When you upgrade an instance of IBM Cloud Pak for Data, most services remain available during the
upgrade, and users can continue to access the software with minimal interruptions. However, some
services are unavailable to users. Review the following information to determine whether you need to
let users know about planned outages during an upgrade.
| Upgrades from |
Is online upgrade supported? |
| Version 4.7 |
Yes, but not all services and automatically installed dependencies support online upgrade.
|
| Version 4.8 |
Yes, but not all services and automatically installed dependencies support online upgrade.
|
Cluster-wide components
Cluster-wide components are installed exactly once on the cluster.
| Software |
Component ID |
Online upgrade supported? |
| IBM Certificate manager |
ibm-cert-manager |
Yes |
| License Service |
ibm-licensing |
Yes |
| Scheduling service |
scheduler |
Yes |
Required components
The software in the following table is installed with each instance of IBM Cloud Pak for Data on the cluster.
| Software |
Component ID |
Online upgrade supported? |
| IBM Cloud Pak foundational services |
cpfs |
Yes |
| IBM Cloud Pak for Data platform operator |
cpd_platform |
Yes |
| IBM Cloud Pak for Data control plane |
zen |
Yes |
Services
| Software |
Component ID |
Online upgrade supported? |
| AI Factsheets |
factsheet |
Yes |
| Analytics Engine powered by Apache Spark |
analyticsengine |
Yes |
| Cognos Analytics |
cognos_analytics |
No |
| Cognos Dashboards |
dashboard |
Yes |
| Data Gate |
datagate |
No |
| Data Privacy |
dp |
Yes |
| Data Refinery |
datarefinery |
No |
| Data Replication |
replication |
Yes |
| Data Virtualization |
dv |
No |
| DataStage Enterprise |
datastage_ent |
Yes |
| DataStage Enterprise Plus |
datastage_ent_plus |
Yes |
| Db2 |
db2oltp |
No |
| Db2
Big SQL |
bigsql |
No |
| Db2
Data Management Console |
dmc |
Yes |
| Db2 Warehouse |
db2wh |
No |
| Decision Optimization |
dods |
Yes |
| EDB Postgres |
|
Yes |
| Execution Engine for Apache Hadoop |
hee |
No |
| IBM Knowledge Catalog |
wkc |
No |
| IBM Match 360 with Watson |
match360 |
No |
| Informix |
|
Yes |
| MANTA Automated Data Lineage |
mantaflow |
No |
| MongoDB |
|
No |
| OpenPages |
openpages |
No. The service instance upgrade can take more than two hours, depending on the size of
your OpenPages instance.
|
| Orchestration Pipelines |
ws_pipelines |
Yes |
| Planning Analytics |
planning_analytics |
Yes |
| Product Master |
productmaster |
Yes |
| RStudio® Server Runtimes |
rstudio |
Yes |
| SPSS Modeler |
spss |
Yes |
| Synthetic Data Generator |
syntheticdata |
Yes |
| Voice Gateway |
voice_gateway |
Yes |
| Watson Discovery |
watson_discovery |
No |
| Watson Machine Learning |
wml |
Yes |
| Watson Machine Learning Accelerator |
wml_accelerator |
Yes |
| Watson
OpenScale |
openscale |
Yes |
| Watson Speech services |
watson_speech |
Yes |
| Watson Studio |
ws |
Yes |
| Watson Studio Runtimes |
ws_runtimes |
Yes |
| watsonx.ai |
watsonx_ai |
Yes |
| watsonx Assistant |
watson_assistant |
No |
| watsonx.data |
watsonx_data |
Yes |
| watsonx.governance |
watsonx_governance |
Yes |
| watsonx Orchestrate |
watsonx_orchestrate |
No |
Automatically installed dependencies
| Software |
Component ID |
|
| Canvas |
canvasbase |
Yes |
| Common core services |
ccs |
Yes |
| Db2 as a service |
db2aaservice |
No |
| Db2U |
db2u |
No |