DB2 LUW 11.1

DB2 11.1 has been announced with a download date of June 15 2016

Potential new features are:

Core workloads

Enterprise Encryption supports Centralized Key Managers (KMIP)

Support for Encryption to use  KMIP 1.1 with a Centralized Key Manager

– update dbm cfg using keystore_type kmip

– update dbm cfg using keystore location /home/justdave/isklm.cfg

Config file contains host, port number etc.

Technology Preview of support for Hardware Security Modules

Simpler Deployment

Greater Availability

Zero Data Loss HADR

More online management

More platforms supported

Power Linux (LE) supported

Virtualization for RDMA (x86) supported

Very Large Database Performance

Faster throughput

Better upgrades

DB2 9.7 and higher can be directly upgraded to DB2 11.1 (support for upgrades from 3 releases back)

Online upgrades with no need for an offline backup.

A recovery procedure including roll-forward thtough a database upgrade exists. This does not include DPF and requires upgrading from DB2 10.5 FP7 or higher.

Steamlined HADR upgrade

HADR environments can be upgraded with need to re-initialized the secondary. This does not apply to Purescale and requires upgrading from DB2 10.5 FP7 or higher.

Warehousing workloads

MPP supports BLU

DPF renamed to MPP

Faster ELT/ETL Performance

More Query Workloads Optimized

More functions supported

Generated Columns

RCAC

OLAP+BLU Performance increased

Multi-Lingual SQL Advances

Postgres syntax

Support for European Languages

Codepage 819

 

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