts our brands ...

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Exploring the Latest Enhancements of IBM Planning Analytics Components

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As the world moves towards more data-driven decision-making, businesses are increasingly looking for effective planning and budgeting solutions. IBM Planning Analytics is the go-to for businesses looking for a comprehensive set of tools to help them manage their budgeting and planning process. With Planning Analytics, businesses can access powerful analytics to make more informed decisions, leverage advanced features to create complex models, and gain better insights into their financial data. IBM is constantly improving the functionalities and features of the IBM Planning Analytics ...

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Code deployments without downtime / restarts

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One of the major challenges of promoting code to successive instances is packaging the code for promotion and finding a slot for downtime. Not to mention the sequence of steps required to carry out the procedures and to communicate to one and all about the impending downtime. Adding to this difficulty is finding downtime when users are accessing the application from across the globe.So irrespective of deployment size, either major or minor, the deployment process is never going to be easy. However you can potentially overcome this using one of the TM1 Suite tools. To achieve this the ...

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How to improve the performance of a Dynamic Subset?

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As a TM1 consultant, one of our challenging tasks is improving performance. Often dynamic subsets cause memory leakage and in turn affect performance. Let’s discuss, how to convert dynamic subset to static subset with an example. For Example, the “account1” dimension in SData instance has dynamic subset called “All Members”. Any operation done in the dynamic subset like delete/insert, will make subset has static. The below snippet of code to covert the dynamic subset to static (TI process can be downloaded in the bottom of the blog). Before running the above code After running the above code ...

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It's important to know how to handle null values in TM1

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By default a numeric value in TM1 is 0. If an attempt is made to store a zero in a cell of the cube, that storage request is ignored. If we input 0 for an intersection, TM1 treat it as NO value instead of 0 value. Instead we can use the UNDEFVALS function. This is to be defined in the Rules file which will enable the end user to input 0 value. Scenario Let’s create a simple cube with 3 dimensions Cube Name: Test Dimension: Actvsbud Region Month Fill up dummy values in cube for the intersection, Actual, all the months and United States Region Open Rule file for Test Cube and type UNDEFVALS; ...

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Dimension Element Security

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Element Security is to set security at dimension element level. Members of the group can access, update, reserve, lock, and delete the element. They can also grant security rights to other users for this object. Element security will be defined in} ElementSecurity_.cub. By default element security is set to WRITE access to all the members Different type of Access Privileges Admin: Members of the group can access, update, reserve, lock, and delete the element. They can also grant security rights to other users for this object Lock: Members of the group can view and edit an element and can ...

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