Solutions And Benefits; Features - IBM eserver i5 Handbook

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In this electronic age, the bulk of a company's managed data (90%), including
e-mail, technical and business documents, contracts, problem reports, and
customer complaints, is still in textual form. Companies continue to look for
efficient ways to leverage such massive textual data to provide valuable
information.
IBM DB2 Universal Database Extenders for iSeries V8
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Solutions and benefits

Together, the DB2 UDB XML Extender and DB2 UDB Text Extender help you
leverage iSeries to manage your critical business information in DB2 databases
to engage in business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-customer (B2C)
solutions in the next generation of on demand business.

Features

It is now possible to combine structured XML information with traditional
relational data. You can choose whether to store entire XML documents in DB2
as an XML Character Large Object (XMLCLOB), or you can map the XML
content as traditional data in relational tables. The DB2 UDB XML Extender adds
the ability for powerful searching of rich data types of XML element or attribute
values, even for nontraditional XML data types.
The DB2 UDB XML Extender for iSeries, for the most part, provides the same
function as on other DB2 platforms. The exceptions are:
IBM Eserver i5 and iSeries System Handbook
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Draft Document for Review October 18, 2004
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