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.

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.

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:

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.

Arc should be installed on the same server that TM1 is running, this allows Arc to access both the ODBC data sources and text files on the TM1 server. If you install Arc on a desktop or separate server Arc will function as normal with the exception of the ODBC and Text preview in Turbo…