Rediscover IMS
Drive growth in your enterprise with IMS as the transactional catalyst
IMS is a database-driven, secure, integrated platform for high-performance online transaction and data processing to deliver on the security, flexibility, and scalability of IBM Z that's critical to support business. IMS is at the forefront of your enterprise, hosting applications that can process billions of transactions per day.
Benefits
Message integrity
Features
IMS Transaction Manager
Modernize applications with Java™
Reduce time, MIPs, and stress with cloud-hosted development and testing.
COBOL and Java Interoperability
Accelerate application modernization with COBOL and Java interoperability by extending existing 31-bit IMS COBOL applications or write new applications with Java in 64-bit mode.
Automated DevOps
Deploy applications faster by automating your DevOps pipeline to drive agility and efficiency with Ansible.
API access to IMS
Enable IMS data to be easily accessible from any cloud application without additional code.
Data systems centric
While optimized when integrated with IMS DB, IMS TM is interoperable with a multitude of technologies to provide you with the flexibility you need to customize your enterprise and drive growth.
IMS Database Manager
Pure data integrity
Robust Lock Manager (PI and IRLM) and extensive logging ensure that IMS provides uncompromised integrity and that every record is accounted for, and no data is lost or inadvertently deleted.
Universal Database Administrator (DBA)
Cloud-native tools and technologies seamlessly integrate with IMS subsystems using industry standard approaches to APIs and database administration tasks which help reduce talent gaps and enable access to a wider population of users.
Data Definition Language (DDL)
With the removal of IMS proprietary tasks, you can access IMS data through a standard SQL approach which, provides greater flexibility in data management.
Enhanced DDL utilities
Leverage DDL utilities to manage your database on z/OS directly regardless of the databases current state.
Optimized performance and reliability
Hierarchical databases reduce processing overhead, streamline query processing, and provide the high availability, storage, speed and low-cost solutions your business needs.
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