IBM InfoSphere Information Server V9.1 enables anywhere

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IBM United States Software Announcement
212-280, dated October 23, 2012
IBM InfoSphere Information Server V9.1 enables
anywhere integration for a new era of computing
Table of contents
1 Overview 13 Technical information
2 Key prerequisites 14 Ordering information
2 Planned availability date 72 Terms and conditions
2 Description 76 Prices
8 Program number 76 Order now
9 Publications
At a glance
InfoSphere® Information Server V9.1 provides a highly scalable, security-rich, and
robust data integration platform designed to address your data integration needs.
This release includes the following product offerings:
• InfoSphere Information Server V9.1 and InfoSphere Information Server Packages
V9.1
• InfoSphere Information Server Workgroup Edition V9.1
• InfoSphere Information Server for Data Warehousing V9.1
These product offerings deliver new capabilities to help you support agile
integration, business-driven governance, and sustainable data quality.
For ordering, contact your IBM® representative, an IBM Business Partner, or IBM
Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL (Reference: YE001).
Overview
It is essential that your information is ready when you need it and consistent,
no matter where it is being used, and governed in real time. Scalable, highly
performing information integration capabilities help increase your level of confidence
so that you can address these requirements. These capabilities play a key role
in strategic initiatives, including application consolidation and migration, data
warehousing, master data management, business intelligence, and other projects.
As a new era of computing unfolds with an explosion in the volume, variety, and
velocity of data, integrating trustworthy information is more important than ever to
enable critical projects and analytics initiatives.
InfoSphere Information Server V9.1 offers new features to help you rationalize
your increasingly complex environment and address your evolving data integration
requirements, so that data is accessible, authoritative, consistent, timely, and
in context for analysis and reporting. The new capabilities delivered as part of
InfoSphere Information Server V9.1 are available through different offerings to help
you meet your business requirements:
• InfoSphere Information Server V9.1 and InfoSphere Information Server Packages
V9.1 are designed to deliver comprehensive, end-to-end information integration
and governance capabilities for your enterprise requirements. InfoSphere
Information Server Packages include InfoSphere Information Server for Data
Integration, InfoSphere Information Server for Data Quality, InfoSphere Business
Information Exchange, and InfoSphere Information Server Enterprise Edition.
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• InfoSphere Information Server Workgroup Edition V9.1 is designed to deliver
essential information integration capabilities for smaller deployments with more
focused requirements.
• InfoSphere Information Server for Data Warehousing V9.1 is designed to deliver
comprehensive, end-to-end information integration capabilities specifically for
your data warehousing environment. This offering provides support for IBM
Smart Analytics System and IBM PureData System for Analytics (formerly known
as IBM Netezza® ) environments.
Key prerequisites
Refer to the Hardware requirements and Software requirements sections.
Planned availability date
December 14, 2012: Electronic availability
January 25, 2013: Media availability
Description
The end-to-end information capabilities of InfoSphere Information Server allow you
to understand your data; cleanse, monitor, transform, and deliver data; as well as
collaborate to bridge the gap between business and IT. By leveraging the "anywhere
integration" capabilities delivered by InfoSphere Information Server V9.1, you can
have greater confidence that the information that drives your business and strategic
initiatives, including big data and point-of-impact analytics, is more trustworthy,
consistent, and governed in real time.
InfoSphere Information Server V9.1 provides "anywhere integration" for a new
era of computing. Its new features support agile integration, business-driven
governance, and sustainable data quality to help you improve productivity,
performance, and time-to-value.
InfoSphere Information Server V9.1 delivers new capabilities, including:
Agile integration
Wherever your information resides, InfoSphere Information Server V9.1 helps you
integrate it quickly and flexibly whether you are provisioning a data warehouse
(allowing requests for information delivery to be satisfied more rapidly and
easily), integrating big data, deploying to a private cloud, or leveraging balanced
optimization for DB2® on System z® . These new capabilities also benefit the
strategic initiatives, including master data management, application consolidation,
and more. New InfoSphere Information Server V9.1 features that support agile
integration include:
• InfoSphere Data Click
InfoSphere Data Click is an exciting new capability that helps novice users
retrieve data and provision systems easily, in just a few clicks. For example,
users can optimize a business intelligence environment through offloading report
table constructs. Then, they can easily generate a sandbox environment for
personal development work.
To streamline these processes, InfoSphere Data Click offers an intuitive user
interface that presents simple policy choices. This automatically drives the
integration process without any coding. For example, users can determine how
frequently data needs to be updated. Then, InfoSphere Data Click generates
batch or real-time operations based on that decision. Additionally, this capability
leverages an integrated design and operational metadata to help users govern
and manage the data. InfoSphere Data Click helps speed time-to-market,
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provide greater business agility, and significantly reduce costs by taking tasks
that previously required days or weeks to complete and shrinking the time
required into minutes or hours while enabling novice resources so that extract,
transform, and load (ETL) engineers can focus elsewhere.
InfoSphere Data Click helps improve currency of the data warehouse
environment, enabling dynamic warehousing. This approach also complements
ETL, as well as extract, load, and transform (ELT) processes to enable batch
window optimization by reducing the time and processing required from source
to target, lowering network traffic, and making data available when a full extract
is not possible.
• Big data integration
As part of this release, InfoSphere Information Server provides more support to
help you integrate large volume, variety, and velocity of the data residing in your
environment. Building upon InfoSphere Information Server's existing Hadoop
Distributed File System (HDFS) support, this release includes:
– Programmatic invocation of InfoSphere BigInsightsTM and other MapReduce
jobs through the Job Sequencer, providing end-to-end workflow across
InfoSphere Information Server and Hadoop
– Ability to generate MapReduce jobs, enabling you to deal with big data sources
that would otherwise be more efficiently processed using Hadoop
– Direct data flow integration between InfoSphere Information Server and
InfoSphere Streams to help combine the power and reach of both platforms
– Rich metadata support through various use cases
• Enhanced workload management
In this release, InfoSphere Information Server supports policy-driven control
of system resources in a shared service environment, allowing you to
proactively manage resources where multiple teams share a common hardware
infrastructure. The new workload management capabilities help you optimize
hardware utilization, prioritize mission-critical tasks, and throttle job activities
where resources exceed specified thresholds. You can also assess, assign, and
reassign the priority of jobs as new jobs are submitted into the queue. This
feature is configurable across various projects as well as at the job level.
• Integration with IBM Operational Decision Management
Now more than ever, organizations need to adapt quickly to changing
business requirements. Business users must make decisions quickly to effect
organizational success. Business-driven organizations seek to empower these
individuals with the right tools to effect that change. These organizations must
move from code development and the associated longer software development
lifecycles to the agility of business rules management.
InfoSphere Information Server V9.1 empowers business users with world-class
business rules management capabilities. InfoSphere Information Server V9.1
integrates directly with IBM Operational Decision Management, formerly known
as ILOG® JRules, providing the ability for nontechnical business subject matter
experts (SMEs) to govern key logic constructs in their organization. In this way,
the line of business (LOB) can define their policies and automated decisions in a
form that is understandable to the nontechnical users.
These same rules can quickly be promoted to the operational environment
and consumed by InfoSphere Information Server to use within the data
integration process, extending the value of a business rule engine into an agile
transformational component of a data integration platform. Implementing
decision logic using Operational Decision Management within InfoSphere
Information Server helps bridge the gap between business people and IT groups
by:
– Enabling LOB SMEs to create and maintain decision logic, thereby accelerating
the implementation of changes to address evolving market, regulatory, or
competitive conditions
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– Improving collaboration between business and IT teams, thereby sharing
visibility and governance controls for the management of decision logic
– Separating decisions from processes and applications, thereby facilitating
change and reuse across business systems
• Balanced optimization for DB2 on z/OS®
Organizations leveraging DB2 z/OS as a robust data warehousing platform
can now exploit its power as part of the data integration ELT process.
InfoSphere Information Server V9.1 includes expanded features to the Balanced
Optimization component to execute data transformation tasks on the DB2 z/OS
database. Developers can express the logic of data integration processes in the
current flow-oriented convention of InfoSphere Information Server. This helps
optimize the logic to benefit from pushing desired parts of the processing to the
database. At any given point in time, users can choose to execute their jobs in
the optimal location, including source database, high-performance engine of
InfoSphere Information Server, target database, or any combination of these
locations. In many cases, pushing the processing close to the data can help
reduce time and system resources, thereby helping to create savings while
delivering the same business value.
Business-driven governance
InfoSphere Information Server V9.1 helps you make decisions with confidence
using more trustworthy data at the point of impact by leveraging business-driven
governance, including the ability to create information governance policies and
rules to drive business consistency. InfoSphere Information Server V9.1 offers new
capabilities that support business-driven governance, including:
• Policy and rules support for information governance
InfoSphere Information Server V9.1 is designed to help you create policies and
rules to support information governance and business consistency. As part of
this release, InfoSphere Information Server supports the creation and definition
of a number of policies based on your business needs and requirements. Once
defined, a set of policies can be organized into a set of information governance
rules to guide decisions and activities around issues such as customer data
integrity.
These new capabilities support collaboration across LOB and IT teams to
help align your rules with business requirements and expectations. The
information governance rules may then be associated with a set of technical rules
across different areas, including data quality, security, and more, to provide a
framework for enforcement of rules and policies.
• Web-based blueprints
Creating a well-documented, end-to-end blueprint of the architectural vision for
an information project can help IT departments align business requirements with
enterprise and reference architecture, and encourage a standardized approach to
minimize rework. By representing the vision across different domains, including
data integration, data archiving, test data management, application retirement,
data warehousing, and business intelligence, blueprints can help data architects
avoid siloed thinking and misalignment with business priorities.
Blueprints also support project execution based on world-class methodologies.
Architects can use blueprints to leverage best practices as defined in the
appropriate method, and create documentation regarding the outcome and who
is supposed to do what, when, and why. Blueprinting capabilities play a critical
role in keeping the project vision synchronized with the actual solution by linking
the blueprint to business and technical artifacts throughout the solution lifecycle.
As part of InfoSphere Information Server V9.1, blueprints can now be published
to the common metadata repository and shared through web user interfaces.
• Enhancements for integrated metadata management
Integrated metadata is very important for business and governance efforts,
as metadata helps you increase your level of trust and confidence in your
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information. Integrated metadata also helps simplify integration, facilitate change
management and reuse, and ease compliance with standards.
InfoSphere Information Server V9.1 offers enhanced capabilities for managed
metadata import and metadata management. New capabilities for managed
metadata import help you:
– Create, manage, and delete Import Areas
– Compare import results with the active repository
– Understand the impact and results of the import
– Publish the import to the active repository
– Enable re-import, including implied delete logic
– View history
– Compare import events
– Support logical models
New capabilities for metadata management include the ability to browse shared
metadata, view usage before delete, enable delete, and manage duplicate and
disconnected metadata. Additionally, new advanced duplicate management
capabilities help you create relationships to support duplicate management.
Sustainable quality
InfoSphere Information Server V9.1 helps you ensure information accuracy and
quickly adapt to strategic business changes by achieving and maintaining high-
quality data. InfoSphere Information Server V9.1 offers new capabilities that support
sustainable quality, including:
• New InfoSphere Data Quality Console
New InfoSphere Data Quality Console provides a unified environment to allow
users to visualize how data quality is progressing within the business, thus
proactively increasing data quality awareness. It provides users with a dashboard
that displays the most critical data quality information. Business users can
navigate from the dashboard to an exception summary display with advanced
filtering options, and then they can drill into detail and explore individual
exception records for data quality validation rules to better understand the
reason for data quality problems.
• New InfoSphere QualityStage® Standardization Rules Designer
The new designer supports business-friendly data standardization. It helps
simplify the process and accelerate the cleansing of data. It includes:
– An intuitive framework to design, maintain, and execute standardization rules
for data quality
– A web-based user interface, allowing you to quickly begin the classification
process by changing or adding value definitions to your data
– Drag-and-drop capabilities, allowing you to easily manage the rules that
handle your records without hand writing any pattern action language (PAL)
code
– Support for team collaboration with the ability to work on any revision of the
rule
• Advanced data validation rules support
As part of this release, there is also new support for advanced data validation
rules, including a flexible output table configuration for data validation rules,
sequencing, and impact analysis. Specific features include:
– Flexible configuration of the output tables for data validation rules, including
naming or append/overwrite
– Registration and reuse of the output
– Sequencing of data validation rules
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– Advanced web-based data validation rule display, including lineage and impact
analysis
The new user-named output table configuration and sequencing capabilities
include the ability to:
– Define the name of the output tables for data validation rules, including:
-- Simple user-named tables such as single table for single rule
-- Advanced user-named tables in which one or more rules can update the
same table, requiring common format
– Configure whether to append or overwrite values in the output table
Several other enhancements that support advanced data validation rules include
the ability to search, browse, and view data validation rules, as well as associate
assets such as the details of published rule definitions. These enhancements
enable you to view data validation rules in lineage displays that show the flow of
data through a job and drill down from the job level into the details of the data
validation rules.
• Data discovery enhancements to support agile integration and sustainable quality
As part of InfoSphere Information Server V9.1, data discovery capabilities are
extended to the Red Hat Enterprise LinuxTM (RHEL) and AIX® platforms at the
engine and services tiers, providing 64-bit support.
Availability of national languages
Product description Language GA date

IBM InfoSphere Info Server Multilingual January 25, 2013
V9.1.0 (French,
Korean,
Spanish,
Portuguese-Braz
ilian, German,
Japanese,
English,
Italian)
IS BIE for Data Warehousing Multilingual January 25, 2013
V9.1.0 (French,
Korean,
Chinese -
Simplified,
Spanish,
Portuguese-Brazilian,
German,
Japanese,
Chinese -
Traditional,
English,
Italian)
IS Business Info Exchange Multilingual January 25, 2013
V9.1.0 (French,
Korean,
Chinese -
Simplified,
Spanish,
Portuguese-Brazilian,
German,
Japanese,
Chinese -
Traditional,
English,
Italian)
IS DI for Data Warehousing Multilingual January 25, 2013
V9.1.0 (French,
Korean,
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Chinese -
Simplified,
Spanish,
Portuguese-Brazilian,
German,
Japanese,
Chinese -
Traditional,
English,
Italian)
IS DQ for Data Warehousing Multilingual January 25, 2013
V9.1.0 (French,
Korean,
Chinese -
Simplified,
Spanish,
Portuguese-Brazilian,
German,
Japanese,
Chinese -
Traditional,
English,
Italian)
IS Discovery II WE V9.1.0 English January 25, 2013
IS EE for Data Warehousing Multilingual January 25, 2013
V9.1.0 (French,
Korean,
Chinese -
Simplified,
Spanish,
Portuguese-Brazilian,
German,
Japanese,
Chinese -
Traditional,
English,
Italian)
IS Enterprise Ed V9.1.0 Multilingual January 25, 2013
(French,
Korean,
Chinese -
Simplified,
Spanish,
Portuguese-Brazilian,
German,
Japanese,
Chinese -
Traditional,
English,
Italian)
IS Info Server Workgrp Ed Multilingual January 25, 2013
V9.1.0 (French,
Korean,
Chinese -
Simplified,
Spanish,
Portuguese-Brazilian,
German,
Japanese,
Chinese -
Traditional,
English,
Italian)
IS for Data Integration Multilingual January 25, 2013
V9.1.0 (French,
Korean,
Chinese -
Simplified,
Spanish,
Portuguese-Brazilian,
German,
Japanese,
Chinese -
Traditional,
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English,
Italian)
IS for Data Quality V9.1.0 Multilingual January 25, 2013
(French,
Korean,
Chinese -
Simplified,
Spanish,
Portuguese-Brazilian,
German,
Japanese,
Chinese -
Traditional,
English,
Italian)
Program number
Program
number VRM Program name
5724-Q36 9.1.0 IBM InfoSphere Information
Server
5725-G05 9.1.0 IBM InfoSphere Information
Server Packages
5725-C81 9.1.0 IBM InfoSphere Information
Server Workgroup Edition
5725-C80 9.1.0 IBM InfoSphere Information
Server for Data
Warehousing
Education support
Available training offerings include client on-site training, public training at IBM
facilities, and remote learning via FlexLearning. Through client on-site training, IBM
delivers standard or customized training to meet the requirements of its clients.
IBM can also provide mobile academies for a rental fee to minimize clients' setup
activities.
IBM public training simplifies the process by providing the complete environment
for standard course deliveries and giving students the ability to learn without the
distractions of everyday responsibilities. Public training is offered on a regular
schedule worldwide. For more information on public instructor-led training, visit
http://www.ibm.com/software/data/ips/services/learning.html
The newly enhanced FlexLearning program enables clients to attend training on
their own schedule at their own location. This program offers state-of-the-art
technology to deliver highly valuable training at minimum cost. All current courses
are approximately three hours in length and offer a valuable learn-by-doing, self-
paced format.
For more information on any of the training offerings, contact
[email protected]
Offering Information
Product information is available via the Offering Information website
http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi
Also, visit the Passport Advantage® website
http://www.ibm.com/software/passportadvantage
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Publications
InfoSphere Information Server for Data Integration publications
Documentation for InfoSphere Information Server simplified offerings is provided
for each product module part of the acquired offering. No hardcopy publications
are shipped with these offerings. However, Quick Start Guides are available at the
following websites, which will be active on December 14, 2012.
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27035770
The Information Center
When you install the product module parts of the acquired offering, the
documentation is installed in the IBM InfoSphere Information Server Information
Center. The Information Center is also available at
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iisinfsv/v9r1/index.jsp
The IBM Publications Center
http://www.ibm.com/shop/publications/order
The Publications Center is a worldwide central repository for IBM product
publications and marketing material with a catalog of 70,000 items. Extensive
search facilities are provided. Payment options for orders are via credit card (in
the US) or customer number for 20 countries. A large number of publications
are available online in various file formats, and they can all be downloaded by all
countries. Those with order numbers that begin with SC or GC can be downloaded
by all countries free of charge, and those with order numbers that begin with LC can
be purchased by customers with an active product license for the related product.
The following table provides information that can be used to locate this product's
publications from the IBM Publications Center.
Title Publication number

IBM InfoSphere Blueprint SC19-3752
Director Installation Guide
IBM InfoSphere Blueprint SC19-3853
Director User's Guide
IBM InfoSphere Business Glossary SC19-3799
Administrator's and Author's
Guide
IBM InfoSphere Business Glossary SC19-3735
User's Guide
IBM InfoSphere DataStage® and SC19-3840
QualityStage Administrator
Client Guide
IBM InfoSphere DataStage and SC19-3809
QualityStage Connectivity Guide
for Distributed Transaction
Stage
IBM InfoSphere DataStage and SC19-3813
QualityStage Connectivity Guide
for IBM DB2 Databases
IBM InfoSphere DataStage and SC19-3816
QualityStage Connectivity Guide
for IBM Informix® Databases
IBM InfoSphere DataStage and SC19-3833
QualityStage Connectivity Guide
for IBM InfoSphere Classic
Federation Server for z/OS
IBM InfoSphere DataStage and SC19-3815
QualityStage Connectivity Guide
for IBM Red Brick® Warehouse
IBM InfoSphere DataStage and SC19-3819
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QualityStage Connectivity Guide
for IBM UniVerse and UniData
IBM InfoSphere DataStage and SC19-3835
QualityStage Connectivity Guide
for IBM WebSphere® MQ
Applications
IBM InfoSphere DataStage and SC19-3814
QualityStage Connectivity Guide
for iWay Servers
IBM InfoSphere DataStage and SC19-3817
QualityStage Connectivity Guide
for MicrosoftTM SQL Server and OLE
DB Data
IBM InfoSphere DataStage and SC19-3806
QualityStage Connectivity Guide
for Netezza Performance Server
IBM InfoSphere DataStage and SC19-3803
QualityStage Connectivity Guide
for ODBC
IBM InfoSphere DataStage and SC19-3842
QualityStage Connectivity Guide
for Oracle Databases
IBM InfoSphere DataStage and LC19-3807
QualityStage Connectivity Guide
for SAS
IBM InfoSphere DataStage and SC19-3789
QualityStage Connectivity Guide
for Stored Procedures
IBM InfoSphere DataStage and LC19-3818
QualityStage Connectivity Guide
for Sybase Databases
IBM InfoSphere DataStage and LC19-3808
QualityStage Connectivity Guide
for the Dynamic Relational Stage
IBM InfoSphere DataStage and SC19-3791
QualityStage Designer Client
Guide
IBM InfoSphere DataStage and SC19-3844
QualityStage Director Client
Guide
IBM InfoSphere DataStage and SC19-3821
QualityStage Globalization Guide
IBM InfoSphere DataStage and SC19-3852
QualityStage Guide to Extracting
Unstructured Data
IBM InfoSphere DataStage and SC19-3824
QualityStage JavaTM Pack Guide
IBM InfoSphere DataStage and SC19-3829
QualityStage Parallel Job
Advanced Developer's Guide
IBM InfoSphere DataStage and SC19-3827
QualityStage Parallel Job
Developer's Guide
IBM InfoSphere DataStage BASIC SC19-3822
Reference Guide
IBM InfoSphere DataStage Custom SC19-3845
Operator Reference
IBM InfoSphere DataStage Data SC19-3857
Masking Guide
Introduction to IBM InfoSphere GC19-3954
DataStage
IBM InfoSphere DataStage SC19-3823
Mainframe Job Developer's Guide
IBM InfoSphere DataStage SC19-3793
Parallel Job Tutorial
IBM InfoSphere DataStage SC19-3828
Programmer's Guide
IBM InfoSphere DataStage Server SC19-3792
Job Developer's Guide
IBM InfoSphere DataStage SC19-3858
Operations Console Guide and
Reference
IBM InfoSphere DataStage SC19-3804
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