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Upgrade into BASE product from Query/400
• The BASE product:
Figure 1-8. Upgrade into BASE product from Query/400 AT911.0
Notes:
– Web enables Query/400
• Add additional functionality (compared to Query/400) to reports
– Link Reports by clicking on “hot spot”
– Add Conditional Styling (“if revenue less than forecast, highlight in RED”)
– Push data directly from DB2 into Spreadsheets
– Over 100 charts and graphs
– Boardroom quality PDF output
– Access remote DB2 for i5/OS data sources
– Leverages the LATEST in DB2 for IBM i Query Optimization
Technology
– Better performance, better analysis tools
– Many more functions available for query performance
– Strategic optimizer
© Copyright IBM Corporation 2010
DB2 Web Query BASE product is offered as an upgrade from Query/400. In fact, you
probably already OWN the BASE product of DB2 Web Query because as of January of
2008, any client who ordered V5R4 or V6R1 that owned Query/400 and was current on
IBM i Group SW Maintenance was shipped a DB2 Web Query CD and provided license
keys to the BASE product.
With this BASE product, you can web enable your query environment. It offers much more
functionality than Query/400 did, including the ability to link reports together such that an
end user can single click navigate to a drill down report or chart. You can add conditional
styling to your report, often called “traffic lighting”, to highlight EXCEPTIONS or GOOD
NEWS. Output options are significantly improved, including the ability to push DB2 data
directly into spreadsheets, eliminating the multiple step process many of you are probably
going through today in using Query/400 to get data from DB2 into a spreadsheet. The
BASE product offers over 100 charts and graphs to significantly improve the visualization
of data.
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