DB2 Developers Guide (5th Edition)

IN THIS CHAPTER

• DB2 Version 6 Features

• DB2 Version 5 Features

• DB2 Version 4 Features

This appendix provides short checklists of features for the most recent versions of DB2 prior to the two most-recent versions covered in this book. There have been four versions of DB2 released since 1995:

• DB2 Version 4 (also known as DB2 V4 or DB2 V4.1)

• DB2 Version 5 (also known as DB2 V5 or DB2 V5.1)

• DB2 Version 6 (also known as DB2 V6 or DB2 V6.1)

• DB2 Version 7 (also known as DB2 V7 or DB2 V7.1)

• DB2 Version 8 (also known as DB2 V8 or DB2 V8.1)

The following sections contain very short, bulleted lists that inventory the features of each release. The lists are in reverse chronological order.