When working in a cloud environment where you don’t have direct access to the TM1 data folder, it could be convenient to upload a file that can be used as a data source of a TM1 process.

A new module called Files to manage all blobs files from the TM1 data directory has been added in Arc v2.2.

This can be used to upload a csv or xlsx file to the TM1 data directory and then can be used as the data source of a TM1 process.

These new blb files can then be used as a data source of a TM1 process:

The Files manager shows only the blob (.blb) files that contain .csv or .xlsx in the name: