IBM Information Management System 15

Videos

What is IMS?

Learn how IMS helped put humans on the moon and where you can find IMS today.

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Fundamentals of IMS Database

IMS Database utilizes the hierarchical model. Learn how this improves processing speed.

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Fundamentals of IMS Transaction Manager - Part 1

Learn how IMS Transaction Manager (TM) is able to process over 100 thousand transactions per second.

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Fundamentals of IMS Transaction Manager - Part 2

IMS, using APIs, is able to interface with applications hosted on different platforms without code changes.

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Other resources

IDC: The Business Value of the Transformative Mainframe

Learn how you can derive significant value from the mainframe ability to serve as part of a hybrid cloud environment.

Read the analyst report (PDF, 731  KB)

IMS Performance Paper: IMS with z/OS Connect Enterprise

Evaluation of IBM z/OS Connect EE V3 invoking RESTful APIs and an IMS 15 application calling RESTful APIs deployed on ZCEE.

Read the white paper (PDF, 1.6  MB)

Announcement: IMS 15 helps build trust into transactions

IMS 15 delivers capabilities to manage risk, improve efficiency and simplify administration.

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IBM Enterprise COBOL Performance with IMS

Get performance results for IBM Enterprise COBOL and discover best practices for optimizing COBOL performance with IMS.

Read the research paper (PDF, 893 KB)

IBM IMS: The world depends on it

IMS processes 265 billion transactions per day. Discover how—and how it can help you.

See the infographic (PDF, 811  KB)

IMS 15 Continuous Delivery Enhancements

Explore the latest enhancements delivered for IMS 15.

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Redbook Solution Guide: New approach to Analytics for IBM IMS data

Describes Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS and how it can exploit IMS data.

Read the Redbook