IBM’s DB29 “Viper”
database server is now available for System z mainframe customers,
to allow them to improve security and benefit from greater
functionality.
Including hundreds of new features for mainframe users, DB2 9
for z/OS also provides enhanced data storage compression and, for
the first time, allows the seamless management of relational and
XML data in the same database.
IBM partners played a key role in the development of the
database.
Torsten Wittkugel, SAP vice-president of database and operating
system platform development, said, “IBM and SAP have cooperated
very closely on DB2 9 for z/OS and we look forward to supporting
our customers with these new capabilities.
"The SAP Banking Services 5.0 release, which will be released
soon, will be the first SAP product to take advantage of many new
beneficial features in DB2 9 for z/OS.”
IBM said DB2 9 for z/OS builds upon proven capabilities in areas
such as online schema evolution, Unicode, XML, SQL, utilities,
security and compliance, and 64-bit virtual storage.
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