Release Notes
Thursday, July 25, 2019
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With Toad, developers and database administrators can use a familiar, proven tool to manage databases. Toad empowers developers and administrators, of varying skill levels, to rapidly create and execute queries, automate database object management, and develop SQL more efficiently.
Toad also provides utilities to compare, extract and search for objects, manage projects, import/export data and administer the database, while increasing your productivity and delivering access to an active user community.
Toad for DB2 7.0.7 is a patch release with new enhancements and resolved issues.
In Toad for IBM DB2 7.0 the following new features were implemented:
See Resolved Issues for more enhancements and resolved issues in this release of Toad for IBM DB2.
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Before installing Toad, ensure that your client system meets the following minimum hardware and software requirements:
| Requirement | Details |
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Platform |
2 GHz processor (recommended minimum) |
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Memory |
Note: The memory required may vary based on the following:
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Hard Disk Space |
800 MB to install Toad Note: The disk space required may vary based on the edition of Toad selected for installation. |
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Operating System |
Windows Server® 2008 R2 SP2 Windows Server® 2012 Windows Server® 2012 R2 Windows Server® 2016 Windows Server® 2019 Windows® 7 SP1 (32-bit or 64-bit) Windows® 8.1 (32-bit or 64-bit) Windows® 10, version 1809 |
| .NET Framework |
Microsoft® .NET Framework 4.7.1 |
| Database Client |
When connecting to a DB2 database/subsystem, ensure that you have a DB2 Client or IBM Data Server Driver installed. Toad supports DB2 Client versions 9.7.6 through 11.1. Toad has been tested with the following versions of the DB2 Client: 9.7.6, 9.7.9 , 10.1.0, 10.1.2, 10.1.3, 10.5.0, 10.5.2, 10.5.3, and 11.1.0. |
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Additional Requirements |
Web Browser Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 11 or later Screen Toad supports screen resolutions up to 3200 x 1800 and display DPI settings up to 150% |
Before installing Toad, ensure that your server meets the following minimum hardware and software requirements:
| Requirement | Details | ||||||
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Database Server |
IBM DB2 for LUW 9.5, 9.7, 10.1, 10.5, 10.5.0.5, 11.1
IBM DB2 for z/OS 10, 11, 12 Note: Toad may support IBM DB2 Express and SWE in addition to listed above servers but note that no testing was performed on it. Note: Windows 8, 10 and Windows Server 2012 require the following Fix Pack in order to ensure registration of DLLs in Global Assembly Cache:
Note: To use Access 2016 64-bit to connect to an Access database in Toad, the Microsoft Access Database Engine is required and might not be included in the Access installation. The engine must match the architecture (bitness) of Toad. |
| Requirement | Details |
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| Application Virtualization |
When deploying Toad in a virtualization environment, for best results ensure the system accurately reflects the applicable client hardware and software requirements listed in this document. Toad has been developed using Microsoft guidelines (see Remote Desktop Services programming guidelines) and can be deployed and operated in virtualization environments such as Citrix XenApp, Microsoft App-V, and VirtualBox. |
| Server Virtualization |
Toad has been tested with the following:
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Only Windows Administrators and Power Users can install Toad.
Note: The following exceptions exist for Power Users:
If an Administrator installs Toad, the Administrator can share the Toad shortcut icon on the desktop and menu items with any user—a Power User, Restricted User—on the computer.
If a Power User installs Toad, a Restricted User cannot do the following:
The following describes the requirements and restrictions for users who launch and run Toad:
To take full advantage of Toad for DB2 LUW functionality, the user ID specified in the Toad connection profile for each DB2 for LUW database connection requires the authorizations listed in the following document:
As a minimum requirement to manage a DB2 for z/OS subsystem in Toad, the user ID defined in the Toad connection profile for the subsystem must either have SYSADM privileges or SELECT privileges on the DB2 catalog tables. For a complete list of authorizations (and corresponding GRANT statements) a user requires to take full advantage of Toad for DB2 z/OS functionality, refer to the following document:
The following is a list of issues addressed and enhancements implemented in this release of Toad for IBM DB2:
Resolved Issues in 7.0.7
| Feature | Resolved Issue / Enhancement | Defect ID |
|---|---|---|
| General | Support bundle now generates correctly. | QAT-14988 |
| Object Details (DOV) | Several LUW Database Right-hand-side tabs have been re-written to access DB2 LUW Monitoring data via SQL which will allow those to work in Data Server Driver environments and with connection string connection profiles. Those include the Database Applications tab and the Monitor tab. | TDB-3915 |
| Script Generation | Generating INSERT statements now works instantly even for tables with large numbers of rows. | TSS-1663/4512804 |
| Pivot Grid | Pivot Grid column subtotals can now be formatted. | QAT-14608 |
| Default subtotal summary type was changed to SUM for string values in Pivot Grid. | QAT-14837 | |
| There is an new option to show aggregate total values for row categories that only have one value. The default is to not display totals when there is only one value. | QAT-14998 | |
| It is now possible to display subtotals for single values. Click Set pivot grid properties on Pivot Grid toolbar to enable. | QAT-14998 |
Resolved Issues in 7.0.6
| Feature | Resolved Issue / Enhancement | Defect ID |
|---|---|---|
| Automation | An issue when Excel spreadsheet exported during Automation was not displayed is now fixed. | QAT-14819/4498499 |
| Installation | Users should be able to deploy license keys during installation. This was broken in Toad Data Point 5.0 and is now fixed. | QAT-14834/
4510329, 4516827, 4516600 |
| Pivot Grid | A scroll bar has been added to the row area in Pivot Grid. | QAT-14705 |
| Query Builder |
Vertical scroll bar is now displayed in Cross-Connection Query Mode of Query Builder. |
QAT-14749 |
| Query Builder |
A Group By button for aggregated functions has been added to Query Builder. |
QAT-14609 |
Resolved Issues in 7.0.5
There were no resolved issues in this version of Toad for IBM DB2.
Resolved Issues in 7.0.4
| Feature | Resolved Issue / Enhancement | Defect ID |
|---|---|---|
| Data Generator | We have enhanced the DB2 Data Generator feature to include more data generation options including using a set of templates and allowing user to specify their own templates in use for generating data. | TDB-3894 |
| Migration | We fixed an issue that might have occurred during object compare script generation - where several export temporary files - used for data migration and data preservation could have been generated with the same names. | TDB-3907/4470153 |
| SQL Editor | Users can now select the directory to serialize large results sets. The option is located under Database | Script results | QAT-14377 |
Resolved Issues in 7.0.3
| Feature | Resolved Issue / Enhancement | Defect ID |
|---|---|---|
| Automation | Usage connection from parent activity has been reworked. A new option From parent has been added which indicates whether the currently used connection should recursively search for parents | QAT-13279 |
| Object Editor (DOE) | Toad added support for the BOOLEAN column datatype which was introduced in DB2 LUW 11.1.3 | TDB-3889 |
Resolved Issues in 7.0.2
| Feature | Resolved Issue / Enhancement | Defect ID |
|---|---|---|
| Automation | Error when .xlsm file could not be exported using Automation script has been fixed | QAT-14201 |
| Connection Manager | Toad will now correctly prompt for passwords in Connections | TDB-3861 |
| Dashboard | We addressed a performance issue in the Dashboard feature to reduce the number of SQL queries to populate widget values | TDB-3876 |
| Pivot Grid | Pivot Grid now allows you to use Aggregated data values in a calculated field | QAT-14074 |
| SQL Editor | New option in Tools | Options | Editor | Tools | Auto highlight selected word enables auto highlighting of selected words | TSS-1606 |
Resolved Issues in 7.0.1
| Feature | Resolved Issue / Enhancement | Defect ID |
|---|---|---|
| Automation | Automation exception when comparing objects with no report file has been fixed | TDB-3843 |
| Data Compare & Sync | Error when data cannot be filtered has been fixed | QAT-14057 |
| Import Wizard | Toad now handles hidden columns within the Import Wizard | TDB-3648 |
| Pivot Grid | Pivot Grid now supports Top N rows so one can sort and filter for top N values of pivoted data | QAT-12434 |
| Query Builder | Corrected issue in Query Builder to reverse engineer SQL that contained a UNION and where condition | QAT-13812 |
| Query Builder | Prior to executing mixed case aliases, the Query Builder would change to upper case causing the execution to fail | QAT-13581 |
| Space Management | We fixed an issue in the DB2 z/OS Real Time Advisor feature where an exception might have been thrown when certain percentage computations were very large values | TDB-3857 |
Resolved Issues in 7.0
| Feature | Resolved Issue | Defect ID |
|---|---|---|
| Automation | A new "z/OS RTS Analysis" automation database activity has been added to report objects that might be in need of requiring a Reorg, Copy, or Runstats | TDB-3569 |
| We fixed an issue in the Compare Objects - Automation activity - where an exception was being thrown when a report file was not specified | TDB-3843 | |
| Compare Object | We addressed the issue where running Object Compare with the "Format object body before comparing" option selected could cause Toad to hang | TDB-3574/4184774 |
| Connection Manager | When four or more database profile connections are set to "open at startup" Toad displayed an intermittent error can stating that the Data Server Driver is in error. This has now been addressed | TDB-3554/4165781 |
| We fixed the issue where the Connection Manager filtering feature stopped working after connecting to a database | TDB-3668/4298525 | |
| Data Compare & Sync | When generating the PDF comparison report file, we fixed the issue where the duration to generate the report took a very long time and the report was incomplete | TDB-3657/4222452 |
| Data Grid | Toad now supports viewing PDF's stored in BLOB columns for tables defined on DB2 for z/OS. A 'pdf' tab in the column cell editor has been added for this support | TDB-3542 |
| Specifying a custom Time format could cause Toad to throw an exception. This issue has been addressed | TDB-3520 | |
| Database Explorer | On the Security tab, Toad will now display Users that only have been granted explicit Role permissions | TDB-3634/4178936 |
| Import Wizard | Toad now handles tables with hidden columns within Import Wizard | TDB-3648/4255762 |
| Explain Plan | Toad now supports host variables formatted such as :H:H in plan/package statements on the Access Path tab | TDB-3398 |
| We fixed the issue where Explain plans were not showing for SQL statements with Host variables inside packages | TDB-2659/3220331 | |
| Export Wizard | We fixed an issue that occurred when sending a result set to Export Wizard when a host variable was used in the query creating the result set. Toad now successfully generates the export file. | TDB-3783/4371810 |
| Object Details (DOV) | For DB2 z/OS Tables, Indexes and Tablespaces Toad now displays current and historical object statistics on the Stats History tab. With these new features you can easily see how statistic data has changed over time for your objects | TDB-3422 |
| Real Time Statistics | We fixed an issue in the DB2 z/OS Real Time Advisor feature where an exception might have been thrown when certain percentage computations were very large values | TDB-3857/4404706 |
| Script Generation | When generating scripts containing multiple Triggers (for example for Object Alters or in Object Compare), Toad was not generating the Trigger DDL in the order in which existing Triggers were created. This has now been addressed | TDB-3560 |
| On z/OS, scripted dataset template statements were missing the CYL or TRK keywords. This has now been addressed | TDB-3561 | |
| Toad now correctly scripts trigger body contents when there are whitespace characters at the end of lines within the body | TDB-3630/4214958 | |
| We fixed an issue, when during an LUW table extended alter, GRANT statements were not always getting re-generated in the alteration script | TDB-3684/4313758 | |
| Space Calculator | We fixed an issue in the LUW Space Calculator where the Total Size and Used Size were not always displaying accurate values | TDB-3754/4357765 |
| SQL Editor | Toad now supports Nicknames in the SQL Editor - Code Completion feature | TDB-3519/4144694 |
| Toad now supports host variables with spaces after a leading colon (like : HOSTVAR) on the Explain tab and and for execution within the Editor | TDB-2674/3222711 | |
| We fixed an issue that occurred when executing a SQL statement with a host variable in the SQL Editor. If the query returned more rows than the 'Number of rows to initially fetch' editor Options value, when scrolling the result set, the user could obtain a DB2 CLI0100E error | TDB-3780 | |
| SQL Recall | The SQL Recall feature can now be disabled by setting the SQL Recall "Number of statements to display" option to zero | TDB-3543 |
| z/OS Commands | Toad now supports the ACCESS DATABASE command. You can invoke the command dialog to generated and execute that command via right-click on any z/OS tablespace and selecting Commands | Access database | TDB-3551 |
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