Why IMS Tools

IBM® Information Management System (IMS™) Tools deliver the reliability and affordability you need to maximize the value of your IMS environment. By providing on-demand access to IMS applications and data, IMS Tools help optimize data across your enterprise.

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IMS Tools Solution Packs

The IBM® Information Management System (IMS™) Tools Solution Packs provide you with application-specific database management solutions. IBM Tools Base for z/OS® components benefit your organization by:

  • Automatically monitoring database health
  • Identifying database problems
  • Investigating these problems via a graphical interface
  • And much more

Database Solution Pack

The IMS Database Solution Pack combines the entire set of IMS database products needed to manage IMS Full Function and HALDB databases into a single consolidated solution.

This IBM solution pack benefits your process by:

  • Helping reduce operational complexity
  • Decreasing the impact of database reorganization on system resources
  • Solving some of your most common IMS problems

Fast Path Solution Pack

The IMS Fast Path Solution Pack provides extensive and easy-to-use utilities that include all the functions database administrators need to analyzer, maintain, and tune IMS Fast Path databases. This IBM solution benefits your organization by:

  • Providing features that help boost system availability
  • Helping maximize your database system’s overall uptime
  • Reducing the need to take your IMS databases offline

Performance Solution Pack

The IMS Performance Solution Pack provides powerful performance analysis features making analysis of IMS transactions faster and easier. This IBM Tools Solution Pack benefits your organization by:

  • Supporting improved productivity for problem analysts
  • Improving IMS application performance
  • Enhancing efficient IMS resource utilization
  • Creating high system availability
  • Avoiding missing service level agreements by making sure your IMS systems are always running at peak performance

Recovery Solution Pack

The IMS Recovery Solution Pack combines several IMS tools into a single consolidated solution that provides everything necessary to ensure the timely recovery of IMS DB assets. This IBM Tools Solution Pack helps your organization by:

  • Allowing for the simultaneous backup and recovery of multiple data set and Fast Path areas
  • Reducing the operational complexity and the impact of database backup and recovery on system resources

Solutions