
DB2 Spatial Extender
New features have been added to the Spatial Extender:
- The Spatial Extender is now integrated into IBM business intelligence tools, which include QMF, Data Warehouse Center, and OLAP.
- You can now access DB2 for iSeries and DB2 for z/OS data with federated support.
- Platform support now includes the following operating systems: AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris Operating Environment, and Windows.
- The index advisor, a new indexing tool, has two operation modes:
- Analyze an existing spatial index, and create and analyze a virtual index.
- Analyze the geometries in a spatial column that does not yet have a spatial index.
- The Spatial Extender interface is now object-oriented.