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@@ -1,37 +1,50 @@
 * IBM DB2 Data Provider
 <ul>
-	<li>ADO.NET Data Provider for <a href="http://www-3.ibm.com/software/data/db2/">IBM DB2 Universal Database</a></li>
+	<li>ADO.NET Data Provider for <a href="http://www-3.ibm.com/software/data/db2/">IBM DB2 Universal Database</a>. You can register and download IBM DB2 Personal Developer Edition from <a href="http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/download/search.jsp?rs=db2pde">http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/download/search.jsp?rs=db2pde</a>.</li>
 
 	<li>Exists in namespace IBM.Data.DB2 and assembly IBM.Data.DB2</li>
-	
+
 	<li>The source code exists at mcs/class/IBM.Data.DB2</li>
-			
-	<li>Requires the Call Level Interface to IBM DB2 shared library.  This
-	is db2cli.dll on Windows and db2_36.so under Linux.</li>
-			
+
+	<li>It is built on top of Call Level Interface, a C interface similar to ODBC.  The libraries are db2cli.dll on Windows and db2_36.so under Linux.</li>
+
 	<li>IBM DB2 Provider maintained by Victor Vatamanescu. For questions, complaints or anything else regarding the managed provider <a href="mailto:victor.vatamanescu@hqsoftconsult.com">contact me<a>. </li>
-	
-	<li>Bugs with Mono or the data provider should be reported 
+
+	<li>Bugs with Mono or the data provider should be reported
 	in Mono's Bugzilla <a href="http://bugzilla.ximian.com/">here</a>.  If you
-	do not have Bugzilla user account, it is free 
-	and easy to 
+	do not have Bugzilla user account, it is free
+	and easy to
 	create one <a href="http://bugzilla.ximian.com/createaccount.cgi">here</a>.</li>
-	
+
 </ul>
-	
+
 ** Current Status
 
 <ul>
-	<li>Compiles on Windows and Linux. Works on Linux. Still needs testing on Windows.</li>
-	
+	<li>All the features you expect from a .net managed provider are implemented, including:
+		<li>Connecting / disconneting from local and remote datasources</li>
+		<li>Connection pooling</li>
+		<li>Statement execution support using the ExecuteNonQuery(), ExecuteScalar(), ExecuteReader() methods of the DB2Command</li>
+		<li>Transactions support</li>
+		<li>Filling datasets with the DB2DataAdapter and persisting changes</li>
+		<li>Stored procedures support; IN/OUT/INOUT and return parameters</li>
+		<li>Filling datasets with cursors returned from stored procedures</li>
+		<li>CommandBuilder</li>
+	</li>
+
 	<li>The data provider is officially in beta. Still have missing features.</li>
-	   
+
 </ul>
-	
+
 ** Action Plan
 
 <ul>
-		<li>GetSchemaTable implementation.</li>
+		<li>Future plans:
+			<li>Fixing all the bugs as soon you will report them</li>
+			<li>Exhaustive test cases suite</li>
+			<li>Enhanced bulk insert operations support</li>
+			<li>Switching from the C interface to the DB2 wire protocol </li>
+		</li>
 
 </ul>
 
@@ -39,74 +52,9 @@
 <br>
 In order to test.
 <ul>
-	<li>Have working mono and mcs setup</li>
-	
-	<li>Have access to an IBM DB2 database.  If you do not have access, download the
-	<a href="http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/db2/">IBM DB2</a> software.  There 
-	are versions for Windows, Linux, AIX, and Sun Solaris.</li>
-	
-	<li>Make sure the assembly IBM.Data.DB2.dll was built and installed 
-	where the other class libraries are installed.</li>
-	
-	<li>If you do not have the source to mcs, get the source from
-	<a href="http://www.go-mono.com/download.html">here</a></li>
-	
-	<li>Here is a sample ConnectionString: 
-<pre>
- "server=sample;uid=myuserid;pwd=mypwd"
-</pre>
-	</li>
-	
-		
-	<li>C# Example:
-<pre>
- using System;
- using System.Data;
- using IBM.Data.DB2;
- 
- public class Test 
- {
-    public static void Main(string[] args)
-    {
-       string connectionString = 
-          "server=" + args[0] + ";UID=" + args[1] + ";PWD=" + args[2];
-       DB2Connection cn = new DB2Connection(connectionString);
-       cn.Open();
-       DB2Command cm = new DB2Command("SELECT * FROM schema.employees", cn);
-       DB2DataReader dr = cm.ExecuteReader();
-       while(dr.Read()){
-             Console.WriteLine("{0}:{1}:{2}", dr[0], dr[1], dr[2]);
-       }
-       cm.Dispose();
-       cn.Close();
-    }
- }
-</pre>
-	</li>
-	<li>Building C# Example:
-	<ul>
-		<li>Save the example to a file, such as, DB2Test.cs</li>
-		<li>Build on Linux:
-<pre>
-	mcs DB2Test.cs -r System.Data.dll \
-	    -r IBM.Data.DB2.dll
-</pre>
-		</li>
-		<li>Build on Windows via Cygwin:
-<pre>
-	mono C:/cygwin/home/MyHome/mono/install/bin/mcs.exe \
-	     DB2Test.cs \
-	     -lib:C:/cygwin/home/MyHome/mono/install/lib \
-	     -r System.Data.dll -r IBM.Data.DB2.dll
-</pre>
-		</li>
-	</ul>
-	</li>
-	<li>Running the Example:
-<pre>
-mono TestExample.exe sample myuser mypasswd
-</pre>
-	</li>
-		
+	<li>Download and install mono from <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/download.html">http://www.go-mono.com/download.html</a></li>
+	<li>Make sure you have a working C compiler on the machine you will install DB2 on, since this will be required for compiling stored procedures</li>
+	<li>Install IBM DB2 and make sure you have created the links for the DB2 files using the db2ln command. If you cannot install DB2 using the automatic installation due to the java user interface issues, you can perform a manual installation following the instructions from <a href="http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/db2help/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.db2.udb.doc/start/t0006742.htm">http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/db2help/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.db2.udb.doc/start/t0006742.htm</a>.</li>
+	<li>Make sure the assembly IBM.Data.DB2.dll was built and installed where the other class libraries are installed.</li>
 </ul>