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® Tivoli Data Warehouse Version 1.3 Tivoli Data Warehouse Release Notes SC32-1399-01 ® Tivoli Data Warehouse Version 1.3 Tivoli Data Warehouse Release Notes SC32-1399-01 Note Before using this information and the product it supports, read the information in Appendix B, “Notices,” on page 21. Third Edition (April 2005) This edition applies to Tivoli Data Warehouse, Version 1.3 and to all subsequent releases and modifications until otherwise indicated in new editions. This edition replaces SC32-1399-00. © Copyright International Business Machines Corporation 2002, 2005. All rights reserved. US Government Users Restricted Rights – Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp. Contents Chapter 1. About this release . .1 Report interface problems . .12 New in this release . .1 Miscellaneous problems . .12 Product fix history . .1 Internationalization problems . .14 Compatibility with previous releases . .2 Product compatibility . .2 Appendix A. Support information . .17 Learning about education . .17 Chapter 2. Installation information . .3 Searching knowledge bases . .17 Hardware requirements . .3 Search the documentation . .17 Software requirements . .4 Search the Internet . .17 Database requirements . .5 Obtaining fixes . .18 Report interface requirements . .6 Contacting IBM Software Support . .18 Installation and upgrade notes . .6 Determine the business impact of your problem 19 Performance . .7 Describe your problem and gather background information . .19 Submit your problem to IBM Software Support 19 Chapter 3. Known limitations, problems, and workarounds . .9 Appendix B. Notices . .21 Limitations . .9 Trademarks . .23 Known problems and workarounds . .11 Installation, upgrade, or uninstallation problems 11 © Copyright IBM Corp. 2002, 2005 iii iv Tivoli Data Warehouse Release Notes Chapter 1. About this release ® This document provides important information about Tivoli Data Warehouse, Version 1.3. This information is the most current information for the product and supersedes all other documentation. Read the information in this document before installing or using Tivoli Data Warehouse. New in this release Tivoli Data Warehouse, Version 1.3, has the following new and changed features: Note: Functionality depends upon features that individual warehouse packs provide. ® ™ v Support for IBM DB2 Universal Database Enterprise Server Edition, Version ® 8.2, including the IBM DB2 Data Warehouse Center that is included with IBM DB2 Universal Database Enterprise Server Edition, Version 8.2. v Support for Crystal Enterprise Professional v.10. v Support for 1.1 and 1.2 warehouse packs and their patches. Support for the upgrade of a 1.1 warehouse pack to a 1.2 warehouse pack, where the warehouse pack is designed with this support. Reports for 1.1 warehouse packs converted to the Crystal Enterprise format during warehouse pack installation. v Scripts and instructions about pre-creating central data warehouse databases and data mart databases for tuning these databases manually for high performance before installing Tivoli Data Warehouse. v Pre-creation of table spaces larger than 4K pages during installation of Tivoli Data Warehouse. v New and modified event tables for the central data warehouse schema. v Updates to accessibility and globalization items that are related to previous ™ versions of the Java Virtual Machine and InstallShield MultiPlatform Product fix history The following defects were fixed for Tivoli Data Warehouse, Version 1.3: v Removed all accessibility issues. v On some windows of the installation wizards, the button text is no longer truncated. This had been a limitation of the InstallShield Multiplatform product used for the installation process. v PMR 17980 br499: Steps of an ETL process had failed randomly in the DB2 Data Warehouse Center. v Defect 157941: In the DB2 Data Warehouse Center, the Processing Options tab of the Step Properties window had displayed a message that the selected agent site was not valid. v InstallShield Multiplatform and its Java Virtual Machine (JVM) formerly had documented issues regarding DBCS locales. For example, extra spaces had occurred between characters, or characters were truncated, or default fonts were not readable. ® v Defect 174154: Warehouse packs for IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console could not run on Tivoli Data Warehouse, Version 1.3. A DB2 server, Version 7, could not run with a DB2 client, Version 8. © Copyright IBM Corp. 2002, 2005 1 Compatibility with previous releases You can install warehouse packs for version 1.1 and version 1.2 on Tivoli Data Warehouse, Version 1.3. See Installing and Configuring Tivoli Data Warehouse, GC32-0744 for additional details. Product compatibility For compatibility of warehouse packs with Tivoli Data Warehouse, Version 1.3, see the documentation for each applicable warehouse pack. The installation programs for Tivoli Data Warehouse and warehouse packs cannot be run using Tivoli Remote Control. 2 Tivoli Data Warehouse Release Notes Chapter 2. Installation information This chapter provides hardware and software requirements. Note: If your systems do not meet the hardware and software requirements that are listed in this section, you might receive confusing error messages and have problems installing and using Tivoli Data Warehouse. Hardware requirements This section provides information about the hardware requirements for installing Tivoli Data Warehouse. See the planning chapter in Installing and Configuring Tivoli Data Warehouse for database sizing formulas and considerations. As the warehouse pack for each Tivoli product is added to the Tivoli Data Warehouse installation, additional hard disk space is required. See the documentation for each warehouse pack for planning information and hard disk space requirements. Table 1 lists the minimum and recommended hardware requirements for Tivoli Data Warehouse. Table 1. Hardware requirements Deployment Minimum Recommended Temporary hard type Component requirements size disk space Quick start All v 1 GB RAM 1 GB v 4 GB RAM v 1 GB hard disk v 3 GB hard disk space space v 933 MHz processor Distributed Control server v 1 GB RAM 1 GB v 3+ GB RAM v 1 GB hard disk v 1 GB hard disk space space v 933 MHz processor Central data v 1 GB RAM 1 GB v 3+ GB RAM warehouse v 2 GB hard disk v 20+ GB hard space disk space v 933 MHz processor or Power 4, 5 processor Data mart v 1 GB RAM 1 GB v 3+ GB RAM v 2 GB hard disk v 4+ GB hard space disk space v 933 MHz processor or Power 4, 5 processor © Copyright IBM Corp. 2002, 2005 3 Note: The quick start deployment is convenient for small installations and requires less space. Software requirements This section provides information about the software requirements for Tivoli Data Warehouse. Table 2 lists the operating systems that Tivoli Data Warehouse supports. Table 2. Supported operating systems Operating system Data Warehouse Control Central Data mart 1 source agents server data warehouse ® ® Microsoft Windows Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 2000 Server, service pack 2 or higher Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server, service pack 2 or higher Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise and Datacenter Editions+ ® IBM AIX , Versions 5L, Yes Yes No Yes Yes including 5.1 and 5.2 AIX, Version 5.2 support is for 32-bit and 64-bit systems when running with DB2 Universal Database Enterprise Edition, Version 8x IBM AIX, Versions 5L, Yes No No Yes Yes including 5.3 Sun Solaris, Versions 2.8, Yes Yes for 2.8 No Yes Yes 2.9, and 2.10 and 2.9 ® Red Hat Linux , Yes No No No No Versions 7.2 and 7.3 Red Hat Enterprise Yes No No No No ® Linux 2.1 for xSeries — 32b, RHEL 3.0 AS+ for xSeries (ES and WS versions) SuSE Linux Enterprise Yes No No No No Server 7.0, 7.2, and 7.3 xSeries SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8.0/UL 1.0 SP3 for xSeries SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.0 4 Tivoli Data Warehouse Release Notes Table 2. Supported operating systems (continued) Operating system Data Warehouse Control Central Data mart 1 source agents server data warehouse ® IBM z/OS , V1R2, Yes No No Yes Yes V1R3, V1R4, and V1R5 1 Data source support is determined by the ODBC support in DB2 releases. Database requirements Table 3 lists the databases that are supported by the Tivoli Data Warehouse components. In addition, Tivoli Data Warehouse supports file imports from the Merant driver as a data source. Table 3. Supported relational database management systems 1 Database systems Data sources Control Central data Data mart database warehouse IBM DB2 Universal Yes Yes (Windows) Yes (AIX, Yes (AIX, Database Enterprise Windows, and Windows, and Server Edition, Solaris) Solaris) 3 Version 8.2 DB2 Universal Yes No No No Database Enterprise Edition, Version 7.1 2 and 7.2 DB2 Universal Yes No Yes Yes Database for z/OS ® and OS/390 , Version 7.1 with IBM Data Management Tools, Management Tools Package for DB2 V7 on z/OS; FMID JDB771D IBM DB2 Universal No No Yes Yes Database for z/OS, Version 8.1 with IBM Data Management Tools, Management Tools Package for DB2 V7 on z/OS; FMID JDB771D Oracle client, Version Yes No No No 8.1.7 and either: v Oracle, Version 8i v Oracle, Version 9i or 9i v2 Microsoft SQL Server, Yes No No No Version 7.0 on ® Windows NT Microsoft SQL Server 2000 on Windows 2000 Chapter 2. Installation information 5 Table 3. Supported relational database management systems (continued) 1 Database systems Data sources Control Central data Data mart database warehouse Sybase, Version 12 Yes No No No and 12.5 ® Informix 9.2 and 9.3 Yes No No No 1 Data source support is determined by the ODBC support in DB2 releases. 2 Fix pack 8 with its fix, fix pack 10a, or fix pack 11 for DB2 Universal Database, Version 7.2 is required. 3 When upgrading to DB2 Universal Database, Version 8.2, you must apply fix 13411 before upgrading to Tivoli Data Warehouse, Version 1.3.