Product Upgrades

Db2 12 has been available for over 2 years and many customers have migrated to Db2 12 Function level 500.  Function Level (FL) 500 enables all the new Db2 12 base capability. However, changes are needed at the client, and potentially at the server, to exploit FL 501 and above.

Beginning with your migration to Db2 12 for z/OS, you will be embarking on a new journey called continuous delivery. This new way of delivering new features into IBM program products such as Db2 for z/OS will change the migration process and the way you deal with applications going forward.

There has been quite a bit of attention paid to the access path stability features of DB2 for z/OS since they first appeared in DB2 9. Enhancements have followed in each subsequent release. This article will discuss these features.

Learn how to manage new releases and fixpacks for IBM Data Studio in this article by Phil Nelson.

For the past 30 years, our focus as DB2 for z/OS database administrators has been on the support of COBOL programs with static queries that were relatively easy to control as they were identical throughout the business logic. Static SQL provided persisted access paths in the database s