IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition V9.1 delivers knowledge driven search
IBM United States Software Announcement 210-149June 22, 2010
 ENUS210-149.PDF (97KB)
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(Corrected on June 30, 2010)
Updated Hardware requirements and Packaging sections.
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Content is often spread across repositories in an organization between shared drives and folders, SharePoint, Lotus®, and Livelink. Finding the content that matters to a knowledge worker can be difficult with the wrong search solution, and nearly impossible without any search capabilities. Compounding the difficulties is the business requirement to ensure the security of information and scalability of the solution. IBM® OmniFind™ Enterprise Edition V9.1 helps users find content by providing a customizable scalable platform for enterprise search with robust security capabilities users can configure to ensure that only the content a user is allowed to view is shown in search results pages.
IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition provides connectors to enterprise repositories to support the index aggregation of content across structured and unstructured repositories, along with robust APIs for embedding search components as ingredients in composite applications, portals or mashups allowing businesses to leverage their information across corporate interfaces.
Knowledge driven search enables organizations to:
- Accelerate time to knowledge
- Provide greater accuracy
- Deliver business context with enterprise search
IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition V9.1 enables the five pillars of knowledge driven search:
- Dynamic - Delivers complete dynamic facet capabilities, type-ahead search, real-time content alerting, and is reactive to search-led content exploration.
- Tailorable - Delivers business adjustable relevancy and standardization to the Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA).
- Supportable - Delivers search on 20 plus platforms, connects to 30 plus repositories.
- Secure - Delivers enforced security across content repositories.
- Scalable - Lucene-based index provides enterprise level scalability.
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| Key prerequisites |
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Refer to the Technical information section.
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| Planned availability date |
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June 25, 2010: Electronic availability
June 25, 2010: Media availability
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| Description |
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IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition V9.1 includes many technical and feature enhancements. Six key enhancements include:
- Scalability - Leveraging the Lucene index will allow you to index more content while simultaneously reducing the amount of resources required to store the full text index and perform queries.
- Usability - Faceted search allows you to visually drill through content organized in a classification hierarchy based on typed or extracted entity identifiers.
- Usability - Saved searches allow users to save searches for future re-execution. This is commonly requested by enterprise search customers who are using search to report on new or changing unstructured business content.
- Usability - Search agents allow users to be proactively alerted when content related to a specific query is newly indexed.
- Reach - Native crawlers for IBM FileNet® Content Manager and Microsoft® Sharepoint.
- Platform - Native Linux® for System z® support for runtime execution.
Section 508 of the U.S. Rehabilitation Act
IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition is capable as of June 25, 2010 , when used in accordance with IBM's associated documentation, of satisfying the applicable requirements of Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, provided that any assistive technology used with the product properly interoperates with it. A U.S. Section 508 Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT), containing details on the products accessibility compliance, can be requested on the following Web site
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| Availability of national languages |
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Product description Language GA date
OmniFind Ent Starter Ed Multilingual June 25, 2010
V9.1.0 (Portuguese,
French,
Danish,
Russian,
Hebrew,
Arabic,
Korean,
Chinese -
Simplified,
Spanish,
Norwegian
Bokmal,
Portuguese-Brazilian,
German,
Swedish,
Japanese,
Chinese -
Traditional,
Hungarian,
English,
Slovenian,
Greek,
Turkish,
Dutch, Czech,
Slovakian,
Italian,
Finnish,
Polish)
OmniFind Enterprise Edition Multilingual June 25, 2010
V9.1.0 (Portuguese,
French,
Danish,
Russian,
Hebrew,
Arabic,
Korean,
Chinese -
Simplified,
Spanish,
Norwegian
Bokmal,
Portuguese-Brazilian,
German,
Swedish,
Japanese,
Chinese -
Traditional,
Hungarian,
English,
Slovenian,
Greek,
Turkish,
Dutch, Czech,
Slovakian,
Italian,
Finnish,
Polish)
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| Program number |
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Program VRM Program name
number
5724-L31 9.1.0 IBM OmniFind Enterprise
Edition
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| Education support |
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IBM training provides education to support many IBM offerings. Descriptions of courses for IT professionals and managers are on the IBM training Web site
Call IBM training at 800-IBM-TEACH (426-8322) for catalogs, schedules, and enrollments.
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| Offering Information |
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Product information is available via the Offering Information Web site
Also, visit the Passport Advantage® Web site
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| Publications |
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No publications are shipped with this product.
The documentation is available in PDF or HTML format.
The PDF documents are installed in the ES_INSTALL_ROOT/docs/locale/pdf directories or you can download PDFs from the OmniFind Enterprise Edition library page at
HTML documentation is available through the installed Information Center, which users can access by clicking Help. Instead of the installed Information Center, you can choose to use the Information Center that is at
A comprehensive Information Roadmap is available at
The following documentation is provided:
- Quick Start Guide. A hardcopy version in English, French, and Japanese is included in the product package.
- Detailed system requirements at
- Release Notes at
- Installation Guide for Enterprise Search
- Administering Enterprise Search
- Programming Guide and API Reference
- Troubleshooting Guide and Messages Reference
- Text Analysis Integration
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| Technical information |
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Specified operating environment
Hardware requirements
The exact hardware configuration to support a specific environment with satisfactory response time varies, depending on the number of documents to be searched, the search application requirements, server workload, number of users, and other factors.
Server operating systems (one of the following)
- IBM AIX® V5.3 (64 bit)
- IBM AIX V6.1 (64 bit)
- Microsoft Windows® Server 2003 Enterprise Edition R2 SP2 or SP2 (32 bit)
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition R2 or SP2 (64 bit)
- Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.0 (32 bit)
- Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.0 (64 bit)
- Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11.0 (64 bit)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advance Server 5.0 (32 bit)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advance Server 5.0 (64 bit)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advance Server 5.0 on System z (64 bit)
- Oracle Solaris 10 (SPARC)
Java™ Runtime Environment (server)
- Java Runtime Environment V1.6 (32 bit or 64 bit) (included)
Client browsers (one of following)
Clients running one of the following Web browsers can access and run the IBM OmniFind Web applications. Client systems must have the necessary hardware to support a browser that supports frames, Javascript, and Adobe® Flash Player 10.x.
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 7
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 8
- Mozilla Firefox 3.5
- Mozilla Firefox 3.6
Web Application Server (one of following)
- Jetty 6.1.22 (included)
- IBM WebSphere® Application Server V6.1, base edition (optional)
- IBM WebSphere Application Server V7.0, base edition and network deployment (optional)
Software requirements
Minimum requirements for operating systems
- IBM AIX (64-bit
support)
- IBM AIX V5.3 (maintenance level 3)
- IBM AIX V6.1 (maintenance level 3)
- Microsoft Windows (32-bit
support)
- Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition, Service Pack 2, and R2 Service Pack 2
- Microsoft Windows (64-bit
support)
- Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition, Service Pack 2 and R2
- Oracle Solaris operating environment (64-bit support (Solaris SPARC))
- Oracle Solaris 10, with patch 118833-36
- For a more detailed and up-to-date list of prerequisite software, visit
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=63&uid=swg27017874
Other software:
- IBM WebSphere Application Server V7.0 (recommended and included with IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition and OmniFind Enterprise Starter Edition).
- Access to some data sources requires IBM Content Integrator V8.5.1 (included with IBM OmniFind Enterprise and OmniFind Enterprise Starter Edition).
The program's specifications and specified operating environment information may be found in documentation accompanying the program, if available, such as a README file, or other information published by IBM, such as an announcement letter. Documentation and other program content may be supplied only in the English language.
Planning information
Packaging
IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition V9.1 includes the following:
- OmniFind Enterprise Edition Quick Start Guide
- OmniFind Enterprise
Edition and OmniFind Enterprise
Starter Edition Quick Start CD, which includes softcopy product publications:
- OmniFind Enterprise Edition Programming Guide and API Reference for Enterprise Search
- OmniFind Enterprise Edition Administering Enterprise Search
- OmniFind Enterprise Edition Installation Guide for Enterprise Search
- OmniFind Enterprise Edition Troubleshooting Guide and Messages Reference
- OmniFind Enterprise Edition Quick Start Guide
- OmniFind Enterprise Edition Text Analysis Integration
- OmniFind Enterprise Edition DVD, which also includes the softcopy product publications
- WebSphere Application Server V7.0 CD for limited use with OmniFind Enterprise Edition on all supported platforms
- WebSphere Application Server V7.0 Supplements CD for limited use with OmniFind Enterprise Edition
- Content Integrator V8.5.1 DVD for limited use with OmniFind Enterprise Edition
Security, auditability, and control
IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition uses the security and auditability features of the host hardware or software.
The customer is responsible for evaluation, selection, and implementation of security features, administrative procedures, and appropriate controls in application systems and communication facilities.
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This product is only available via Passport Advantage. It is not available as shrinkwrap.
Product information
Licensed function title Product group Product
category
IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition IBM OmniFind IBM OmniFind
IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition IBM OmniFind IBM OmniFind
Non-Production
IBM OmniFind Enterprise Starter IBM OmniFind IBM OmniFind
Edition
Program name PID Charge unit
number description
IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition 5724-L31 Per Connector
IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition 5724-L31 Per Processor
Value Unit (PVU)
IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition 5724-L31 PROCESSOR-Days
IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition 5724-L31 Per Processor
Non-Production Value Unit (PVU)
IBM OmniFind Enterprise Starter 5724-L31 PA Per Connector
Edition
IBM OmniFind Enterprise Starter 5724-L31 Per Processor
Edition Value Unit (PVU)
Charge metrics definitions
Processor Value Unit (PVU)
PVU is a unit of measure by which this software product can be licensed. PVU entitlements are based on processor technology (defined within the PVU table* by processor vendor, brand, type and model number). IBM continues to define a processor, for purposes of PVU-based licensing, to be each processor core on a chip. Each software product has a unique price per PVU. To determine the total cost of deploying an individual software product in a specific hardware environment, you must take the following steps:
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** Activated processor cores are physical processor cores that are available for use in a server. They include processor cores:
- That are activated (available for use) when the server is shipped by the manufacturer
- That are activated subsequently through activation codes purchased from the server manufacturer by the customer
- Whose capacity can be limited by the customer through virtualization technologies, operating system commands and BIOS settings
* For information regarding PVU and sub-capacity licensing, including the latest PVU table, visit
Passport Advantage program licenses
IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition
Part description Part
number
IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition
OmniFind Enterprise Ed Per Connector Annual SW S&S Rnwl E01PLLL
OmniFind Enterprise Ed Per Connector Lic + SW S&S 12 Mo D54U2LL
OmniFind Enterprise Ed Per Connector SW S&S Reinstate D54U3LL
12 Mo
OmniFind Enterprise Ed Per Processor Value Unit (PVU) E02E3LL
Annual SW S&S R
OmniFind Enterprise Ed Per Processor Value Unit (PVU) D5720LL
Lic + SW S&S 12
OmniFind Enterprise Ed Per Processor Value Unit (PVU) D5723LL
SW S&S Reinstat
IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition
Part description Part
number
IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition Non-Production
OmniFind Enterprise Ed Non-Production PVU Annual SW S&S E08LELL
Rnwl
OmniFind Enterprise Ed Non-Production PVU Lic + SW S&S D0CK1LL
12 Mo
OmniFind Enterprise Ed Non-Production PVU SW S&S D0CK2LL
Reinstate 12 Mo
IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition
Part description Part
number
IBM OmniFind Enterprise Starter Edition
OmniFind Enterprise Starter Edition Connector Annual SW E02V2LL
S&S Rnwl
OmniFind Enterprise Starter Edition Connector Lic + SW D594WLL
S&S 12 Mo
OmniFind Enterprise Starter Edition Connector SW S&S D594XLL
Reinstate 12 Mo
OmniFind Enterprise Starter Edition Value Unit Annual E02Z7LL
SW S&S Rnwl
OmniFind Enterprise Starter Edition Value Unit Lic + SW D59G3LL
S&S 12 Mo
OmniFind Enterprise Starter Edition Value Unit SW S&S D59G4LL
Reinstate 12 Mo
Passport Advantage supply
Program name/description Part
number
OmniFind Ent Starter Ed V9.1.0
IBM OmniFind Enterprise Starter Edition V9.1 MP ML BF04DML
Media Pack
OmniFind Enterprise Edition V9.1.0
IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition V9.1 Multiplatform BF04CML
Multilingual Media Pack
Passport Advantage customer: Media pack entitlement details
Customers with active maintenance or subscription for the products listed are entitled to receive the corresponding media pack.
OmniFind Enterprise Edition V9.1.0
Entitled maintenance Media packs description Part
offerings description number
IBM OmniFind Enterprise IBM OmniFind Enterprise BF04CML
Edition Non-Production Edition V9.1 Multiplatform
Processor Value Unit Multilingual Media Pack
OmniFind Enterprise IBM OmniFind Enterprise BF04CML
Edition Connector Edition V9.1 Multiplatform
Multilingual Media Pack
OmniFind Enterprise IBM OmniFind Enterprise BF04CML
Edition Value Unit Edition V9.1 Multiplatform
Multilingual Media Pack
OmniFind Ent Starter Ed V9.1.0
Entitled maintenance Media packs description Part
offerings description number
OmniFind Enterprise IBM OmniFind Enterprise BF04DML
Starter Edition Connector Starter Edition V9.1 MP ML
Media Pack
OmniFind Enterprise IBM OmniFind Enterprise BF04DML
Starter Edition Value Unit Starter Edition V9.1 MP ML
Media Pack
On/Off CoD
IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition
Part description Part
number
OmniFind Enterprise Ed PROCESSOR-Day(s) Per Use-Day D59MXLL
OOCoD
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IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition 5724-L31 L-DDCY-83ZRPN
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Yes
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IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition: No
Volume orders (IVO)
No
Passport Advantage applies
Yes, and through the Passport Advantage Web site at
This product is only available via Passport Advantage. It is not available as shrinkwrap.
Usage restriction
Yes
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Software Subscription and Support (Software Maintenance)
Other terms
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No
System i Software Maintenance applies
No
Educational allowance available
Not applicable.
On/Off CoD
To be eligible for On/Off CoD pricing, customers must be enabled for temporary capacity on the corresponding hardware, and the required contract - Z125-6907, Amendment for iSeries® and pSeries® Temporary Capacity On Demand - Software - must be signed prior to use.
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