Release Notes (version 8.1.2)

2Application development enhancements

2Application development enhancements include: 2

• 2Java^(TM) programmers 2
  • 2New enhanced JDBC Type 2 driver
  • 2J2EE and Web Services Enhancements
  • 2Improved support for JTA (Loosely Coupled Transactions)
  • 2Development Center enhancements 2
• 2Microsoft programmers 2
  • 2Visual Studio .NET Add-ins
  • 2DB2 .NET Data Provider
  • 2Enhanced OLE DB provider
  • 2Improved support for COM+ (Loosely Coupled Transactions) 2
• 2XML 2
  • 2Additional SQLXML function for simplified composition of XML documents 2from DB2 data
  • 2XML Extender enhancements 2
    • 2support for XML Schema
    • 2performance enhancements
    • 2support for use of XML Extender with partitioned databases 2
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• 2Web Services 2
  • 2Improved support for Microsoft .NET applications calling DB2 Web 2Services
  • 2An Integrated HTTP server and SOAP engine
  • 2SOAP calls as UDFs 2
• 2SQL support 2
  • 2MERGE statement
  • 2SET ISOLATION statement SOAP engine
  • 2ALTER TABLE statement that allows extending length of a VARGRAPHIC columns
  • 2Support for IDENTITY columns in partitioned database environments
  • 2IBM eServer zSeries^(TM) for Linux: Net Search Extender Support 2
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