When you upgrade an instance of IBM® Software Hub, most services remain available during the
upgrade, and users can continue to access the software with minimal interruptions. However, some
services are unavailable to users. Review the following information to determine whether you need to
let users know about planned outages during an upgrade.
| Upgrades from |
Is online upgrade supported? |
| Version 4.8 |
Yes, but not all services and automatically installed dependencies support online upgrade.
|
| Version 5.0 |
Yes, but not all services and automatically installed dependencies support online upgrade.
|
| Version 5.1 |
Yes, but not all services and automatically installed dependencies support online upgrade.
|
Cluster-wide components
Cluster-wide components are installed exactly once on the cluster.
| Software |
Component ID |
Online upgrade supported? |
| IBM Certificate manager |
ibm-cert-manager |
Yes |
| License Service |
ibm-licensing |
Yes |
| Scheduling service |
scheduler |
Yes |
Required components
The software in the following table is installed with each instance of IBM Software Hub on the cluster.
| Software |
Component ID |
Online upgrade supported? |
| IBM Cloud Pak foundational services |
cpfs |
Yes |
| IBM Software Hub platform operator |
cpd_platform |
Yes |
| IBM Software Hub
control plane |
zen |
Yes |
Services
| Software |
Component ID |
Online upgrade supported? |
| AI Factsheets |
factsheet |
Yes |
| Analytics Engine powered by Apache Spark |
analyticsengine |
Yes |
| Cognos
Analytics |
cognos_analytics |
No |
| Cognos Dashboards |
dashboard |
Yes |
| Data Gate |
datagate |
No |
| Data Privacy |
dp |
Yes |
| Data Product Hub |
dataproduct |
Yes |
| Data Refinery |
datarefinery |
No |
| Data Replication |
replication |
Yes |
| DataStage Enterprise |
datastage_ent |
Yes |
| DataStage Enterprise Plus |
datastage_ent_plus |
Yes |
| Data Virtualization |
dv |
No |
| Db2 |
db2oltp |
No |
| Db2
Big SQL |
bigsql |
No |
| Db2
Data Management Console |
dmc |
Yes |
| Db2 Warehouse |
db2wh |
No |
| Decision Optimization |
dods |
Yes |
| EDB Postgres |
|
Yes |
| Execution Engine for Apache Hadoop |
hee |
No |
| IBM Knowledge Catalog |
wkc |
No |
| IBM Knowledge Catalog Premium |
ikc_premium |
No |
| IBM Knowledge Catalog Premium |
ikc_standard |
No |
| IBM Manta Data
Lineage |
datalineage |
No |
| IBM
Match 360 |
match360 |
No |
| IBM
StreamSets |
streamsets |
- Online upgrade from Version 5.1.0 is not supported.
- Online upgrade from Version 5.1.1 and later is supported.
|
| Informix |
|
Yes |
| MANTA Automated Data Lineage |
mantaflow |
No |
| MongoDB |
|
No |
| OpenPages |
openpages |
No. The service instance upgrade can take more than two hours, depending on the size of
your OpenPages instance.
|
| Orchestration Pipelines |
ws_pipelines |
Yes |
| Planning Analytics |
planning_analytics |
Yes |
| Product Master |
productmaster |
Yes |
| RStudio® Server
Runtimes |
rstudio |
Yes |
| SPSS
Modeler |
spss |
Yes |
| Synthetic Data Generator |
syntheticdata |
Yes |
| Voice Gateway |
voice_gateway |
Yes |
| Watson Discovery |
watson_discovery |
No |
| Watson
Machine Learning |
wml |
Yes |
| Watson
OpenScale |
openscale |
No |
| Watson Speech services |
watson_speech |
Support varies based on the release that you are upgrading from:
|
| Watson Studio |
ws |
Yes |
| Watson Studio Runtimes |
ws_runtimes |
Yes |
| watsonx.ai™ |
watsonx_ai |
Yes |
| watsonx Assistant |
watson_assistant |
No |
| watsonx Code Assistant™ |
wca |
Yes |
| watsonx Code Assistant for Red Hat®
Ansible® Lightspeed |
wca_ansible |
Yes |
| watsonx Code Assistant for Z |
wca_z |
Yes |
| watsonx.data™ |
watsonx_data |
Yes |
| watsonx.governance™ |
watsonx_governance |
No |
| watsonx™ Orchestrate |
watsonx_orchestrate |
No |
Automatically installed dependencies
| Software |
Component ID |
Online upgrade supported? |
| Canvas |
canvasbase |
Yes |
| Common core services |
ccs |
Yes |
| Db2 as
a service |
db2aaservice |
No |
| Db2U |
db2u |
No |
| watsonx Code Assistant Base |
wca_base |
Yes |