An industry bundle is composed of test scripts and test XML messages to illustrate how to create, index and populate an XML table, how to query the stored XML using XQuery or SQL/XML and return portions of XML, how to create views on the XML messages, how to shred the XML into relational format.

What are the goals of an industry bundle?

An industry bundle for an industry has the following goals:
- to help software developers, systems programmers, and database administrators get started with DB2 9 in the context of an industry using the XML messages that are often used as an exchange format in that industry
- to enable technical IT staff to quickly demonstrate to their colleagues the capabilities of the pureXML support in DB2, e.g., the ability to:
* store, index, and query XML easily without needing to convert the XML
(shred) to relational format
* store, index, and query well formed XML conforming to specific XML
schemas in a uniform way
* query stored XML and relational data together in a straightforward way
* process stored XML as though it is relational so that existing tools
and software can still be used
* shred XML messages into relational form where required

What is IMS?

In service to the community of organizations and individuals enhancing learning worldwide through the use of technology, IMS GLC is a global, nonprofit, member association that provides leadership in shaping and growing the learning and educational technology industries through collaborative support of standards, innovation, best practice and recognition of superior learning impact.

More information at IMS.

My industry bundle was related to IMS, so I got a bunch of IMS schemas, examples and with DB2 I created the “IMS Industry Bundle”. You can download it here.

Marcelo Sousa, DB2 Ambassador

We got this news from Antonio Cangiano, a IBM Engineer that likes DB2 and Ruby on Rails. Seems like a nice guy!

So you won’t find this new version on IBM DB2 Express-C Website, but you can download the Linux Version here and the Windows Version here. Mac version is still not available. This is probably the down side as many of us are waiting for IBM to ship a Express-C DB2 version for Macintosh. Hopefully next time?

We still didn’t tested the new DB2 but according to Antonio

Version 9.5 brings to the table a great deal of new enhancements and features. Among these there is also the reduced amount of memory requirements and the improved efficiency of operations on Linux. Oh and it will also make you rich and more beautiful. I mean, pureXML support has been greatly improved and it is a release that is sure to please many people on both Windows and Linux.

About the T-Shirt, we know it’s great. Hopefully Vítor will send us some few.