IVP output

The IVP system provides a rich and diverse set of jobs and tasks that, after completion, provide a fully functional IMS system that is integrated into the z/OS® environment and tested in the selected environment from the IVP panels.

The IMS environments that you can select include BATCH, DBCTL, DB/DC, DB/DC with XRF, and DCCTL. Most of the major functions of IMS can be demonstrated and tested by using the IVP system. The IVP builds a viable sample IMS system in a controlled manner that is verifiable, robust, and accomplishes the following:

• Verifies that the IMS product itself, the maintenance, or both were successfully installed
• Implements and tests the z/OS and VTAM® interfaces
• Builds and integrates IMS application systems
• Tests various IMS application systems
• Tests various functions and features selected
• Assembles the database resource adapter (DRA) interface module, which is used by DBCTL and Open Database Access (ODBA), and places the module in IMS.SDFSRESL

Examples of some of the functions and features that are demonstrated and tested include:

• Syntax Checker
• XRF
• IRLM
• Fast Path
• Shared Queues (Common Queue Server)
• High Availability Large Database (HALDB)
• IMS Connect
• IMS system restart and recovery
• Common Service Layer
• Enhanced Command Environment
• IMS DB resource adapter (previously known as the IMS JDBC Connector)
• Dynamic resource definition (DRD)
• IMS Open Database
• IMSRSC repository
• IMS Catalog