DB2 9 & 10 for z/OS Overview

Migration Planning WorkshopNative SQL Procedure & UDF Enhancements• XML is now valid as a passed variable• XML can be a data type of a declared variable• With these enhancements parsed XML can be processed withinthe routine without repetitively reparsing the serialized XMLstringThis snippet of code shows an example of aDECLARE statement for the XML data type for acase when XML is received as a CLOB (DB2 10could pass the document in to the procedure astype XML)The body of the Native SQL Procedure then usesthe XMLPARSE function to store a document inthe variable.Subsequent use of the Parsed_XMLDOC variabledoes not require parsing.63© 2011 IBM Corporation