Planning in distributed environment

Would like to know with following environment how planning works...
Lets say
Shared services and Essbase are installed in Machine 1. These 2 are commonly used for multiple planning instances
Planning instance 1 is in Machine 2 with locale US
Planning instance 2 is in Machine 3 with locale FR
lets say i created one APP on planning instance 1 with locale US
and i create another app BSP on planning instance 2 with locale FR
since both the applications are created on same Essbase.... when i try to logon planning instance 1 . will logon screen display applications created with both the instances. i.e apps specific to Instance 1 as well as applications specific to Instance 2 .
Regards
Mamatha

Hi,
will logon screen display applications created with both the instances. i.e apps specific to Instance 1 as well as applications specific to Instance 2 .I think both the planning instances are configured to same shared services registry database,so I think if you create an app on any one instance
will be reflected in the other planning instances.
Thanks,
Sourabh

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