Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2013 11:00 pm
IBM are not allowed to announce future versions or version dates due to legal reasons. You are right that there is a pattern of an Information Server release being announced at the IOD conference in October (this year November) and a new version of Information Server available by December of each year. We will probably get one again this year.
The good news about the version 9.x releases is that so far each upgrade has been an in place patch on top of the old version. So 9.1 upgrades to 9.1.2 very easily and should upgrade to 9.2(?) easily. Your jump from 8.5 to 9.x is big since it's almost a reinstall but your patching of 9.x releases should become easier.
How badly do you want version 9.x functionality? The big additions have been a new menu structure for Business Glossary and workflow, greatly improved data quality rules in Information Analyzer and a Data Quality Rules stage in DataStage, the Data Quality Console, updated metadata bridges, the DataStage Operations Console, improvements to metadata stitching, improved XML processing, the Big Data stages for Hadoop, improved connectivity for Java.
The good news about the version 9.x releases is that so far each upgrade has been an in place patch on top of the old version. So 9.1 upgrades to 9.1.2 very easily and should upgrade to 9.2(?) easily. Your jump from 8.5 to 9.x is big since it's almost a reinstall but your patching of 9.x releases should become easier.
How badly do you want version 9.x functionality? The big additions have been a new menu structure for Business Glossary and workflow, greatly improved data quality rules in Information Analyzer and a Data Quality Rules stage in DataStage, the Data Quality Console, updated metadata bridges, the DataStage Operations Console, improvements to metadata stitching, improved XML processing, the Big Data stages for Hadoop, improved connectivity for Java.
