Whats New in InfoSphere Information Server 8.

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Agenda
Information Server 8.1 New Features Enhanced Deployment DataStage/FastTrack QualityStage Business Glossary/Metadata Workbench Information Analyzer Globalization
Introducing InfoSphere GNR to Information Server Family QualityStage Global Address Verification

Information Services Director/MDM Server Integration Grid/Platform & Source Support How to Upgrade
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The IBM InfoSphere Vision

An Industry Unique Information Platform
Simplify the delivery of Trusted Information Accelerate client value Promote collaboration Mitigate risk Modular but Integrated Scalable Project to Enterprise

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Full capabilities to deliver Trusted Information across heterogeneous systems Accelerate data integration projects Metadata-driven design Business IT alignment Leverage Existing Resources Broad native connectivity Architected for Growth Massive scalability Parallel processing

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InfoSphere DataStage InfoSphere FastTrack Enhancements

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Enhanced Deployment - InfoSphere Information Server Manager

Easy and integrated job movement from one environment to the other Visual deployment Create, modify deployment package Use any first class objects from the repository All associated project artifacts can be added (ie. external scripts) Full drill down into objects Supports rollbacks and difference reporting

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Column Level Impact Analysis

Advanced Find Enhancement Allows occurrences of column names within table definitions, Jobs or Shared containers to be searched Impact Analysis Enhancement Allows a where used analysis to be performed on a column

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Column Level Impact Analysis

Designer Job Canvas Enhancement Highlight stages and links to show where a selected column is used

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Security and Audit Trail

Security Ensure right people have right privileges DS Users with access to the projects can create package Only Production Manager role used to deploy to the target system Audit Trail Track any movement into production systems Maintains a record of all the deployments made
Who performed the action When it was done All the objects that were moved in that deployment

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New DataStage Stages

Pivot stage (Parallel canvas) supports Horizontal Pivoting Split from single row in to multiple rows, repeating the non pivoted data in each of the row.

CheckSum operator (Parallel Canvas) An error checking technique used to ensure the accuracy of transmitting digital data The output data set schema contains
Fields from the input schema, Field containing the checksum value, and Field containing the buffer the checksum was computed from (optionally)
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Job Viewer
Hovering over the name of the job in the repository shows a small hover over view of the job Enables quick preview for greater productivity

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Logging View
DataStage Logs can be viewed in the Web Console Fully customizable templates All the director logs available Director or the command line interfaces dont change User role for logs Developers can debug logs on production systems

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File Based Integration

DataStage & Classic Data Event Publisher for z/OS V9.5 Alternative to Existing WebSphere MQ for Transport Reduce Mainframe Operational Costs Option to push transformation workload to the DataStage platform Leverage Investments Supports IMS, VSAM, Computer Associates CAIDMS or Software AG Adabas

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InfoSphere FastTrack
Minimize Risk & Effort Migrating Between Environments Substitution of data model structures from dev, test and production

Enforce Best Practices, Consistency and Readability Application of Corporate Naming Standards Optimized for Performance Expanded support for database and file connector options

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InfoSphere QualityStage Enhancements

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InfoSphere QualityStage
Match Enhancements
Provide users with the ability to implement greater control
Transitive grouping within a pass New Match comparison for multi value fields Scale Overrides Logical groupings of Match Fields

Standardization Quality Assessment

Stage and Reports help organizations measure and enhance their standardization processing rules

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InfoSphere Information Analyzer Enhancements

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InfoSphere Information Analyzer

Increased User-driven Visibility and Control Enhanced filtering Enhanced sorting

Generate Reports Quickly and Easily Expansive context-sensitive reporting choices Global enablement Parallel execution of profiling processes

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Filtering & Metadata Import Preview

 Filtering in Source Selection screens  Filtering of objects in Metadata Import

 Preview of sample source data from Metadata Import selection  Leverages paging and sorting enhancements in display  Validate source before running large analysis processes

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Context-sensitive Reporting
 Context-sensitive Reports  Launch reporting directly from icon on summary workspace screens  Pre-selected list of relevant contextspecific reports  More Reports!  Notes Status  Format Violations  Key Assessment Summaries  etc

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InfoSphere Business Glossary InfoSphere Metadata Workbench Enhancements

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Metadata Workbench
Change Management and Monitoring of Key Areas Create, export, save and publish queries Increases Business Confidence Cognos Framework Manager Data lineage immediate access to lineage Expand Data Governance Initiatives Clickable, external URLs for web pages, word documents, and more Minimizing Administration Tasks Improved navigation Ease-of-use enhancements
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Business Glossary and Anywhere

Simplify Deployment Practices and Backup/Recovery Planning Import, export & archival Increase Accuracy of Complex Business Relationships Single term linked to multiple categories Instant Business Understanding Access Business Glossary content directly from Cognos 8.4 Promote Usage of Enterprise Glossary Navigate from Business Glossary Anywhere to equivalent Business Glossary browser page Minimizes Risk of Errors and Work Required Multiple usability enhancements for maintaining glossary contents

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Globalization
Now available in 9 different languages Asia Pacific
Chinese (simplified) Chinese (traditional) Japanese Korea French German Italian Spanish

Europe

Americas
Portuguese (Brazil)

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InfoSphere Global Name Recognition

Multiple Prefixes, Abdul, Fitz, O', De La, Multiple Titles, Dr., Rev, Haj, Sri., Col International address standards Multi-cultural Name Order, Maria del Carmen Bustamante de la Fuente

Phonetic Transposition Errors, Lester - Leicester

Recognizes, classifies, and matches names, people names & company names across cultures Encompasses 20+ years of research based on linguistic patterns on over 1 billion names Enriches names with gender, origins and structure

Multiple Name Variants Local postal records

Ensure Compliance Requirements ie. Address Patriot Act, Basel Accord, Bank Secrecy Act, PEP, OFAC regardless of culture Improve Speed and Accuracy of watch list checking Better Understand Customers via parsing, country of association, determining gender and culture
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InfoSphere QualityStage Worldwide Postal Verification

Standardize, Verify, Correct and Enhance international address data in 244 Countries Region-centric Packages World, North America, Middle East, Central America, South America, Western Europe, France, Germany, Italy, Germany, United Kingdom, Eastern Europe, West Asia, Oceania, Eastern Asia, Africa, Japan, South Korea, Netherlands, China Extensive Scalability Parallel execution SOA enabled Capture and enrich address data at the point of entry

Combined with InfoSphere GNR we deliver market-leading capabilities for dealing with multicultural names and addresses

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Globalization
Now available in 9 different languages Asia Pacific
Chinese (simplified) Chinese (traditional) Japanese Korea French German Italian Spanish

Europe

Americas
Portuguese (Brazil)

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Information Management Software Now part of the Information Server Family

InfoSphere Global Name Recognition

Multiple Prefixes, Abdul, Fitz, O', De La, Multiple Titles, Dr., Rev, Haj, Sri., Col International address standards Multi-cultural Name Order, Maria del Carmen Bustamante de la Fuente

Phonetic Transposition Errors, Lester - Leicester

Recognizes, classifies, and matches names, people names & company names across cultures Encompasses 20+ years of research based on linguistic patterns on over 1 billion names Enriches names with gender, origins and structure

Multiple Name Variants Local postal records

Ensure Compliance Requirements ie. Address Patriot Act, Basel Accord, Bank Secrecy Act, PEP, OFAC regardless of culture Improve Speed and Accuracy of watch list checking Better Understand Customers via parsing, country of association, determining gender and culture
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InfoSphere QualityStage Worldwide Postal Verification

Standardize, Verify, Correct and Enhance international address data in 244 Countries Region-centric Packages World, North America, Middle East, Central America, South America, Western Europe, France, Germany, Italy, Germany, United Kingdom, Eastern Europe, West Asia, Oceania, Eastern Asia, Africa, Japan, South Korea, Netherlands, China Extensive Scalability Parallel execution SOA enabled Capture and enrich address data at the point of entry

Combined with InfoSphere GNR we deliver market-leading capabilities for dealing with multicultural names and addresses

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InfoSphere Information Services Director InfoSphere MDM Server Integration Enhancements

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Information Services Director Enhancements

ESB Process server
REST XML/JSON RSS

Portal

Web Services

EJB

JMS

Bindings

Common Logging Common Reporting Common Administration Services Security

Service Registry & Repository

Design

Operational

DataStage QualityStage

DB2 Federation

Classic Federation

Oracle

MDM Server (Partial)

Information Providers

IBM Information Server

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Enhanced Information Server & MDM Server Integration

Expanding quality as a service at entry Delivered as web service quality solution Assures standardization for organization, party or location Enables matching at a party or organization level to capture suspects Leverages 8.0.1 Information Server release

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Grid Enhancements Platform/Source Supports

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Advanced Grid Capabilities

New management console for deploying and managing execution across a grid Automatically reconfigures parallelism to fit grid resource Managed through an external grid resource manager Locks resources at execution time to ensure SLAs

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Enhanced Mainframe Support

Classic Federation, Classic Replication for z/OS, Classic Data Event Publisher for z/OS

Direct CDC access to non-relational mainframe data sources Does not require MQ Native VSAM logging and recovery New full-time IMS log-based capture agent JDBC compatibility for mainframe connectivity Native VSAM to VSAM replication

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Native 64-bit Support

New

AIX Solaris

New

HP-UX Itanium PA-RISC (as 32-bit app) Red Hat Enterprise Linux (as 32-bit app) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (as 32-bit app)

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Enhanced Connectivity
Distributed Transaction Stage for
DB2 MQ

DB2 Connector DB2 v9.5 IDS 11 Oracle Connector Oracle 11g MQ v6.1 MySQL v5.0+ Netezza 4.0 and 4.5 SQL Server 2008 Teradata v12 and v13

All Packs for SAP R/3, SAP BW, Oracle Applications, Siebel, PeopleSoft and JD Edwards
Globalization Native 64-bit support

Salesforce.com (v1.0.1) Pack

Certified Metadata-based Fully configurable High performance data integration

MapStage support for the latest release of WebSphere Transformation Extender

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Introducing Information Server LinkInformation

Extend Info Server Home Page with Latest Data Integration Content

Shares knowledge across teams Aggregates wikis, blogs & forums Plugs into Web 2.0 resources Completely customizable

On DeveloperWorks

Launch within Information Server home page

Drag & drop content from LeverageInformation, IBM.com, DSXchange and other data integration sites Customize with your own blogs, forums and documents
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How to Upgrade Platform Rollout

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How to Upgrade
Upgrade from DataStage 7.x DataStage jobs (Server, Parallel, Sequences, Mainframe) Upgrade with no change required DataStage Version Control does not exist in v8.0
Replacement functionality in DataStage v8.1

Read Release Notes, Pre-install checklist Upgrade from Information Server 8.0.1 Co-exist with v8.0.1 or upgrade in place

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InfoSphere Information Server 8.1 Platform Rollout

Windows
IBM Information Server

Linux Red Hat Enterprise Linux: x86 32 & 64 bit, zSeries 64 bit
InfoSphere Information Server Blade
Understand
Discover, model, and govern information structure and content

Unified Deployment
Cleanse Transform Deliver

Standardize, merge, and correct information

Combine and restructure information for new uses

Synchronize, virtualize and move information for in-line delivery

Unified Metadata Management

Parallel Processing Rich Connectivity to Applications, Data, and Content

SUSE Enterprise Linux: x86 32 & 64 bit, zSeries 64 bit IBM AIX: Native 64 bit Sun Solaris: Native 64 bit HP-UX PA-RISC 32 & 64 bit Itanium 64 bit All platforms support WAS 6.0; DB2 9.1, 9.5
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