About IBM Relationship Resolution
IBM
Relationship Resolution helps organizations solve business problems related
to recognizing the true identity of someone or something ("who is who") and
determining the potential value or danger of relationships ("who knows who")
among customers, employees, vendors, and other external forces. IBM Relationship
Resolution provides immediate and actionable information to help prevent
threat, fraud, abuse, and collusion in all industries.
New functions in IBM Relationship Resolution version
4.2 fix pack 1
Several new functions and enhancements are included
in this fix pack:
- IBM Global Name Recognition Name Hasher feature
- The IBM Global Name Recognition Name Hasher feature enables improved name
parsing, culture classification, and name hash generation processes of IBM
Relationship Resolution by leveraging IBM Global Name Recognition technology.
The improved capabilities of the name hygiene process enable the IBM Relationship
Resolution pipelines to build better candidate lists. The generation of more
accurate and robust candidate lists directly improves entity resolution.
- Using the IBM Global Name Recognition Name Hasher feature with an IBM
Relationship Resolution installation which includes the IBM Entity Analytics
Solutions Name Manager add-on product provides the ability to classify names
for culture and to accurately compare and score names on the candidate list
in a culturally sensitive context.
- Customers should not enable this feature on an existing IBM Relationship
Resolution version 4.2 installation. If the IBM Global Name Recognition Name
Hasher feature is enabled on an existing installation without reloading all
existing data in the system from the data sources, entity resolution of new
data will fail against the existing data in the system. The required installation
method for customers wanting to enable the IBM Global Name Recognition Name
Hasher feature is to perform a clean IBM Relationship Resolution version 4.2
installation, then install the IBM Relationship Resolution version 4.2 fix
pack 1, then manually enable the IBM Global Name Recognition Name Hasher feature,
and finally load all of the data into the system.
- The IBM Global Name Recognition Name Hasher feature is not enabled by
default. You use the configuration console to enable the IBM Global Name Recognition
Name Hasher feature.
- Name Manager update
- The fix pack provides updates to the IBM Entity Analytics Solutions Name
Manager add-on product for IBM Relationship Resolution. The previous implementation
of IBM Global Name Recognition NameClassifier has been replaced with IBM Global
Name Recognition NameClassifier Country of Association (NC_COA) to improve
the quality of culture classification of names. The previous implementation
of IBM Global Name Recognition NameHunter has been upgraded to IBM Global
Name Recognition NameHunter 3.1 to provide name regularization for Anglo,
Arabic, German, Indian, Russian, and Thai cultured names. Name regularization
finds the normalized version of a name and uses it for scoring.
- Event management
- IBM Relationship Resolution Event Manager extends the capabilities of
IBM Relationship Resolution by combining near real-time event analysis and
event monitoring with entity and relationship resolution. When enabled, Event
Manager provides your organization with the ability to track business events
and alert on suspicious events or events of interest, so that you can take
the appropriate business action in a timely manner, to assist your organization
in its fight against threat and fraud.
- Graph enhancements to the Visualizer
- There are three new features for Entity and Alert graphs:
- Control the canvas size used by the layout engine.
- Shift+click+drag to move the canvas in the viewing area.
- Use the Zoom slider to affect the zoom level of the graph in real time.
Note that this fix pack and included documentation is provided
in English. If you install the IBM Relationship Resolution version 4.2 fix
pack 1, you will only see the fix pack function information when English is
selected in your browser settings.
IBM Relationship Resolution version 4.2 fix
pack 1 maintenance items
This fix pack includes the following maintenance
items:
- The Selective/Passive Load function now permits only expected data to
load. [APAR: PJ33036]
Known problems
Known problems are
documented in the form of individual technotes in the Support knowledge base
at
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/db2/eas/relationship/support.html:
- Under Search Support, in the Enter terms,
error code or APAR # field, enter a keyword, phrase, error code,
or APAR number to search on.
- Select Solve a problem.
- Click the Search button.
As problems are discovered and resolved, the IBM Support team
updates the knowledge base. By searching the knowledge base, you can quickly
find workarounds or solutions to problems.
At time of publication, there
were no known installation problems. Be sure to check the Support knowledge
base for any late-breaking information.