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New 2025 course: IMS Logical Relationships

By Michelle Carey posted Tue February 11, 2025
It’s all about connections Ready to jump into the weird but useful ways to connect data between IBM® IMS™ databases? And, no, we're not talking about IMS data sharing, but rather, logical relationships ...

IMS Explorer for Web technology preview

By Haley Fung posted Mon February 10, 2025
IMS Explorer for Web technology preview IMS Enterprise Suite for z/OS Version 3.4 Announcing IMS Explorer for Web , a new take on IMS Enterprise Suite Explorer for Development. ...

CIBC’s success story implementing Java in IMS

By Amanda Stephens posted Thu November 07, 2024
CIBC + IBM CIBC's success story implementing Java in IMS Industry Banking / Financial Business Challenge CIBC needed to build a regulatory program to enable ...

IMS managed ACBs webinar series

By Amanda Stephens posted Wed October 16, 2024
IMS managed ACBs webinar series Setting you up for success Join the IMS team for this exciting new webinar series that provides you with the foundational knowledge you need to understand what ...

IMS Physical Organization of Databases—new course!

By Michelle Carey posted Thu June 20, 2024
What’s the difference between HDAM, HISAM, GSAM, and the other “AMs”? In this comprehensive, 33-hour course , you’ll learn about the different IMS database organizations, which ones are suited to ...

What's new in IMS 15.5

By Amanda Stephens posted Thu June 13, 2024
IMS 15.5 is generally available as of June 14, 2024. For full details about what's new in IMS 15.5, please reference Software Announcement AD24-0071. Overview of enhancements ...

Preview of IMS Explorer for Development Web UI

By Haley Fung posted Fri June 07, 2024
Since the introduction of the IMS Enterprise Suite Explorer for Development tool, it has bec o me a crucial tool for IMS developers to moderniz e applications to access IMS. IMS Explorer ...

Making IMS transactions more secure by Client ID

By Hiroyuki Fuchiue posted Tue May 21, 2024
Introduction IMS Connect, a vital component of IBM's mainframe environment, processes millions of IMS transactions per second. However, with the growing demand for secure and reliable mainframe connectivity, ...

IMS Community Call

By Amanda Stephens posted Thu April 25, 2024
IMS Community Call Join us today and be a part of the conversation! 2025 IMS Community Call - January 2025 Watch the replay IMS Community Call - April 2025 Register ...

IMS catalog webinar series

By Amanda Stephens posted Thu April 25, 2024
IMS catalog webinar series Join the IMS team for this exciting new webinar series that walks you through what the IMS catalog is, its benefits, how to implement it, and the best ways to maximize its ...

A large bank’s success story implementing RESTful APIs to streamline their digital transformation

By Amanda Stephens posted Wed April 24, 2024
Industry Banking Business Challenge A banking customer needed to streamline their digital transformation and improve time to market to minimize the technology gap between web/mobile ...

FAQs on IMS Catalog and Managed ACBs

By Michelle Carey posted Wed April 10, 2024
We will continue to update this document as more questions arise. If you have a question that should be added, enter a comment at the end of the document. For more resources, such as the managed ACBs ...

Forwarding a live feed of IMS Connect Open Database events to Splunk

By Hiroyuki Fuchiue posted Thu March 21, 2024
For many years, the IMS Connect transaction analysis starter application for Splunk has provided a way for IMS Connect Extensions customers to evaluate the OTMA workload performance data streaming capabilities ...

IMS Database Repair—a new self-paced course from IMS!

By Michelle Carey posted Tue December 12, 2023
Let’s fix that database! IBM IMS ™ databases are typically very reliable, fast, and secure, but occasionally you might have integrity or corruption problems. If you’re an IMS database administrator ...

OTMA Checkpoint Statistics - A Better Way To Monitor Your OTMA Usage!

By Sanjay Kaliyur posted Tue October 31, 2023
By Tracy Liu & Sanjay Kaliyur At IBM, constantly improving on IMS to make it more resilient and easier to manage is one of our top priorities. Many of our customers are seeing their transaction ...

Mix, mash, and merge your z/OS Connect and your IMS Connect performance data in Splunk using the IMS Connect Extensions feed

By Adam Limbert posted Tue September 12, 2023
z/OS Connect is here to stay and with the increasing volume of workloads that pass through it into IMS every day comes the need to monitor, track, and engage with the diagnostic data that is produced by ...

IMS Transaction Manager Application Programming—the latest 2023 self-paced course from IMS!

By Michelle Carey posted Fri September 08, 2023
https://www.ibm.com/training/course/ims-transaction-manager-application-programming-DL00961G IMS Transaction Manager (IMS TM) application programming IMS TM is a transaction manager. It organizes ...

Latest updates with IMS and Ansible for Managed ACBs and IMS Catalog and Self-provisioning

By Haley Fung posted Mon July 31, 2023
Authored by Haley Fung and Stephanie Lieu We have some new updates for IMS and Ansible! 2023 is half-way through and we have been busy providing new features with Ansible and IMS. The IBM z/OS ...

Introducing IMS Connect PassTicket Support for OM Path

By Sanjay Kaliyur posted Mon July 24, 2023
By Christopher Johanson and Sanjay Kaliyur At IBM IMS, we put a great deal of focus on application security. We strive to provide our customers with a variety of solutions to allow for greater flexibility ...

IMS Database Application Programming—the latest self-paced course from IMS!

By Michelle Carey posted Thu June 22, 2023
Start the course! IMS database application programming To design an application program for IMS, you need to identify the application data and analyze requirements for application processing. ...