A high-performance hierarchical database and transaction manager for z/OS that secures, scales and modernizes critical business applications
Overview
Power your enterprise with IBM Information Management System
IBM Information Management System (IMS™) is a secure, high-throughput database and scalable transaction manager on z/OS®. Designed for growth, IMS enables fast, reliable data and online transaction processing and seamless integration with modern cloud-native tools.
Products
Perform online database reorganizations to support 24x7 availability and manage full-function IMS databases and HALDBs.
Gain analyst productivity and improve IMS application performance, resource utilization and system availability.
Use an integrated solution for simultaneous backup and recovery of multiple data sets and Fast Path areas.
Support offline database reorganizations and manage full-function IMS databases and HALDBs.
Analyze, maintain, and tune IMS Fast Path databases with an easy-to-use utility set that helps you boost system availability.
Gain efficiency and reduce reorganization maintenance time.
Check your IMS databases for potential problems early and often.
Leverage an easy-to-use, one-step procedure for building all IMS indexes.
Create high-speed backup and recovery database resources.
Improve management by simplifying prefix resolution and update tasks.
Reorganize IMS databases while they remain online.
Get high speed database loading and more.
Get high-speed database unloading with added capabilities.
Manage IMS administrative tasks with a single tool.
Enable efficient execution of unscheduled IMS cold starts and maintain database integrity after IMS emergency restart (ERE) failures.
Manage and maintain IMS database integrity and consistency.
Automate the cloning process for IMS systems and databases, helping to reduce the time required to copy IMS databases or create a complete IMS system clone.
Encrypt your files, databases, and applications, address data security and privacy regulations and control encryption keys for cloud-based data.
Run, analyze and coordinate IMS commands across as many as 64 IMS regions on any number of z/OS images, all from a single point of control.
Convert existing IMS Full Function databases into IMS HALDB databases.
Create a randomizing module to access database segments directly or sequentially.
Change your IMS system generation environment and application resources more easily.
Access a common infrastructure shared by various IMS Tools offerings.
Determine the impact of buffer pool changes without guesswork.
Get comprehensive transaction performance and system resource usage reporting for your IMS DB and IMS TM systems.
Optimize performance and availability of vital IMS systems and reduce potential delays or outages with reporting capabilities.
Reduce response times and line costs by compressing data streams that uses the 3270 console data stream protocols.
Identify and resolve problems faster and easier with this powerful problem analysis aid for IMS Database and IMS Transaction Management systems.
Analyze transaction performance and behavioral problems and simplify problem analysis.
Get a no-charge product that contains components and infrastructure-related common functionality required for select IBM IMS Tools.
Improve application programming and testing productivity with debugging features to ensure IMS, Db2, and WebSphere MQ applications operate properly.
Manage your IMS ETO environment seamlessly.
Manage the IMS message queues with integrity.
Restart IMS batch programs automatically and correctly to reduce errors and boost availability.
Improve workload management, operations analytics, security, event logging and more.
Manage multiple IMS Systems effectively.
Features
Built for speed, security and scale
Modernize IMS applications by leveraging Java interoperability with COBOL or PL/I. Seamlessly access data across distributed systems via the IMS TM resource adapter and RESTful APIs, empowering digital transformation initiatives.
Speed up deployment cycles with certified Ansible collections for IMS. Enable continuous integration and delivery pipelines by automating repetitive tasks and enhancing collaboration across teams.
Strengthen protection for sensitive information with z/OS data set encryption, IBM Z pervasive encryption, and Secure by Design principles. Safeguard mission-critical applications while supporting compliance goals without requiring application changes.
Access IMS data from cloud-native applications via SQL or API. With universal drivers and IMS integration into IBM z/OS Connect, developers can use standard interfaces to extend legacy systems to modern platforms.
Enable modern application development with support for contemporary languages, VS Code integration, APIs, Git-based workflows, and DevOps tooling. AI agent capabilities extend trusted IMS transactions and business logic into intelligent applications and workflows.
OpenTelemetry support provides standardized telemetry data for monitoring IMS applications and transactions. Integrated observability capabilities help streamline performance analysis, troubleshooting, operational visibility, and application optimization across environments.
Use cases
Support resilience and modernization
Organizations rely on proven transaction processing, modern security, hybrid cloud connectivity, and streamlined automation to keep critical systems running efficiently, protect sensitive data, accelerate modernization, and deliver services with confidence.
Process billions of transactions daily with trusted data integrity and built-in recovery capabilities.
Protect sensitive data with IBM Z® pervasive encryption and access controls with no code changes required.
Connect IMS to cloud applications using Java™, APIs, and IBM z/OS Connect for easier modernization.
Automate IMS operations with Ansible and streamline deployments for faster delivery.
Case studies
Real stories. Real impact.
Atruvia AG, the digital partner for more than 800 cooperative banks in Germany, processes 80 billion transactions annually with peaks of 12,000 per second on IBM systems. Using IBM zSystems, IMS, and Db2, it integrates Java into its core banking environment—preserving COBOL performance while simplifying architecture and accelerating the delivery of new digital services.1
85%
of transactions now Java-enabled
3x
faster performance for key workloads
Resources
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Footnotes
1 Atruvia AG case study https://www.ibm.com/case-studies/atruvia-ag
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