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High Availability
What do you like best about the product?
DB2's ability to work and share dara across z/OS lpars is fantastic. Everything works smooth and extremely fast.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not anything really. Maintainabilty perhaps, when you have to service the product, but I may be worong as this is not really. my work area.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are doing banking for around 200 financial instititutions large and small in Scandinavia, and DB2 gives us fast and secure access to data in a very secure manner.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It is the right choice on the mainframe, as it integrates with almost alle relevant platforms
DB2 continues to be very powerful relational db
What do you like best about the product?
Stability and resilience and recovery connection modern day smart devices, IOT Internet of Things and connected solution requiring mainframe entrapped data
What do you dislike about the product?
Was frustrated before that lot of valuable mission critical data to port to touch point required many extraction processes this is solved with 'Rest APIs and Zowe Opensource based products like CLI
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Scalability and bringing mission ritical mainframe entrapped data to touch points completing User Experience
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Building a business case of Mission critical mainframe data anytime anywhere anydevice as a service
Senior Vice President Sales and Marketing
What do you like best about the product?
DB2 is the database of choice for robust scalable data management. With the analytic support, there should be no other choice.
What do you dislike about the product?
Still need to do a better job of streamlining the pricing methodologies and options
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Management of inventory
Recommendations to others considering the product:
n/a
DB2 user flexibility
What do you like best about the product?
i like the commands were user friendly and easy
What do you dislike about the product?
especially i dont like the black screen somtimes. we never know its frozen or active.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
i like the db2 database verymuch since i used this product in all my company stores
Recommendations to others considering the product:
yes this really good product and easy to install and administer
30 Years of DB2
What do you like best about the product?
I used SQL/DS and have been using DB2 since V1.0 As a strong implementation of E.F.Codd's Relational Algebra and Relational Calculas, DB2 evolved into a strong enterprise strenght Database system after IMS and its Network Rival IDMS. To date DB2 has evolved better and better and today at my enterprise has evolved into multi Billion SQL machine
What do you dislike about the product?
I have nothing against DB2 after 31 years
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
SQL is a self documenting natural solution for businessproblems. We have large tables of Billions of Row to host our Healthcare applications
reliable database
What do you like best about the product?
This is such a wonderful place to store data for all platforms to access. It protected and available all of the time.
We never have issues with this platform
We never have issues with this platform
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the features need to be more mainframe centric such as the MERGE statement it was obviously taken from the LUW world
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
data that will be accessed via APIs and Web servicies
best RDBMS
What do you like best about the product?
performance, ability to control access plans when needed, row and column based. Shared disk or share nothing architecture.
What do you dislike about the product?
Unable to leverage standby HADR for full SQL.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Many
Awesome
What do you like best about the product?
I am using DB2 from last 5 years.Its the best DB I ever worked on.
What do you dislike about the product?
nothing.there is nothing bad about this product
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
we are creating rekational database.
Db2 relational database
What do you like best about the product?
I like the ease of data access using SQL compared to network database. It is also easier to find SQL developers with knowledge of Db2 compared to old IDMS knowledge.
What do you dislike about the product?
Our legacy code was written to oprimize our old database system. It requires rewritting of COBOL code to use Db2 directly, but it is worth it to acheive cost savings.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Converted our lagacy system to Db2 from IDMS to allow easier database modifications.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Db2 allows easier acces to data using SQL compred to non-relational databases
great database, easy to use
What do you like best about the product?
high performance, ease of use, zero admin, usability for administrators
What do you dislike about the product?
nothing ar all, sometimes cloud ist not an option for customers
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
analytics
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