DB2 10.5 Fixpack 6 and later New Features and Changes - 8 January 2016 22:14

0. Contents

1. Fixpack 6

1.1 No new enhancements or changes

No new enhancements or changes as per DB2 Version 10.5 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows fix pack summary

2. Fixpack 7

2.1 No new enhancements

No new enhancements or changes as per DB2 Version 10.5 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows fix pack summary

In addition, "Future fix packs will deliver only APAR and security vulnerability fixes."!

2.2 Additional procedures to setup GDPC on AIX 10GE RoCE network using DB2 V10.5 FP7 or higher

Additional procedure for setup and no need to setup GPFS failureDetectionTime and leaseRecoveryWait

See Additional procedures to setup GDPC on AIX 10GE RoCE network using DB2 V10.5 FP7 or higher

2.3 Changes to behavior to existing functionality under JDK1.8

Starting from JDK 8 ,the input data to NIO UTF-8 decoder(Java API) should be of pure UTF-8,decoding ill-formed UTF-8 byte sequence will result in java.nio.charset.MalformedInputException error.

See UTF-8 encoding/decoding problem in JDK 8