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IBM Db2 for IBM Cloud Pak for Data

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    Information Technology and Services

Simple but not extensive

  • November 05, 2018
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What do you like best about the product?
Maintains itself good.
Use of NEARSYNC, ASYNC and High Availability Disaster Recovery models give a range of options for maintaining a very high uptime ratio.
Automatic storage help keep your data segmented
What do you dislike about the product?
Not easy to configure.
Complex configuration.
Compatibility on different platforms.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I used it to pull from that data pool with minimal response times.
To store and organize huge databases.To test new software features.

    Information Technology and Services

Must have for business

  • November 04, 2018
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
It best suited for enterprise businesses which require a low cost, low maintenance solution for improved transnational DB queries to fulfill the business requirement on a frequent basis
What do you dislike about the product?
Require improvement in data manipulation and query processing. Could use a simple user interface.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Using DB2 for cognos report back end. For the people who are unfamiliar with SQL it can be a little difficult to learn.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Use it if you require a product with low cost and maintenance. If not, go for SQL.

    Financial Services

Buainess Systems Analyst

  • November 01, 2018
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
The stability of the application is what I like the best
What do you dislike about the product?
The application is old compared to other new database management applications
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Many enterprise applications are integrated with DB2.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Compare with other applications before implementing

    Banking

IBM's robust DBaaS & Cloud support

  • October 31, 2018
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Extremely easy to setup, manage migration and focused
Strong task scheduler that helps to collect statistical data
Tablespace usage and automatic storage help keep your data segmented while at rest. This maks partitioning easier
Ability to run commands by CLI makes administration easy
What do you dislike about the product?
Db2 has very few region options and this impacts your performance and compliance requirements
License is expensive
You cannot run multiple secondary nodes or cluster without additional software purchases; in some cases third party tools
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Easy of database administration and strong / robust fail over requirement.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Robust database as service that was be extended through the cloud

    Financial Services

DB2 from my experience

  • October 29, 2018
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
DB2 is a free to download, use and redistribute edition
What do you dislike about the product?
Doesn’t support XML and Operating system OS X. limited programming language support as compared to Oracle 11.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I used Db2 some time back in multiple projects of our client AIG. We used Db2 as our relation database for Pega. It’s license was cheaper as compared to oracle.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I will recommend this to all project where we have limited license budget for Database.

    Information Technology and Services

DB2 review

  • October 22, 2018
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What do you like best about the product?
IBM Db2 is a DB used by developers because they can use it without the assistance of a database administrator, even with minimal skills.
What do you dislike about the product?
Slight on the higher side when it comes to pricing
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Using as a DB for Fault management system in sync with Netcool

    Sej K.

Operational Database

  • October 21, 2018
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
It's very robust to handle real-time transactions. We have hosted some critical systems like Point of Sale on DB2 and it does its job very well without causing much maintenance to DBA
What do you dislike about the product?
Licensing has been one of the pain with DB2. Also, scalability has been other concerns and thus we have been looking into some NoSQL databases for our future applications
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
DB2 is very good at processing real-time transactions and thus it has been at the heart of our websites and all POS Systems. Another important application with DB2 has been in our pharmacies to have our data secured & protected to meet all related compliance

    Information Technology and Services

Better alternative available

  • October 20, 2018
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
It is compatible with various ERP systems which are used by organizations. Software is effective
What do you dislike about the product?
Not enough resources around available who are trained in it and the training new ones is very expensive since it is not in demand in market
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use it as the database for our PeopleSoft system
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Check out alternatives,

    Banking

Scalability with IBM DB2

  • October 20, 2018
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Scalability, realibility, the IBM logical views, journalling.
What do you dislike about the product?
Centralize management tiols like Oracle EM.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are developing a wide range of applications running on DB2. If you want horizontal scaling, DB2 is a way to go. With a single level storage, you add a new drive and you are good to go. No issues with reability and stability.

    Computer Software

DB2 DB is ok but not for modern apps

  • October 20, 2018
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What do you like best about the product?
DB2 DB is ok but not for modern apps, it’s good for legacy apps. Works well with CICS.
What do you dislike about the product?
Scalability
No support for pagination
Legacy apps only
no document storage
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
If you have legacy mainframe processing engine
You will more likely have DB2
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Legacy apps

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