IBM SPSS Analytic Server 2.1 Release Notes

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IBM SPSS Analytic Server 2.1 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.

System requirements and installation

For information on downloading the product, see the Analytic Server 2.1 Download Document.

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

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

Known issues for Analytic Server

At time of publication, the following issues were known.

Problem: When running Analytic Server with Spark, the Distinct node may fail to return all valid cases.
Solution: Do not use the Distinct node on systems where Spark is enabled. This issue will be fixed in a later release.

Problem: On systems with Spark, join jobs that involve an HBase data source fail.
Solution: Create a temporary file-based data source from the HBase table and use that for the join job.

Problem: On Hadoop 2.0 or higher versions, jobs that include R nodes may fail.
Solution: Make sure that the user that installed Analytic Server is added to the no password sudoers list.

Problem: Real time scoring against an Analytic Server cluster fails.
Solution: Remove the leader node from the load balancer for the cluster. The leader is the first node you start.