Planning Analytics standard system

The IBM® Planning Analytics standard system provides a TM1® environment hosted on a secure, remote system that you and your users can access.

Each Planning Analytics system supports a collection of TM1 desktop and web-based applications. Each system also includes a shared folder for storing and accessing your data files.

The Planning Analytics standard system includes the following main components:

  • Planning Analytics Workspace
  • Secure Gateway for data integration with on-premises ODBC data sources
  • TM1 Server
  • TM1 hosted and local applications
  • Planning Analytics system shared folder
  • IBM Planning Analytics Premium Reporting (a limited-use version of Cognos® Analytics) is optional, but not available with Planning Analytics Digital Pack

The following image provides an overview of the different components and applications that make up a typical Planning Analytics system. The interaction between the TM1 Server, hosted applications, local applications, and shared folder are shown.

Planning Analytics system overview and components

User access

The Planning Analytics modeler1, modeler2 to modelerX user accounts can connect directly to the Planning Analytics system using a remote desktop protocol (RDP) connection or a File Transfer Protocol Secure (FTPS) application. This enables modelers to run the related TM1 desktop programs and to manage files in the shared folder on the Planning Analytics system.

Typical non-modeler users connect to the Planning Analytics system using only the web, and local Cognos applications. Typical users do not connect to the Planning Analytics system using RDP or FTPS.

Customers get a user account for the remote desktop for every Planning Analytics Modeler Authorized User that they subscribe to and there is no licensing or technical restriction on the number of concurrent users.

TM1 Admin Server and TM1 Server

Your Planning Analytics system uses the following default names for the TM1 Admin Host and TM1 Server:
  • Default TM1 Admin Host name: data
  • Default TM1 Server name: tm1

If you'd like to change the default TM1 server name on your system, you can open a support case and request a name change at https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/.

Shared data between TM1 Servers

Planning Analytics allows, by default, any of your TM1 Servers to access any data files that are in your shared folder.

Note: In previous versions of Planning Analytics, a TM1 Server could access only its own data directory and subfolders. The data directory folder is at the same level as the file tm1s.cfg. If you want to keep the previous restrictions in place to ensure that one TM1 Application cannot access the files of another TM1 application, send a PMR to the Cloud Operations team.

Secure access to on-premises data

Planning Analytics can access on-premises ODBC data sources securely using the IBM Secure Gateway service. With an ODBC driver that is installed on the cloud and the Secure Gateway client that is installed on the customer site, on-premises data can be leveraged by Planning Analytics applications. For example, TurboIntegrator can efficiently process data that is related to scheduling; drill-through operations; and Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) operations.