DB2 LUW announcements at IDUG NA 2017
Posted: May 3, 2017 Filed under: DB2 10, DB2 11.1, DB2 9.7, DB2 LUW | Tags: DB2 10, DB2 11.1, DB2 9.7, DB2 LUW Leave a commentFrom Peter Bradford @scend we have:
#1 We made requests for enhancements (RFEs) public!
#2: DB2 Developer-C! All DB2 features, free for development, a MySQL substitute! Download 6/22
#3: The new “Download & Go” installation experience, available with Developer-C Download 6/2. Download a platform specific binary. Small download, less than 15 minutes to install. Install reduced to 3 clicks and User/Password input only.
#4: We will support DB2 V11 on Solaris Sparc later this year with our V11.1.3.3 release, by 12/15/17 (if not sooner)
#5: New “Continuous Support” offering for customers on DB2 V9.7 and V10.1!
How To and Workaround assistance, no new defect fixes
This still provides existing fixed but no new custom special builds or codes fixed
If you have questions contact
Email: askcs@us.ibm.com
Twitter: @db2support or https://twitter.com/db2_support
DB2 LUW 11.1
Posted: April 26, 2016 Filed under: DB2 11.1, DB2 LUW, Uncategorized | Tags: DB2 LUW Leave a commentDB2 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
just dave info 