Release Notes

FixPak 7 Highlights

The following new information has been added in this FixPak. This list is not exhaustive, but highlights the major documentation changes. Be sure to look over any sections of the release notes that relate to your work environment to be sure that you keep abreast of all pertinent updates.

• 2.12, Veritas AIX Volume Manager Support
• 4.4, Additional Installation Steps for AIX CICS Users
• 4.33, Merant Driver Manager and the DB2 UDB Version 7 ODBC Driver on UNIX
• Adding Sybase Data Sources to a Federated Server - Step 7
• 8.2.2, Export Utility Requires FixPak 7 or Later to Properly Handle Identity Attributes
• 8.3.1, Country/Region Code and Code Page Support
• 10.5.2, New Parameters for Registry Variable DB2BPVARS
• 12.3, Additional Context for ARCHIVE LOG Usage Note
• 13.2, New Archive Logging Behavior
• 13.3, How to Use Suspended I/O for Database Recovery
• 13.5, Incremental Backup and Recovery - Additional Information
• 14.1, Extended Identity Values Now Fully Supported by Export Utility
• 14.2, Change to LOB File Handling by Export, Import, and Load
• 17.5, Chapter 15. Logged Information
• 22.1, Choosing Redirected Restore Commits You to Restoring the Database
• 25.1, Support for Java Stored Procedures for z/OS or OS/390
• 25.2, Support for SQL Stored Procedures for z/OS or OS/390
• 25.3, Stored Procedure Builder Reference Update to z/OS or OS/390 Documentation
• 25.4, Support for Setting Result Set Properties
• 25.5, Dropping Procedures from a DB2 Database on Windows NT
• 39.2, Linux on S/390 and zSeries Support
• 39.3, Linux Rexx Support
• 40.2, Correction to Debugging Stored Procedures in Java
• 41.8.4, SQLGetInfo - Get General Information
• 43.4, Correction to CREATE TABLESPACE Container-clause, and Container-string Information