Use the new Drive explorer to access the S: drive (Cloud only)

You can now access the S:/ drive through the Planning Analytics Workspace modeling workbench with the new Drive explorer.

The Drive explorer is not available in IBM® Planning Analytics as a Service.

The Drive explorer option is visible to users with Subscription administrator access or those for whom the Drive explorer capability is enabled.

Users with access to Drive explorer have full access to the file system in the S:/ drive and the remote server. There is no access control beyond enabling the Drive explorer capability.

Click Drive explorer to open the root of the S:/ drive.

Driver explorer option in the toolbar in a modeling workbench

Like in the File manager, you can upload files, create folders, and select files in the Drive explorer. Selected files can be renamed, moved to a new location, copied, deleted, and compressed.

The Drive explorer has an additional capability that lets you connect to the remote server associated with your Cloud. Once connected, you can move files to a new location.

  1. Click Open remote server from the Drive explorer toolbar.
    Open remote server option in the Drive explorer
  2. Log in to your remote server with your Fileshare credentials and click Refresh folder items to test the connection. The credentials to connect to the remote server are provided in the welcome kit for that specific Planning Analytics system.

You can now see the files on your remote server.

You can create folders here and organize files and select files to rename, delete, and move them to a new location. Keep in mind, when you copy a file from the remote server, you can paste the file to the local S:/ drive only. You can also copy files from the S:/ drive and paste them to the remote server.

Known issue in the initial release of Drive explorer

You should be aware of this issue that you might encounter while using the Drive explorer in Planning Analytics Workspace 2.0.98.

Error when uploading and expanding a .zip archive when the file extension is all upper case

If an archive file is saved with the .ZIP extension (using all upper case characters, as opposed to .zip), you receive an error when attempting to extract the archive after copying and pasting the archive from the Drive explorer to your local S:/ drive.

To resolve this issue, rename the archive on the remote location using a lower case file extension before copying and pasting to the local S:/ drive.