An Introduction to IMS, Second Edition: Your Complete Guide to IBM Information Management System
by Barbara Klein, Richard Alan Long, Kenneth Ray Blackman, Diane Lynne Goff, Stephen Paul Nathan, Moira McFadden Lanyi, Margaret M. Wilson

IBM’s definitive one-stop guide to IMS Version 12, 11, and 10: for every IMS DBA, developer, and system programmer

Over 90% of Fortune 1000 companies rely on IBM’s Information Management System (IMS) for their most critical IBM System z data management needs: 50,000,000,000+ transactions run through IMS databases every day. What's more, IBM continues to upgrade IMS: Versions 12, 11, and 10 meet today’s business challenges more flexibly and at lower cost than ever before. In An Introduction to IMS, Second Edition, leading IBM experts present the definitive technical introduction to these versions of IMS.

More than a complete tutorial, this book provides up-to-date examples, cases, problems, solutions, and a complete glossary of IMS terminology. Prerequisite reading for the current IBM IMS Mastery Certificate Program, it reflects major recent enhancements such as dynamic information generation; new access, interoperability and development tools; improved SOA support, and much more. Whether you’re a DBA, database developer, or system programmer, it brings together all the knowledge you’ll need to succeed with IMS in today’s mission-critical environments.

Coverage includes

What IMS is, how it works, how it has evolved, and how it fits into modern enterprise IT architectures

Providing secure access to IMS via IMS-managed application programs

Understanding how IMS and z/OS work together to use hardware and software more efficiently

Setting up, running, and maintaining IMS

Running IMS Database Manager: using the IMS Hierarchical Database Model, sharing data, and reorganizing databases

Understanding, utilizing, and optimizing IMS Transaction Manager

IMS application development: programming IMS Database and Transaction Managers, editing and formatting messages, and programming applications in Java

IMS system administration: the IMS system definition process, customizing IMS4, security, logging, IMS0 operations, database and system recovery, and more

IMS in Parallel Sysplex environments: ensuring high availability, providing adequate capacity, and balancing workloads

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Publisher: IBM Press
Page Count (est.): 593
ISBN10: 0132886871
ISBN13: 9780132886871
Cover: Paperback
Pub Date: 3/15/2012