The team that wrote this redbook

This redbook was produced by a team of specialists from around the world 

working at the International Technical Support Organization, San Jose Center.

Whei Jen Chen

 is a Project Leader at the International Technical Support 

Organization, San Jose Center. She has extensive experience in application 

development, database design and modeling, and DB2 system administration. 

Whei Jen is an IBM  Certified Solutions Expert in Database Administration and 

Application Development as well as an IBM Certified IT Specialist.

Andreas Blank

 is the CEO of LIS Logos InformationsSysteme GmbH 

(

www.lis.de

), an IBM Business Partner in Germany. He is trainer at LIS AG 

(

www.lis ag.ch

), an IBM enabled Education Center (ECIS) in Switzerland, which 

provides classroom and on site courses in Data Management, Tivoli , and 

WebSphere. He has 12 years of IT experience in application development as 

well as database design, implementation, and administration of different 

databases on Linux, OS2, and Windows . He holds a master's degree in 

Engineering from the Technical University of Darmstadt and is certified for DB2 

UDB.

Michael Hoeller

 is an IT Specialist for DB2 UDB and WebSphere  in IBM 

Global Services, Austria. He has 12 years of experience in application 

architecture and development, and database design. He is an IBM Certified 

e business Solution Technologist and has worked at IBM for 6 years. His areas 

of expertise include application development in Java and WebSphere Application 

Server, WebSphere Commerce and Business Intelligence solution 

implementation. He holds a master's degree in Business and Computer Science 

from the J. Kepler University, Linz.

Rakesh Midha

 is a Software Engineer with IBM Software Labs, Bangalore. He is 

currently working on IBM WebSphere Business Components development. He 

has 5 years of technical experience in Java and C++ server side programming 

on multiple platforms and various relational database systems like DB2 UDB, 

Oracle, MySQL, and Microsoft  SQL Server. His area of expertise include 

designing and development of stand alone to 

n

 tier distributed applications in the 

field of banking, finance, catalog industry, and order and warehouse 

management systems. He holds a bachelor s degree in Electronics Engineering 

from the Punjab University, Chandigarh.

Klaus Subtil

 is an IT Specialist within the IBM DB2 Business Partner Technical 

Enablement team. He has more than 15 years experience in the IT industry 

focusing on relational database technology and application development. Klaus 

is an IBM Certified Solutions Expert on Universal Database 8.1 Database 

administration, and holds a master's degree in Business at the Open University 

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