Data Conversion

One of the big questions in the world of DB2 over the last year has been "When does DB2 V8 go away?". I guess there's a need for that official End of Service (EoS) announcement as an incentive to start their planning to upgrade (migrate) to DB2 9 for z/OS.

We (or maybe just me) spend so much time talk DB2 9 for z/OS, we often forget that we (IBM) still have customers running DB2 Version 8. With that in mind, I want to let all of my DB2 V8 friends know that 6 of your DB2 V8 product publications have been updated.

Here's one more APAR to keep an eye on (it's not closed yet). It's for DB2 Version and retrofits a DB2 9 function back to V8.

The subject pretty much says it all.

I've notice that lately lots of questions about upgrading to DB2 Version 8 are popping up again. We spend so much of our time (IBM time) promoting and discussing the most current release of DB2, DB2 9, that we sometime overlook the fact that we still have a lot of customers in the process of upgrading from V7 to DB2 V8.

DB2 for z/OS Version 8 had some significant changes to its product documentation in December also. I didn't mean the slight the older DB2 release in my DB2 9 post yesterday.

Willie's "Getting the Most out of DB2 for z/OS and System z" blog. A question I seem to get all too often is "When is Version 8 going out of service". I never really know exactly what to say, at least until now. Although I still don't know when V8 will go out of service (often referred to as

Willie's "Getting the Most out of DB2 for z/OS and System z" blog. You all know how I feel about zIIP engines. to me they are almost as cool a sliced bread. However, as the evolve, adjustments have to be constantly made. Here's a APAR for DB2 Version 8 with just such an adjustment:

There's no time left for DB2 Version 7 support after

I sometimes get a little carried away with what's new and forget there is another DB2 floating around out. Today's post is just such an example of overlooking some good stuff simply because it wasn't DB2 9. The news by the way is both significant and important IMHO. While trying to the locate the most current Program Directory for DB2 Version 8, I noticed that most of the Version 8 product documentation