Release notes - Analysis Studio Jul.2023

A high level overview of the release, listing new features, the system requirements and any known issues.

Important notices

⚠️ Installation - i2 Analyst's Notebook Premium desktop client (ANBP)

After downloading the distribution media for ANBP ensure that you extract all of the product components from the compressed file. This can be done using the "Extract All..." option on the Windows right click menu.

Then using Windows Explorer, browse to the root of the extracted folder and run setup.exe and follow the installation prompts.

⚠️ i2 iBase

iBase (all versions) will not interoperate with the Analyst's Notebook Premium 10.0.0 desktop client at this release. iBase customers are advised to continue to use the latest 32-bit Analyst's Notebook Premium version compatible with their version of iBase.

i2 Group will release a compatible version of iBase later this year.

⚠️ i2 iBridge

iBridge (all versions) will not interoperate with the Analyst's Notebook Premium 10.0.0 desktop client. iBridge customers are advised to continue to use the latest 32-bit Analyst's Notebook Premium version compatible with their version of iBridge.

Features

Release highlights

Release highlight details

64-bit support

  • The ANBP desktop client is now 64-bit to allow it to take advantage of the modern 64-bit operating system and hardware.

i2 Online integration

  • Enhancements have been made to ANBP to streamline the user experience when connecting to the i2 Online software as service offering. Changes to the connection and login screens as well as guidance messages make it easier to understand working with i2 Online and highlight the differences that an Analyst's Notebook user may experience.

  • When connected to i2 Online, ANBP now defaults to the standard i2 chart palette for charts as well as importing, and displays "classic" import specifications automatically.

  • Additionally Mapping no longer defaults to i2 Maps when connected to i2 Online, and provides guidance on which map provider to use for chart data.

  • The Find Matching Records tool also displays guidance for its use with chart and i2 Online data.

List Records tool

  • The new List Records tool gives the user the ability to explore the data records of items on the chart, allowing the records and their properties to be filtered, sorted, and viewed in a table layout for quick and easy comparisons. Clicking items in the table view centers them on the chart, and provides the ability to add or refine chart item selection state.

  • Additional filtering capabilities give the user the ability to further filter data, for example by selection state, items linked to most records, link end types, or the most linked ends.

  • The table view of the listed records can be copied to the clipboard for inclusion in other documents, with configuration options provided to tailor the formats of the clipboard data.

  • List Records replaces the previous List Data Records tool and is compatible with data records from both iBase and i2 Analyze.


    List Records in Analyst's Notebook

    Using List Records

Highlight Selection tool

  • Items that are selected on the chart can be emphasized with animated colored outlines to draw attention to key information regardless of the zoom level and chart complexity.

  • The color of the outline and whether it is animated can be controlled from the Analyst's Notebook options menu.


    Highlight in Analyst's Notebook

    Using Highlight Selections

New Selection tools

  • New and enhanced selection tools make it quicker to select the data you need in a chart. Select or deselect all Entities or Links, Deselect or filter by specific entity or semantic types, and select, deselect, or filter by related semantic types such as different types of Property – Bank Account, Motor Vehicle for example.

  • Select “standalone” entities with no connections with the Singleton Entity selection tool.


    Select in Analyst's Notebook

    Selecting items

Additional Icons

  • Additional icons have been added for social media services and new technologies.

  • These new icons are available for Analyst's Notebook Premium, and for the i2 Analyze server and server based clients.

  • The following are some examples.


    Sample new icons in Analyst's Notebook

Conditional Formatting - new operators

  • New condition operators are now available when using values from a lookup table to apply a conditional format. The new operators, Is Set/Is not Set and Is Present/Is Absent, can be used to apply a format based on the whether a property or attribute is populated or not.


    Conditional format in Analyst's Notebook

    Using Conditional Formatting

Importing - Date/Time format key

  • When importing data that contains date and time properties a new key helps the user to understand the codes used to define custom date and time formats, ensuring that this information is correctly imported. The default codes that are displayed in the key are based on the region settings of the computer.

    Importing Data

Bar Charts and Histograms - additional playback tools

  • The Bar Charts and Histograms tool has been enhanced with the addition of Play Backwards and Expand Backwards options for Histograms.

    Using Bar Charts & Histograms

Activity View - Select Latest/Earliest/All

  • New options in the activity view pane right click menu allow the user to select the Latest, Earliest, or All activities for selected rows making it easy to find and focus on key data.

  • The menu has also been updated to clarify that Remove actions affect rows within the activity view.

  • In addition, after selecting an individual activity users can move the current selection to the next or previous activity using the arrow keys.


    Activity View in Analyst's Notebook

    Using Activity View

Enhanced Time Wheel

  • A new Scale bar provides a key for the shading of the time wheel and gives the user the option to directly change the scale color and scaling method for the wheel.

  • Additionally, the time wheel counts can now be calculated based on all chart items or only the selected items.

  • Optionally, selecting a sector or sectors in the time wheel can pan the chart to bring the records in that sector(s) into focus.

    Using the Time Wheel

Export to KML

  • The Export to KML tool on the Publish toolbar exports chart items with geographic coordinate information to a KML or KMZ file that can be used with Google Earth Pro and other GIS products to display the locations of the chart items on a map.

    Mapping chart items

License Management

  • The new license management mechanism within Analyst's Notebook Premium helps to ensure that the product is used within the terms of the license agreement. License management supports standalone, network, or cloud based licensing.

  • Please note that standalone licenses are not supported when using Remote Desktop Services.

    Licensing information

Share Data

  • Analyst's Notebook Premium and i2 Notebook users can now share data on a chart with other users by giving them a URL link. On opening the link in a browser, and logging in, the i2 Notebook web client displays a list of the shared records which can be viewed in situ or added to a chart. The records list can be filtered by item type, and then further filtered by property value ranges. The shared data can also be transferred from the browser to the ANBP desktop client if installed.

  • The shared data accessed from the URL is a snapshot of the shared chart data at the time it was shared. If the shared data is charted in i2 Notebook or the ANBP desktop client the original chart layout is maintained if possible.

  • Shared data links have an expiry date set when created, the duration of which is configured by a system administrator. Users can view their currently active data sharing links, and can remove any that are no longer required. Once a data sharing link is removed or expires the shared data is no longer available to the users it was shared with. An administrator can manage all data sharing links from the admin web page.

  • Records accessed through the Share Data URL are not controlled by the data security model; care must be taken when sharing sensitive information.

  • The ability to create shared data links is controlled on a group basis using command access control.

    Using Share Records

    Configuring file sharing permissions

Visual Query for external searches

  • Visual Queries can now be used to graphically create multi item queries over external data sources, specifying the conditions required for matching properties. The developer of the connector for the external data sources must create and configure the Visual Queries to make them available to the user.

    Developing Visual Queries for external searches

Lists

  • The new Lists tool in i2 Notebook provides the user with a tabular view of the contents of a chart, with each entity and link type on a separate tab. Each item type can be sorted by property column and filtered for specific values. The selection state of chart items is reflected in the List view.

  • The List view can be for all chart items or restricted to the currently selected items on the chart.

  • Individual item Lists can be copied to the clipboard or downloaded as an Excel spreadsheet; or alternatively the entire contents of the List can be exported as a single multi-tab spreadsheet.


    List's in i2 Notebook

Explore

  • With Explore, users can browse data in an i2 Notebook chart based on entity and link type, and filter by property value ranges. Bar chart visualizations provide overviews of chart counts to help understand the spread of data in the chart.

  • Chart selection can be controlled from the Explore tool making it easy to select/deselect specific data on the chart.


    Explore in i2 Notebook

Export to PDF

  • i2 Notebook web charts can be exported as a PDF to share with users who do not have access to i2 resources.

Dynamic user security

  • Dynamic security provides greater flexibility for an organization to manage the security of its data. Organizations that change their security schema often, or want to adopt an existing classification system without duplicating it, can use providers to supply some or all of the security permissions and dimension values at runtime.

  • Using a security permissions provider also makes it possible to apply permissions on a per user basis.

  • Dynamic security requires the implementation of Java interfaces.

    Providing security dimension values

Integrated product versions

Product includedVersion
i2 Analyst's Notebook Premium10.0.0
i2 Analyze4.4.2
Open Liberty 2323.0.0.5

Upgrading

To ensure compatibility, i2 recommends that the i2 Analyst's Notebook Premium desktop client and i2 Analyze server are upgraded to the latest versions at the same time.

i2 do not support mixed version deployments, but to assist with larger deployment upgrades it is possible to use the i2 Analyst's Notebook Premium desktop client or an i2 Analyze server from a previous version with the corresponding latest versions in this release, however some functionality may not be available in these configurations. Mixed version deployments should be aligned as quickly as possible to ensure product support.

Please contact i2 Support to understand which versions can be used together in the short term for an unsupported mixed version deployment.

Version by Version comparison

The following table shows a comparison of features between recent versions of Analysis Studio:

🆕 = New Feature ✅ = Existing Feature ❌ = Feature Removed/Obsolete

FEATURES - Analyst's Notebook Premium (ANBP) desktop client and i2 Analyze ServerAnalysis Studio Jul.2023Analysis Studio Dec.2022Analyst's Notebook Premium 9.4.0Analyst's Notebook Premium 9.3.1Analyst's Notebook Premium 9.3.0Analyst's Notebook Premium 9.2.4
ANBP - 64-bit support🆕-----
ANBP - i2 Online integration🆕-----
ANBP - List Records tool🆕-----
ANBP - Highlight Selection tool🆕-----
ANBP - New selection tools🆕-----
ANBP - Additional icons🆕-----
ANBP - Conditional Formatting - new operators🆕-----
ANBP - Importing - Date/Time format key🆕-----
ANBP - Bar Charts and Histograms - additional playback tools🆕-----
ANBP - Activity View - Select Latest/Earliest/All🆕-----
ANBP - Enhanced Time Wheel🆕-----
ANBP - Export to KML🆕-----
ANBP - License Management🆕-----
i2 Notebook - Lists🆕-----
i2 Notebook - Explore🆕-----
i2 Notebook - Export to PDF🆕-----
ANBP & i2 Notebook - Share Data🆕-----
Dynamic user security🆕-----
i2 Notebook – Set chart item style🆕----
i2 Notebook – Invert selection tool🆕----
ANBP & i2 Notebook - i2 Branding🆕---
ANBP & i2 Notebook - Inspect record details for individual search results🆕---
ANBP & i2 Notebook - Auto add to i2 Maps🆕---
ANBP - Flexible importing🆕---
ANBP - Link summarization override🆕---
ANBP - Time Wheel🆕---
ANBP - Summarized links performance improvements🆕---
i2 Notebook – Save charts🆕---
i2 Notebook – Double click to view Record Inspector🆕---
i2 Notebook SDK – Create, edit, delete records🆕---
Privacy dialogue/acceptance🆕---
Audit login and logout🆕---
Updated Public REST API🆕---
Public REST API versioning🆕---
Privacy and license usage reporting🆕---
3rd Party Alerts🆕--
3rd Party Task scheduling🆕--
External Search (powered by the i2 Connect gateway)1🆕2
i2 Notebook🆕2
i2 Maps🆕2
Conditional Formatting – Icon frame display option🆕
List Most Connected – Configurable Low Net Change analysis measure🆕
Chart store – Upload from folder🆕
Updated Backup and restore guidance for i2 Analyze🆕

1 Previously known as/provided by i2 Connect.

2 Only available as part of the i2 Connect/Enterprise Insight Analysis products prior to ANBP 9.3.0 release; included with ANBP 9.3.0 and later.

FEATURES - External Searches3Analysis Studio Jul.2023Analysis Studio Dec.2022Analyst's Notebook Premium 9.4.0Analyst's Notebook Premium 9.3.1Analyst's Notebook Premium 9.3.0Analyst's Notebook Premium 9.2.4
Visual Query for external searches🆕-----
Remove search results🆕----
Filter results by text🆕----
Hides connectors and searches🆕----
iBase inter-operation enhancements🆕----
Source Identifier matching🆕--
Geo-spatial region conditions🆕--
User specific configurations🆕--
Default values in search forms🆕--
Include Context option for External Searches🆕
External Searches user interface refinements🆕
Records Bar enhancements🆕
Find Matching Records – Merge entities🆕
Security – Item type security🆕
Security – Credential management🆕

3 Available as part of the i2 Connect/Enterprise Insight Analysis products prior to ANBP 9.3.0 release; included with ANBP 9.3.0 and later.

Fixed and known issues

The issues that have been fixed in this release and known issues.

Fixed issues

DT NumberComponentIssue title
DT00104ANBPConditional formatting not applied as live format if record unite occurs
DT00114ANBPException in Conditional Formatting wrt AttributeClass definitions
DT00140ANBP"Relevant to Selection" behavior not working as expected
DT00159ANBPSmart Matching gender inferred from Name but documentation says it shouldn't be
DT00164ANBPExternal Search - duplicated items when "copying to chart"
DT00178ANBPBar charts & histograms lists non-relevant properties for Dates / Times
DT00190ANBPWhitespace being trimmed from SELECTED_FROM property values on submit
DT00191ANBPImport Error when use Watch Import
DT00207ANBPIcons disappearing when inserted onto a background image on the chart
PO06711ANBPANB crashes when saving charts with a large number of entities with picture representation
PO09668ANBPOption to add a link arrow is missing on link #3
DT00105i2AnalyzeAuthentication error is replaced with "server offline" error after several seconds
DT00116i2AnalyzeOrigin identifier with a comma followed by a double quote breaks Solr indexing
DT00152i2AnalyzeThe 'Automatic logout' information message is continuously displayed when logged in to i2 Analyze via the web apps
DT00174i2AnalyzeTask dropInformationStoreErrorTables is not clearing out the error tables (db2)
DT00176i2AnalyzeUnable to accept Privacy Agreement
DT00210i2AnalyzeANBP cannot delete Chart Inspector properties, once created

Known issues

Issue NumberComponentIssue title
LimitationANBPThe transparent background of a PNG image is lost when pasting for a Picture as Representation
LimitationANBPRunning an import to a new chart on a Chinese (Traditional/Simplified) operating system causes a COM exception
LimitationANBPANBP does not use the correct chart template for new charts on a Chinese (Traditional/Simplified) operating system
LimitationANBPA system error occurs if using an out of date version of Edge/Webview2. Update Edge and restart ANBP to resolve
Limitationi2NotebookDirectly after logging in the Visual Query tool displays no saved queries, click ✖️ on the filter to display them
DT00090ANBPen-gb folder does not exist when attempting to view Reports
PO07495ANBPANB 906 is not adjusting the time for AEDT
PO09304ANBPSchema designer should validate link ends to not be onyx system types
DT00055ANBPIncorrect upper bounds handling for date (ANZ Bank)
DT00115ANBPANBP Charting Scheme ignores regional time zone when presenting dates/times
DT00206ANBPi2 Analyst's Notebook Premium - incorrect time zone in Shared Chart and Chart Inspector, in Japanese language version of Windows
DT00105i2AnalyzeConfusing error message for i2 Investigate for users without permissions
DT00212i2Analyzesetup -t createDatabases' tries to read a hardcoded 'dsid.infostore.properties' filename
DT00213i2AnalyzeMissing External Search in ANBP after running setup -t addI2Connect
DT00200i2NotebookExpand command has a hebrew translation for German (DE) locale. (i2 Notebook)

System requirements - Analyst's Notebook Premium (ANBP) desktop client

The following tables shows the system requirements for this release, and previous releases. These system requirements should be used to ensure that the setup you are running is fully supported. Ensure that existing deployments are upgraded to currently supported versions of all the software required.

🆕 = Newly supported ✅ = Supported ❌ = No longer supported

Operating systems - ANBP Desktop Client

OPERATING SYSTEMSANBP 10.0.0ANBP 9.4.1ANBP 9.4.0ANBP 9.3.1ANBP 9.3.0ANBP 9.2.4
Microsoft Windows 11 Enterprise x64 (64-bit)🆕---
Microsoft Windows 11 Pro x64 (64-bit)🆕---
Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise x64 (64-bit)
Microsoft Windows 10 Pro x64 (64-bit)
Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise x32 (32-bit)
Microsoft Windows 10 Pro x32 (32-bit)
Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Datacenter Edition🆕----
Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Essentials Edition🆕----
Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Standard Edition🆕----
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Datacenter Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Essentials Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Standard Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Datacenter Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Essentials Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Standard Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard Edition

Note: i2 products are supported on hardware virtualization environments that run any of the operating systems that are listed in the detailed system requirements. When you run in a virtual environment, any issues that can be replicated by i2 in a supported operating system are addressed by using the standard support policy.

Prerequisites - ANBP Desktop Client

SOFTWARE PREREQUISITESANBP 10.0.0ANBP 9.4.1ANBP 9.4.0ANBP 9.3.1ANBP 9.3.0ANBP 9.2.4
Microsoft Edge (latest) or Microsoft Edge WebView2🆕-----
Microsoft .NET Framework 4.8🆕-----
Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.2
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
Microsoft Access database engine 2016 (64-bit)4🆕-----
Microsoft Access database engine 2010 (32-bit)

Note: Microsoft Edge Webview2 is available from https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/. It must be installed by choosing the option to "Install as Administrator"

4 Importing from an Excel spreadsheet into Analyst's Notebook requires the Microsoft Access database engine 2016 (64-bit) to be installed.

Supported software (optional) - ANBP Desktop Client

COMPATIBLE i2 COMPANION PRODUCTS
i2 Analyst's Notebook Connector for Esri 10.0.0
i2 TextChart 1.9.6.1
SUPPORTED SOFTWAREANBP 10.0.0ANBP 9.4.1ANBP 9.4.0ANBP 9.3.1ANBP 9.3.0ANBP 9.2.4
Microsoft Office 365 64-bit🆕-----
Microsoft Office 2021 64-bit🆕-----
Microsoft Office 2019 64-bit🆕-----
Microsoft Office 2016 64-bit🆕-----
Microsoft Office 2019 32-bit
Microsoft Office 2016 32-bit
Microsoft Office 365 32-bit
Google Earth 6.2 (32-bit only)
Google Earth 7.1 (32-bit only)
Google Earth Professional 6.2 (32-bit only)
Google Earth Professional 7.1 (32-bit only)
Google Earth Professional 7.3 (32-bit only)
Esri ArcGIS Server 10 with Portal for ArcGIS (optional, for i2 Esri Maps)
Map tile server (optional, for i2 Maps)🆕-

Hardware - ANBP Desktop Client

Hardware requirementsMinimumRecommended
Disk space1GB for installation plus additional working space
ProcessorIntel or AMD processor with 64-bit and SSE 4.2 support
2GHz or faster
Memory8GB16GB
Display1280 x 7681920 x 1080

System requirements - i2 Analyze Server

🆕 = Newly supported ✅ = Supported ❌ = No longer supported

Operating systems - i2 Analyze Server

The following tables shows the system requirements for this release, and previous releases. These system requirements should be used to ensure that the setup you are running is fully supported. Ensure that existing deployments are upgraded to currently supported versions of all the software required.

OPERATING SYSTEMSi2 Analyze 4.4.2i2 Analyze 4.4.1i2 Analyze 4.4.0i2 Analyze 4.3.5i2 Analyze 4.3.4i2 Analyze 4.3.3
Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Datacenter Edition🆕-----
Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Essentials Edition🆕-----
Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Standard Edition🆕-----
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Datacenter Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Essentials Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Standard Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Datacenter Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Essentials Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Standard Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard Edition
Linux Red Hat Enterprise V9 and fix packs🆕-----
Linux Red Hat Enterprise V8 and fix packs
Linux Red Hat Enterprise V7 and fix packs
Linux Red Hat Enterprise V6.1 and fix packs

Note: This release of i2 Analyze 4.4.2 is the last version to support Linux Red Hat Enterprise V7.

Note: i2 products are supported on hardware virtualization environments that run any of the operating systems that are listed in the detailed system requirements. When you run in a virtual environment, any issues that can be replicated by i2 in a supported operating system are addressed by using the standard support policy.

Prerequisites - i2 Analyze Server

SOFTWARE PREREQUISITESi2 Analyze 4.4.2i2 Analyze 4.4.1i2 Analyze 4.4.0i2 Analyze 4.3.5i2 Analyze 4.3.4i2 Analyze 4.3.3
Open Liberty 23 (23.0.0.5)🆕-----
Open Liberty 22 (22.0.0.12)🆕----
WebSphere Liberty 22 (22.0.0.3)🆕---
WebSphere Liberty 22 (21.0.0.6)🆕-
WebSphere Liberty 22 (20.0.0.3)🆕

Supported software - i2 Analyze Server

SOFTWARE PREREQUISITESi2 Analyze 4.4.2i2 Analyze 4.4.1i2 Analyze 4.4.0i2 Analyze 4.3.5i2 Analyze 4.3.4i2 Analyze 4.3.3
PostgreSQL 15🆕----
PostgreSQL 15 - on Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)🆕-----
IBM DB2 Standard Edition 11.5
IBM DB2 Advanced Edition 11.5
IBM DB2 11.1 Workgroup, Enterprise, Advanced Workgroup, Advanced Enterprise
IBM DB2 10.5 Workgroup, Enterprise, Advanced Workgroup, Advanced Enterprise
Microsoft SQL Server 2022🆕-----
Microsoft SQL Server 2019
Microsoft SQL Server 2017
IBM HTTP Server 9 (Optional)

Hardware - i2 Analyze Server

Hardware requirementsMinimum
Disk space4GB
Processor2 GHz x86-64 dual-core
Memory (Application server)16GB
Memory (JVM)8GB

Note: The minimum hardware specifications specified in the table will allow customers to install and deploy i2 Analyze on a single machine using the example deployment shipped with the on-prem toolkit. Hardware specs for an optimal i2 Analyze deployment are dependant on the expected amount of data to be loaded and user usage.

Supported Browsers - i2 Notebook web client

Supported Web Browsers
Google Chrome (latest version)
Microsoft Edge (latest version)
Mozilla Firefox (latest version)
Mozilla Firefox ESR (latest version)

Language support

i2 products are tested on a number of various regional variations of operating systems. In addition they are translated into a number of different languages.

Operating system language support

i2 supports this product on the following regional versions of the supported operating systems:

Language Group/LanguageLanguage CollectionSupport Status
Western Europe and USABasic
Central EuropeBasic
BalticBasic
CyrillicBasic
TurkicBasic
ArabicComplex Script
JapaneseEast Asian
KoreanEast Asian
Traditional ChineseEast Asian
Simplified ChineseEast Asian
ThaiComplex Script
VietnameseComplex Script
GreekBasic
HebrewComplex Script
IndicComplex Script
GeorgianComplex Script
ArmenianComplex Script
DhivehiComplex Script
GalicianComplex Script
GujaratiComplex Script
KannadaComplex Script
KyrgyzComplex Script
Mongolian (Cyrillic)Complex Script
PunjabiComplex Script
SyriacComplex Script
TeluguComplex Script

Data support

i2 products support unicode data.

Translations

The following languages are supported:

TranslationsAnalysis Studio Jul.2023
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish
Brazilian Portuguese
Japanese5
Simplified Chinese5
Traditional Chinese5
Korean5
Polish
Hungarian5
Russian
Czech
Slovak5
Turkish5
Arabic
Hebrew

5 The External Searches capability and chart store are not translated for these languages.