New features and changes in version 11.1
IBM® Campaign 11.1 includes a number of new features and changes. These are listed underneath.
For a list of newly supported and discontinued platforms, see the document Recommended Software Environments and Minimum System Requirements, which is posted under Detailed System Requirements on the IBM Support Portal (http://support.ibm.com).
Upgrade Paths
- Supported upgrade path via installers: 11.0.1 -> 11.1 only.
- Customers at 11.0 -> Fast upgrade to 11.1.
Fast Upgrade
IBM Campaign 11.1 supports the fast upgrade approach. This approach allows upgrades from version 8.6 onwards to version 11.1. This helps customers bypassing the multi-step upgrade. The Fast Upgrade approach is also useful in reducing upgrade downtime. The approach is provided for IBM Marketing Platform, IBM Campaign, IBM Contact Optimization, IBM Marketing Operations, IBM Interact for upgrade from 8.6.x version onwards. For details, refer to the Fast Upgrade documentation released with version 11.1.
Kerberos on Cloudera Impala Hadoop data source
Campaign now provides Kerberos authentication on Cloudera Impala Hadoop data source. The 11.1 IBM Campaign Installation Guide details the installation process in Chapter 5. Enabling Kerberos on Cloudera Impala Hadoop data source. This support is provided with Cloudera Hadoop instance using Impala for Linux and Windows Operating System. AIX Operating System is not supported
Campaign Database Support - SQL 2017
Campaign now supports SQL 2017 System and User database.
Campaign Application Server Support
Tomcat application server v9.0.13 and JBOSS application server v7.1.0 is supported with IBM Marketing Software product suite deployment. Deploying an EAR file is not supported on the Tomcat Application Server.
Campaign Operating System Support
Campaign now supports SUSE 12 SP3 operating system.
Campaign unica_acclean utility for specific Datasource
Prior to 11.1 version, unica_acclean utility deletes all the orphan tables and files from all the datasources configured in Campaign. No option available to delete orphan tables and files from particular datasource or a list of datasources. To avail this facility, -D command line option to specify the name of datasources is implemented in Campaign 11.1.
e.g. unica_acclean -o "log.txt" -w orphan -D "Test", this command will create a log.txt file which contains list of orphan tables and files available in "Test" datasource. You can pass the list of datasource name separated by ','(comma).
Improved performance of IBM Campaign and UBX Integration
Multi-threaded implementation of the UBX event download and ETL process. Instead of single thread, 10 parallel threads will be used to speed up the overall IBM Campaign and IBM UBX integration.
The History tab
The History tab in Campaign lists the history related to Campaign flowcharts. Numerous events are audited. For details, refer to the IBM Campaign User Guide > Chapter 3. Designing flowcharts > The History tab.
Similarly, the History tab in Sessions lists the history related to session flowcharts. Numerous events are audited. For details, refer to the IBM Campaign User Guide >Chapter 10. Session flowcharts > The History tab (Session).