IBM Corp. is adding artificial intelligence capabilities to its Db2 relational database management system that should help make the 36-year-old software more useful in today’s data-driven world ...

You can use DB2 (or Informix or SQL Server) to create a database, but DB2, in and of itself, is not a database. A database is a large structured set of persistent data.

IBM's latest version of Db2 includes a new AI-powered Database Assistant for contextual recommendations, integration with watsonx and more than 200 new features.