64-bit addressing support
Version 8 of DB2 UDB for z/OS supports
■EDM pool
■buffer pools
■sort pools
■RID pools
Long name support
OMEGAMON II for DB2 Version 540 includes support for long object names. New displays are provided in support of this feature.
Unicode support
Unicode support includes character conversion from Unicode to EBCDIC for online displays and batch reports.
Enclave support
New displays for stored procedures using Work Load Manager (WLM) enclaves include:
■Enclave Token
■Service Class Period
■Performance Index
■Service Class
■WLM Environment Name
Stored procedure Address Spaces is being phased out in DB2 Version 8. All stored procedures now use WLM.
New filtering for Near Term History display
These keywords are added to the Near Term History display:
■COMMIT
■CORRID
■DB2 CPU TIME
■DB2 ELAP TIME
■DEADLK/TIMEOUT
■I/O ELAP TIME