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Db2 for i clients can evaluate the Db2 Mulitsystem Option 27 (and Db2 SMP option 26) for free for 70 days by emailing either Rob Bestgen (bestgen@us.ibm.com) or Scott Forstie (forstie@us.ibm.com).
IBM does not have a plan to incorporate option 27 into the base operating system.
Partitioned tables remains the technology path on Db2 for i for achieving SQL tables that scope beyond the limits of a single member.
Closing.
I will suggest increasing the priority. Probably every DB2 for IBM i practitioner has been dealing with a table that exceeds the max size or max number of rows and have been spending time and effort redesigning applications to bypass this limitation. To make things more urgent, table partitioning is not a default feature in IBM i and IBM does not promote Db2 Multisystem feature (a fee feature that enables table partitioning): I will guess they have valid reasons to avoid promoting that feautre.