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I opened a case with IBM which is related with this issue
On PAW on Premise, the model_data folder that PAW creates follows the whole path on the .cfg file
In this customer's case, there are 4 different locations TM1 uses to hold the objects
But PAW thought it was only one, so it created a new folder with the full address
The worst part, is that the folder path creates semicolons, and for some reason TM1 was not being able to recognize the path and would fail the TIs
Because of that, the drag and drop of .csv files for uploads does not work for them
Text data files are often quite large. This means that the Data folder can become bloated with historic text files that were used once, and are no longer required. It may even contain files that were uploaded in error. Unless the model_upload folder is specifically excluded, Data folder backups will include the text files. This means that the backup will take longer to perform, and the backups will take up more disk space.
There are also the following use cases:
1. Model migration. The TM1 model is often migrated by copying the Data folder from Production to Development and UAT environments. Text files that are used in one environment, may not be relevant in another environment. Or may even be a security risk (eg confidential data is accidently transferred from Production to Development).
2. File maintenance. To prevent text files accumulating, regular housekeeping will need to be performed on the contents of the model_upload folder. Users should not have access to the Data folder location, in order to delete obsolete files. There is also the risk that TM1 object files are deleted by mistake.
There are TM1s.cfg parameters to specify the location of log files (LoggingDirectory), unprocessed audit log files (RawStoreDirectory), bookmark files (IndexStoreDirectory), application units (DistributedPlanningOutputDir), etc. There is even a parameter to separate the Data files from the TM1s.cfg and tm1s-log.properties files (DataBaseDirectory). May we have a tm1s.cfg parameter to specify the location of the model_upload folder please?