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Release notes - IBM i2 Enterprise Insight Analysis2.2.0
IBM i2 Enterprise Insight Analysis 2.2.0 is available.
Contents
• “Description” on page 1• “Announcement” on page 1• “Release highlights” on page 2• “Virtualization support” on page 4• “Known problems” on page 4• “More information” on page 17
Description
Enterprise Insight Analysis is an open, interoperable, extendable, and scalable solution that enablesorganizations to turn overwhelming and disparate data into actionable insight and intelligence, in nearreal time.
Enterprise Insight Analysis helps analysts and investigators develop a comprehensive understandingof the threat landscape to identify vulnerabilities and disrupt threats. The combination of machine-ledanalytics and human-led analysis capabilities helps to find hidden connections and critical patternsburied in internal, external, and open-source data.
Separately licensed add-on components are available to extend the capabilities of IBM i2 EnterpriseInsight Analysis in key areas:Collaborate
The Collaborate Add-On provides access to a core subset of capabilities that are deliveredthrough a lightweight browser-based application. These capabilities can help users from outsidethe traditional intelligence unit, including researchers, investigators, and front-line personnel, toperform supportive information collection alongside the analysts.
Recommendation EngineThe Recommendation Engine Add-On enables analysts and investigators to determine whenmultiple identities are the same. The add-on offers an automated identity resolution andrecommendation engine that proactively alerts analysts when new information is available, andwhen data points are altered, strengthened, or resolved.
InvestigateThe Investigate Add-On enables investigators to quickly visualize and explore data in a webbrowser.
Announcement
The IBM i2 Intelligence Analysis product portfolio announcement is available. See the announcementfor the following information:
• Detailed product description, including a description of new functionality
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• Product-positioning statement• Packaging and ordering details
Enterprise Insight Analysis 2.2.0 does not support deployments of i2 Analyze that contain theInformation
Store with both the Onyx and Opal services deployed concurrently. All other combinations ofdeployment
patterns are unaffected.
If you have a deployment that includes the Information Store with the Onyx and Opal services, youcan
not upgrade to Enterprise Insight Analysis 2.2.0. You must make a decision whether to remain atversion
2.1.7, or upgrade to 2.2.0 but not use the Opal and Onyx services concurrently.
Enterprise Insight Analysis supports only the latest update or service pack for each MicrosoftWindows version that is supported as listed at http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/lifecycle.
Ensure that existing deployments are upgraded to currently supported versions of all the softwarerequired. For information about the software supported for the current release, see the SystemRequirements link in “More information” on page 17.
Release highlights
The following new and updated features are available:
IBM i2 Analyst's Notebook
Enhancements to the conditional formatting capability provide you with greater flexibility inrepresenting items that you chart with data records. You can control representations of a chartitem by its data record properties to define chart items icons, colors, shading, frames, and otherfeatures. Improvements to the List Most Connected tool enhance results that are based on thedata records of chart items.
The following APARS are fixed in this release:
• Unused Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 redistributable files are no longer installed. [APAR PO07128]• Themeline colors for chart segments are maintained after a Save as operation is completed.
[APAR PO06808]• When listing items, you can now display data and time attributes. [APAR PO07547]• When in legacy made, you can apply a Hierarchy Layout to a chart. [APAR PO07567]• With Microsoft Excel 2007 or Microsoft ACE 2010 installed, you can now use .xlsx files as the
data source. [APAR PO07578]• The changing of palettes is no longer synchronized. [APAR PO07579]• You can now use Bar Charts and Histograms in Simplified Chinese. [APAR PO07588]• Import specifications that represent the data in the clipboard are shown as valid specifications
you can use. You can now import data stored in the clipboard successfully. [APAR PO07595]• The shortcut settings are applied when you use run options for Normal Window and Maximized
to start Analyst's Notebook. [APAR PO07643]• Hidden link corners are now treated as hidden objects. [APAR PO07705]
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• The Slovakian templates now use the following formats. [APAR PO07644]
– W for System Date– w for System Time– W w for System Date & Time– W w for Default
IBM i2 Analyst's Notebook Premium - Opal connector
• Data import: From external files you can import onto a chart data items that are schema-alignedto allow them to be uploaded to the information store. An analyst can now share importedintelligence within a team.
• Analysis tools: You can now use Analyst's Notebook to list items and apply conditionalformatting based on the data that is stored in the Information Store records.
• Data acquisition: You can use i2 Connect to search for and retrieve data from external sourcesand analyze that data on the chart. You can create records that represent the data from theexternal source.
Note: Connections to external data sources cannot be configured in the same deployment as anInformation Store. You cannot add data from an external data source and the Information Storeto the same Analyst's Notebook chart.
• Globalization: The following languages are now fully supported in the Opal Connector:
– Arabic– Brazilian– English– French– German– Hebrew– Italian– Spanish
IBM i2 Enterprise Insight Analysis - web client
With the new web client, you can search for data in the Information Store. The web client isdesigned for the investigator who wants an essential set of features that can be accessed quickly.An investigator can use the web client to search data, filter to refine results, expand to add relateditems, and add to a chart with layouts. The web client is licensed as a part of the IBM i2 EnterpriseInsight Analysis Investigate Add On.
IBM i2 Analyze - Deployment toolkit
• Globalization: You can now deploy the Opal pattern with full support for the followinglanguages:
– Arabic– Brazilian– English– French– German– Hebrew– Italian
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– Spanish• Data acquisition: When you ingest data into the Information Store, you can use identifiers to
correlate the incoming data with the data in existing records in the Information Store andupdate those records where appropriate.
• Data acquisition: You can create connectors for the Opal pattern that use i2 Connect. An analystcan then use Analyst's Notebook Premium to analyze data that is retrieved from external stores.
Note: You cannot deploy this feature to connect to external sources in the same deploymentthat uses the Information Store or Analysis Repository.
IBM i2 iBase
• GIS Interfaces: iBase can now support Esri ArcGIS version 10.6.0.• Analyst's Notebook plug in: A new option is available that allows items that contain iBase
records to be checked for updates when you log into the iBase database.• HTML reporting: The format of HTML reports has been updated.
Virtualization support
The products in the Intelligence Analysis Portfolio are supported on hardware virtualizationenvironments that run any of the operating systems that are listed in the detailed systemrequirements. When you run in a virtual environment, any issues that can be replicated by IBM in asupported operating system are addressed by using the standard IBM support policy.
Known problems
The most up-to-date source for known problems in Enterprise Insight Analysis is the HTML version ofthese release notes at http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSXVXZ_2.2.0/com.ibm.i2.releasenotes.doc/eia.html.
At the time of publication, the following problems were known:
Analyst's Notebook Premium - Opal connector
Table 1: Analyst's Notebook Premium - Opal connector
Problem Description
In Arabic or Hebrew, the list ofsaved Import Specifications isnot automatically refreshed.
When you use the Analyst's Notebook Premium Importer ineither Hebrew or Arabic, the list of saved Import Specificationsin the Import Specifications window is not automaticallyrefreshed.
To refresh your list, press F5.
Note: If your import specifications are standard Analyst'sNotebook specifications and not schema specific, ensure thatthe Show classic specifications check box is selected to allowthese specifications to be displayed.
Unable to select records thatare marked as already on thechart
If you have link summarization turned on, and you perform anexpand with conditions, you are unable to select the recordsthat are already on the chart in the results summary view.
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Table 1: Analyst's Notebook Premium - Opal connector (continued)
Problem Description
Selected Charting Scheme isnot updated
When a change to the charting scheme is applied and then thatchange is undone, the styling changes are reversed on the chartsurface, but the Charting Scheme selection remains unchanged.
Search results cannot beadded to a chart
If you attempt to add the results of a search to a chart after thesearch results time out on the server, you see the followingmessage: Failed to copy records to the chart. Tocopy the results, run the search again.
Unable to run visual querieswith large conditions
Decimal values in visual query conditions are limited to 18digits. Longer values cause the visual query operation to fail.
Long-running operations thataccess the Information Storetimeout
If operations that involve the Information Store are unable tocomplete, one of the following error messages might bedisplayed:
• Error in web response• Unexpected error: Unable to execute javascriptat this time
Language support The different components of Enterprise Insight Analysis aretranslated into different languages groups based on demand.Depending on the deployment pattern in use, and the languagethat is selected, some components might display in the defaultlanguage (US English).
Zoom level set to greater than100% might cause blurring
If the operating system zoom level is set to more than 100%,some of the text and symbols in Analyst's Notebook Premiummight appear blurred.
Searching might becomeunavailable or fail in somecircumstances
In Analyst's Notebook Premium, if a search fails to complete orsearching become unavailable, you are required to log in again.
Login prompt appears in asingle sign-on environment
In some situations, users are prompted to log in even whenthey are in a single sign-on environment.
Analyst's Notebook Premiumcan operate incorrectlybecause of client securitysettings
Client security settings might prevent the correct operation ofAnalyst's Notebook Premium. Analyst's Notebook Premiummight request confirmation that the connections are safe.
Analyst's Notebook Premium - Onyx connector
Table 2: Analyst's Notebook Premium - Onyx connector
Problem Description
Searching might becomeunavailable or fail in somecircumstances
In Analyst's Notebook Premium, if a search fails to complete orsearching become unavailable, you are required to log in again.
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Table 2: Analyst's Notebook Premium - Onyx connector (continued)
Problem Description
Language support The different components of Enterprise Insight Analysis aretranslated into different languages groups based on demand.Depending on the deployment pattern in use, and the languagethat is selected, some components might display in the defaultlanguage (US English).
Note: Note: Connector Creator is English-only.
Silverlight installation requiresa reboot afterwards
Silverlight must be installed to use the Onyx connector. Afteryou install Silverlight, you must reboot your machine before youstart Analyst's Notebook Premium.
Some user names and foldernames prevent connection tothe Analysis Repository
If your Windows user name or the name of your folder withinC:\Users contains non-ASCII characters, then Analyst'sNotebook Premium cannot connect to the Analysis Repository.When you start Analyst's Notebook Premium, select a schema,and then click OK, the following error message is displayed:Error connecting to the Analysis Repository.
The volume of data that can bereturned from a data accesson-demand data source islimited
Running Expand or Get Context on a data access on-demanddata source is unable to return large volumes of data toAnalyst's Notebook Premium or the Intelligence Portal. Usersmight encounter a memory limit error due to the number ofitems (or the number of properties on items) when theapplication returns the results of these commands.
For more information about changing the maximum number ofitems that can be returned, see http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21979467.
The strength of links is nottransferred from connectediBase databases
When links are retrieved from an iBase database by using theiBase connector, the strength information that is associatedwith those links is not transferred. The links are displayed assolid lines.
Login prompt appears in asingle sign-on environment
In some situations, users are prompted to log in even whenthey are in a single sign-on environment.
Bidirectional text can bedisplayed incorrectly
Although i2 Analyze supports right-to-left text, the followingproblems can occur in environments that use right-to-left text:
• Visual Query search conditions do not display correctly whenyou are using right-to-left text.
• Negative numbers display incorrectly in edit mode.• Some tooltips for left-to-right text in a right-to-left enabled
system are displayed with the text mirrored.
Entering some combinations ofmultibyte Unicode charactersdisplays an incorrect glyph
Certain combinations of multibyte Unicode characters displayas a square in the Intelligence Portal, rather than the expectedglyph.
Japanese text uses Chinesefont for punctuation
Certain Japanese punctuation characters are displayed as theequivalent Chinese characters when you enter Japanese text.
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Table 2: Analyst's Notebook Premium - Onyx connector (continued)
Problem Description
The Intelligence Portal doesnot highlight information whenthe Starts With operator isused
If a column filter or a search condition uses the Starts Withoperator, i2 Analyze does not supply highlighting information.
Potential latency when youattach documents
There might be a delay between creating items with documentsattached and being able to download the documents. When yourun in a group Analysis Repository environment, if you make adocument download request before the document is available,an error is displayed.
Double-byte characters cannotbe used to input date and timevalues
i2 Analyze cannot accept double-byte characters as input intodate properties and time properties. More specifically, youcannot use the wider representations of western numbers thatdouble-byte character sets include.
The Intelligence Portal doesnot support non-Gregoriancalendars
In locales with non-Gregorian default calendars, a Gregoriancalendar is used instead for entry and display of dates.
Item label appears to beupdated after edits arecanceled
If you change an item that if saved would cause the item labelto change, and then click Cancel to discard your changes, theitem label changes to include the canceled edits. The data isnot saved and the label change is not persisted. If you close thetab and then reopen the item, the original label is displayed.
Search types vary in non-English-language regions
There are some limitations with exact and fuzzy matching innon-English-language regions:
• Western European script (Brazilian, French, German, Italian,Spanish) and Cyrillic scripts (Russian):
Exact matching produces successful results. Matches that arebased on synonyms or similar spellings might return lessuseful results. Evaluate the results for similar spelling andsynonym matching behaviors, and if necessary, you canmodify the search configuration for a language duringdeployment.
• Semitic and East Asian scripts (Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese,Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese):
Exact matching produces mixed results. The indexing processis heavily reliant on word boundaries (for example, a space).As these scripts do not reflect the same word boundaries aswestern scripts, exact matching can provide weak or noresults for text fragments. However, exact matching works inwhole character sequences, such as the equivalent to Englishsentences. Matches based on synonyms can return lessuseful results than in English. Matches based on similarspellings are unlikely to return useful results. You can modifythe search configuration for a language during deployment.
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Table 2: Analyst's Notebook Premium - Onyx connector (continued)
Problem Description
An error message is displayedif connected to a GroupAnalysis Repository and youdrag items from a data accesssource palette to a chart
If you are connected to a DAOD source that is read-only, if youtry to drag items from data access source palette, an errormessage is displayed. You must use the Analysis Repositorypalette or Data Sources pane to create items in an AnalysisRepository.
Chart names are ignored whencharts are created in theAnalysis Repository
If you create a chart in the Analysis Repository, then save it andopen it in Analyst's Notebook, the chart opens but the chartname is ignored. The default chart name is used. When anychanges are made to that chart, the chart is treated as astandard Analyst's Notebook chart and the changes are notautomatically saved back into the Analysis Repository. Whenyou close and reopen Analyst's Notebook, a message might bedisplayed indicating that a temporary chart cannot be found. Toavoid this problem, create your chart in Analyst's Notebook andupload it to the Analysis Repository. When you next Save thechart, any changes you made to it are automatically saved backinto the Analysis Repository.
New custom icons that have ashading color set are not savedin the chart
When you create a new custom icon and set a shading color, itis not saved as part of the chart. If you remove the image filefrom the custom icons folder or open the chart on a differentcomputer, the icon is displayed as a circle.
Analyst's Notebook Premiumcan operate incorrectlybecause of client securitysettings
Client security settings might prevent the correct operation ofAnalyst's Notebook Premium. Analyst's Notebook Premiummight request confirmation that the connections are safe.
Items that contain a very largeamount of data can affectperformance
If the Analysis Repository contains items that have many cards,or many properties on each card:
• Performance might be affected.• Information can be harder to find.
For data that produces more than a hundred properties on asingle card, or hundreds of cards on a single item, considerchanging the structure of the data.
Help window does not alwaysappear when opened from theData Sources task pane
When the Data Sources task pane is docked, and you click theHelp button, the Help window might disappear and reappearwhen you click it. To close the Help window, undock the DataSources task pane first. After you close the Help window, youcannot invoke it again from the Data Sources task pane whenthe task pane is undocked. To avoid these problems, open theHelp from the Data Sources area of the Home tab of the ribbon.The Help window opens with the "Working with Analyst'sNotebook Premium" topic open.
Analyst's Notebook Premiummight not connect to the LocalAnalysis Repositoryautomatically
The Local Analysis Repository entry might appear in the DataSources task pane, but Analyst's Notebook Premium might notconnect to it automatically. To correct the problem, close andrestart Analyst's Notebook Premium.
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Table 2: Analyst's Notebook Premium - Onyx connector (continued)
Problem Description
Anti-virus software can affectperformance
To improve the performance of the Local Analysis Repository,ensure that anti-virus check software does not monitor theLocal Analysis Repository folder: %LOCALAPPDATA%\IBMi2\Local Analysis Repository.
Unable to use Analyst'sNotebook Premium in a Citrixor Remote Desktop Servicesenvironment
If you are using Citrix/Remote Desktop Services with Adminpermissions (or SeCreateGlobalPrivilege set), multiple userscannot use the Analyst's Notebook Premium Onyx connector atthe same time.
Analyst's Notebook
Table 3: Analyst's Notebook
Problem Description
Unable to use Google Earth tomap chart items
One of the following error messages might be displayed whenyou try to map chart items to Google Earth:
• Unhandled exception has occurred in acomponent in your application. If you clickContinue, the application will ignore thiserror and attempt to continue.
• Google Earth failed to initialize. Pleasecheck that Google Earth version 4.2 or higheris installed, it is configured correctly andthat your connection to the Google Earthserver is working.
These errors can result if:
• The Google Earth installation has been corrupted.• Google Earth is not registered correctly.• The version of Google Earth is not compatible with Analyst's
Notebook.
Refer to the following technote for details of potentialresolutions:
• Repair the Google Earth installation.• Register the Google Earth executable.• Install a different version.
IBM i2 Analyst's Notebook crashes when trying to map chartitems to Google Earth
Unable to find connected linksin iBridge
Using the iBridge Find Connected Links feature finds noconnecting links between connected entities. To findconnections between entities, use Find Path or FindCommon Neighbors.
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Table 3: Analyst's Notebook (continued)
Problem Description
Embedded help files cannotrender italic text in Arabic
When you view the embedded help in Arabic on systems thatuse Windows 10, any text that set to italics does not rendercorrectly.
Opening embedded help filescauses Analyst's Notebook tostop responding
If you have i2 Esri Maps installed, and you attempt to searchthe embedded help for a connected product such as IBM i2iBase, Analyst's Notebook can stop responding. If this problemoccurs, close Analyst's Notebook and restart it.
In environments that connectto multiple data sources,Infotips can stop displaying
When Analyst's Notebook is connected to two or more datasources and i2 Esri Maps is installed and enabled, Infotips canstop displaying. If this problem occurs, close one of theconnections.
Import specifications that useHierarchy layout are notalways compatible
If you create an import specification that uses the Hierarchylayout in Analyst's Notebook version 9.0.1 or earlier, or version9.0.5 or later, an error occurs if you try to edit that importspecification by using Analyst's Notebook versions 9.0.2, 9.0.3,or 9.0.4.
An entity type's icon is notshown after you delete apicture from an event frame
Deleting a picture from an event frame does not revert toshowing the entity type's icon. To show the entity type's icon,right-click Display > Type Icon, or select Type Icon on theDisplay page of the Edit Event Frame window.
Displaying OLE objects Analyst's Notebook can display .bmp, .jpeg, and .gif OLE objectswithout the requirement for a third-party OLE server. However,the following limitations apply:
• When you drag files from Internet Explorer, an Unexpectedfile format error message might be displayed.
• When you drag an unrecognized file type onto the chart theerror message Unexpected file format is displayed, andsubsequent drag operations to the chart from WindowsExplorer might fail.
To avoid these problems, select the Home tab, and then, in theInsert Entities group, insert the image by selecting OLE Object> Picture. Use the Edit Item Properties window to add a pictureto an entity representation.
Performance problems whenyou disconnect from thenetwork
When you disconnect from the network, but a network printerremains set as the default printer, switching between tabs inAnalyst's Notebook can take several seconds. When youdisconnect from a network, change the default printer to a localprinter. Then, in Analyst's Notebook select a local printer.
Note: The following registry key value causes Analyst'sNotebook to ignore the user selected printer, and can bedeleted: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\i2\Default\Printer.
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Table 3: Analyst's Notebook (continued)
Problem Description
Potentially unable to saveentire charts when you Save asPicture
If your computer has insufficient memory, you might be unableto save large charts when you select File > Save as > SaveEntire Chart as Picture. To avoid this problem, save the chartin sections by selecting File > Save As > Save Current View asPicture, or save the chart in PDF format by selecting File >Print > Print to PDF.
Untranslated system attributenames are displayed when yousearch for attribute classes
In a non-English version of Analyst's Notebook, when yousearch for attribute classes in the Insert from Palette task pane,the names of system attributes are not displayed in theirtranslated form.
Unable to expand items aftertheir data records are purged
If you purge data records from items that are added to the chartfrom data sources, any attempt to expand these items results inan error.
Colors window is nottranslated
The Colors window always contains US English text, regardlessof the user's settings.
In Arabic and Hebrew, blackand white application windowsmight appear when you usethe Copy to New AssociationChart feature
When you run in Arabic or Hebrew, selecting the Copy to NewAssociation Chart feature might result in a black and thenwhite application window, when the layouts are applied. A"Windows not responding" message might also appear.However, Analyst's Notebook then recovers and continuesnormally.
i2 Esri Maps not loading If the i2 Esri plug-in does not load correctly, ensure that theMicrosoft Visual C++ 2015 runtime is installed.
Display issues with drawingsthat cross the InternationalDate Line
The following problems might occur when a drawing on an i2Esri Map crosses the International Date Line:
• Duplicate labels might appear for the drawing.• When you edit the drawing, the edit box might be positioned
away from the drawing.• A line might appear drawn through the shape.• When you try to export the drawing through the API, it is
exported as two shapes.
Labels not refreshing on themap
In i2 Esri Maps, if you replace a textual label on a drawing witha blank label, parts of the original label might remain on themap.
Large circles do not rendercorrectly
In i2 Esri Maps, drawing a large circle or ellipse that overlapsitself causes the shape to be drawn incorrectly.
Problems drawing polygons orpolylines on some maps
In i2 Esri Maps, you might encounter instability when you aredrawing a polygon or polyline on some map types, for exampleBritish National Grid. Problems can occur when you select andmove the grab handles that lie between the vertices of thepolygon or polyline.
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Table 3: Analyst's Notebook (continued)
Problem Description
Using i2 Esri Maps in a virtualenvironment takes longer torender the graphics layer
Using i2 Esri Maps in a virtual environment requires access to aphysical graphics card that supports DirectX 11. Manyvirtualization solutions enable access to physical graphics cardson a server and support client access through RDP or theirproprietary container. However, if a remote desktop is used toaccess a virtual machine, i2 Esri Maps uses only WARP(software rendering). When i2 Esri Maps uses WARP, it can takelonger to render the graphics layer.
In some configurations, reverting to WARP is unsupported. Forexample, if you are using Windows 7 in a virtual environment. Inthese situations, the map window displays anArcGISRuntimeException error and you are unable to use i2Esri Maps.
Intelligence Portal
Table 4: Intelligence Portal
Problem Description
The volume of data that can bereturned from a data accesson-demand data source islimited
Running Expand or Get Context on a data access on-demanddata source is unable to return large volumes of data toAnalyst's Notebook Premium or the Intelligence Portal. Usersmight encounter a memory limit error due to the number ofitems (or the number of properties on items) when theapplication returns the results of these commands.
For more information about changing the maximum number ofitems that can be returned, see http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21979467.
The strength of links is nottransferred from connectediBase databases
When links are retrieved from an iBase database by using theiBase connector, the strength information that is associatedwith those links is not transferred. The links are displayed assolid lines.
Login prompt appears in asingle sign-on environment
In some situations, users are prompted to log in even whenthey are in a single sign-on environment.
Bidirectional text can bedisplayed incorrectly
Although i2 Analyze supports right-to-left text, the followingproblems can occur in environments that use right-to-left text:
• Visual Query search conditions do not display correctly whenyou are using right-to-left text.
• Negative numbers display incorrectly in edit mode.• Some tooltips for left-to-right text in a right-to-left enabled
system are displayed with the text mirrored.
Entering some combinations ofmultibyte Unicode charactersdisplays an incorrect glyph
Certain combinations of multibyte Unicode characters displayas a square in the Intelligence Portal, rather than the expectedglyph.
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Table 4: Intelligence Portal (continued)
Problem Description
Japanese text uses Chinesefont for punctuation
Certain Japanese punctuation characters are displayed as theequivalent Chinese characters when you enter Japanese text.
The Intelligence Portal doesnot highlight information whenthe Starts With operator isused
If a column filter or a search condition uses the Starts Withoperator, i2 Analyze does not supply highlighting information.
Potential latency when youattach documents
There might be a delay between creating items with documentsattached and being able to download the documents. When yourun in a group Analysis Repository environment, if you make adocument download request before the document is available,an error is displayed.
The Intelligence Portal doesnot support non-Gregoriancalendars
In locales with non-Gregorian default calendars, a Gregoriancalendar is used instead for entry and display of dates.
Item label appears to beupdated after edits arecanceled
If you change an item that if saved would cause the item labelto change, and then click Cancel to discard your changes, theitem label changes to include the canceled edits. The data isnot saved and the label change is not persisted. If you close thetab and then reopen the item, the original label is displayed.
Microsoft Silverlight is notsupported in some browsers
The list of supported browsers is available in the systemrequirements. For more information, see Microsoft Silverlightmay not work in recent versions of Google Chrome.
Search types vary in non-English-language regions
There are some limitations with exact and fuzzy matching innon-English-language regions:
• Western European script (Brazilian, French, German, Italian,Spanish) and Cyrillic scripts (Russian):
Exact matching produces successful results. Matches that arebased on synonyms or similar spellings might return lessuseful results. Evaluate the results for similar spelling andsynonym matching behaviors, and if necessary, you canmodify the search configuration for a language duringdeployment.
• Semitic and East Asian scripts (Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese,Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese):
Exact matching produces mixed results. The indexing processis heavily reliant on word boundaries (for example, a space).As these scripts do not reflect the same word boundaries aswestern scripts, exact matching can provide weak or noresults for text fragments. However, exact matching works inwhole character sequences, such as the equivalent to Englishsentences. Matches based on synonyms can return lessuseful results than in English. Matches based on similarspellings are unlikely to return useful results. You can modifythe search configuration for a language during deployment.
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Table 4: Intelligence Portal (continued)
Problem Description
Chart names are ignored whencharts are created in theAnalysis Repository
If you create a chart in the Analysis Repository, then save it andopen it in Analyst's Notebook, the chart opens but the chartname is ignored. The default chart name is used. When anychanges are made to that chart, the chart is treated as astandard Analyst's Notebook chart and the changes are notautomatically saved back into the Analysis Repository. Whenyou close and reopen Analyst's Notebook, a message might bedisplayed indicating that a temporary chart cannot be found. Toavoid this problem, create your chart in Analyst's Notebook andupload it to the Analysis Repository. When you next Save thechart, any changes you made to it are automatically saved backinto the Analysis Repository.
Items that contain a very largeamount of data can affectperformance
If the Analysis Repository contains items that have many cards,or many properties on each card:
• Performance might be affected.• Information can be harder to find.
For data that produces more than a hundred properties on asingle card, or hundreds of cards on a single item, considerchanging the structure of the data.
Information Store
Table 5: Information Store
Problem Description
If you use Arabic or Hebrewcharacters, the names oftables and columns do notmatch the display names inthe schema.
It can be difficult to understand the relationship between thetable and column names and the display names in the schemafile.
To deploy the Information Store with Arabic or Hebrew displaynames, first deploy the Information Store with characters fromthe Latin alphabet for display names. After this initialdeployment is successful, you can change the display names inthe schema to use Arabic or Hebrew characters and redeploythe Information Store. Follow this same process when you addentity or property types to a deployed schema, or if you re-create the Information Store database.
Some non-English charactersare replaced in theInformation Store table andcolumn names.
This replacement of characters can change the names that youexpect to see, when you are completing operations such asingesting data. For example, the German language esszettcharacter (written 'ß') is replaced by an underscore inInformation Store table and column names.
This problem can be solved by a procedure similar to theresolution described for the previous problem.
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Table 5: Information Store (continued)
Problem Description
Globalized schemas can causean Information Storedeployment to fail.
If the first 21 valid characters of your display name containmultibyte characters, the derived Information Store table andcolumn names might be too long. If the names are too long, thedeployment of i2 Analyze fails.
The Information Store supports table and column names oflength 30 bytes. The names are derived from the first 21 validcharacters of the display name of item or property types in theschema. A valid character is an alphabetic character that has alowercase representation, or a numeric character. The first validcharacter must be alphabetic.
To deploy successfully, ensure that the first 21 valid charactersof any display name are less than or equal to 21 bytes.
Origin identifiers changedbetween versions
In i2 Analyze version 4.1.2, backslash (\) characters areremoved from origin identifiers when they are created. In laterversions, backslash characters are not removed when originidentifiers are created.
If the information that is used to create your origin identifierscontains backslashes, records that you ingest are identified asnew records rather than updates to existing records. To updateexisting data, you must clear any data from your system andreingest the data.
Geospatial data types are notsupported in the InformationStore Opal pattern
Geospatial data types are supported in the Analysis Repositoryand for the Information store Onyx pattern, but are notsupported in the Information Store Opal pattern.
Information Store does notsupport Read Cloaked
The security classification Read Cloaked is not supported inthe Information Store.
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i2 Analyze Opal services
Table 6: i2 Analyze - Opal services
Problem Description
Messages when Solr Starts orstops
If you are using third-party tools that contain a findexecutable, you might see messages that indicate files cannotbe found:
find: unable to access "TCP ":The system cannot find the file specified.find: unable to access ":0 ":The system cannot find the file specified.find: unable to access ":8983 ":The system cannot find the file specified.
These messages might indicate that the system variable thatdefines the environment path has the path to the third-partytool before the system files. Verify that the Path= systemvariable contains paths that point to the third-party commandline tools added after the paths that point to the system folders.
Searches can stop runningafter i2 Analyze is restarted
If the WebSphere Liberty Application Server is restarted whilesearches are running, the search might time out. To prevent thisissue, ensure that the HTTP server is restarted when you restartthe Application Server.
i2 Analyze Onyx services
Table 7: i2 Analyze - Onyx services
Problem Description
Unable to create databasetables at deployment
When you run deploy or deployExample, if your DB2database is not configured correctly you might see the followingmessage:
Database ds/WriteStore-write1 is at version CleanInstall. Upgrading to latest version 4.1.
If you see this message, ensure that the database is correctlyconfigured in topology.xml, that the database is running, andcan be accessed by using the details that you supplied.
iBase connector does notsupport i2 Analyze schemasthat contain duplicate typenames
If your deployment of iBase connector is based on an existingdeployment of i2 Analyze, then the i2 Analyze schema must notdefine entity and link types that have matching names. If thissituation arises, the toolkit appears to generate the iBaseschema correctly, but iBase is unable to create a database fromit.
To resolve this issue, rename the entity type or the link type inthe i2 schema.
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Table 7: i2 Analyze - Onyx services (continued)
Problem Description
In iBase connector, some datatypes in the schema areincorrectly transformed
In the i2 Analyze schema that is created from an iBase schema,any Multi-Line Text (Append Only) fields areincorrectly transformed to single-line data types. If required,after the schema is created, you can manually change the fieldtypes to Multi-Line Text.
Multiple iBase connectors arenot supported
i2 Analyze supports a single iBase connector that connects to asingle iBase database. However, other data access on-demandconnectors can still be installed, and Connector Creatorsupports connections to multiple databases.
The downloaded ConnectorCreator configuration file canbe invalid
In some circumstances, a Connector Creator configuration filethat you download can be different from the file that wasoriginally uploaded to the server.
• If a <resource> element in the original configuration file didnot have any child <queries> elements, the downloadedversion contains an invalid <queries/> element.
• If a <parameter> element within a query in theconfiguration file did not have any child <select> elements,the downloaded version contains an invalid <select/>element.
Before you reupload a previously downloaded ConnectorCreator configuration file, search for and remove any instancesof <queries/> and <select/> elements.
More information
For more information, see the following resources:
• IBM i2 Enterprise Insight Analysis documentation• IBM Security Learning Academy• Product Support• System Requirements• Supported Languages• Download Document
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