Appendix F. DB2 Version 7 Overview

IN THIS APPENDIX

• E-Business Enhancements

• Application Development Enhancements

• Data Management Enhancements

• Business Intelligence Enhancements

• Additional V7 Information

This appendix contains a short overview of the highlights of DB2 Version 7. Refer to this appendix when you are interested in finding out about specific features that were added as of DB2 V7.

IBM officially released DB2 V7 for the mainframe at the end of March 2001. Keep in mind, too, that IBM enabled support for some of the features of V7 via APAR to V6 and via a refresh of the V6 code prior to V7 availability. For more information on what APARs are available for V6, consult the following Web link:

http://www.software.ibm.com/data/db2/os390/v6apar.html

This appendix breaks down the new features of this release into the following categories:

• e-Business

• Application

• Data Management

• Business Intelligence

• Additional Considerations