MIME Types

A MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension) type is an Internet standard for identifying the type of object that is being transferred across the Internet. MIME types include many variants of text, audio, image, and video data.

In DB2 Content Manager, when you create an object, you specify its MIME type. When an object of that type is retrieved from the resource manager, your application reads the MIME type and determines how to handle the object. For example, if the MIME type for an object is GIF, your application might launch a Web browser to view the object.

Many MIME types comes with IBM DB2 Content Manager and a few more comes with Infor Document Management but if you still need to add new ones this guide is to help you with that. Every MIME type for all documents you store in the archive should be defined this way for the best system operation.