Manage your storage effectively with automatic storage management

DB2 9 extends the automated storage features first introduced in DB2 V8.2.2. Automatic storage automatically grows the size of your database across disk and file systems. It eliminates the need to manage storage containers while taking advantage of the performance and flexibility of database managed storage.

In DB2 9, automatic storage is enabled by default for new databases. In addition, automatic storage support has been added for multi-partition databases. With this feature, you no longer need to worry about tasks such as creating additional table spaces for capacity, adding containers, and monitoring container growth. And when you want to restore a database backup on a different system with different directory or path structures, you can now redefine the storage paths, such that the new paths are used instead of the ones stored in the backup image.