Release Notes for IBM InfoSphere Sensemaking 1.1.0.0
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Copyright IBM Corporation 2011

This documentation describes known issues and fixes for 
IBM(R) InfoSphere(TM) Sensemaking Version 1.1.0.0 (all releases). 

The "General information" section highlights general capabilities.

The "Known issues" section enumerates issues that have been found 
and documented.

The "Installation" section provides notes related to getting the 
InfoSphere Sensemaking system installed and operation ready.

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Contents:
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   General information
   V1.1.0.0 features
   Known issues
   Installation
   Accessibility features
   Trademarks

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General information
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1. The InfoSphere Sensemaking system comes bundled with the following 
components:
   - IBM InfoSphere Sensemaking // The core sensemaking system with "G2" inside
   - IBM DB2 Enterprise Server Edition // The default SQL DBMS
   - IBM InfoSphere Streams // A high-performance pre-processing system and, 
       //    the high-performance insight detection and publishing platform
   - IBM InfoSphere Guardium Database Activity Monitor // The tamper-resistant 
      //    audit log for oversight and accountability 

2. Work with your technical delivery team to determine which components 
will be required for your solution.  Not all components are used in all 
implementations.

3. The Installation section below is particular to the G2 component.  All 
other components come with their own Release Notes and installation 
processes.


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V1.1.0.0 features
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- entity resolution:
	- with re-resolve
	- with un-resolve
	- supports certainly ambiguous conditions

- support for user defined entities and entity features
- configurable resolution rules (made directly to tables, no config GUI in 1.0)
- support for selective anonymization to numbers and dates
- plug-in API for:
	- Feature comparison
	- Relationship scoring
	- Output messages
- derived relations
- UNICODE ready code and database calls
- GNR NameHundter library deeply embedded
- grid compute optimized table structures

NOT YET RELEASED: A configuration/admin GUI, optimized Streams integration, 
ingest pipeline is Python (not C++ yet), plug-in for E-Feature creation, 
support for delete transactions, GNR culture detection, GNR gender detection, 
GNR top variant selecton, event/transaction activity loading/alerting, search 
or persistent search, address hygeine interface, space/time feature processing, 
explicit relationships, unstructured hint service, selective curiosity, mart 
publication, email insight notifications, 
lenses, user defined relevance rules, 
insight publishing.


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Known issues for 1.1.0.0
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1. Generic thresholds hardcoded at 20


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Installation
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1. For AIX the following symbolic links must be created in the .../Sensemaking/v1.1/resolver/lib directory

ln -s libicuuc.a libicuuc38.1.a
ln -s libicuuc.a libicuuc38.a
ln -s libicuio.a libicuio38.1.a
ln -s libicuio.a libicuio38.a
ln -s libicui18n.a libicui18n38.a
ln -s libicui18n.a libicui18n38.1.a
ln -s libicudata.a libicudata38.1.a
ln -s libicudata.a libicudata38.a



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Accessibility features
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Accessibility features help users who have a disability, such as restricted mobility or 
limited vision, to use information technology products successfully.


The following list includes the major accessibility features in Sensemaking V1.1.0.0:

    * Keyboard-only operation
    * Interfaces that are commonly used by screen readers
    * Keys that are tactilely discernible and do not activate just by touching them
    * Industry-standard devices for ports and connectors
    * The attachment of alternative input and output devices

Keyboard navigation
: None

Vendor software: Sensemaking may include certain vendor software that is not covered under 
the IBM license agreement. IBM makes no representation about the accessibility features of 
these products. Contact the vendor for the accessibility information about its products.
Related accessibility information

IBM and accessibility
: See the IBM Human Ability and Accessibility Center (http://www-03.ibm.com/able/) 
for more information about the commitment that IBM has to accessibility.


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Trademarks
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IBM, the IBM logo, ibm.com, AIX, DB2 and InfoSphere are trademarks or registered
trademarks of International Business Machines Corp., registered in many
jurisdictions worldwide. Also, Guardium® and S-TAP™ are trademarks or registered 
trademarks of Guardium, Inc., an IBM Company. A current list of IBM trademarks 
is available on the Web at "Copyright and trademark information" at 
www.ibm.com/legal/copytrade.shtml.

The following terms are trademarks or registered trademarks of other 
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   o Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the United States, 
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Microsoft Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both.

Other product and service names might be trademarks of IBM or other companies.

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