About the Author

Pav Kumar-Chatterjee (Eur Ing, CENG, MBCS) has been involved in DB2 support on the mainframe platform since 1991, and on midrange platforms since 2000. Before joining IBM, he worked as a database administrator in the airline industry as well as various financial institutions in the UK and Europe. He has held various positions during his time at IBM, including in the Software Business Services team and the global BetaWorks organization. His current position is a DB2 technical specialist in the Software Business. He has been involved with Information Integrator (the forerunner of Replication Server) since its inception, and has helped numerous customers design and implement Q replication solutions, as well as speaking about Q replication at various conferences.

Pav Kumar-Chatterjee has co-authored the DB2 pureXML Cookbook, published in August 2009.

This book would not have been possible without the help that the following people have given us over the years:

Anuradha I Pariti (IBM US), Beth Hamel (IBM US), David Tolleson (IBM US), Jayanti Mahapatra (IBM US), Kevin Lau (IBM US), Neale Armstrong (IBM UK), Nikola Slavicic (IBM Slovenia), Ray Houle (Canada), Sean Byrd (IBM US).

Any mistakes or omissions in this book are the sole responsibility of the author.