Matter of Time: Temporal Data Management in DB2 10 for z/OS

You could say it was just a matter of time. Industry regulations and competitive pressures are prompting IT managers to maintain more data for longer periods of time and to provide better ways for business users to analyze past, current, and future events. To help organizations achieve these goals, IBM has built greater awareness of time into DB2 10 for z/OS.

This paper introduces you to the key concepts and capabilities of DB2’s temporal data management support on z/OS. It explains when this technology can be useful and provides several examples to help you understand how easy it can be to deploy it. In many cases, deployment can be transparent to existing applications, including pre-built applications purchased from software vendors.

Executive Report Business Value of DB2 10 - Smarter Database for a Smarter Planet
Julian Stuhler, Triton Consulting

Abstract: Even in the most favourable economic climate, businesses need to control costs and increase efficiency in order to improve their bottom line. In today’s more challenging business environment this has become a key factor for the survival and success of enterprises of all sizes. DB2 10 delivers significant “out of the box” benefits that many customers will be able to exploit with little or no additional effort. These include the most aggressive performance and CPU improvements of any DB2 release in the last 20 years, scalability enhancements to support ever-increasing workloads and productivity improvements to allow DB2 developers and support staff to do respond more rapidly to the demands of the business. Collectively, these features deliver real and quantifiable business benefit, and many customers will be considering upgrading to DB2 10 much more quickly than they may have done for previous releases.