Data3 HK 2017

With Release 7.1 XML support is included into SQL and the database DB2 for i. Well-formed XML documents can be stored in columns defined with the new XML data type. Multiple scalar and aggregate functions are introduced for generating elements, attributes with or without name spaces and even complete XML documents solely with SQL. In composition with embedded SQL those XML documents can be created and directly written into the IFS with only a few statements. The focus of this session is to generate XML documents and write them either in SQL tables or directly into the IFS.

Learning Objectives:
Get an introduction into XML basics. Learn how XML elements and attributes can be generated, concatenated or nested and composed into XML documents. Those XML documents are either stored in a column in a SQL table or directly within the IFS. This session 170052.