IBM® solutions help IT organizations maximize their investment in IMS™ databases while staying on top of some of today's toughest IT challenges. Utilities management solutions can help you achieve higher availability and better performance during database maintenance while enhancing the productivity of both database administrators and system programmers.
Underlying the operation of any database management system are the utilities. With the number of database objects growing exponentially, especially when dealing with ERP applications such as SAP, the impact of managing utility jobs, meeting service level agreements, and ensuring recoverability can be overwhelming.
IBM offers IMS Tools that assist in the Utilities Management process for example: In an on-demand world 24x7 data availability is a key requirement. Reorganization tools from IBM can help with the performance of key functions such as unloading and reloading IMS data, without impacting data access. These and other IMS Tools can help you achieve higher availability and better performance during data maintenance while enhancing the productivity of both database administrators and system programmers.
Many IMS Tools products provide database management features that are not available in IMS itself or that provide enhancements to capabilities that are built into IMS. IBM IMS High Performance Prefix Resolution for z/OS® is only one of several IMS Tools products that provide enhancements to the process of utility management operations for your databases.
IMS HP Prefix Resolution reduces database reorganization elapsed and CPU time by providing technology to resolve logically related database points fast while reducing resource consumption. IMS HP Prefix Resolution simplifies the management of IMS database environments by concurrently performing, in a single job step, the resolution and updating of pointers for logically related databases. These are must do tasks in order to correctly maintain any IMS database that is involved in logical relationships and has been loaded or reorganized. Compared to the similar functions provided by the IMS Base utilities, which run these tasks in multiple job steps, IMS HP Prefix Resolution enables you to accomplish these tasks in a considerably easier and faster way by simplifying the job steps and eliminating the use of specific resources. With these advanced features, IMS HP Prefix Resolution facilitates and speeds up the tasks of database administrators and, enhances the availability of your system and human resources.
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