IBM Planning Analytics connection

To access your data in Planning Analytics, create a connection asset for it. Planning Analytics (formerly known as "TM1") is an enterprise performance management database that stores data in in-memory multidimensional OLAP cubes.

Supported versions

IBM Planning Analytics, version 2.0.5 or later

Create a connection to Planning Analytics

To create the connection asset, you need these connection details:

• TM1 server API root URL
• Authentication type (Basic or CAM Credentials)
• Username and password
• SSL certificate (if required by the database server)

For authentication setup information, see Authenticating and managing sessions.

For Credentials and Certificates, you can use secrets if a vault is configured for the platform and the service supports vaults. For information, see Using secrets from vaults in connections.

Choose the method for creating a connection based on where you are in the platform

In a project Click Add to project > Connection. See Adding a connection to a project.

In a catalog Click Add to catalog > Connection. See Adding a connection asset to a catalog.

In a deployment space Click Add to space > Connection. See Adding connections to a deployment space.

In the Platform assets catalog Click New connection. See Adding platform connections.

Next step: Add data assets from the connection

• See Add data from a connection in a project.
• See Add data from a connection in a catalog.

Where you can use this connection

You can use Planning Analytics connections in the following workspaces and tools:

Analytics projects

• Data Refinery (Watson Studio or Watson Knowledge Catalog)
• Notebooks (Watson Studio). Use the insert-to-code function to get the connection credentials and load the data into a data structure. See Load data from data source connections.
• SPSS Modeler (SPSS Modeler service)

Catalogs

• Platform assets catalog
• Other catalogs (Watson Knowledge Catalog)

Data Virtualization service You can connect to this data source from Data Virtualization.

Planning Analytics setup

Enable TM1 REST APIs on the TM1 Server. See TMI REST API Installation and configuration.

Restrictions

• For Data Refinery, you can use this connection only as a source. You cannot use this connection as a target connection or as a target connected data asset.

Running SQL statements

To ensure that your SQL statements run correctly, refer to the Planning Analytics documentation for the correct syntax.

Learn more

Planning Analytics product documentation

Parent topic: Supported connections