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DB2, Version 8 Major Migration Considerations  Product documentation

Abstract
Jay Yothers, IBM® Silicon Valley Lab

This presentation describes the catalog changes for DB2® Version 8 and how to perform the new migration, fallback, and coexistence processes.


Content
Jay Yothers, IBM Silicon Valley Lab
In DB2 for z/OS®, Version 8, the catalog has some significant changes.
These changes require changes to the migration, fallback, and coexistence processes. This presentation describes these catalog changes and how to perform the new migration, fallback, and coexistence processes. This presentation also describes how these changes might affect your environment and any queries that you run against the DB2 catalog.

This presentation includes information about the following main points:
1. The reason that the migration process is changing 2. Migration to Version 8 3. Compatibility mode 4. Enabling-new-function mode 5. New-function mode


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Michael Dewert, Software Group EMEA SWAT TEAM MEMBER