IBM Announces General Availability for IMS 11
On October 30, the latest release of IBM IMS-IMS 11-will become generally available. A hierarchical database system with few equals in database and transaction processing availability and speed, IMS 11 is now easier to use than ever before. It can be combined with a service-oriented architecture (SOA), enhancing on-demand business enablement, growth, and availability while helping to improve systems management.
The new release includes integration enhancements and open-access improvements that enable greater flexibility, manageability enhancements that optimize staff productivity, and support for 64-bit storage that delivers increased performance and availability. IMS 11 also eases the complexity of creating database recovery points, reduces CPU time for online database reorganization processing, and enhances capacity optimization.
Key IMS 11 features include:
- Direct SQL access to IMS provides direct, distributed TCP/IP access to IMS data, both within an IMSplex or with platforms other than IBM System z. This enables cost efficiencies in application growth and helps improve system resilience. IMS 11 also includes new usability and serviceability enhancements, such as IMS Syntax Checker support for IMS Open Database.
- IMS Connect enhancements help improve IMS flexibility, availability, resilience, and security. IMS Connect is the TCP/IP gateway to IMS transactions and operations, and now to IMS data.
- Web services, Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) components, and JavaServer Pages (JSPs) can be created from existing Message Format Service (MFS)-based IMS applications. New applications can be deployed to IBM WebSphere Process Server as part of your business choreography. Release highlights include enhanced ease of use and integration, manageability improvements, and support for 64-bit storage
- Enhanced user exits and new Type-2 commands help simplify operations and improve system availability. Support for IMSplexwide recovery points taken while the system is online further facilitates database availability.
- 64-bit storage enhances system availability and overall system performance. IMS Fast Path Buffer Manager, the Application Control Block library, and local system queue area use 64-bit private storage, helping to simplify operations and improve storage utilization and performance.
"IMS 11 delivers the ultra-high performance and scalability that our customers need, combined with new features that make the system more accessible to a broader range of IT technologies and users," says Beverly Tyrrell, director of IMS development at IBM. "Today's business environment calls for the increased ease of use and improvements in resource management that IMS 11 is designed to deliver along with relief from many capacity constraints."
Also new for use with IMS 11 is the IMS Enterprise Suite, an innovative set of components that enhances connectivity, expands application development capabilities, extends standards and tools for an SOA, and eases installation. Planned to be generally available on November 6, 2009, the suite is a separate no-cost product for unlimited installs, designed to complement
IMS 11 (see sidebar, "IMS Enterprise Suite Components"). Upward compatible from IMS SOAP Gateway Version 10 and IMS 10 DLIModel utility, IMS Enterprise Suite provides user-friendly standard interfaces, simplifies IMS metadata generation, and enables IMS business event data and monitoring. It also eases and expands IMS development (including Java and XML), administration, and access, and offers a visual representation of IMS databases and program definitions.
IMS 11 is complemented by a growing portfolio of tools, which offer day-one support for the new release. Recent announcements include IMS Cloning Tool V1.1 and new releases of IMS Audit Management Expert, IMS Connect Extensions, IMS Performance Analyzer, and IMS Problem Investigator.
RightScale Cloud Management Platform to support IBM DB2 9.7
RightScale, a provider of cloud computing management solutions, announced in July that the RightScale Cloud Management Platform will now enable users to create, manage, and automate IBM DB2 Express-C 9.7 database software on the cloud. The release allows RightScale users to more easily build, test, and deploy applications on leading clouds, like Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), using the most recent version of DB2.
"We are proud that Right- Scale customers will be among the first to take advantage of the latest advances in DB2 technology by deploying their database servers on a cloud in a fully managed RightScale cloud deployment," says Michael Crandell, RightScale CEO. "Both DB2 and the RightScale Cloud Management Platform have been developed with a focus on ease of use, and with this combination, organizations can get up on a cloud quickly with a cost-effective, enterprise-class data management solution."
DB2 Express-C 9.7 is available free of charge. This version of DB2 can be set up quickly, is easy to use, and includes self-managing capabilities designed to meet the needs of small and midsized businesses.
IDUG opens up membership, revamps Web site
The International DB2 Users Group (IDUG) recently unveiled a new Web site and membership program that provides free premium membership. The redesigned Web site includes more than 450 technical videos, a calendar of all IDUG and regional user group (RUG) events, user blogs, and the previous three years of conference presentations.
Members have free access to all resources, except for the most recent conference proceedings.
Data in Action Virtual Conference
Gartner Vice President Donald Feinberg discusses top challenges for database administrators
Held August 19, the Data in Action Virtual Conference highlighted effective data management solutions for smarter business outcomes. Listen to the replay to hear more, including remarks by Donald Feinberg, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner, about the state of the database management system software market and the data management challenges facing businesses today.
Feinberg addressed many topics, including the problem of exploding data volumes and new computing paradigms for handling it, data management costreduction techniques and technologies, and the perspective of the DBA now and in the future. The conference also featured a moderated panel of customers and partners who are leveraging IBM DB2 9.7, two interactive Webcasts, and eight exhibit booths. To listen to the replay, visit: http://w.on24.com/clients/ibm/datainaction
More zIIP for DB2 Utilities Suite for z/OS
IBM engine gives DB2 utility sorts a boost
IBM DB2 Utilities Suite for z/OS for DB2 8 and DB2 9 now offers additional capabilities for leveraging IBM System z Integrated Information Processors (zIIPs), helping organizations reduce total cost of ownership by exploiting System z specialty engines.
This enhanced support opens zIIP eligibility to any DB2 utility sorting of fixed-length records in the memory object sorting path, except for REORG variablelength data sorts. When sorting fixed-length records using the memory object sorting technique, a portion of the workload will be redirected to a zIIP when one is available.
This is different from the existing DB2 utility zIIP support (first introduced in DB2 8), which applied to index maintenance only. Preliminary IBM lab testing indicates approximately 50 percent of sorts are eligible for zIIP offload for this kind of workload. Large, CPU-intensive sorts are expected to gain the greatest performance improvement.
Actual results may vary depending on a number of factors, including the capacity and number of the eligible zIIP specialty engines and available system resources.
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