IMS Presentations and White Papers
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IMS Version 11 Overview |
Find out about the exciting enhancements to IMS that come with IMS v11. |

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09/09 |
Tips to reestablish a connection with IMS Connect |
In this blog entry, developers discuss what to do if your IMS Connect TCP/IP client application has trouble reestablishing a connection with IMS Connect after the connection was unexpectedly lost. |
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08/09 |
40 years on, IBM IMS still going strong |
This article in the Performance Perspectives Newsletter explains how IMS 11 enhancements ensure growth, efficiency, and resiliency. It explains how IMS continues to be the leader in transaction efficiency, breaking new barriers in technology after 40 years |
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08/09 |
IMS Locking with Program Isolation or the IRLM |
This white paper gives design advice in the area of IMS locking. This advice is given by first presenting an explanation of why and how IMS uses locking and then by explaining its implications for designs. Information on monitoring locking activity is included. |
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08/09 |
IMS Solutions: Utilizing the IMS synchronous callout function to invoke a CICS Web service through IMS SOAP Gateway |
This article describes how to implement synchronous callout in an IMS application to invoke an existing CICS Web service through the IMS SOAP Gateway. |
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05/09 |
IMS OLDS Logging Bandwidth Using DS8000 |
SVL IMS Performance group has measured up to 135 MB per second OLDS logging data rate, compared with 33 MB per second using ESS Model 800. |

41KB |
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03/09 |
Information On Demand Technical Conference Presentations: Fall 2008 |
2008 conference presentations in PDF format |
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02/09 |
IMS Symposium Presentations: Fall 2008 |
2008 symposium presentations in PDF format |
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02/09 |
IMS Update |
This presentation provides an overview update of IMS strategy, key functions, new news for IMS 10 users, and what's next in IMS 11. |

757KB |
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09/08 |
IMS v10: What's new since GA |
Learn how you can use IMS Version 10 enhancements to provide solutions in your Web-based and high availability environment. |

302KB |
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09/08 |
IMS Version 10 Performance Summary |
This paper illustrates the performance characteristics of IMS Version 10. |

771KB |
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08/08 |
IMS Connect Benchmark on System z10 Enterprise Class |
The document is an evaluation of IMS Version 10 Connect (with performance APAR PK57574) benchmark running on System z10 Enterprise Class. The emphasis is on total transaction rate and the reduction in IMS Connect CPU utilization per transaction. |

17KB |
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10/08 |
Migrating to IMS 10 |
Provides details about prerequisites and coexistence, installation and migration tasks, migration considerations, and the IMS V10 library. |

480KB |
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7.9MB |
07/08 |
IMS 10: TM and Connectivity enhancements |
Provides details about MSC Enhancements, APPC Enhancements, Removal of BTAM Support, OTMA Enhancements, and IMS Connect Enhancements |

6.14MB |
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6.73MB |
07/08 |
Moving to the IMS Common Service Layer |
Learn more about the Common Service Layer--an architecture to improve the systems management capabilities for IMS systems. |

1.47MB |
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7.8MB |
06/08 |
IMS 10 Transaction Manager and Connectivity Enhancements |
This presentation provides important information about IMS 10 Transaction Manager and Connectivity Enhancements. |

6.3MB |
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6.9MB |
11/07 |
IMS Version 10 Overview |
Find out about the exciting enhancements to IMS V10. |

456KB |
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11/07 |
IMS: What's new and What's next |
This presentation covers enhancements, solutions, and what's next, ensuring business growth in a challenging business environment. |

1.38MB |
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11/07 |
The Power of IMS SOA Solutions |
Find out more about SOA and IMS. |

2.4MB |
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23.9MB |
10/07 |
Information On Demand Technical Conference Presentations: Fall 2007 |
2007 conference presentations in PDF format |
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10/07 |
IMS 10 and DBRC Enhancements |
This presentation provides important information about IMS 10 DBRC Enhancements. |

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6.1MB |
09/07 |
Maximize Availability with IMS 10 Dynamic Resource Definition and Online Change Enhancements |
Learn about Dynamic Resource Definition and Availability Enhancements. |

3.01MB |
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8.78MB |
08/07 |
IMS Version 10 System Enhancements |
The purpose of this presentation is to provide information about enhancements in IMS Version 10. |

1.23MB |
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6.58MB |
07/07 |
Position for IMS V10's Member Online Change with Global Online Change Migration |
The purpose of this white paper is to describe the required migration tasks to transition from using Local Online Change to Global Online Change. While the primary focus will be on migration, the benefits of Global Online Change will be discussed and its commands will be summarized. |

572KB |
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07/07 |
An IMS Overview of the Business Value of IMS |
Listen and read about the enhancements and business value delivered with IMS Version 10. |

3.8MB |
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39.1MB |
06/07 |
IMS V9 What's new since GA |
Learn how you can use IMS Version 9 enhancements to provide solutions in your Web-based and high availability environment. |

1.24MB |
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04/07 |
IMS On Demand integration Solutions for a Service Oriented Architecture |
This session overviews IMS solutions and how to extend IMS applications and data to the Internet/Intranet and into the world of Java, EJBs, and XML. Also discussed are application developer tools for building IMS On Demand solutions, XML database support in IMS, and future directions. |

2.73MB |
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04/07 |
IMS SOAP Gateway – An SOA solution for IMS transactions |
A description of IMS SOAP Gateway and the Web service solutions it provides using IMS. |
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01/07 |
IMS Overview |
What IMS is and the value it offers, its strategy and solutions, and how customers use it. |

1.38MB |
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01/07 |
Information On Demand Technical Conference Presentations: Fall 2006 |
2006 conference presentations in PDF format |
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11/06 |
IMS Trace Table Measurement |
Document demonstrating some performance characteristics and observations of the performance impact of The IMS Trace Facility Table Traces. |

164KB |
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10/06 |
IMS Product Update |
IMS October 2006 Webcast |
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10/06 |
IMS On Demand Database Access and IMS Control Center |
An overview of IMS Database Access And Connectivity and the IMS Control Center. |
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07/06 |
IMS Transaction Manager on Demand |
An overview of IMS SOAP Gateway, IMS Connector for Java and IMS MFS Web support. |
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07/06 |
Converting IMS Logically Related Databases DBDs to HALDB |
This White Paper describes the changes to database descriptions (DBDs) that are required when an IMS database is migrated from a non-HALDB database type to HALDB. |

309KB |
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07/06 |
IMS State of the Union Tridex |
Learn about the state of IMS in 2006 as presented by Greg Lotko, Director of IMS Products, to TRIDEX, the New York City IMS user's group. |

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06/06 |
IMS and XML -- the perfect couple |
IMS provides XML document processing with IMS applications, and storage of XML data in IMS databases. |
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06/06 |
Taking Autonomics to a New Level in IMS Version 9 |
IMS V9 further develops IMS autonomic capabilities, easing IMS operations and manageability. |
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06/06 |
IMS Full Function Database Design Guidelines |
This document is intended to assist users in designing and tuning IMS full function databases. It provides advice on choosing parameters in DBDGEN. It explains the considerations one should understand in making these choices. |
434KB |
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02/06 |
Solutions for IMS Connectivity |
IMS provides a variety of solutions for providing access to IMS applications and data as Web services. |
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03/06 |
| IMS Technical Conference Presentations: Fall 2005 |
2005 conference presentations in PDF format |
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10/05 |
| IMS Today * |
See how IMS V9 solutions can help your enterprise (presentation that corresponds to the Flash video) |

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10/05 |
| IMS: The Best Protection Against Identity Theft |
A commentary on the contemporary value of IMS security in the wake of identity theft (white paper) |
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10/05 |
| IBM WebSphere Information Integrator Classic Federation for z/OS in an IBM Information Management System (IMS) Environment |
How WebSphere II and IMS work together to provide distributed access to IMS data (white paper) |
530KB |
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09/05 |
| The Business Value of IMS V9 |
Learn about the business value of IMS V9 |
213KB |
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07/05 |
| OSAM: The Healthy Alternative to VSAM |
Why OSAM, an access method that can be used for IMS databases, is almost always preferred to VSAM. |
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08/05 |
| IMS Version 9 Overview |
Find out about the exciting enhancements to IMS V9 |
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07/05 |
| IBM DB2 and IMS Information Management Technical Conference 2005, Vienna |
IMS conference presentations in PDF format |
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06/05 |
| The Current State of IMS |
A White Paper from the IMS Product Director discussing IMS current status and future direction |

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05/05 |
| IMS Version 9 HALDB Online Reorganization |
As a part IMS V9, HALDB Online Reorganization allows HALDB databases to remain available for update by applications throughout the reorganization process. |
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03/05 |
| IMS V9 Installation & Migration Tips |
Planning information for installations migrating to IMS Version 9, including prerequisite software and APARs. |
IBM Techdoc Link to PDF |
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02/05 |
| IMS V9 Value Brochure |
Summary brochure of the business value that IMS V9 provides. |

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01/05 |
| Converting IMS/SMU Security to RACF with IMS Version 9 |
Presentation describing how all SMU usage can be replaced with RACF security |

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12/04 |
| Using the APPC/OTMA Synchronous SMQ Support with IMS V8 |
This paper describes the IMS shared-message support in IMS Version 8 for APPC/OTMA synchronous transactions. |

375KB |
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11/04 |
| IMS Version 9 Performance Summary |
This paper illustrates the performance characteristics of IMS Version 9. |

900KB |
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11/04 |
| IMS Technical Conference Presentations: Fall 2004 |
2004 conference presentations in PDF format |
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11/04 |
| IMS Version 9 Presentation Guide |
Find out about the exciting enhancements for IMS V9 |

4.7MB |
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02/05 |
| IMS is Strategic |
An executive level White Paper by the IMS Product Director describing how IMS continues to be vital for our customers and for IBM |
48KB |
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06/04 |
| IMS Service Highlights |
2004 SHARE presentation that highlights IMS maintenance and product service |
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04/04 |
| IMS HALDB Database Administration |
A presentation for database administrators that includes partitioning, reorganization, and recovery of HALDBs |
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03/04 |
| Introduction to IMS V9 Integrated Online Reorganization |
IMS Technical Conference presentation about IMS V9 HALDB Online Reorganization |
147KB |
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10/03 |
| IMS Full Function Database Use of VSAM Buffer Pools |
Find out how VSAM builds buffer pools and subpools and how IMS assigns data sets to these pools |
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09/03 |
| IMS Version 8 |
Highlights of IMS V8 enhancements |

428KB |
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06/03 |
| Migrating to IMS HALDB (High Availability Large Database |
A presentation highlighting the capabilities of HALDB |
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05/03 |
IMS Shared Message Queues Implementation Considerations |
An overview of implementation considerations for a successful migration to using IMS shared message queues. |
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05/03 |
Positioning IMS Version 7 and IMS Version 8 On zSeries |
Describes the enhanced business value of IMS Version 7 and 8 |

62KB |
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04/03 |
| 2003 IMS One-day Technology Seminar Presentations |
Presentations about IMS strategy and direction; see what's new with IMS Version 7; and highlights of IMS Version 8. |

225KB |
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03/03 |
IMS Version 8 Performance Summary |
A white paper summarizing IMS V8 performance |
101KB |
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11/02 |
IMS Connect Strategy: Providing IMS Connectivity for a Millenium |
A white paper summarizing IMS Connectivity directions |
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10/02 |
Z21 - IBM Storage Conference session |
Find out about ultra high performance and availability using IMS, Parallel Sysplex, and the Enterprise Storage Server |
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09/02 |
| Security Options and Considerations |
A whitepaper detailing the security options for IMS/Open Transaction Manager (OTMA), IMS Connect, and the MQSeries-IMS Bridge Application. |
480KB |
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07/02 |
| Application Design and Programming with HALDB |
A presentation describing possible changes to make when migrating to HALDB |
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06/02 |
| Tuning PSB Pools Containing Large PSBs for Scheduling Performance |
A whitepaper on customer performance problems, specifically with severe scheduling delays, after migrating to Shared Queues. |
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06/02 |
| Analysis and Tuning of IMS Scheduling Using PWFI |
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05/02 |
| DBRC RECON Security |
A white paper describing DBRC RECON Security |
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05/02 |
| IMS BMPS and Batch Jobs Using DB2 in a Parallel Sysplex |
Article about IMS BMPS and batch jobs using DB2 in a Parallel Sysplex |
13KB |
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05/02 |
| IMS in a Parallel Sysplex |
A presentation on IMS in a Parallel Sysplex |
540KB |
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05/02 |
| Using GENJCL.USER to Allocate IMS HALDB Data Sets |
Article about using GENJCL.USER to allocate IMS HALDB data sets |
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05/02 |
| Using GENJCL.USER to Allocate IMS HALDB Data Sets |
Article about using GENJCL.USER to allocate IMS HALDB data sets |
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05/02 |
| HALDB Documentation Updates |
A sneak preview of HALDB updates to the IMS documentation |

86KB |
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03/01 |
| HALDB Migration: From PDB to HALDB Hints and Tips |
A customer presentation from the IMS Technical Conference Hamburg 2001 |
3.6MB |
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03/01 |
| High Availability in an IMS Environment |
IMS XRF and Parallel Sysplex: A Positioning Paper |
1MB |
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01/01 |
| IMS High Availability Large Database (HALDB) |
An overview of HALDB capabilities and benefits. |
213KB |
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10/00 |
| IMS Database Buffer Handlers (A Performance and Tuning Point of View) |
An overview of full function buffer handlers and IMS Monitor reports |
411KB |
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| IMS Version 6 Overview |
Introduces what's new in IMS V6 |
1.92MB |
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| IMS Monitor Report |
Learn how to check on the performance of your IMS system or to diagnosis performance problems. |
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