Cartridges

Cartridges are units of deployment and management for analytic plugin extensions in the IBM® StoredIQ® application stack. Cartridges enable IBM StoredIQ to detect additional information in documents.

Cartridges are basically compressed files that contain logic like regular expressions, rules for natural language processing, or other code for analyzing document content. When you add a cartridge to IBM StoredIQ application stack, it can detect the new data in documents during indexing and make these new insights searchable. For example, a sensitive pattern cartridge can enable IBM StoredIQ to detect passport numbers, phone numbers, and other IDs.

To apply the analysis logic contained in the cartridge, you must run a Step-up Analytics action that uses the cartridge on an infoset. IBM StoredIQ examines all documents in the infoset, applies the analytics, and then stores the analysis results in the IBM StoredIQ index. For details, see Creating a Step-up Analytics action and Scheduling and running an action.

If a cartridge contains language specific rules, make sure the respective languages are enabled. For details, see Configuration of multi-language settings.