The IBM DB2 Extenders family provides data and metadata management solutions to handle traditional and nontraditional data. The XML Extender helps you integrate the power of IBM's DB2 Universal Database (DB2 UDB) with the flexibility of XML.
DB2's XML Extender provides the ability to store and access XML documents, or generate XML documents from existing relational date and shred (decompose, storing untagged element or attribute content) XML documents into relational data. XML Extender provides new data types, functions, and stored procedures to manage your XML data in DB2.
The XML Extender is available on the following operating systems: