There are performance improvements in DB2 10 which many people appreciate, so that's another great reason to get up to 10.
I don't speak for the company, but I think IBM's general advice is that if you're underway with a V9 upgrade, get it done and keep going. If you haven't even started planning your upgrade from V8, then (absent a specific and "darn good" exception), go straight to V10, and start now. DB2 10 became generally available in October, 2010 (after a big beta program), so it's already 6 months past GA as I write this. If you ordered DB2 10 today, you'd have a 12 month Single Version Charge period, meaning that DB2 10 would be 18 months post-GA by the time you must flip the final switch in order to maintain SVC. That's a lot of time post-GA. Moreover, DB2 8 reaches end of service on April 30, 2012, so now really is the time to get moving forward if you haven't already. Yet another reason to move straight to V10 if you can: you may avoid an extra version migration. DB2 skip-version migration with coexistence support is quite unusual. The last time that happened was DB2 V5 to V7 many years ago. So if you've got the chance to do a skip-version migration, grab it. - - - - - Timothy Sipples Resident Enterprise Architect Value Creation & Complex Deals Team IBM Growth Markets (Based in Singapore) E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
