IBM®
IMS Connect
Extensions for z/OS® (referred to as IMS Connect Extensions) is a tool that enhances the operation of IMS Connect. IMS Connect is the premier
pathway for accessing IMS applications and databases via
TCP/IP.
IMS Connect Extensions extends IMS Connect by providing the following
features:
- Monitoring and recording of IMS Connect
activity
- IMS Connect Extensions provides a detailed audit of activity, giving
you the information you need to analyze performance, throughput, resource availability, and
security. You can use this information to debug clients and new applications. Use the
IMS Connect Extensions feed to expose near real-time IMS Connect
transaction summary data to analytics platforms. This includes information regarding the message’s
origin, its destination, and the overall response time.
- Single point of control for multiple IMS Connect
systems
- Centralized management of all your IMS Connect
systems, including monitoring and control of OTMA and Open Database workloads,
MSC physical links, and remote IMS Connect systems, from
an ISPF Operations dialog or from the IMS Connect Extensions
Operations Console for z/OS Explorer. Use the IMS Connect Extensions host command environment for REXX to automate operations
management tasks as desired.
- Enhanced workload management
- Dynamic management of TCP/IP transactions, allowing you to define routing rules to automatically
balance and distribute workloads and reroute messages when IMS
system failures occur. Temporarily suspend routing of messages to an IMS data store to reduce the
likelihood of transactions failing or being rejected when IMS is shut down. Ability
to assign selected OTMA routing rules to a routing plan and dynamically switch between routing
plans.
Automatically response to changes in the IMS
environment such as dynamically added IMS data stores and flood conditions. Automatically
respond to the failure of an IMS™ Connect system by balancing the number of TCP/IP sessions directed
to each remaining live IMS Connect system.
- Enhanced Open Database management
- Dynamic management of TCP/IP DRDA requests,
allowing you to define rules to redistribute workload
based on capacity or by relative machine running costs. Ability to assign selected ODBM routing rules to a routing
plan and dynamically switch between routing plans.
- Socket management
- Controls the number of input messages for a persistent session,
allowing automatic distribution of persistent session workloads in
a sysplex environment.
- Enhanced security
- Control access to OTMA transactions or DRDA requests based on the client IP address and IMS Connect port number, and to IMS Connect instances, via a system authorization facility (SAF) security class. Use IP address rules to treat messages coming from an IP address as a trusted user or to
assign a specific user ID to the request.
- Improved client services
- Additional features for IMS Connect
clients such as enhanced information in error messages, password change
facility, and extended message translation.
These features enable you to:
- Improve the availability, reliability, and performance of IMS Connect.
- Speed and simplify problem determination.
- Make your systems more transparent so that they are easier to audit and manage.