Susan Malaika is running a group called "pureXML devotee". What is it? Something to be afraid of? Fanatics you should avoid? The opposite is true (more or less :). In emails and meetings information about pureXML on both the mainframe and the distributed platform is exchanged and skills are deepened. In recent meetings XML storage and XML indexing on DB2 for z/OS were explained, earlier community meetings included storage and indexing on DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows, as well as performance tips.
The next meeting will cover the XMLTABLE function with IBM experts joining from both products. Check out the details of this lively group at https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/db2xml/devotee. And when asked mention that Henrik sent you...