Version 9 Release 2. IBM i2 Analyst's Notebook Premium Release Notes IBM

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Version 9 Release 2

IBM i2 Analyst's Notebook Premium Release Notes

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Release notes - IBM i2 Analyst's Notebook Premium 9.2.1

IBM^® i2^® Analyst's Notebook Premium 9.2.1 is available.

Contents

• “Description” on page 1

• “Release highlights” on page 1

• “Virtualization support” on page 2

• “Known problems” on page 2

• “More information” on page 11

Description

Analyst's Notebook Premium is a rich, data-centric visual analysis environment that can reduce the costs and time that is associated with multidimensional analysis. Analyst's Notebook Premium collects, manages, and organizes information and intelligence. Using Analyst's Notebook Premium, it is easy for analysts and investigators to uncover networks, patterns, and trends within increasing volumes of structured and unstructured data. Adding Analyst's Notebook Premium to i2 Analyze provides extensive multidimensional analysis tools for use in a collaborative environment.

Note: IBM i2 Analyst's Notebook Premium compatibility is affected by the following announcements.

• Analyst's Notebook Premium Version 9.0 and later are not compatible with i2 software that is older than version 8.9.

Analyst's Notebook Premium only supports the operating systems and supported software listed in the detailed system requirements. Ensure that existing installs are upgraded to currently supported versions of all the software required. For more information about the software supported for the current release, see System Requirements.

Analyst's Notebook Premium Version 9.2.1 is the last version that supports i2 Pattern Tracer.

Release highlights

The following new and updated features are available:

IBM i2 Analyst's Notebook

• Undo Stack: Chart navigation actions are no longer stored as undo steps.

• Bar chart and histograms: A 'Fit Selection to Window' option is available. When enabled, the chart window zooms to fit the items in the current bar selection.

• Product Access Management: The license manager has been upgraded to support Windows Server 2019.

Important: The product access management feature is compatible with earlier supported versions of IBM i2 applications, but is not always compatible with later versions. To ensure that your permits are handled correctly, upgrade your License Manager before you upgrade your applications.

The following APARs are fixed in this release of Analyst's Notebook.

• Analyst’s Notebook^® allows Windows to resize the user interface when using text sizes greater than 100%. [APAR PO06685]

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• The blank identity field in the import specification remains blank when set rather than creating an entity with a blank identity. [APAR PO08542]

• i2 Esri Maps no longer crashes when a gallery item is double-clicked. [APAR PO08480]

IBM i2 Analyst's Notebook Premium - Opal connector

• Record matching on import: Use system rules in import specifications to match records in the incoming data to records in the Information Store, and on the chart.

• Get matches: Find out if chart entity records match with records in the Information Store.

• Record matching from external search: Use systems rules to match records from external searches to analyst governed records in the Information Store, and on the chart.

• Source references: Describe the source information related to i2 Analyze records using links, images, and text.

• Record identifiers: Make distinct records easy to share and locate with a unique identifier.

• i2 Maps: i2 Analyze records with geospatial properties can be visualized on the i2 Maps surface.

• Geospatial Visual Query: Define the boundary of a search area in Visual Query, either by drawing a shape or using GeoJSON data.

• Get paths: Search the Information Store for paths between lead records and copy the results to the chart.

The following APARs are fixed in this release of Analyst's Notebook Premium.

• The property 'length' of null error message in the Record Inspector is resolved. [APAR PO08310]

Virtualization support

Analyst's Notebook is supported on hardware virtualization environments that run any of the operating systems that are listed in the detailed system requirements. When you run in a virtual environment, any issues that can be replicated by IBM in a supported operating system are addressed by using the standard IBM support policy.

Note: Trial editions of IBM i2 Analyst's Notebook cannot be run in virtualized environments.

Known problems

The most up-to-date source for known problems in Analyst's Notebook Premium is the HTML version of these release notes at http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSXVXZ_2.3.1/

com.ibm.i2.releasenotes.doc/anbp.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

Import specifications ignore the Entity

representation type Import specifications will import all entities as icons, any import specifications that contain different representation types such as theme lines will import the entities, but they will display as icons.

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Table 1. Analyst's Notebook Premium - Opal connector (continued)

Values specified in Link Occurrence Options

are ignored If you set Link Occurrence Options values in

Import Details, they are ignored when the import runs.

Selected Charting Scheme is not updated When a change to the charting scheme is applied and then that change is undone, the styling changes are reversed on the chart surface, but the Charting Scheme selection remains unchanged.

Search results cannot be added to a chart If you attempt to add the results of a search to a chart when the search results are no longer cached on the server, you see the following message: Failed to copy records to the chart. To copy the results, run the search again.

System governed records are not used in matching when copying to the chart from external searches

Analyst governed records are matched with records copied from an external search. Get Matches can be used to copy system governed records to the chart.

Long-running operations that access the

Information Store timeout If operations that involve the Information Store are unable to complete, one of the following error messages might be displayed:

• Error in web response

• Unexpected error: Unable to execute javascript at this time

Language support The different components of Enterprise Insight Analysis are translated into different languages groups based on demand. Depending on the deployment pattern in use, and the language that is selected, some components might display in the default language (US English).

Zoom level set to greater than 100% 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 Premium might appear blurred.

Opal charts are not compatible with earlier

versions Charts created in Analyst's Notebook Premium

version 9.2.1 cannot be used in earlier versions. If charts created in earlier versions are opened in version 9.2.1, the charts are upgraded.

Pan and zoom does not automatically reset

on map When several address entities are added to the

map, the zoom sets to the most recently added entity and does not adjust to display the other entities.

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Table 1. Analyst's Notebook Premium - Opal connector (continued)

Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) version incompatibility can cause errors in third party plug-ins.

The CEF component can only be initialized once within an application process. Third party plug-ins that depend on a different version to the version running within the Analyst's Notebook Premium process might experience errors. To avoid these errors, use the same version of CEF contained in Analyst’s Notebook Premium and check whether CEF is already running before starting your plug- in.

Analyst's Notebook Premium - Onyx connector

Table 2. Analyst's Notebook Premium - Onyx connector

Language support The different components of Enterprise Insight Analysis are translated into different languages groups based on demand. Depending on the deployment pattern in use, and the language that is selected, some components might display in the default language (US English).

Note: Note: Connector Creator is English-only.

Silverlight installation requires a restart

afterward Silverlight must be installed to use the Onyx

connector. After you install Silverlight, you must restart your computer before you start Analyst's Notebook Premium.

Some usernames and folder names prevent

connection to the Analysis Repository If your Windows username or the name of your folder within C:\Users contains non-ASCII characters, then Analyst's Notebook 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 be returned from a data access on-demand data source is limited

Running Expand or Get Context on a data access on-demand data source is unable to return large volumes of data to Analyst's Notebook Premium or the Intelligence Portal. Users might encounter a memory limit error due to the number of items (or the number of properties on items) when the application returns the results of these commands.

For more information about changing the

maximum number of items that can be returned, see Limitation on Expand, Show Context and Get Context via data access on-demand.

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Table 2. Analyst's Notebook Premium - Onyx connector (continued)

The strength of links is not transferred from

connected iBase databases When links are retrieved from an iBase database by using the iBase connector, the strength information that is associated with those links is not transferred. The links are displayed as solid lines.

Bidirectional text can be displayed

incorrectly Although i2 Analyze supports right-to-left text, the following problems can occur in environments that use right-to-left text:

• Visual Query search conditions do not display correctly when you 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 of multibyte Unicode characters displays an incorrect glyph

Certain combinations of multibyte Unicode characters display as a square in the Intelligence Portal, rather than the expected glyph.

Japanese text uses Chinese font for

punctuation Certain Japanese punctuation characters are

displayed as the equivalent Chinese characters when you enter Japanese text.

The Intelligence Portal does not highlight information when the Starts With operator is used

If a column filter or a search condition uses the Starts With operator, i2 Analyze does not supply highlighting information.

Potential latency when you attach

documents A delay might occur between creating items with

documents attached and being able to download the documents. When you run in a group Analysis Repository environment, if you make a document download request before the document is available, an error is displayed.

Double-byte characters cannot be used to

input date and time values i2 Analyze cannot accept double-byte characters as input into date properties and time properties.

More specifically, you cannot use the wider representations of western numbers that double- byte character sets include.

The Intelligence Portal does not support

non-Gregorian calendars In locales with non-Gregorian default calendars, a Gregorian calendar is used instead for entry and display of dates.

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Item label appears to be updated after edits

are canceled If you change an item that if saved would cause the item label to change, and then click Cancel to discard your changes, the item label changes to include the canceled edits. The data is not saved and the label change is not persisted. If you close the tab and then reopen the item, the original label is displayed.

Search types vary in non-English-language

regions Some limitations exist with exact and fuzzy

matching in non-English-language regions.

• Western European script (Brazilian, French, German, Italian, Spanish) and Cyrillic scripts (Russian):

Exact matching produces successful results.

Matches that are based on synonyms or similar spellings might return less useful results.

Evaluate the results for similar spelling and synonym matching behaviors, and if necessary, you can modify the search configuration for a language during deployment.

• Semitic and East Asian scripts (Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese,

Traditional Chinese):

Exact matching produces mixed results. The indexing process is heavily reliant on word boundaries (for example, a space). As these scripts do not reflect the same word boundaries as western scripts, exact matching can provide weak or no results for text fragments. However, exact matching works in whole character sequences, such as the equivalent to English sentences. Matches based on synonyms can return less useful results than in English.

Matches based on similar spellings are unlikely to return useful results. You can modify the search configuration for a language during deployment.

If connected to a Group Analysis Repository and you drag items from a data access source palette to a chart, an error message is displayed

If you are connected to a DAOD source that is read-only, if you try to drag items from data access source palette, an error message is displayed. You must use the Analysis Repository palette or Data Sources pane to create items in an Analysis Repository.

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Chart names are ignored when charts are

created in the Analysis Repository If you create a chart in the Analysis Repository, then save it and open it in Analyst's Notebook, the chart opens but the chart name is ignored. The default chart name is used. When any changes are made to that chart, the chart is treated as a standard Analyst's Notebook chart and the changes are not automatically saved back into the Analysis Repository. When you close and reopen Analyst's Notebook, a message might be

displayed indicating that a temporary chart cannot be found. To avoid this problem, create your chart in Analyst's Notebook and upload it to the

Analysis Repository. When you next Save the chart, any changes you made to it are automatically saved back into the Analysis Repository.

New custom icons that have a shading color

set are not saved in the chart When you create a new custom icon and set a shading color, it is not saved as part of the chart. If you remove the image file from the custom icons folder or open the chart on a different computer, the icon is displayed as a circle.

Items that contain a very large amount of

data can affect performance 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 a single card, or hundreds of cards on a single item, consider changing the structure of the data.

Help window does not always appear when

opened from the Data Sources task pane When the Data Sources task pane is docked, and you click the Help button, the Help window might disappear and reappear when you click it. To close the Help window, undock the Data Sources task pane first. After you close the Help window, you cannot invoke it again from the Data Sources task pane when the task pane is undocked. To avoid these problems, open the Help from the Data Sources area of the Home tab of the ribbon. The Help window opens with the "Working with Analyst's Notebook Premium" topic open.

Analyst's Notebook Premium might not connect to the Local Analysis Repository automatically

The Local Analysis Repository entry might appear in the Data Sources task pane, but Analyst's Notebook Premium might not connect to it automatically. To correct the problem, close and restart Analyst's Notebook Premium.

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Anti-virus software can affect performance To improve the performance of the Local Analysis Repository, ensure that anti-virus check software does not monitor the Local Analysis Repository folder: %LOCALAPPDATA%\IBM i2\Local Analysis Repository.

Unable to use Analyst's Notebook Premium in a Citrix or Remote Desktop Services environment

If you are using Citrix or Remote Desktop Services with Admin permissions (or

SeCreateGlobalPrivilege set), multiple users cannot use the Analyst's Notebook Premium Onyx connector at the same time.

Analyst's Notebook

Table 3. Analyst's Notebook

Unable to use Google Earth to map chart

items One of the following error messages might be

displayed when you try to map chart items to Google Earth:

• Unhandled exception has occurred in a component in your application. If you click Continue, the application will ignore this error and attempt to continue.

• Google Earth failed to initialize.

Please check that Google Earth version 4.2 or higher is installed, it is configured correctly and that your connection to the Google Earth server 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 potential resolutions:

• Repair the Google Earth installation.

• Register the Google Earth executable file.

• Install a different version.

IBM i2 Analyst's Notebook crashes when trying to map chart items to Google Earth

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Table 3. Analyst's Notebook (continued)

Embedded help files cannot render italic

text in Arabic When you view the embedded help in Arabic on

systems that use Windows 10, any text that set to italics does not render correctly.

Opening embedded help files causes

Analyst's Notebook to stop responding If you have i2 Esri Maps installed, and you attempt to search the embedded help for a connected product such as IBM i2 iBase, Analyst's Notebook can stop responding. If this problem occurs, close Analyst's Notebook and restart it.

In environments that connect to multiple

data sources, Infotips can stop displaying When Analyst's Notebook is connected to two or more data sources and i2 Esri Maps is installed and enabled, Infotips can stop displaying. If this problem occurs, close one of the connections.

Import specifications that use Hierarchy

layout are not always compatible If you create an import specification that uses the Hierarchy layout in Analyst's Notebook version 9.0.1 or earlier, or version 9.0.5 or later, an error occurs if you try to edit that import specification by using Analyst's Notebook versions 9.0.2, 9.0.3, or 9.0.4.

An entity type's icon is not shown after you

delete a picture from an event frame Deleting a picture from an event frame does not revert to showing the entity type's icon. To show the entity type's icon, right-click Display > Type Icon, or select Type Icon on the Display page of the Edit Event Frame window.

Displaying OLE objects Analyst's Notebook can display .bmp, .jpeg, and .gif OLE objects without the requirement for a third-party OLE server. However, the following limitations apply:

• When you drag files from a browser, an

Unexpected file format error message might be displayed.

• When you drag an unrecognized file type onto the chart the error message Unexpected file format is displayed, and subsequent drag operations to the chart from Windows Explorer might fail.

To avoid these problems, select the Home tab, and then, in the Insert Entities group, insert the image by selecting OLE Object > Picture. Use the Edit Item Properties window to add a picture to an entity representation.

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Performance problems when you

disconnect from the network When you disconnect from the network, but a network printer remains set as the default printer, switching between tabs in Analyst's Notebook can take several seconds. When you disconnect from a network, change the default printer to a local printer. Then, in Analyst's Notebook select a local printer.

Note: The following registry key value causes Analyst's Notebook to ignore the user selected printer, and can be deleted:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\i2\Default

\Printer.

Potentially unable to save entire charts

when you Save as Picture If your computer has insufficient memory, you might be unable to save large charts when you select File > Save as > Save Entire Chart as Picture. To avoid this problem, save the chart in sections by selecting File > Save As > Save Current View as Picture, or save the chart in PDF format by selecting File > Print > Print to PDF.

Untranslated system attribute names are displayed when you search for attribute classes

In a non-English version of Analyst's Notebook, when you search for attribute classes in the Insert from Palette task pane, the names of system attributes are not displayed in their translated form.

Unable to expand items after their data

records are purged If you purge data records from items that are added to the chart from data sources, any attempt to expand these items results in an error.

Colors window is not translated The Colors window always contains US English text, regardless of the user's settings.

In Arabic and Hebrew, black and white application windows might appear when you use the Copy to New Association Chart feature

When you run in Arabic or Hebrew, selecting the Copy to New Association Chart feature might result in a black and then white application window, when the layouts are applied. A

"Windows not responding" message might also appear. However, Analyst's Notebook then recovers and continues normally.

i2 Esri Maps not loading If the i2 Esri plug-in does not load correctly, ensure that the Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 runtime is installed.

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Display issues with drawings that cross the

International Date Line The following problems might occur when a drawing on an i2 Esri 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 the map In i2 Esri Maps, if you replace a textual label on a drawing with a blank label, parts of the original label might remain on the map.

Large circles do not render correctly In i2 Esri Maps, drawing a large circle or ellipse that overlaps itself causes the shape to be drawn incorrectly.

Problems drawing polygons or polylines on

some maps In i2 Esri Maps, you might encounter instability

when you are drawing a polygon or polyline on some map types, for example British National Grid. Problems can occur when you select and move the grab handles that lie between the vertices of the polygon or polyline.

Using i2 Esri Maps in a virtual environment

takes longer to render the graphics layer Using i2 Esri Maps in a virtual environment requires access to a physical graphics card that supports DirectX 11. Many virtualization solutions enable access to physical graphics cards on a server and support client access through RDP or their proprietary container. However, if a remote desktop is used to access a virtual machine, i2 Esri Maps uses only WARP (software rendering).

When i2 Esri Maps uses WARP, it can take longer to render the graphics layer.

In some configurations, reverting to WARP is unsupported. For example, if you are using Windows 7 in a virtual environment. In these situations, the map window displays an

ArcGISRuntimeException error and you are unable to use i2 Esri Maps.

More information

For more information, see the following resources:

• IBM i2 Enterprise Insight Analysis documentation

• IBM Security Learning Academy

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