IBM® Cognos® TM1® on Cloud provides a Cognos TM1 environment hosted on a secure, remote system that you and your users can access. Each cloud system supports a collection of Cognos TM1 desktop, web-based, and mobile applications for end users and modelers. Each system also includes a shared folder for storing and accessing your data files.
The Cognos TM1 on Cloud system includes the following main components:
- Cognos TM1 Server
- Cognos TM1 hosted and local applications
- Cloud system shared folder
The following figure provides an overview of the different components and applications that make up a typical Cognos TM1 on Cloud system. The interaction between the Cognos TM1 server, hosted applications, local applications, and shared folder are shown.
User access
Cognos TM1 on Cloud modelers have user accounts that let them connect directly to the cloud system using a remote desktop protocol (RDP) connection or a secure file transfer protocol (FTPS) application. This enables modelers to run the related Cognos TM1 desktop programs and to manage files in the shared folder on the cloud system.
Typical non-modeler users connect to the cloud system using only the web, mobile, and local Cognos applications. Typical users do not connect to the cloud system using RDP or FTPS.
Cloud operating system
The Cognos TM1 on Cloud system runs on the Microsoft Windows Server 2012 operating system. This Windows system runs the Cognos TM1 server and hosts instances of the available Cognos TM1 web-based and desktop-based programs.
Cognos TM1 Admin Server and Cognos TM1 Server
Your cloud system uses the following default names for the IBM Cognos TM1 Admin Host and Cognos TM1 Server:- Default Cognos TM1 Admin Host name: data
- Default Cognos TM1 Server name: tm1
In a Cognos TM1 on Cloud system, a TM1 server can access only its own data directory and sub-folders. The data directory folder is located at the same level as the file tm1s.cfg. For example, you are running a TM1 server instance named GO_New_Stores. The tm1s.cfg file for this server is located at \\data\s\prod\data\Go_New_Stores. The data directory for this server is \\data\s\prod\data\Go_New_Stores\datafiles. This Cognos TM1 on Cloud behavior is different than with a standard TM1 installation, where TM1 servers can access additional data folders.