Managing IMS Connect workloads

These topics describe how to configure IMS Connect Extensions for optimal management of IMS Connect workloads.

OTMA workload routing in IMS Connect
OTMA rules-based routing in IMS Connect Extensions allows you to route and distribute OTMA workload received by IMS Connect between available IMS data stores.
OTMA operations management and tuning
After you have configured OTMA rules-based routing in IMS Connect Extensions, review the following topics for additional ways in which you can manage and tune your IMS Connect systems.
ODBM workload routing in IMS Connect
ODBM rules-based routing in IMS Connect Extensions provides advanced routing in IMS Connect for TCP/IP client requests that use Distributed Relational Database Architecture™ (DRDA) to access IMS data via IMS Open Database.
Enhancing IMS Connect security
IMS Connect Extensions enhances the security features of IMS Connect. These security enhancements are specified and activated in the Advanced Features section of the system definition.
Customizing IMS Connect message translation
IMS Connect includes exits that translate messages sent and received by clients between EBCDIC and ASCII. If translation errors occur because clients or the mainframe environment use different character sets from those implemented by the exit, IMS Connect Extensions can perform custom translation.