For query writing and reporting, DB2 Universal Database offers the Query Management Facility (QMF), a tightly integrated tool set that offers extensive management and control over your enterprise query environment. Sophisticated analysis is available separately with IBM DB2 Intelligent Miner for Data, the IBM data mining toolkit.

DB2 Universal Database also works with, and shares metadata with, popular data-analysis and report-writing tools from IBM business partners such as Brio, Business Objects, and Cognos. These tools let you access and analyze DB2 Universal Database data.