Product:
Planning Analytics 2.0.6
Microsoft Windows 2012 server

Problem:
How make a subset of a dimension, where i want all elements that start with BSA* and some other letters, like BSB and BSC?

Suggested Solution:
In your prolog section of the TI process, use UNION, similar to this:

sSubset=’export’;
pDim13=’company’;

StringMDX = ‘ (UNION(
(UNION (
{UNION( { TM1FILTERBYPATTERN( {TM1FILTERBYLEVEL( {TM1SUBSETALL( [ ‘ | pDim13 | ‘ ] )}, 0)}, “BSA*” ) } ,
{ TM1FILTERBYPATTERN( {TM1FILTERBYLEVEL( {TM1SUBSETALL( [ ‘ | pDim13 | ‘ ] )}, 0)}, “BSB*” ) } )} ,
{UNION( { TM1FILTERBYPATTERN( {TM1FILTERBYLEVEL( {TM1SUBSETALL( [ ‘ | pDim13 | ‘ ] )}, 0)}, “BSC*” ) } ,
{ TM1FILTERBYPATTERN( {TM1FILTERBYLEVEL( {TM1SUBSETALL( [ ‘ | pDim13 | ‘ ] )}, 0)}, “BSD*” ) } )} )) ,
(UNION (
{UNION( { TM1FILTERBYPATTERN( {TM1FILTERBYLEVEL( {TM1SUBSETALL( [ ‘ | pDim13 | ‘ ] )}, 0)}, “BSE*” ) } ,
{ TM1FILTERBYPATTERN( {TM1FILTERBYLEVEL( {TM1SUBSETALL( [ ‘ | pDim13 | ‘ ] )}, 0)}, “BSF*” ) } )} ,
{UNION( { TM1FILTERBYPATTERN( {TM1FILTERBYLEVEL( {TM1SUBSETALL( [ ‘ | pDim13 | ‘ ] )}, 0)}, “BSH*” ) } ,
{ TM1FILTERBYPATTERN( {TM1FILTERBYLEVEL( {TM1SUBSETALL( [ ‘ | pDim13 | ‘ ] )}, 0)}, “BSJ*” ) } )} ))
)) ‘;

SubsetCreatebyMDX( sSubset ,StringMDX);

This can be solved in other ways, this is only a suggestion.

More Information:

http://www.wimgielis.com/tm1_mdxstatements_EN.htm

https://www.bihints.com/book/export/html/68

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SS9RXT_10.2.2/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.tm1_ref.10.2.2.doc/c_tm1-specificmdxfunctions_n20311.html

Product:
Planning Analytics 2.0.6
Microsoft Windows 2016 server
Planning Analytics Administration Agent version 1.0.36.736

Problem:
When starting the PAA Agent in windows after change from local system to a windows service account, you get a error. The service account works on the other IBM Cognos TM1 services, only the IBM Planning Analytics Administration Agent that does not start.

Error msg in Windows event log can be:
The IBM Planning Analytics Administration Agent service terminated with the following service-specific error:
Incorrect function.

Solution:
Check that the Windows Service account is local administrator on the Planning Analytics server.
The PA Agent needs more local rights to read the files in folder D:\Program Files\ibm\cognos\tm1_64\paa_agent, than the other IBM Cognos TM1 service does.

You can find the message.log file here D:\Program Files\ibm\cognos\tm1_64\paa_agent\wlp\usr\servers\kate-agent\logs, that can contain more error messages.

The python code that can give some of the message is in folder; d:\Program Files\ibm\cognos\tm1_64\paa_agent\wlp\usr\servers\kate-agent\kateagent\scripts\status.py

More information:

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSD29G_2.0.0/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.tm1_inst.2.0.0.doc/c_install_paa_local_on_windows.html

Instructions to configure and start PAA Agent:

1. Open Windows “Services” desktop application
2. Stop “IBM Planning Analytics Administration Agent” service, if running
3. Navigate to <PA install directory>\paa_agent\wlp\usr\servers\kate-agent
4. Open the bootstrap.properties file in a text editor
5. Set the full path of directory containing TM1 databases data directories to SERVERS_DIR. Multiple paths must be separated by semicolon.
E.g. SERVERS_DIR=C:\tm1\samples\tm1\;C:\prod\servers\
6. Save and close the bootstrap.properties file
7. Start “IBM Planning Analytics Administration Agent” Windows service
8. PAA Agent is now ready to use

Product:
Cognos Analytics 11.1.3
Planning Analytics 2.0.6
Microsoft Windows 2016 server

Problem:
When run a CA11 report against a Tm1 Cube, you get this error;
XQE-MD-0007 Unable to establish a metadata connection to data source /content/package
DIM-ERR-1007 Det gick inte att efterfråga kubinformation för datakällan. Kontrollera anslutningssträngen och se till att servern är tillgänglig.

Solution:
The user who runs the CA11 report must have access to data in the TM1 cube.
Go in to TM1 Architect, and right click and select Rights – clients/groups dialog.
Check the user belongs to some of the security groups.
For a quick test, mark your user as ADMIN.
Click OK.
And log out from CA11 and in again, try the same report again.

If you get the below error when you run a Cognos Analytics 11 report;
QE-DEF-0157 The model or package /content/folder does not exist or you are not allowed to use if because of security settings.

Then it can be that the FM package is deleted.

Click on search icon on the left in Cognos 11, and search for the package name. If you find it, check that the user group the user belongs to have “run” rights, on the package.
More Information:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/dim-err-1007-failed-query-cube-information-data-source-when-using-planning-analytics-data-server-connection
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/dim-err-1007-failed-query-cube-information-data-source-tm1

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/package-permissions-errors-qe-def-0157