DB2 10 for z/OS: The Smarter, Faster Way to Upgrade

In the current economic climate, businesses are under significant pressure to control costs and increase efficiency to improve their bottom line. DB2 for z/OS customers around the world are still trying to gain competitive advantage by doing more with less: more business insight, more performance, more operational efficiency, more functionality, more productivity with less cost, quicker time to market, and a lower TCO. With support for DB2 Version 8 scheduled to end in April 2012, there has never been a better time to start planning your DB2 10 upgrade.

DB2 10 for z/OS: The Smarter, Faster Way to Uprgrade explores the top 10 reasons to start planning your upgrade today:

• Improved performance with reduced software license costs
• Increased number of concurrent users by a factor of 10
• Reduced contention in database administration
• More administrative capabilities while database is online
• Improved security and auditing
• Ability to maintain "snapshots" of changing data (Temporal Data)
• Improved portability via enhanced SQL
• Enhanced pureXML performance and usability
• Improved productivity for database/systems administrators and application programmers
• Better online transaction processing performance (Hash Access)