Toad for IBM DB2 v6.2What’s new

Latest Releases

• V6.1 – August 6, 2015• V6.2 – April 14, 2016

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New Features and Enhancements

LUW

LUW

LUWz/OS

LUWz/OS

LUWz/OS

Visual Database MapEnhancements

Connection ManagerPassword Management

Health CheckDashboards

Toad IntelligenceCentral Integration

Compare DDLto Live Objects

LUWz/OS Library

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Health Check Dashboards

What is it: Powerful tool to visually track key admin metrics.

Benefits:

• Customizable

• One connection or Summary View to monitor multiple connections

• Quickly scan for common DB2 admin issues

• Invalid objects

• Constraints

• Buffer Pool

• CPU usage

• Space usage

• Connections

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Compare DDL to Live Objects

What is it: Fast way for DBAs to compare existing DDL saved in a file to a live DB2 LUW system.

Benefits: Frequent user request. Many DBAs want to compare scripts in flat files to their test or prod systems

Before we could only compare live system to one another.

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What is it: Allows users to share Toad artifacts with other users.

Benefits:

• Easy to share.

• Easy to find/view/use shared resources

NOTE: No automation yet. Next release

Toad Intelligence Central Integration

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Visual Database Map

What is it: Powerful tool to visually display object relationships and dependencies.

Benefits: Shows object relationships that would be hidden if relying on an ERD.

Visually manage database objects –all Toad options available on right-click

Supports:

• DB2 LUW & z/OS

• SAP ASE, IQ, and HANA

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Visual Database Map - Enhancements

What is it: Powerful tool to visually display object relationships and dependencies.

Enhancement: Can now launch from SQL Editor or Query Builder

Benefits: Shows object relationships that would be hidden if relying on an ERD.

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Connection Manager – Password Management

What is it: Easy way to manage lots of database connections.

Benefits: Used to have to open each connection individually to update its password.

Now, all passwords can be updated in one operation

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Library

What is it: Toad file manager.

Benefits: Allows quick access and management of all your Toad files. Supporting tagging for fast search.

Toad Features vs. IBM

DB2 Feature

Schema Object Browsing

Schema Object Management

Advanced SQL Editor

Comprehensive Data Export & Import

Query Builder

Compare and Synchronize Data/Schemas

View differences between result sets

WYSIWYG report generation

Visualize relationships & dependencies

Generate ER diagrams

Generate test data

Manage Workload Management Objects

Automation

Execute queries against multiple servers

Perform complex Space Administration

Base

Pro

Data Studio

IBM Notes:• Toad provides extended ALTERS in the

Admin Module

• Toad provides more SQL editor options (SQL recall, advanced auto completion)

• No Query Builder in Data Studio

• Toad’s Compare & Synch is far superior. Data Studio only has limited data compare.

• Toad allows user to run different copies of a query and compare the result sets. Unique to Toad!

• Visual Database Map is unique to Toad.

• Performance Mgmt requires DBA Suite with Spotlight (LUW Only).

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Want to learn more?

• Visit our Toad for DB2 Community site at

– http://www.toadworld.com/products/toad-for-ibm-db2/b/weblog/archive/2016/05/04/toad-for-db2-v6-2-is-now-available

• Can your DB2 tool do this? Watch our on-demand webcast: http://software.dell.com/webcast-ondemand/toad-webcast-can-your-db2-tool-do-this880006/

• Download a free 30 trial copy of Toad for DB2: https://software.dell.com/register/54941/

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