Manageability enhancements
The Db2® 11.5.8 release contains enhancements that improve management of buffer pool definition files and remote storage.
Attention: This mod pack release is currently available for
the following Db2 products:
- Db2 on-premises
- The single container deployments of Db2 Warehouse and IBM Integrated Analytics System (IIAS).
- The container micro-service deployment of Db2 on Red Hat OpenShift, the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), the Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA), and the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
- Db2 for cloud service providers
- Db2 on Cloud
- Db2 Warehouse on Cloud
The following table lists manageability enhancements that have been added to Db2
11.5.8:
| Enhancement | Description |
|---|---|
| Improved management of buffer pool definition files. | The Db2 buffer pool definition management command, db2bpf, can be used to display, validate, and update the details of the SQLBP.1 and SQLBP.2 buffer pool definition files. For more information, see db2bpf. |
| Improved management of remote storage. | The Db2 remote storage
manager command, db2RemStgManager, can be used to manage remote storage objects.
The following capabilities are supported:
|
| New routine for shutting down fenced mode processes. | A built-in routine for shutting down fenced mode processes is now available. The ADMIN_FMP_TERM routine can be used to shut down a db2fmp process on last usage by a routine or on next access, if db2fmp processes are pooled. Use it to terminate a db2fmp process without interrupting the routine that the db2fmp process is currently running. |