IBM SPSS Analytic Server 3.1.1 Release Notes

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IBM SPSS Analytic Server 3.1.1 is available.

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• Description
• System requirements and installation
• Known issues for Analytic Server

IBM SPSS Analytic Server is a solution for big data analytics that combines IBM SPSS technology with big data systems and allows you to work with familiar IBM SPSS user interfaces to solve problems on a previously unattainable scale.

The following features and enhancements are introduced in version 3.1.1.

Platform support

• Support for Cloudera 5.11 and 5.12.
• Support for Ubuntu Linux 16.04 (with Hortonworks Data Platform 2.6 and Cloudera 5.11).
• Cloudera 5.8 and 5.9 are no longer supported.
• Big Insights 4.1, 4.2, and 4.2.5 are no longer supported.
• MapR 5.0 is no longer supported

• Support for Apache Hive 2.1
• MongoDB 2.6 is no longer supported
• MySQL 5.1 is no longer supported

Performance enhancements

• A more automated offline installation procedure is now available for HDP.
• Multiple cluster support. The multiple-cluster feature is an enhancement to the High-Availability capability of IBM® SPSS® Analytic Server, and provides improved isolation in multiple-tenant environments. By default, installation of the Analytic Server service (in either Ambari or Cloudera Manager) results in the definition of a single analytic server cluster.
• You can now configure separate YARN queues for each Analytic Server tenant.
• Support is now provided from sampling and distinct SQL pushback.
• The following Spark ML enhancements are now available:
• Support for bisecting K-means
• Support for XGBoost

Note: XGBoost is not supported in the SUSE Linux environment (it is supported in Ubuntu and Redhat environments).
• Support for Isotonic Regression
• Spark RDD data source crossing can now be shared with different ASL jobs.
• The IBM SPSS Analytic Server best practice and recommendations section has been updated to include Cloudera-specific information.

For information on downloading the product, see the Analytic Server 3.1.1 Download Document.

For information on system requirements and installation, see the installation documents.

For information on issues that were fixed in this release, see the Analytic Server 3.1.1 Fix List.

All documentation for installing and using the product is available in the Knowledge Center.

Known issues for Analytic Server