Accessing data: the types of programs you can write for your IMS application

You must decide what type of program to use: batch programs, message processing programs (MPPs), IMS Fast Path (IFP) applications, batch message processing (BMP) applications, Java™ Message Processing (JMP) applications, or Java Batch Processing (JBP) applications. The types of programs you can use depend on whether you are running in the batch, DB/DC, or DBCTL environment.