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IMS™ provides leadership in performance, reliability and security to help you implement the most strategic and critical enterprise applications. IMS also keeps pace with the evolving IT industry. Information Management System Version 11 (IMS 11) provides an open, integrated, and distributed data access solution; improves connectivity and ease of use; increases system availability; and offers an architectural road map that supports future growth. With IMS 11, a suite of Universal drivers supports IMS database programmatic access with Type-4 and Type-2 connectivity. You can now access IMS in a uniform way using the industry standard Distributed Relational Database Architecture™ (DRDA®) protocol from any platform and from within the most strategic run times, opening growth and expansion opportunity. IMS DB metadata is exposed with the standard JDBC API and therefore can be consumed and visualized by JDBC tooling. Query syntax uses standard query language syntax. The new IMS Enterprise Suite V1.1 components are designed to enhance your use of IMS applications and data by delivering innovative capabilities that enhance connectivity, expand application development, extend standards and tools for a service-oriented architecture (SOA), ease installation, and provide simplified interfaces. IMS 11 also helps lower your IT costs in the areas of business flexibility, simplified administration, and growth. In this IBM® Redbooks® publication, we explore the new features of IMS 11. We review the available material and

New application development tools and the IBM® service-oriented architecture capabilities for IMS™ can help your business improve the speed and agility of its development efforts. Both IMS and the IMS SOA Integration Suite support your on demand systems and your distributed IMS application environment. Powering SOA Solutions with IMS provides background and explanations to clarify the choices and methodologies that are available to modernize your IMS applications and provide access to IMS data stores through non-traditional callers.

This IBM Redbooks publication provides an overview of the new functions and enhancements in IBM Information Management System (IMS) Version 10. IBM continues to enhance IMS integration, manageability, and scalability. IMS helps you with On Demand Business enablement, growth, availability, and systems management that current and newer environments and cost measures require. IMS Version 10 helps in addressing your On Demand Business needs through integration/openness, manageability, and scalability, providing: - Integration with other products and platforms across the Internet, supporting open standards that benefit you, and taking best advantage of the latest industry tooling for application development and connectivity - Manageability in staging users to autonomic computing, easing installation and use, eliminating and reducing outages, and minimizing the education curve for users of IMS - Scalability with virtualization in assuring flexibility for growth and expansion in a heterogeneous environment while utilizing the latest hardware and software facilities to optimize performance, capacity, availability, and recovery This book is intended for individuals who are migrating their IMS systems to IMS Version 10 and provides the essential necessary information.

This IBM Redbook gives you a broad understanding of the Resource Recovery Services (RRS) environment. RRS provides a global syncpoint manager that any resource manager on z/OS can exploit. It enables transactions to update protected resources managed by many resource managers. RRS is increasingly becoming a prerequisite for new resource managers, and for new capabilities in existing resource managers. Rather than having to implement their own two-phase commit protocol, these products can use the support provided by RRS. Since older transaction managers like CICS already offered many of the benefits of RRS for processing their own data, not many people rushed to exploit RRS when it was first introduced. However, as more transaction managers have become RRS resource managers, and as the complexity of the exchanges of transactional data increases, more and more systems and application programmers will need to use RRS. This redbook provides information that will help you install, tailor, and manage the RRS environment. It covers RRS exploiters, helping you to understand the connections between RRS and its exploiters, how they work together, and how the installation should behave in recovery/restart situations.

This IBM Redbook provides IMS performance monitoring and tuning information. This book differs from previous IMS performance and tuning IBM Redbooks in that there is less emphasis on the internal workings of IMS and more information about why and how certain options can affect the performance of IMS. Most of the information in the previous IBM Redbook IMS Version 7 Performance Monitoring and Tuning Update, SG24-6404, is still valid, and in most cases, continues to be valid in any future versions of IMS. This book is not an update or rewrite but instead attempts to be more of a guide than a reference. As such, the team gathered experiences and data from actual production environments as well as from IBM benchmarks and solicited input from experts in as many areas as possible. You should be able to find valuable new information and perhaps validate things you might have questioned. Hardware and software characteristics are constantly changing, but hopefully the information that you find here provides a basis to help you react to change and to keep your IMS running efficiently. In this IBM Redbook, we introduce methods and tools for monitoring and tuning IMS systems, and in addition to IMS TM and DB system-wide performance considerations, we dedicate separate chapters for application considerations, IMS and DB2 interoperability, the Parallel Sysplex environment, and On Demand considerations.

Flexibility in business has become equal in importance with operational efficiency. Service-oriented architecture (SOA) can help businesses respond more quickly and cost-effectively to the changing market conditions by promoting reuse and interconnection of existing IT assets rather than time-consuming and costly reinvention. SOA has been the top fashionable topic in IT for a few years now. This is because there is a consensus of opinions among enterprise architects that SOA is the key to making the IT department a catalyst for growth and innovation. This IBM Redbook helps you get started with SOA by showing the implementation of the minimum requirements: The creation of Web services that allow access to data that is stored in data servers or applications and the realization of interaction services for business to consumer integration. The data servers included in our scenario are DB2 for z/OS, DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows, Informix Dynamic Server and IMS. This redbook is a roadmap showing how SOA can significantly improve the IT business value.

IBM Information Management System (IMS) is the IBM premier transaction and hierarchical database management system. Connectivity has always been a priority with IMS. IMS exploits the latest technologies to address customers' requirements for accessing IMS transactions and data. This IBM Redbook is about IMS connectivity. This book provides a general overview of the IMS Open Transaction Manager Access (OTMA) function and extensive information about IMS Connect and its usage, including a chapter that describes the IMS Connect Extensions product and how you can enhance the IMS Connect operating environment with it. This book provides a broad understanding of IMS Connector for Java. We cover some special considerations, such as using the conversational transactions, rerouting, and timeout support, as well as programming roll-your-own clients without using IMS Connector for Java. We also introduce Open Database Access and provide examples of using it with stored procedures and with IMS Remote Database Services. As for future directions, we also include a chapter about the IMS SOAP Gateway. This book updates and adds to the information in the previous IBM Redbook "IMS e-business Connectors: A Guide to IMS Connectivity," SG24-6514.

This IBM Redbook provides an overview of IBM's event publishing solution delivered via its WebSphere Information Integrator Classic Event Publisher and WebSphere Information Integrator Event Publisher products, and documents the procedure for implementing a replication and event publishing solution using these products. The book is aimed at an audience of IT architects and database administrators (DBA) responsible for leveraging the WebSphere Information Integrator event publishing capabilities in a variety of business solutions involving replication and event alert systems. Using an insurance industry acquisition scenario involving auto insurance and home insurance companies, this book documents a step-by-step approach to implementing an integrating Customer Information Facility (CIF) application, and an Event Alert System application using WebSphere Information Integrator Classic Event Publisher and WebSphere Information Integrator Event Publisher.

This IBM Redbook provides an overview of the new functions and enhancements in IBM Information Management System (IMS) Version 9. IMS Version 9 contains over 50 enhancements, in all areas of the product. that address availability, scalability, capacity, usability, manageability, operations, on demand business, and application development requirements from its huge customer base. All of the enhancements in this new version resulted from specific customer requirements. The major enhancements include: Improved database availability for HALDB databases is provided by the long-awaited online reorganization (OLR) enhancement. The functionality of the IMS Connect product is included as an integrated function of IMS. DBRC provides a new API that allows assembler programs to query the RECON. IMS Java users will have new JDBC SQL calls and DLI Model Utility support for retrieving existing IMS data in XML format as well as storing, indexing, searching, and retrieving valid XML documents into new or existing IMS databases. We describe these enhancements and all other major changes in IMS Version 9. This redbook gives you the essential information that you need when you are migrating your IMS systems to IMS Version 9.

Your database management system is the repository for your business data, so you need to make sure that data is consistent, well organized, and available. Databases become disorganized when database records are updated or deleted, or when new records are inserted. Occasionally, you may also need to change the structure of your database because your needs have changed. IBM has a long term commitment to IMS and the IMS Tools. During the past few years, IBM has increased their investment in data management tools to support the customers' needs. The specific needs that these tools address are primarily to improve cost effectiveness, system utilization, and administrative productivity. IBM IMS Tools has a collection of products for database reorganization that can help improve the availability of databases while they are frequently reorganized, improve the speed of numerous management tasks, and help in changing the database structure. This IBM Redbook positions the different approaches for reorganizing IMS full function databases and describes the usage of the IMS High Performance utilities set of products and the IMS Parallel Reorganization product. We have also included the IMS Database Control Suite product in this book, because it provides functions for reorganization and can be used as a focal point for all your database administration tasks.