Build your IMS skills

IMS has lots of no-cost, self-paced training ready to help you improve your IMS skills, train new members in your organization, and get more out of using IMS!

Get quick technical snacks or in-depth content

It's your choice.

We have videos about specific, targeted topics like IMS Catalog, or longer, more comprehensive online courses like IMS Fundamentals.

Videos

There are hundreds of videos to choose from, but here are just a few:

• Intro to IMS video series
• Introduction to IMS Catalog
• Migrating to IMS 15
• IMS Dynamic Commands: An Introduction
• Java in IMS demos
• Modernize Legacy Applications with 31-bit COBOL and 64-bit Java Interoperability
• IMS V15.3 Featured Product Enhancements

Courses

Want more comprehensive training? Check out our current self-paced courses on IBM Training:

• IMS Fundamentals
• IMS Database Fundamentals
• IMS System Programming: Database and Transaction Management
• IMS Diagnostics
• IMS Shared Queues
• IMS System Programming in a DBCTL Environment
• IMS Fast Path Implementation
• IMS Data Sharing

If you successfully complete a course, you get a completion certificate and a Credly digital badge. All you need is an IBM id and a Credly account to accept the badge.

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More courses are coming, so keep checking IMS Central for the latest information.

Get all this content from one place: IMS Central

Bookmark IMS Central, which is an IMS website dedicated to providing you with useful links to training content, documentation, support, new IMS technologies, product pages, and community sites.

So take advantage of this outcome-based training: learn new IMS skills or take deeper dives into the IMS product.