IBM DB2 Everyplace Express Edition V8.1.4 — Mobile Data Capability for Smbs; DB2 Universal Database Express Edition V8.1 — Processor Option
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Software Announcement October 28, 2003 IBM DB2 Everyplace Express Edition V8.1.4 — Mobile data capability for SMBs; DB2 Universal Database Express Edition V8.1 — Processor option Overview anywhere and anytime. IBM offers an entry point to mobility on demand At a glance DB2 Everyplace — A and the ability to grow as business small-footprint relational database expands. DB2 Everyplace delivers significant and synchronization server, meets new features to support e-business today′s mobile workforce needs. DB2 Everyplace Enterprise Edition on demand and introduces DB2 Enterprise applications and data can includes the high performance, Everyplace Express Edition, which be extended to mobile devices such robust DB2 Everyplace database as is specially tailored to meet the as personal digital assistants (PDAs) well as a powerful enterprise needs of SMBs: and smart phones. DB2 Everyplace synchronization solution that securely replicates data and • Easy to install and deploy. can also be embedded into devices • and appliances to increase their performs real-time queries between Simple to manage: Autonomic function. Choose from three enterprise data sources and mobile (self-management) features editions: or embedded devices. This edition reduce skills and resources delivers self-healing and required to manage underlying DB2 Everyplace Database Edition self-managing features, broad data store. provides an embeddable relational platform support, and administration • Affordable: Competitively database with a footprint as small as improvements to reduce the skills priced for SMBs with robust 200 KB. It is capable of and resources required to manage capabilities. high-performance data queries mobile solutions. • Easy to build and integrate; handling large volumes of mobile supports: data. Embedded and mobile DB2 Universal Database (UDB) − Open industry standards developers have the flexibility to Express combines the power, − Latest mobile devices and create powerful data-driven function, and reliability of an open the latest development applications quickly using existing industry-standards-based relational environments skills in relational database database with simplicity in − Other Express products technology. New features improve packaging, installing, and deploying including DB2 UDB Express the capability, robustness, and at a minimal investment cost. DB2 Edition and WebSphere openness of performance of mobile UDB Express meets the data Application Server Express and embedded applications with management needs of SMBs • Extensible: Upgrade to DB2 powerful data search and encryption positioning themselves for Everyplace Enterprise Edition capabilities. This edition enables e-business on demand . and WebSphere Everyplace Access as needed. secure embedded applications and Flexible licensing options help to flexible mobile data management meet your needs. The new solutions. Additional value for DB2 Universal processor-based deployment option Database customers: Mobility on DB2 Everyplace Express Edition is designed for SMBs with Internet demand based on DB2 Everyplace addresses the needs of small and users or enough named users to functionality available for selected medium businesses (SMBs) for a make the processor-based licensing DB2 UDB products with next simple and affordable mobile model more attractive. The existing service release. application infrastructure — A major named user deployment model is building block in supporting the on authorized for use by intranet users DB2 UDB Express Edition demand e-business environment. only. processor-based licensing option: Developed on the same code base • Easy to install and deploy as DB2 Everyplace Enterprise Key prerequisites • Simple to manage Edition, DB2 Everyplace Express is • Affordable easy to install, deploy, and manage. Refer to the Hardware requirements • and Software requirements sections. Open It extends the strengths of DB2 • Scalable on demand Everyplace in open standards, • Extensible feature richness, scalability, and Planned availability date reliability. By leveraging DB2 For ordering, contact: Everyplace Express, Refer to the Planned availability Your IBM representative or the resource-constrained SMBs can section. Americas Call Centers at access critical data and make 800-IBM-CALL Reference: VE001 intelligent business decisions This announcement is provided for your information only. For additional information, contact your IBM representative, call 800-IBM-4YOU, or visit the IBM home page at: http://www.ibm.com. IBM United States IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. 203-298 The DB2 Everyplace database includes a significant new Description feature for ad-hoc queries on mobile devices. Case-insensitive search queries enable application Planned availability developers to easily perform generic searches across a DB2 Everyplace database to find user data quickly. • October 31, 2003, DB2 Everyplace V8.1.4 (electronic Mobile databases provide users with a fast, powerful software delivery). search mechanism. Case-insensitive search enables • December 5, 2003, CPU Option of DB2 UDB Express users to search without requiring matching case or V8.1 (electronic software delivery). custom routines that modify data or search queries to improve the chances of desired results. In addition, the • November 21, 2003, DB2 Everyplace V8.1.4 (media). Integer and Decimal datatype autoincrement capability, and cursor hold have been added. • January 9, 2004, CPU Option of DB2 UDB Express Edition V8.1 (media). DB2 Everyplace V8.1.4 also significantly reworks the Binary Large Object (BLOB) support of the DB2 DB2 Everyplace V8.1.4 adds new features to the DB2 Everyplace database to support piece-meal retrieval of Everyplace database and the DB2 Everyplace BLOB data. Synchronization Server. These new features support on demand requirements including integration, automation, Application development: and virtualization of resources. Application development is a significant area of DB2 Everyplace Synchronization Server V8.1.4 fully investment for DB2 Everyplace. DB2 Everyplace V8.1.4 supports DB2 UDB V8.1. Although previous versions of supports Microsoft .NET development and major DB2 Everyplace required DB2 UDB V7.2 for the enhancements to Java development. DB2 Everyplace administration database (but supported DB2 UDB V8.1 as now provides a .NET Framework and a .NET Compact a JDBC datasource), DB2 Everyplace V8.1.4 uses DB2 Framework interface for both the DB2 Everyplace UDB V8.1 for the administration and mirror databases and database and the DB2 Everyplace Sync Client. Support as a JDBC or DataPropagator datasource (configured for both the base and compact frameworks enables .NET via XML Scripting). In addition, JDBC adapter may development on either Windows workstations and servers enforce referential integrity at the data source. The or Windows mobile devices and PocketPCs. The DB2 ability to reorder subscriptions and subscription sets Everyplace database is also exposed as an ADO.NET Data facilitates maintaining referential integrity at the data Provider for easier .NET database integration. source. DB2 Everyplace Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) Other data source enhancements include the ability to support is improved with support for several new control datatype mapping from the mirror database to the methods including getFloat() and setFloat(). DB2 target database and support for IBM Cloudscape as both Everyplace V8.1.4 adds JSR169 compatibility and support a data source and a mobile database. for the DB2 Everyplace remote stored procedure adapter through JDBC. Several performance improvements have DB2 Everyplace V8.1.4 support for IBM Cloudscape data been made across the JDBC interface. The IBM J9 Java sources is implemented with a pure Java synchronization Virtual Machine is bundled with the DB2 Everyplace client. This enables the Cloudscape database to act as a application development tools to enable easier mobile client for the DB2 Everyplace Synchronization Server with device Java development. full synchronization with any supported datasource of the DB2 Everyplace Sync Server. IBM Cloudscape is also Other application development enhancements include supported as a data source enabling DB2 Everyplace improvements to the free Mobile Application Builder tool database or Cloudscape database clients to synchronize for both Palm OS and Java application development. data with a Cloudscape server. This allows DB2 Significant investment to enable DB2 Everyplace as a Everyplace Synchronization Server to be used for: datasource and integrate mobile development in • WebSphere Studio-based development environments also Cloudscape to Cloudscape synchronization improves with a new release of the DB2 Everyplace • DB2 Everyplace to Cloudscape Synchronization plug-in for WebSphere Studio. • Cloudscape to any supported DB2 Everyplace data No matter which DB2 Everyplace offering meets your source synchronization (replaces the IBM Cloudsync enterprise mobility on demand requirements, each edition capability previously available) comes with the free DB2 Everyplace Software Development Kit (SDK) to enable easy application Usability improvements: development using industry-standard tools and open • APIs. V8.1.4 supports Microsoft Server 2003 APIs and Administration is improved with a new Sync Server tight integration with WebSphere Studio Device Administration API. Developer Edition. • The existing XML scripting API is improved with the The DB2 Everyplace Software