IMS Fast Path Solution Pack for z/OS

Overview

Turn performance into a competitive edge

IBM IMS™ Fast Path Solution Pack for z/OS® streamlines IMS Fast Path database management with integrated utilities for analysis, maintenance, tuning, repair, and recovery. It helps improve availability, automate administration, and simplify DBA tasks through a web-based interface.

Features

A complete toolkit for Fast Path DEDBs

Accelerate backup and recovery operations with high-speed image copy capabilities for IMS databases. Automatically take databases offline before batch image copies and restart them afterward to simplify administration. Reduce tape consumption by stacking multiple image copies on the same tape, and create image backups during database reorganizations so databases are available for use immediately after reorganization.

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Maintain database consistency and availability with tools that validate, compare, map, recover, report on, and regenerate critical IMS resources. Verify the integrity of ACB, DBD, PSB, and MFS libraries, and quickly repair pointer and data errors in VSAM- and OSAM-organized databases, minimizing outage windows and restoring operational integrity faster.

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Learn about IMS Database Repair Facility

Improve DEDB administration with integrated capabilities for concurrent unload, reload, reorganization, restructure, analysis, DMAC printing, and data extraction. Manage multiple DEDB areas in a single step, verify database integrity, generate summary and detailed analysis reports, and perform tuning activities without requiring an IMS online system environment.

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Learn about IMS Fast Path Advanced Tool

Keep critical databases available while completing maintenance activities online. Perform pointer checking, data extraction, area extension, expert reorganization, and DMAC reporting without taking DEDBs offline. Modify DBD descriptions, randomizing modules, and segment edit or compression routines, requiring only a single /DBR command outage to switch area data sets.

Learn about IMS Fast Path Online Tools

Learn about Online Structure Change utility

Manage DEDB growth more efficiently with advanced online space management capabilities. Facilitate area extension and reorganization activities while keeping DEDB areas online, reducing operational disruption. Improve space utilization across database areas and help maintain system performance and capacity without requiring offline maintenance windows.

Learn about Online Space Management utility

Gain deeper operational insight through continuous collection of DEDB statistics stored as sensor data in the IMS Tools Knowledge Base repository. Support database health, performance, and recoverability monitoring while leveraging additional utilities, including Hash Check during image copy processing and reporting tools that track SDEP space utilization trends over time.

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Use cases

Support critical IMS database operations

Help database teams streamline administration, improve availability, automate maintenance, and accelerate key tasks. From online database changes and high-performance utilities to proactive monitoring and centralized management, these capabilities simplify IMS Fast Path operations.

Reduce database reorganization effort

Use diagnosis reports for DEDB area health to identify issues and priorities before maintenance activities. This helps database teams optimize reorganization plans, reduce manual analysis, and make time-consuming reorganization tasks more efficient.

Minimize downtime during changes

Perform DEDB structural changes while databases remain online. This helps operations teams improve IMS system availability, reduce planned outages, and complete updates with less disruption to business-critical applications.

Accelerate database maintenance tasks

Leverage high-performance utilities to load, unload, reorganize, build indexes, create backups, verify integrity, and generate reports for Fast Path databases. This helps teams complete routine maintenance activities faster and more efficiently.

Strengthen database integrity management

Use integrated utilities to manage IMS libraries, validate critical resources, and correct pointer-related issues. This helps administrators maintain database integrity, improve consistency across environments, and reduce operational risk.

Proactively monitor database health

Automate monitoring and maintenance with Autonomics Director. Database administrators can identify potential issues early and take action to maintain the health, performance, and recoverability of IMS Fast Path databases.

Simplify management across platforms

Manage complex IMS and Db2 for z/OS environments through IBM Management Console integration. This helps teams centralize administrative tasks, improve operational visibility, and streamline day-to-day system management.

Resources

Discover expert resources

Access the datasheet and videos to understand new capabilities, review support and migration guide documentation for deeper insights that support deployment, configuration, and ongoing operations on IMS Fast Path Solution Pack for z/OS.