An Introduction to IMS

ebook Your Complete Guide to IBM Information Management System

By Barbara Klein

cover image of An Introduction to IMS

Sign up to save your library

With an OverDrive account, you can save your favorite libraries for at-a-glance information about availability. Find out more about OverDrive accounts.

   Not today

Find this title in Libby, the library reading app by OverDrive.

Download Libby on the App Store Download Libby on Google Play

Search for a digital library with this title

Title found at these libraries:

Library Name Distance
Loading...

IBM's Definitive One-Stop Guide to IMS Versions 12, 11, and 10: for Every IMS DBA, Developer, and System Programmer

Over 90% of the top Fortune® 1000 companies rely on IBM's Information Management System (IMS) for their most critical IBM System z® data management needs: 50,000,000,000+ transactions run through IMS databases every day. What's more, IBM continues to upgrade IMS: Versions 12, 11, and 10 meet today's business challenges more flexibly and at a lower cost than ever before. In An Introduction to IMS, Second Edition, leading IBM experts present the definitive technical introduction to these versions of IMS.

More than a complete tutorial, this book provides up-to-date examples, cases, problems, solutions, and a complete glossary of IMS terminology. Prerequisite reading for the current IBM IMS Mastery Certification Program, it reflects major recent enhancements such as dynamic information generation; new access, interoperability and development tools; improved SOA support; and much more. Whether you're a DBA, database developer, or system programmer, it brings together all the knowledge you'll need to succeed with IMS in today's mission critical environments.

Coverage includes

  • What IMS is, how it works, how it has evolved, and how it fits into modern enterprise IT architectures
  • Providing secure access to IMS via IMS-managed application programs
  • Understanding how IMS and z/OS® work together to use hardware and software more efficiently
  • Setting up, running, and maintaining IMS
  • Running IMS Database Manager: using the IMS Hierarchical Database Model, sharing data, and reorganizing databases
  • Understanding, utilizing, and optimizing IMS Transaction Manager
  • IMS application development: application programming for the IMS Database and IMS Transaction Managers, editing and formatting messages, and programming applications in Java™
  • IMS system administration: the IMS system definition process, customizing IMS, security, logging, IMS operations, database and system recovery, and more
  • IMS in Parallel Sysplex® environments: ensuring high availability, providing adequate capacity, and balancing workloads
  • An Introduction to IMS