What's New includes information about new functionality
included in Version 10.1.
DB2® Version 10.1 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows delivers
new capabilities that can help you manage costs and simplify application
development.
Highlights of DB2 Version 10.1
IBM® DB2 Version 10.1 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows continues
to deliver database efficiency, simplicity, and reliability. Important
new features and enhancements address the needs of your business.
Whether your needs are improving business critical reliability and
performance, simplifying consolidation and security, increasing business
insight, reducing costs, or providing a resilient system for the valuable
information assets of your company, DB2 Version 10.1 delivers.
Product packaging enhancements
As IBM data
servers continue to evolve, the names and the packaging of the DB2 components change to respond
to market needs.
Manageability enhancements Version 10.1 provides
enhancements that make it easier to manage DB2 environments, reduce the total cost of ownership
(TCO), reduce the impact of performing system management tasks, and
extend the capabilities of the autonomic features introduced in previous
releases.
pureXML enhancements Version 10.1 supports
the XML data type and enhances the pureXML® feature
to make your data processing even more flexible, faster, and more
reliable.
Monitoring enhancements Version 10.1 includes
enhancements that make monitoring DB2 database
environments more comprehensive with higher granularity of control.
Performance enhancements Version 10.1 contains
numerous SQL performance enhancements that continue to make the DB2 data server an industrial-strength
data server solution that is suitable for any size of organization.
SQL compatibility enhancements
If you work with relational database products other than
the DB2 product, Version 10.1 contains
enhancements that make the DB2 product
more familiar to you. These enhancements reduce the time and complexity
of enabling some applications that are written for other relational
database products to run in a DB2 environment.
Workload management enhancements Version 10.1 features
extend the workload management capabilities provided in previous releases.
Security enhancements
With the number of both internal and external security
threats growing, it is important to separate the tasks of keeping
data secure from the management tasks of administering critical systems.
Building on the enhancements introduced in previous versions, Version 10.1 enhancements
ensure that your sensitive data is even better protected.
Application development enhancements Version 10.1 application
development enhancements simplify database application development,
improve application portability, and ease application deployment.
IBM data server clients and drivers enhancements
Some IBM data
server clients and drivers have been enhanced with new and improved
features that improve application performance and reliability.
DB2 pureScale Feature enhancements
The IBM DB2 pureScale® Feature was
first introduced in Version 9.8. Version 10.1 builds
on DB2 pureScale Feature support.