IBM Information Management System (IMS)

IBM Information Management System (IMS)

IBM Information Management System (IMS)

The secure, integrated application platform & database management system designed for high-performance online transaction & data processing that offers a reliable & flexible platform to host & extend the functionalities of business critical applications.

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CIBC’s success story implementing Java in IMS

By Amanda Stephens posted Thu November 07, 2024 02:16 PM

  

CIBC + IBM

CIBC's success story implementing Java in IMS

Industry

Banking / Financial

Business Challenge

CIBC needed to build a regulatory program to enable their customers to opt-in to real-time alerts for balance thresholds on deposit accounts which are hosted in IMS.

Solution

To provide real time alerts for over 30 million transactions a month from IMS to an event processing database outside the mainframe, a new IMS application was written using Java to callout APIs which help mitigate costs and streamline processes.

Transformation

By implementing this solution with Java in IMS, it maximizes the code reuse with smaller skills investment because it leverages the existing COBOL application with minimal changes. They also take advantage of the abundant Java skills in the enterprise with lower runtime cost compared to a COBOL implementation since the Java is zIIP eligible. By implementing this solution with Java in IMS, they take advantage of a modern application solution with lower runtime cost.

Results

 

Lower runtime cost compared to a COBOL implementation

Faster time to market

“We were able to extend our traditional COBOL IMS application with more modern Java design patterns like JMS and API calls.  This approach left the tried and tested internals of the application untouched but gave us the ability to integrate with the rest of the enterprise with very low risk to existing core functionality.”

 

“By leveraging Java and zIIP eligibility, we were able to offload all of this new workload to the specialty processors, and saw no increase to run cost”

- Joseph Westman 

Director, Mainframe Innovation, CIBC                                       

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