Category: Pulse

  • SCC

    SCC

    SCC is Europe’s largest independent technology solutions company, providing European businesses and public sector organisations “Pulse gives us as developers the option to migrate packages live without the need to bring down services.” Business Challenge The TM1 model here at SCC is core to the business and downtime needs to be kept to an absolute…

  • Pattonair

    Pattonair

    Pulse has helped us to significantly reduce user locks

  • Fine-tuning for Pulse

    Fine-tuning for Pulse

    The pulse default configuration should be enough for most environments. This article shares some tips to improve the performance of Pulse if it slows down. Migrating to MS SQL Server The default H2 database is single-threaded. It means that if you have many Pulse users and many TM1 instances. The queries to the database might…

  • Downloading elements during the documentation

    Downloading elements during the documentation

    By default, Pulse is going to download the elements for all dimensions with fewer elements than the maximum number of elements defined in Pulse.cfg (MaximumElements). If you don’t need Pulse to download elements, you should turn this off. By turning this off, the documentation will be significantly faster because Pulse will not have to request…

  • Making TM1 REST API queries faster

    Making TM1 REST API queries faster

    Pulse is mainly making three REST API queries (one to get the sessions, one to get the threads, and one to get the logs). This article shares some recommendations to make these queries even faster. Reducing the size of the tm1server.log file When Pulse is asking IBM Planning Analytics (TM1) to get the logs, TM1…

  • Where to install Pulse

    Where to install Pulse

    If you are using IBM Planning Analytics (TM1) on the IBM Cloud (PA SaaS), you have two options: Centralized vs decentralized When installing Pulse 6, you can choose between these two main options: ⚠️ More resources are required by Pulse 6 vs Pulse 5, please check the new system requirements before installing Pulse: Where to…

  • Pulse Installation Steps

    Pulse Installation Steps

    This article explains the steps to install Pulse either on each TM1 server or on a separate server. Installing Pulse on each TM1 server Installing Pulse v6 on a TM1 server is straight forward: Then you will need to repeat these steps on each TM1 server. Installing Pulse on a separate server A centralized Pulse…

  • Downgrading Pulse

    Downgrading Pulse

    Downgrading is not recommended We always recommend upgrading Pulse to the latest version. Once Pulse has been upgraded, it is not recommended to downgrade to a previous version. If you have an issue after the upgrade, please create a ticket here and we will help to see if we can fix the issue without having…

  • Determine the version of IBM Planning Analytics

    Determine the version of IBM Planning Analytics

    Updated on the Nov,2nd 2022

  • How to test the connection to TM1

    How to test the connection to TM1

    Pulse needs to authenticate to IBM Planning Analytics (TM1) via the REST API. Pulse includes a script to test how long it takes to authenticate to TM1. Starting with Pulse v6.2.0, two powershell scripts are available in the utils folder: How to run the script When your TM1 application is setup with basic authentication (security…