Software Announcement September 21, 1999

IBM DB2 Intelligent Miner for Data for OS/390 Version 6.1, Greater Competitiveness Through Informed Decision Making

Overview DB2 Intelligent Miner for Data for OS/390 is based on a client/server At a Glance IBM DB2 Intelligent Miner for architecture and mines data directly Data for OS/390 enables from DB2. Supported clients are Now even more business knowledge workers to identify and Windows 95, Windows 98, intelligence users can readily extract high-value business Windows NT , AIX , and OS/2 . obtain the information they need to intelligence from large amounts of develop smart business strategies. enterprise data. Version 6.1 (V6R1) Key Prerequisites The enhanced capabilities of this offers new analysis and data product let you: •  exploration options which enhance Server: S/390 processor • Analyze business information core capability while supporting OS/390 Version 2 more effectively with: making critical data more accessible Release 4 or higher to those who need it most. Business • Client: Workstation running AIX, − A new Associations analysts and managers are Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT, Visualizer empowered to make better informed or OS/2 − Extended data exploration decisions to improve customer alll. relations, maximize profits, and Installation planning information will reduce risk of fraud and abuse. be available on the Intelligent Miner − Improve productivity for Data Internet site: through: DB2 Intelligent Miner for Data for OS/390 V6R1 places increased focus http://www.software.ibm.com -- Visual Warehouse on bringing the value of data mining /iminer/fordata/ Integration to more users. -- Export to spreadsheet Enhancements include integration -- Copy to clipboard with warehouse and business Planned Availability Date -- Print Visualizations intelligence tools. Integrated − September 24, 1999 Control costs with new business intelligence offerings scalability options: leverage product enhancements to deliver end-to-end mining solutions -- Parallel processing for to the business analyst. Value Prediction − Take advantage of powerful SAP Business Warehouse: Joint SAP resources through enhanced and IBM technology pilots are mining solutions: underway to enable SAP users to utilize Intelligent Miner to mine data -- SAP Business Warehouse sourced from their SAP Business integration Warehouse. -- SPSS integration at the glass SPSS: SPSS integration can provide -- IBM GBIS consultants Intelligent Miner for Data users with additional statistical analysis and For ordering, contact: Your IBM representative, an IBM data exploration capabilities. Business Partner, or IBM Americas Call Centers at IBM GBIS: Global Business 800-IBM-CALL Reference: LE001 Intelligence Solutions continues to offer data mining consultancy, recognized as the best in the EXTRA! EXTRA! . . . industry. Subscribe to IBM iSource, your electronic source for customized IBM information! Go to our Web site at http://www.ibm.com/isource or send an e-mail to [email protected] with the word SUBSCRIBE in the body.

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IBM United States IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. 299-267 Enhanced Intelligent Miner Solutions Description SAP Business Warehouse: Joint SAP and IBM technology DB2 Intelligent Miner for Data enables knowledge workers pilots are underway to enable SAP users to utilize to identify and extract high value business intelligence Intelligent Miner data sourced from their SAP Business and communicate results to business users for further Warehouse. Generated models are applied and ported analysis and decision making. DB2 Intelligent Miner for back to the warehouse. As both data and metadata are Data is an integrated solution for the sophisticated imported and exported, users will be able to define data analysis of large amounts of enterprise data. once.

From its initial release, the Intelligent Miner has SPSS: SPSS integration affords Intelligent Miner users embodied proven data mining technology with additional statistical analysis and data exploration best-of-breed scalability and has been deployed in a capabilities. Integration at the glass will provide a variety of customer mining solutions. Version 2 seamless user interface to utilize Intelligent Miner for enhancements included additional scalability options and Data and SPSS functions interactively during the data placed significant emphasis on usability and productivity mining process. for data mining analysts. While Version 6.1 offers further enhancements in core capabilities, a new area of IBM GBIS: Global Business Intelligence Solutions offers emphasis supports the emerging maturation of data data mining consultancy which is recognized in the mining in Intelligent Miner customer installations. industry for excellence and expertise.

Version 6.1 Objectives: DB2 Intelligent Miner for Data Version 6.1 Highlights Version 6.1 offers new analysis, data exploration, and scalability options which enhance core data mining • A new, highly interactive Associations Visualizer capability. In addition, Version 6.1 places increased focus facilitates interpretation of mining results produced by on bringing the value of data mining to more business Associations Discovery. A variety of textual and intelligence users by broadening access to mining graphical representations are provided with user function and results at the business analyst′s desktop. customization and filtering options. (Available on Enhancements include integration with warehouse and Windows clients only.) business intelligence tools, and improved communication of data mining results to business analysts. Integrated • Parallel enhancements to the Value Prediction business intelligence solutions leverage product algorithm provide potential performance improvement enhancements to deliver custom mining solutions to when applying generated models in parallel. business analysts. • Support for DB2 UDB Version 6.1 includes mining data from, and applying model results to, DB2 UDB Enhancements Targeted to the Data Mining Analyst: Version 6 . New Version 6 index features Users are able to exploit the parallel processing and extended names are utilized by the capabilities of S/390 hardware configurations for parallel Intelligent Miner. data mining with the Intelligent Miner. In addition to mining algorithms which already operate in parallel, the • DB2 DataJoiner can be used to mine non-DB2 value prediction algorithm is enhanced with V6R1 to relational data, including both read and write exploit parallel processing. Specifically, models can be operations, thereby increasing Intelligent Miner′s applied in parallel. reach to enterprise data. DB2 Universal  (UDB) Version 6.1 databases • Print support is provided directly to printers — will be fully supported by all mining algorithms. New DB2 including network printers — for most visualizations, UDB index features and extended column names are thereby improving communication capability. utilized by the Intelligent Miner. DB2 DataJoiner can • Support for exporting to a comma-separated variable be used by the Intelligent Miner to mine non-DB2 (CSV) data format allows users of other business databases, including both read and write operations. intelligence tools (for example, spreadsheet tools) to further drill down and interpret the significance of Enhancements Targeted to the Business Analyst: A mining results. Intelligent Miner supports the import powerful new visualizer is provided for interpreting the of CSV data. mining results created by the Associations Discovery algorithm. Actually comprised of a linked set of textual • A new ′copy to clipboard′ capability allows users to and graphical representations, the new visualizer is copy-selected output with its graphical characteristics aimed at facilitating business communications. to other business intelligence tools (such as spreadsheet products). This further increases Enablement features of the DB2 Intelligent Miner for Data communication to analysts downstream from the provide the mechanisms for integration of business actual mining run. intelligence tools at the glass. Applying model results to the database enriches the information available to • Usability improvements to the user interface provide business analysts through familiar business intelligence more intuitive usage, easier navigation, and better tools they use every day. Seamless tool integration at the performance. glass facilitates the iterative analysis process. The first • tools targeted for integration will offer additional A fully documented example is provided to illustrate statistical analysis and data exploration options to how users can metadata across Intelligent Miner analysts. and Visual Warehouse Version 5.2 and invoke Intelligent Miner function from within the Visual DB2 Intelligent Miner for Data is based on a client/server Warehouse environment. architecture and mines data directly from DB2 as well as • A fully documented example is provided to illustrate from other data sources via DB2 DataJoiner. Data and how some Intelligent Miner models can be exported to metadata can also be exchanged with warehouses and self-contained code. This allows further deployment business intelligence tools and applications. Supported of models in any user application on any platform. clients are Windows 95/98/NT, AIX, and OS/2.

299-267 -2- • SAP Business Warehouse integration allows SAP users researchers identify common patterns of symptoms that to mine Business Warehouse data using the Intelligent lead to particular illnesses. Miner for Data products. The Intelligent Miner also plays a central role in IBM′s • SPSS and SPlus integration improve productivity Business Intelligence Solution strategy. during the data preparation stage by increasing data exploration and analysis functions available to DB2 Visual Warehouse: The DB2 Visual Warehouse Intelligent Miner users through one of these statistics provides a solid data infrastructure for mining enterprise packages. The implementation also provides an data, and provides a comprehensive set of products to example of how other business intelligence tools might create, maintain, and administer a customer data be seamlessly integrated at the glass. warehouse. Data is cleansed and reconciled as the warehouse is implemented, resulting in a more reliable Year 2000 information base for mining. Warehouse metadata provides data analysts with critical information regarding This product does not have date dependencies and is the makeup and meaning of available data. DB2 Year 2000 ready. Intelligent Miner for Data functions can be invoked from the Visual Warehouse environment. A key strategy for Euro Currency DB2 Intelligent Miner is to increase the degree of warehouse integration over time, encompassing data, metadata, and function sharing. This program is not impacted by euro currency. DB2 OLAP Server : The IBM DB2 OLAP Server is an Product Positioning online analytical processing (OLAP) server designed for a wide range of multidimensional planning, analysis, and reporting applications. DB2 OLAP Server integrates the DB2 Intelligent Miner for Data products provide a wide powerful OLAP engine and application range of industrial-strength mining technologies within an programming interfaces, developed by Hyperion, with the integrated tool suite to support sophisticated data mining IBM DB2 family of relational databases. The relational as well as application services to support development storage interface enables DB2 OLAP Server to store data of customized mining applications. Intelligent Miner for directly into DB2 and other relational databases. Data enables you to harvest valuable information from enterprise data sources and present that information to OLAP offerings have gained increased importance with business users for analysis and decision making. the advent of data warehouses and advanced analytics. They allow users to query and analyze data to verify IBM is leading the way in helping users identify and business hypotheses. Discovery driven mining tools extract high-value business intelligence from their data extend the analysts′ capabilities by enabling them to scan assets. Providing a new level of competitiveness and massive amounts of information and quickly determine strategic decision-making power, this “mining” process is associations, patterns, and trends which would previously one of knowledge discovery and identifying hidden have eluded them. The two approaches are relationships, new trends, and previously undetected complementary. Traditional and advanced decision patterns hidden within a data store. Business managers, support will continue to play a critical role in financial and fraud analysts, marketing managers, and a understanding, visualizing, and drilling-down to the detail host of business decision makers are now better equipped required. Mining results may help users determine the to make more intuitive yet strategic decisions which dimensions and/or content of a multidimensional data ultimately affect a business′ bottom line. Whether the store. problem is how to improve customer satisfaction, improve profitability, or reduce the risk of fraud abuse, the solution DB2 Universal Database (UDB): Mining operations can is the same — data mining using the DB2 Intelligent Miner be performed directly against DB2 data. Parallel DB2 for Data. processing is also supported and can be leveraged in The Intelligent Miner features powerful mining algorithms conjunction with parallelized versions of the mining supported by data processing, statistical analysis, and algorithms for large-scale mining runs. visualization facilities that enable analysts to discover patterns in enterprise data which would otherwise be DB2 DataJoiner: IBM DB2 DataJoiner is the unobserved. The Intelligent Miner algorithms enable heterogeneous database solution for accessing data — analyses ranging from deviation detection, classification, IBM or non-IBM, relational or non-relational, local or and predicative modeling, to association discovery, remote — as if it were one database. Intelligent Miner for sequential pattern discovery, and clustering. Data users have the option of mining data stored in a variety of data sources accessible by DB2 DataJoiner For example, using a classification algorithm, a financial such as Oracle, Informix, and Sybase. services company may be able to detect possible fraudulent usage of credit cards by examining deviations Mining Applications: Industry-specific mining application in the card usage patterns of its customers. Using offerings leverage the benefits of mining by elevating predictive modeling, a retailer could forecast changes in access and analysis of mining results to be easily customer buying patterns and keep abreast of understood and applied by targeted business users or comparisons of purchases over the Internet or through operational applications. Applications have been mail order with those through in-store buying. developed by IBM, customers, and IBM partners, and are becoming a primary vehicle for bringing the value of Using Association Discovery, a supermarket chain could mining to the business community. determine which products are most frequently sold in conjunction with other products, and stock these store IBM Consulting and Services: IBM Data Mining items on shelves accordingly to maximize sales Consultants, recognized in the industry as among the opportunities. An insurance company could use customer best, have deployed IBM mining technology in customer segmentation data to create target-marketing campaigns, mining solutions worldwide, including customized or to cross-sell services among existing customers. versions applications to fit industry and customer Sequential Pattern analyses could help medical requirements. IBM Consulting practices are organized to

-3- 299-267 bring industry, data and text mining, as well as warehouse and database skills to bear on business problems such as customer relationship management, marketing, and fraud and abuse management. Resources are available to support all phases of a mining solution implementation, from conception through deployment.

IBM Partnership Programs: Partnership programs provide assistance and technical support to non-IBM ISVs, SIs, and VARs to develop and market data mining offerings which leverage Intelligent Miner technology.

Hardware and Software Support Services

SmoothStart /Installation Services

IBM SmoothStart Services, an on-site implementation and training startup service designed to accelerate your productive use of IBM solutions, is provided by IBM Global Services or your IBM Business Partner at an additional cost. For additional information on IBM SmoothStart Services, refer to Services Announcement 697-004, dated March 25, 1997, or contact your IBM representative and ask for SmoothStart Services for Intelligent Miner for Data for OS/390 Version 6.1. IBM Installation Services are provided for IBM solutions by IBM Global Services or your IBM Business Partner at an additional cost. For additional information, contact your IBM representative and ask for Installation Services for Intelligent Miner for Data for OS/390 Version 6.1. IBM SmoothStart or Installation Services are offered for most IBM solutions and are not specific to Intelligent Miner for Data for OS/390 Version 6.1.

Reference Information

Refer to: • IBM Intelligent Miner Family — Announcement Highlights, Software Announcement 298-070, dated February 24, 1998 • IBM Intelligent Miner for Data for OS/390 Version 2.1 Software Announcement 298-224, dated June 23, 1998 • IBM Intelligent Miner for Data for OS/390 Version 2.1.2 Software Announcement 298-352, dated September 22, 1998

Trademarks

Intelligent Miner and SmoothStart are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States or other countries or both. DB2, OS/390, AIX, OS/2, S/390, Visual Warehouse, DB2 Universal Database, DataJoiner, Information Warehouse, and DB2 OLAP Server are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States or other countries or both. Windows NT, Microsoft, and Windows are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Other company, product, and service names may be trademarks or service marks of others.

299-267 -4- IBM US Announcement Supplemental Information

September 21, 1999

To stay up-to-date on the latest IBM announcements, news, press, publications, customer briefs, FAQs, Consulting and Services collateral, presentations, demos, and general information, visit the Intelligent Miner Web site regularly: Consulting and services resources are available to assist you during every phase of a data mining engagement, http://www.software.ibm.com/iminer/ from business problem identification through implementation and deployment of a data mining Brochures are available now for ordering. They can also application. This includes product service offerings for be found on the Internet Web site and downloaded as PDF the Intelligent Miner, and Decision files. Support products, and application solutions. • Intelligent Miner for Data Brochure — GC26-8832 The IBM Global Business Intelligence Solutions (GBIS) • IBM Information Mining Solutions: Discovering Unit has aligned with the finance, telecommunications, Knowledge That Gives You an Edge — GC26-9310 retail and distribution, health and travel Industry Solutions Units (ISUs), and is jointly developing and White Papers can be found on the Internet Web site. delivering data mining solution offerings for each specific Those currently available: industry. Intelligent Miner for Relationship Marketing and DecisionEdge are key strategic offerings in this area. • IBM′s Data Mining Technology For additional information on consulting and services • Information Mining with the IBM Intelligent Miner offerings, contact your local GBIS or ISU representative. Family Redbooks: Open Blueprint • Intelligent Miner for Data: Enhance Your Business  Intelligence — SG24-5422 Intelligent Miner for Data for OS/390 Version 6.1 provides the desktop screen look and feel. Its • Mining Relational and Nonrelational Data with IBM implementation is consistent with the user interface Intelligent Miner for Data Using Oracle, SPSS, and SAS function described in IBM′s Open Blueprint. It provides as Sample DataSources — SG24-5278 the following to facilitate open, distributed, multivendor interoperability: • Intelligent Miner for Data Applications Guide — SG24-5252 • Motif industry-standard interface from the Open • Discovering DATA MINING from Concept to Software Foundation (OSF) Implementation, for newcomers to data mining, with • Windows interface from Microsoft Corporation many examples of real-world applications, performance and scalability information — SG24-4839, • OS/2 interface from IBM Corporation ISBN-13-743980 Intelligent Miner for Data for OS/390 Version 6.1 supports For the latest Redbook information, refer to: the function described in IBM′s Open Blueprint. It supports the Structured http://www.redbooks.ibm.com (SQL) industry-standard interface from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).

Education Support Technical Information IBM education classes available: Specified Operating Environment • DW360 — Intelligent Miner Workshop • DW370 — Intelligent Miner Programming Workshop Hardware Requirements: Intelligent Miner for Data for OS/390 Version 6.1 runs on System/390 processors. For more information about the above offerings, including descriptions, schedules, and availability in your area, Temporary files are created and deleted when a mining consult the IBM education Web site at: run is completed. As a guideline, an additional 30% of the space used for the mined data is required for temporary http://www.training.ibm.com/ibmedu/ files. Call IBM Education and Training at 800-IBM-TEACH Note: Storage space depends on the amount of data (426-8322) for catalogs, schedules and enrollments. processed per run. More information on the behavior of the algorithms with different data sizes and scalability can be found in the Intelligent Miner redbook (refer to the Promotional Material section).

This announcement is provided for your information only. For additional information, contact your IBM representative, call 800-IBM-4YOU, or visit the IBM home page at: http://www.ibm.com.

IBM United States IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. 299-267 To run Intelligent Miner for Data for OS/390, you need to install one of the supported clients.

AIX Clients The Intelligent Miner client for AIX runs on processors of the RS/6000 Systems family including the following systems: • POWERstations • POWERservers • PowerPC • RS/6000 SP The required storage space varies with the amount of data processed per run. The following storage space is required for an AIX client:

For Storage Type Demonstration Required Recommended

RAM 32 MB 64 MB 64 MB Disk Space 85 MB 100 MB >100 MB Additional Disk Space for 4 MB 4 MB 4 MB Toolkit

Windows 95/98/NT Clients The Intelligent Miner Windows client runs on a workstation with a 586-133 MHz processor or higher. Depending on the amount of data processed, the following storage space is required:

For Storage Type Demonstration Required Recommended

RAM for Windows Client 64 MB 64 MB 64 MB Disk Space 50 MB 50 MB >60 MB Disk Space for Toolkit 60 MB 60 MB >60 MB Disk Space for Client 80 MB 80 MB >80 MB including Toolkit

OS/2 Clients The Intelligent Miner OS/2 client runs on a workstation with a 586-133 MHz processor or higher. Depending on the amount of data processed, the following storage space is required:

For Storage Type Demonstration Required Recommended

RAM for OS/2 Client 32 MB 64 MB 64 MB Disk Space 35 MB 40 MB >50 MB Additional Disk Space for 20 MB 20 MB 20 MB Toolkit

Software Requirements: The required and optional software for the OS/390 server and clients is shown below. For parallel processing, additional software is not required.

Required/ Program Optional Software Version Number for IM

IBM OS/390 2.4.0 (or 5647-A01 Required higher) RACF (see note below) 2.1 5695-039 Optional DB2 for MVS/ESA 4.1 (or 5695-DB2 Optional higher) IBM DB2 Intelligent Miner for Data for OS/390 is provided on a tape in SMP/E format. Note: Because Intelligent Miner for Data for OS/390 uses facilities of OS/390  System Services, a hierarchical file system (HFS) must be available before beginning installation. The Intelligent Miner must be installed, started, and used by TSO users who are also OS/390 UNIX System Services users, or errors will occur during mining runs. Security instructions documented in the Program Directory must be observed to provide the necessary access rights for the server program and for the clients working with the Intelligent Miner. The Intelligent Miner server receives requests from workstation clients. The Intelligent Miner server runs programs and accesses data sets on behalf of the clients. To prevent unauthorized access to server data such as MVS data sets or database tables, the server program must run in a protected environment.

299-267 -2- When a mining run is performed, the server starts a child Software Version Required process that runs under the identity of the client user. This means that the child process has the same rights as IBM OS/2 4.0 Yes the client TSO user ID for program execution, data set Runtime Environment 1.1.8 Yes access, and database access. from Java Development Kit (JDK) for OS/2 AIX Clients Netscape Navigator for OS/2 2.02 (or Yes (required higher) to display The following lists the required and optional online help) software needed for an AIX client. Note: Normally, the Netscape Navigator is installed on Software Version Required your system because you used it to install the JDK. If you removed the Netscape Navigator after installing the JDK, IBM AIX (5765-C34) 4.2.1 (or Yes you cannot the online help of the Intelligent Miner. higher) Java Runtime Environment 1.1.6 Yes Note: The Intelligent Miner client software requires a from Java Development Kit minimum resolution of 800 X 600 pixels. Use the (JDK) for AIX maximum number of colors available on your graphics Netscape Navigator for AIX 3.0 (or Yes (required adapter card. If you use fewer than 65536 colors, you higher) to display might lose information when using tools like the clustering online help) visualizer. Note: The Intelligent Miner client software requires a Limitations minimum resolution of 800 X 600 pixels. Use the maximum number of colors available on your graphics • The new Associations Visualizer is available only on adapter card. If you use fewer than 65536 colors, you Windows clients. might lose information when using tools like the clustering • Simplified Chinese is not supported on the AIX client visualizer. platform. Windows 95/98/NT Clients To plan for optimum performance and capacity, contact your local IBM representative for pre-proposal review, in The following table lists the required and optional conjunction with development experts located in the software needed for a Windows client. following Data Mining Development Centers: Software Version Required IBM German Software Development Laboratory Boeblingen, Germany One of the following operating Yes Mr. Werner Staub systems: Phone: +49-7031-16-4683 95 NA Microsoft Windows 98 NA For further reading about data mining, refer to the Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 (or Intelligent Miner redbook Discovering Data Mining, from higher) Concept to Implementation. (Refer to the Promotional Material section). Web browser capable of frames, Yes (required such as: to display Performance Considerations: The Intelligent Miner will online help) support data mining against DB2 databases or flat files. Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 (or To support a broader range of heterogeneous data higher) sources, the use of IBM′s DataJoiner is recommended. Netscape Navigator for 3.01 (or Windows 95/NT higher) The performance of Intelligent Miner for Data for OS/390 Version 6.1 depends upon a number of system factors, The Java Runtime Environment, which is also required, is primarily, but not necessarily limited to, the following: part of your Intelligent Miner client package for Windows • and is installed automatically. Amount of data to be mined • Data mining techniques used Note: The Intelligent Miner client software requires a • Variables specified for technique execution minimum resolution of 800 X 600 pixels. Use the • Whether flat files or databases are used for mining maximum number of colors available on your graphics • The capacity of the computer system used adapter card. If you use fewer than 65536 colors, you • The number of parallel processes started might lose information when using tools like the clustering visualizer. For parallel data mining, the Intelligent Miner for Data user can specify the number of parallel processes to be OS/2 Clients started using the GUI. The workload is distributed over the number of processors specified and the total The following table lists the required and optional processing time is reduced respectively. Both DB2 I/O software needed for an Intelligent Miner OS/2 client: parallelism and DB2 Query parallelism are exploited by Intelligent Miner for Data, thus considerably reducing the DB2 access times.

-3- 299-267 User Group Requirements: This announcement satisfies or partially satisfies requirements from one or more of the Customer Financing worldwide user group communities, which include Australasian SHARE/GUIDE (ASG), COMMON, COMMON IBM Global Financing offers attractive financing to Europe, GUIDE International, G.U.I.D.E. Europe, Japan credit-qualified commercial and government customers GUIDE/SHARE (JGS), Guide Latin American (LAG), and Business Partners in more than 40 countries around SHARE EUROPE, and SHARE Incorporated. the world. IBM Global Financing is provided by the IBM Credit Corporation in the United States. Offerings, rates, Planning Information terms and availability may vary by country. Contact your local IBM Global Financing organization. Country organizations are listed on the Web at: Customer Responsibilities http://www.financing.ibm.com The Intelligent Miner for Data for OS/390 Version 6.1 components are installed with the following products: • SMP/E installs the Intelligent Miner for Data for OS/390 Ordering Information Version 6.1 server • The System Management Interface Tool (SMIT) installs New Licensees the Intelligent Miner AIX client Orders for new licenses can be placed now. • The Software Installer Tool installs the Intelligent Miner OS/2 client Shipment will not occur before the availability date. • The Install Shield Tool installs the Intelligent Miner Unless a later date is specified, orders entered before the Windows clients planned availability date will be assigned a schedule date of one week following availability. Packaging New users of Intelligent Miner for Data for OS/390 • The server code of Intelligent Miner for Data for Version 6.1 should specify: OS/390 Version 6.1 is available either on 9/6250 magnetic tape, IBM 3480 cartridge, or 4-mm DAT Type Model cartridge. • Two Client CD-ROMs common for all supported 5655 IM3 platforms, one for the single-byte character set (SBCS) languages, and one for English and double-byte Basic License: To order a basic license, specify the character set (DBCS) languages. Both CD-ROMs program number and feature number 9001 for asset include: registration. − API and GUIs for AIX, Windows 95, Windows 98, Entry Support License (ESL): To order an ESL license, Windows NT, and OS/2 specify the program number, feature number 9001 for − Softcopy documentation in HTML and Acrobat asset registration, and the applicable ESL OTC feature Reader format: number. Also specify the feature number of the desired -- Application Programming Interface and Utility distribution medium. Reference -- Using the Intelligent Miner for Data ESL -- Using the Associations Visualizer One-Time Charge − User assistance in HTML format Program Number/Description Feature Number • License information in multilanguage booklet. 5655-IM3 IBM Intelligent Miner for 0015 • Hardcopy documentation: Data for OS/390 V6.1 − Application Programming Interface and Utility ESL machines can be determined by referring to the IBM Reference Entry End User/390 Attachment (Z125-4379). − Using the Intelligent Miner for Data − Using the Associations Visualizer Parallel Sysplex License Charge (PSLC) Basic License: To order a basic license, specify the program number and Note: Intelligent Miner for Data for OS/390 Version 6.1 feature number 9001 for asset registration. Specify the code will be delivered as object-code only. Header files PSLC Base feature. If applicable, specify the PSLC and libraries required for programming against the API Level A and PSLC Level B, and PSLC Level C, PSLC can be retrieved from the client CD. Level D features and quantity.

Security, Auditability, and Control If there is more than one program copy in a Parallel Sysplex, the charge for all copies is associated to one Intelligent Miner for Data for OS/390 Version 6.1 uses the license by specifying the applicable PSLC feature security and auditability features of the OS/390 operating numbers and quantity represented by the sum of the system and the network systems used. It also provides Service Units in Millions (MSUs) in your Parallel Sysplex. facilities for the protection and control of its resources, for For all other program copies, specify the PSLC No-Charge example, by means of Intelligent Miner for Data userid (NC) Identifier feature on the licenses. and password. The customer is responsible for Also, specify the feature number of the desired evaluation, selection, and implementation of security distribution medium. features, administrative procedures, and appropriate controls in application systems and communication facilities.

299-267 -4- PSLC PSLC Basic License 3480; then, the publications will ship with the next release Machine Feature MLC Feature of the program. MSU Capacity Number Description Feature 1 0001 PSLC Base, 1 MSU Description Number 2 0002 PSLC Base, 2 MSUs Initial Shipments 3 0003 PSLC Base, 3 MSUs Serial Number Only (suppresses shipment 3444 4 — 45 0004 PSLC Level A, 1 MSU of media and documentation) 0005 PSLC Level A, 42 MSUs Ship Media Only (suppresses initial 3470 46 — 175 0006 PSLC Level B, 1 MSU shipment of documentation) 0007 PSLC Level B, 10 MSUs 0008 PSLC Level B, 50 MSUs Ship Documentation Only (suppresses 3471 initial shipment of media) 176 — 315 0009 PSLC Level C, 1 MSU 0010 PSLC Level C, 10 MSUs Update Shipments 0011 PSLC Level C, 50 MSUs Ship Media Updates Only (suppresses 3480 316 or more 0012 PSLC Level D, 1 MSU update shipment of documentation) 0013 PSLC Level D, 50 MSUs Ship Documentation Only (suppresses 3481 0014 PSLC NC Identifier update shipment of media)

Example 1: For a single machine with 11 MSUs, the PSLC Suppress Updates (suppresses update 3482 features would be: shipment of media and documentation)

• 0003 — quantity 1 Expedite Shipments • 0004 — quantity 8 Local IBM Office Expedite 3445 Example 2: For two machines in a Parallel Sysplex, which (for IBM use only) have an aggregation of 60 MSUs, the PSLC features would be: Customer Expedite Process Charge 3446 ($30 charge for each product) • PSLC chargeable license #1: Expedite shipments will be processed to receive 72-hour − 0003 — quantity 1 delivery from the time IBM Software Delivery and Fulfillment (SDF) receives the order. SDF will then ship − — 0005 quantity 1 the order via overnight air transportation. − 0006 — quantity 5 Unlicensed Documentation: The following publications − 0007 — quantity 1 will be available for a fee at general availability. To order these publications, contact your IBM representative. • PSLC no-charge license #2: − 0014 — quantity 1 Order Title Number Single Version Charging: To elect single version charging, the customer must notify and identify to IBM the Using the Intelligent Miner for Data SH12-6394 prior program and replacement program and the Application Programming Interface and SH12-6395 designated machine the programs are operating on. Utility Reference Using the Associations Visualizer SH12-6396 Basic Machine-Readable Material: To order, the feature number of the desired distribution medium. Displayable Softcopy Publications: The Using the Intelligent Miner for Data, the Application Programming Feature Interface & Utility Reference, and the Using the Environment Number Distribution Medium Associations Visualizer are provided in displayable softcopy form. The displayable manuals are part of the U.S. English basic machine-readable material at no extra charge. The IM for Data for OS/390 5851 9/6250 Magnetic Tape files containing the books are shipped on the client IM for Data for OS/390 5802 3480 Cartridge CD-ROM. The books are provided in both HTML and IM for Data for OS/390 6028 4-mm Data Cartridge Acrobat Reader format and are viewable with any Web browser. Customization Options: Select the appropriate feature numbers to customize your order to specify the delivery Source File Publications: No files are provided to create options desired. These features can be specified on the unmodified printed copies of the Intelligent Miner initial or MES orders. manuals. For additional hardcopies, contact your IBM representative. Example: If publications are not desired for the initial order, specify feature number 3470 to ship media only. Subsequent updates (technical newsletters or revisions For future updates, specify feature number 3480 to ship between releases) to the publications shipped with the media updates only. If, in the future, publication updates product will be distributed to the user of record for as long are required, order an MES to remove feature number as a license for this software remains in effect. A separate publication order or subscription is not needed.

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National Language Publications are available in the Version-to-Version Upgrade Credits Apply: No following languages and will replace the English documentation in the product package of the national Single language version package. These publications will be Replaced Programs Replacement Programs Version available on September 24, 1999, in all languages. Program Program Program Program Charging Number Name Number Name Applies Form Title Language Number 5655-161 Intelligent 5655-IM3 Intelligent Yes Miner for Miner for Using the Intelligent Brazilian Portuguese S517-6838 OS/390 V1 Data for Miner for Data French SH11-1221 OS/390 V6.1 German SH12-2973 5655-IM2 Intelligent 5655-IM3 Intelligent Yes Italian SH13-0537 Miner for Miner for Japanese SH88-7360 OS/390 V2 Data for Korean GA30-0787 OS/390 V6.1 Spanish SH10-9247 5655-IM3 Intelligent To a follow-on, if any Yes Hungarian SH22-0007 Miner for Russian SH43-0085 OS/390 V6.1 Simplified Chinese SB84-0084 Traditional Chinese SH40-0320 Warranted: Yes

Using the Associations Spanish SH10-9248 Licensed Program Materials Availability Visualizer French SH11-1222 • Restricted Materials of IBM: None German SH12-2972 • Non-Restricted Source Materials: None Hungarian SH22-0006 • Object Code Only (OCO): All Italian SH13-0538 Japanese SH88-7362 Testing Period: Two months Korean SA30-0789 Russian SH43-0086 Program Services Traditional Chinese SH40-0321 Support Center Applies: Yes Application Japanese SH88-7361 Programming Korean SA30-0788 Access is available through Interface and French SH11-1236 the IBM Support Center Utility Reference Note: Information about the code pages supported by Available until discontinued: Six months′ written notice Intelligent Miner for Data for OS/390 Version 6.1 can be obtained on the Web at: Support Line: Yes http://www.software.ibm.com/iminer/fordata Charges Customer Financing Contact your IBM representative for charges information for this announcement. IBM Global Financing offers attractive financing to credit-qualified commercial and government customers and Business Partners in more than 40 countries around Call Now to Order the world. IBM Global Financing is provided by the IBM Credit Corporation in the United States. Offerings, rates, Contact the IBM Americas Call Centers (to help IBM serve terms and availability may vary by country. Contact your you, use the Reference Code): local IBM Global Financing organization. Country organizations are listed on the Web at: Phone: 800-IBM-CALL http://www.financing.ibm.com Fax: 800-2IBM-FAX Internet: ibm— [email protected] Mail: IBM Americas Call Centers Terms and Conditions Dept. LE001 P.O. Box 2690 Atlanta, GA 30301-2690 Agreement: IBM Customer Agreement Reference Code: LE001 Variable Charges Apply: No You can also contact your local IBM Business Partner or IBM representative. To identify them, call 800-IBM-4YOU. Indexed Monthly License Charge (IMLC) Applies: No

Location License Applies: No Note: Shipments will begin after the planned availability date. Usage Limitation Applies: No IBM Americas Call Centers, our national direct marketing organization, can add your name to the mailing list for Educational Allowance Available: Yes, to qualified catalogs of IBM products. education customers. Trademarks

299-267 -6- Intelligent Miner, SP, MVS/ESA, and MVS are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States or other countries or both. Open Blueprint, OS/390, OS/2, System/390, AIX, RS/6000, RACF, DB2, DataJoiner, and Parallel Sysplex are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States or other countries or both. Microsoft, Windows, and Windows NT are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Java is a trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc. UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries exclusively through X/Open Company Limited. Other company, product, and service names may be trademarks or service marks of others.

Year 2000 Readiness Disclosure

Statements made in this announcement regarding Year 2000 are “Year 2000 Readiness Disclosures” under the Year 2000 Information and Readiness Disclosure Act of 1998, a U.S. statute enacted on October 19, 1998.

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