Monday, July 24, 2017

DB2 name change

db2 family renamed

Last week at OCEAN User Group's Technical Conference I attended a couple of sessions by Scott Forstie, IBM's Business Architect for DB2 for i. I noticed in his presentation he had used "Db2" rather than "DB2".

When I asked him about this he explained that last week (Monday July 17, 2017) the DB2 family had been officially renamed "Db2". The Db2 family is:

  • Db2 for i
  • Db2 for z/OS (mainframe)
  • Db2 for Linux, Unix and Windows

I found that that Db2 page on IBM's website has already been changed, see here.

Now I need to remember to use the new name when writing about it in this blog.

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  1. ScottJJuly 24, 2017 at 10:33 AM

    Did the grammar police finally catch up with IBM?
    I would think that IBM has better things to spend their money on!

    Did he give a reason why they decided to 'rename' it?

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    1. Simon HutchinsonJuly 24, 2017 at 5:02 PM

      As Db2 is a family sometimes the decisions do not go your way.

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