Announcing IMS 11 - Easier Than Ever

Today's business environment calls for the increased ease of use and improvements in resource management. IMS™ 11 delivers ultra-high performance and scalability, combined with new features that make the system more accessible to a broader range of IT technologies and users. IMS 11 provides integration and open access improvements to provide greater flexibility and manageability enhancements to optimize staff productivity.

Direct SQL access to IMS data from any distributed platform and easier connectivity through TCP/IP significantly simplifies (and in some cases eliminates) the data replication and change capture processes. Distributed TCP/IP access to IMS data, both within an IMSplex or with platforms other than System z, enables cost efficiencies in application growth and improves system resilience. New usability and serviceability enhancements include Syntax Checker support for Open Database.

IMS Connect enhancements provide simplified TCP/IP access to both IMS transactions and data. This support for easier integration and open access can also help with industry regulations compliance and internal controls, and can enable you to more rapidly develop and deploy new applications and services. IMS Connect is the TCP/IP gateway to IMS transactions, operations, and now IMS data, and delivers improved IMS flexibility, availability, resilience, and security.

With Java support, IMS 11 helps you leverage a larger number of developers to build IMS applications. Web services, Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) components, and JavaServer Pages (JSPs) can be created from existing MFS-based IMS applications. New applications can be deployed to run on IBM WebSphere Process Server as part of your business choreography.

• Enhanced user exits and new type-2 commands help simplify operations and improve system availability. Support for IMSplex-wide recovery points taken while the system is online further facilitates database availability.
• 64-bit storage enhances system availability and overall system performance. IMS Fast Path Buffer Manager, the Application Control Block library, and local system queue area use 64-bit private storage, helping to simplify operations and improve storage utilization and performance.
• Reduced complexity of creating database recovery points, reduced CPU time for online database reorganization processing, and easier capacity optimization all add up to easier operations.
• Integrated, open access with enhanced XML and Web services connectivity, and broadened Java and XML tooling to ease development.

The growing portfolio of IMS Tools is designed to complement IMS 11 by increasing performance, improving availability, and lowering overall operational costs.