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Great Data Management Products by IBM. A real alternative to Oracle.
What do you like best about the product?
They provide DB2 as a RDMBS with many features and easy of use. It has powerful SQL features especially for mainframe system is very beneficial. It is a great cross platform database as can be run on any server. Especially great for mainframe users.
What do you dislike about the product?
I guess that it is not much marketed by IBM and the new version of Db2 are not rolled out as quickly as some of its competitors. Also paid IBM support is very much required.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
IBM Db2 is used for storing most of our business data very securely. We have been able to perform migration from other databases to Db2 effectively using some of the utilities provided by IBM as part of DB2. It is very much self managed database.
A reliable database for us over the years
What do you like best about the product?
The reliability and the stability of DB2 has been one of the standout reasons for us . We use the cloud version of DB2. On top of that, the DB2 on cloud product engineering team has been very supportive and responsive to us.
What do you dislike about the product?
the product support team's expertise, maturity, capacity and responsiveness to support requests needs improvement. Identification of root cause, prioritization of issues and resolution has enormous room for improvement.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We build cloud native business applications and products where DB2 is used as the choice of RDBMS for us.
IBM DB2 Review
What do you like best about the product?
IBM DB2 is built on mainframe technology and it is very easy to handle as compared to other database
What do you dislike about the product?
We need two seperate variables to connect IBM DB2 with COBOL and it require DCLGEN for each table
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We can extract data for more than 30000 primary key id in one run
DB2 is very versatile as a database, and supports most features.
What do you like best about the product?
It is a great product, robust, lots of flexibility, ever improving and rock solid.
What do you dislike about the product?
As data grows it become slow. Tread hung and application performance degrades.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
IBM DB2 helps us creating Data Lake solution for our client.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Easy database Implementation easy administration can be managed from any station the level of specialization is much lower than any other database.
13 years of experience as a Legacy Developer and Senior Data Engineer
What do you like best about the product?
Robust , quick retrieval , high volume handling of data
What do you dislike about the product?
Legacy platform , need to upscale to cloud
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Application related data. Faster processing , stability , robust , structured tables , infra etc
IBM DB2 experience
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of organizing & managing data. But it has been a long while I have worked on DB2. But I like using the SQL commands.
What do you dislike about the product?
I remember there were a few issues but can't remember as it's been a while since I worked on DB2.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We were using DB2 to help reorganize our company's data to make it easier to retrieve and recover at a moment's notice in case of equipment change and/or data glitch.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's a great product with relatively easy commands to help get the job done. But since it's been a while that I've been exposed to it I can't tell you other specifics or improvements that were done.
Extensive experience data extraction, transformation, manipulation, and integration
What do you like best about the product?
IBM DB2 has the ability for self-healing, self-tuning, self-configuring, and self-protecting
What do you dislike about the product?
Can be time-consuming for large plans.
Can be time-consuming for large plans.
Can be time-consuming for large plans.
Can be time-consuming for large plans.
Can be time-consuming for large plans.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Used IBM Db2 for Data Verification & Validation of back-end data.
Participated in a variety of projects for a leading, high service, multi-channel distribution group focused on electronic products and maintenance services.
Participated in a variety of projects for a leading, high service, multi-channel distribution group focused on electronic products and maintenance services.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Learn it ASAP
Strong points and weak points IBM Db2
What do you like best about the product?
DB2 is a robust database and is supported by a large company like IBM. The positive points are: reliability, excellent transaction control and high availability. The database that is used by the manager has the database recovery option enabled, by default. This allows recovery of the database in the event of a system failure. By enabling the recovery option, DB2 will generate transaction logs and save them to a DB2 system directory. Over time, these logs will increase in size. The recommended way to free up space is to use the DB2 userexit function, as described in the DB2 Administration Guide. Another way to free up space on the file system is to move the inactive logs to another file system. This method is described below. To move the inactive logs to another file system, follow the steps below.
What do you dislike about the product?
DB2 should not be used for small projects and companies with little infrastructure. Another negative point would be the "weight" in the servers. Relational database of the giant IBM, DB2 does not have such a large share of the market, although it is quite robust and executable on several platforms. Used for large systems, it is optimized to work with the manufacturer's own hardware. Probably, licensing issues and business models established for it have disadvantaged its spread in recent years.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I used DB2 in a project for the financial area, in which I needed high availability and reliability in transactions. Relational database of the giant IBM, DB2 does not have such a large share of the market, although it is quite robust and executable on several platforms. Used for large systems, it is optimized to work with the manufacturer's own hardware. Probably, licensing issues and business models established for it have disadvantaged its spread in recent years.
DB2 Review
What do you like best about the product?
Writing queries was very simple as compare to others.
What do you dislike about the product?
Debugging sometimes gets difficult. Also community support is less as compare to others.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I had solved problems like authentication I'd for doing mainframe stuff. It is not much complex while doing these data manipulation.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you want to write complex data then ibm DB2 is best.
One of the best RDBMS' I have used.
What do you like best about the product?
I have primarily worked on Oracle and in my line of work when it comes to reading and writing data into a RDBMS performance is what matters the most. I have noticed that both Oracle and DB2 are on par in most instances. I havent worked much on the latest cloud based offering of DB2 though which is why I am leaving my review based on the older versions of DB2. Its scheduling ability is a big plus.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not as popular as Oracle. Finding help with DB2 specific issues were some what annoying.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
None at the moment.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The costs!!
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