Welcome to the Toad for DB2 Beta program

The Toad for DB2 Beta Programs is your opportunity to participate our product's development and direction, and be able to test drive new features of our products.

By becoming a beta tester you have direct access to the development and product management teams.

The Toad for DB2 v5.1 Beta will run approximately from 16th March 2012 to the end of May 2012.

Instructions for Joining the Toad for IBM DB2 BETA Program

STEP 1: Read the Beta Release Notes.

STEP 2: Join our Discussion Forum.

In order to provide and receive feedback, you should join this community so you can post to the BETA discussion forum.

STEP 3: Read and agree to the Beta Usage Agreement below.

STEP 4:    or  

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BETA USAGE AGREEMENT
 
 

Users who submit more than 10 valuable feedback items through the forum will be entered to win an Amazon Kindle.

Those who want to do a little more on top of feedback items and will articulate "how Toad for DB2 helps you in your work" will be entered to win an iPad 3.

To submit your story:

  1. Use the new/existing features available in the beta within one of your work processes (migrating data, performance tuning, etc.)
  2. Write a 1 to 2 paragraph summary of what your process is and how the Toad for DB2 Beta product performed
  3. Email your submission to, Jeff Podlasek (jeff.podlasek@quest.com). Jeff is the Senior Architect for Toad for DB2 and he will review the submissions and select the winner based on the best use case.

What are we looking for? Here is an example:

I am responsible for maintaining a DB2 LUW accounting system on several production and test AIX servers. That is an internally built and maintained application that has over 120 tables andindexes. I regularly use the Object Migration and Object Compare features of Toad DB2 to synchronize my environments and propagate changes into production. Several important areas that I rely on within those features are:

  • The ability to include dependent\referenced objects. This makes it easy for me to start at any object level and ensure I bring in all related objects.
  • The ability to define and reuse Schema and Tablespace mappings. There are over 30 different source\target schemas and 20 different source\target tablespaces
  • The side-by-side difference viewer reduces the time and effort needed to review the changes and perform my tasks.

Those features typically shave 15-20% of time off my tasks if I would have to perform those without Toad for DB2.


 Video Tutorials

  • v5.1 Row Column Access Control
  • v5.1 Temporal Data Support
  • v5.1 WLM Statistics
  • v5.1 Compare Object Wizard Enhancements
  • v5.1 GDG Dataset Template Support
  • v5.1 Interface Enhancements
  • v5.1 zOS Enhancements
  • v5.1 SQL Editor Enhancements

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