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.

IBM has updated product packaging to provide simplicity through fewer packages, and greater value through more function and features included in the base DB2 editions such as warehouse functionality. The new DB2 Advanced Workgroup Server Edition is the ideal choice for deployment in a departmental, workgroup, or medium-sized business environment. It supports partitioned database environments and DB2 pureScale® environments.

The new IBM® DB2 Advanced Recovery Feature offers additional tools to protect the mission-critical data that runs your business such as DB2 Recovery Expert, DB2 Merge Backup, and IBM InfoSphere® Optim™ High Performance Unload. The IBM DB2 Advanced Recovery Feature is the only separately-priced feature available in Version 10.5. The functionality of DB2 features available in earlier releases is available in DB2 database product editions.

You can update some DB2 editions to another one by just updating the license file. You do not have to reinstall the DB2 database product. You can also update some DB2 editions to enable DB2 Connect™ functionality by adding your DB2 Connect license file.

To read about these products and to view the related licensing and marketing information, see the DB2 product page at http://www.ibm.com/software/data/db2/linux-unix-windows.