DB2® Version 9.7 for Linux, UNIX,
and Windows delivers new capabilities that can
help you manage costs and simplify application development.
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.
Compression enhancements
Version 9.7 includes new compression features that you
can use to compress more types of data, reduce your storage requirements,
improve I/O efficiency, and provide quick access to data from disk.
Manageability enhancements Version
9.7 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 9.7 builds on the pureXML® support first introduced in Version
9.1 and enhances the hybrid relational and XML data server to make
your XML data processing even more flexible, faster, and more reliable.
These enhancements provide new opportunities to deploy and analyze
XML data in data warehouses.
Monitoring enhancements Version
9.7 includes many enhancements that make monitoring DB2 environments more comprehensive
with higher granularity of control.
Performance enhancements Version
9.7 contains numerous 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 Oracle databases, you will
find that Version
9.7 contains many new enhancements that make the DB2 products
more familiar to you. These enhancements also make it particularly
easy to enable Oracle applications to run quickly in DB2 environments.
Workload management enhancements
DB2 Version 9.7 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
9.7 enhancements ensure that your sensitive data is even
better protected.
Application development enhancements
Version 9.7 application development enhancements simplify
database application development, improve application portability,
and ease application deployment.
DB2 Version 9.7 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows