What's New
Responding to customer needs and the demands of the marketplace ensures
that DB2 Universal Database continues to set the pace in the ever-changing
enterprise computing environment with even further enhancements.
This book provides an overview of these enhancements. You will find
that the descriptions of the enhancements are marked with a vertical bar to
the left of the change. DB2 Version 7.2 includes:
- e-Business Enhancements, such as:
- MQ-Assist wizard
- MQ Series Integration
- DB2 Enterprise - Extended Edition on Linux
- DB2 Universal Database Enterprise Edition for Linux on S/390
- DB2 Connect Enterprise Edition for Linux on S/390
- DB2 Connect Web Starter Kit
- JDBC 2.0 support on HP-UX and Linux
- Exploitation of the Linux 2.4 kernel
- Business Intelligence Enhancements, such as:
- New warehouse sources, such as i2, SAP R/3, web clickstream data, MQSeries
messages queues, and Microsoft OLE DB objects
- The Data Warehouse Center expanding its role as a tool integration
hub for data quality and cleansing tools by adding support for Trillium
- Enhanced support for creating and changing warehouse target tables
- Distributed query access to new data sources, such as Sybase and
Microsoft SQL Server, and to Oracle data from additional DB2 systems, on
platforms such as the Solaris Operating Environment and Linux
- Distributed query access from SQL procedures
- Additional metadata interchange, including importing ERwin metadata and
support for Common Warehouse Metamodel XML objects
- Datalink Replication on the Solaris Operating Environment
- Procedural logic in stored procedures, triggers, and SQL functions for
enhanced cleansing and transformation capabilities
- Dynamic compound SQL statements
- Updateable partitioning keys in partitioned database environments
- Data Management Enhancements, such as:
- On-demand log archiving
- Alter identity columns
- 64-bit support on AIX, HP-UX, and the Solaris Operating Environment
- Support for Windows 2000 Address Windowing Extensions (AWE)
- Unicode enhancements
- Encryption and decryption of string data through user-defined functions
(UDFs)
- Incremental and delta backup
- Sequence support
- Parallel container creation
- DB2 Family Enhancements, such as:
- The ability to run SQL procedures on servers without compilers
- DB2 Data Links Manager for the Solaris Operating Environment
The DB2 Release Notes describe how these enhancements are
implemented. For your convenience and ease of reference, the
enhancements are documented in the DB2 Release Notes by the
appropriate DB2 book, chapter, and section. For example, changes to a
command are found in the Command Reference
section.
The Version 7.2 DB2 Release Notes are available in PDF
format and can be found on the Publications CD-ROM with the DB2
manuals.
- Note:
- The DB2 Release Notes are also available in ASCII and HTML on the
product CDs.
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