RE: V6R1

"OLAP functions are enhanced"? Does that mean that there are OLAP functions available right now (v5r4)?

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Elvis Budimlic
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 12:49 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: V6R1

Besides a ton of other improvements to hardware, software & the OS, there
are number of improvements to DB2 that you'll get implicitly (i.e. you won't
know about them but things all of sudden run better/faster).

Some I like:

More queries are going SQE path now (NLS restriction lifted, UPPER/LOWER
restriction lifted, UDTF restriction lifted, QAQQINI defaults to
DERIVE_IGNORED_INDEX=*YES...).
Query optimizer is much better at self-learning (i.e. looks at actual
results and tweaks its access path accordingly - in other words less
emphasis on estimates and more on what's really happening).
Omnifind Text Search Server is in db2 now (for searching big word docs, xml
docs etc.), automatic hidden timestamps on the table (so you know when row
was changed without writing your own triggers or like), OLAP functions are
enhanced (ROLLUP, CUBE, Grouping Sets, Super Groups).

And a lot more!
Hint: I love DB2 if you haven't noticed :)

HTH, Elvis

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-----Original Message-----
Subject: RE: V6R1

A "new release", especially when it kicks the version number is always
seen as a "big deal" in the community, just part of our makeup.

Actually, IMHO, releases are seldom big deals, notable exception perhaps
being the V3R2->V3R6 jump where we went from 48-bit CISC to 64-bit RISC.
But, actually, that was so transparent to the developer community that
it didn't even warrant a version change in the OS. Humorously, I guess
the big deal there was that it wasn't a big deal. :)

Depending on who you are, what you do and where you do it each release
has things that are a big deal to different people. Some programmers
will see the inclusion of more XML functionality in RPG as a big deal,
where operations people couldn't care less. Likewise, i5/OS on blades
and better SAN support may be a big deal to some operations people, but
is completely transparent to programmers. Etc.

A release is a big deal if it delivers something you can use, otherwise
it's just another set of CDs you need to install.

-Walden