Information Server 9.1 and DataStage 9.1 now available

vmcburney · Post by **vmcburney** » Fri Dec 14, 2012 12:25 pm

The new version is up on the IBM website, Information Server 9.1 has been released on the 14th of December 2012. Extra links in my blog post:
IBM Information Server 9.1 is now available for all Platforms

rameshrr3 · Post by **rameshrr3** » Fri Dec 14, 2012 12:36 pm

Thanks for posting this . Is this the much awaited " End Of the World " edition ?

Our group installed v 8.7 a couple of months ago due to the end of year deadline for Operating system support. Are there much differences ( apart from hypervisor) ed?

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Fri Dec 14, 2012 3:21 pm

Vincent has an earlier blog about what's new in 9.1, or you can get all of that information in detail from the Information Center - the 9.1 pages have been up there for some time.

stuartjvnorton · Post by **stuartjvnorton** » Fri Dec 14, 2012 5:54 pm

There are some great new features, as you can read about in Vincent's blog.
Governance gets fleshed out a lot, with BG 9.1 the new Data Quality Console to manage the exceptions you get when you run IA and Discovery/IAEM rules.
BG in particular is a whole new beast with policies and rules, but the new IS-A, HAS-A relationships between terms mean you can create much, much better models than you could in 8.7.

vmcburney · Post by **vmcburney** » Fri Dec 14, 2012 9:48 pm

From a DataStage perspective the main changes are:
- Workload management on the Operations Console, very useful for multi-tenancy DataStage. Lets you create priority queues and record how much processing power each DataStage project uses.
- The unstructured text stage is a much better Excel read capability and can read Excel even on Linux/Unix platforms.
- Much better Java stage and java pack, designed to access noSQL data sources it can browse java classes.
- Great interaction between DataStage and ODM/iLog/JRules.
- Great new functionality if you have Netezza with Data Click.
- Faster performance against Oracle databases, faster bulk load.
- Better handling and management of XSD schema files in the XML assembly stage.

That's on top of the 8.7 improvements such as operations console, parallel debugger, improved XML stage.

IBM Analytics Champion 2009 - 2020 · Post by **asorrell** » Fri Dec 14, 2012 10:48 pm

One big feature: For the first time in the Post 8.0 era you can do an upgrade in place - but only from 8.7 to 9.1.

So for those of you that want to upgrade, but are leery of going to the first release of a major revision, you might want to at least consider going to 8.7 for now.

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Sat Dec 15, 2012 1:24 am

The "upgrade in place" won't be available until about March 2013.

rameshrr3 · Post by **rameshrr3** » Mon Dec 17, 2012 10:47 am

Thanks everybody.

It took us a while to configure 8.7 ( PAM with Centrify , Migrations, IADB, metadata and IADB & ops consle on SQL 2008 , while engine on AIX - and all that ) . Not looking forward to the effort now . but wanted to get a handle on what we 'missed'