Category: Arc
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How to store TM1 credentials
Arc is full of features, one of them is to be able to store your TM1 credentials. In the settings tab of the About page, just tick the stored credentials option under TM1 Credentials:
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Define templates for new TM1 objects
Instead of starting from scratch each time you need a new object, Arc enables you to create a new object (cube, chore, dimension and process) from templates.
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Debugging a TM1 process
Debugging code allows you to step through line-by-line and see what the values of the variables are as you go. No need to write out to ASCII files with what is going on in TM1 process anymore.
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Generate code automatically with snippets
A snippet is a bloc of code which can be automatically generated. To add a snippet, just press Ctrl+Space in one of the TM1 process tab, and then type snippet or the name if you know what it is.
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Connect Arc to a TM1 instance
Arc uses the TM1 REST API to connect to an IBM Planning Analytics (TM1) instance. You can either connect to a TM1 instance using the admin host port or using the TM1 REST API port of a specific TM1 instance.
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FAQ Arc
General + What is Arc ? Arc is an integrated development environment (IDE) for TM1 and Planning Analytics. It provides a centralized platform for all your TM1 development, access all of your on-premise and cloud environments from one location. Built from the ground up to take advantage of the new features in Planning Analytics (TM1…
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Connect to a TM1 instance directly via the REST API
As well as connecting to an admin host you can also add connections directly to a REST API port, this will be beneficial if you are connecting to a cloud server and only the REST API port has been opened.
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How to login into a TM1 instance
You should be able to see all TM1 instances available on the server where Arc is running.
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Setting up Arc as a Windows service
To add some durability you can run the Arc executable as a Windows service so it will always be available. To do this you need to:
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Connect to multiple admin hosts
By default Arc will connect to admin host on the local computer, if you want to connect to multiple admin hosts add an extra line for each remote admin host.