DB2 10.5 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows

What's New

What's New includes information about new functionality included in Version 10.5.

DB2® Version 10.5 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows delivers new capabilities that can help you manage costs and simplify application development.

Highlights of DB2 Version 10.5
IBM® DB2 Version 10.5 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows offers accelerated analytic processing by introducing a new processing paradigm and data format within the DB2 database product. Advantages include significant reductions in time-to-value and increased consumability, which can be achieved through minimal DBA design requirements and reduced query tuning and debugging efforts. Industry-leading compression, large performance gains for analytic queries, and large reductions in performance variation round out the benefits of deploying this technology.
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 10.5 provides enhancements that make it easier to manage DB2 environments, minimize 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.
Monitoring enhancements
Version 10.5 includes enhancements that make monitoring DB2 database environments more comprehensive with higher granularity of control.
High availability, backup, logging, resiliency, and recovery enhancements
Version 10.5 includes enhancements that help ensure that your data remains available.
Performance enhancements
DB2 Version 10.5 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 DB2 database products, DB2 Version 10.5 contains enhancements that make the DB2 database products 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 DB2 environments.
Workload management enhancements
Version 10.5 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 10.5 enhancements ensure that your sensitive data is even better protected.
Application development enhancements
DB2 Version 10.5 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 Text Search enhancements
Version 10.5 includes enhancements that extend the Text Search functionality.
Installation and upgrade enhancements
Version 10.5 includes enhancements that make it faster to deploy products and easier to maintain them.
Troubleshooting and problem determination enhancements
DB2 Version 10.5 provides enhancements that make it easier to troubleshoot problems in DB2 environments.
DB2 pureScale Feature enhancements
IBM DB2 pureScale® Feature was originally introduced in Version 9.8. DB2 Version 10.5 continues to build on DB2 pureScale Feature support.
Multicultural support enhancements
Version 10.5 provides more options for working with multicultural data.