IMS Family

IMS: The High-Performance Application and Data Server for System z

More than 94% of Fortune 1000 companies use IMS for their most critical IBM System z data management needs. More than 50 billion transactions run through IMS databases on a daily basis.
IMS is used by the very largest enterprises in Financial Services, Telecommunications, Manufacturing and Health Care

IMS provides many features including:

Remarkable performance 22K transactions per second on a single eight engine z9 processor
Performance translates to most cost efficient run-time environment, very low "mips per tran"
Rock-solid reliability and security: customers report going thousands of days without an unplanned outage
Integrated message queuing, transaction processing and data base management
Open, standard interfaces allowing 'any-to-any' connectivity and access
Fully integrated into today's SOA and A/D toolsets
Natural XML support
Robust runtime support including JAVA, C, COBOL, PLI and Assembler