An Introduction To Ims: Your Complete Guide To Ibm's Information Management System - Hardcover

Long, Rick; Harrington, Mike; Hain, Robert; Nichols, Geoff

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0131856715 ISBN 13: 9780131856714

Publisher: IBM Pr, 2005

Synopsis

IBM’s Definitive One-Stop Guide to IMS Versions 12, 11, and 10: for Every IMS DBA, Developer, and System Programmer

Over 90% of the top 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 a lower cost than ever before. InAn 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 Certification 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: application programming for the IMS Database and IMS Transaction Managers, editing and formatting messages, and programming applications in Java™
• IMS system administration: the IMS system definition process, customizing IMS, security, logging, IMS operations, database and system recovery, and more
• IMS in Parallel Sysplex® environments: ensuring high availability, providing adequate capacity, and balancing workloads

About this title

About the Author

Dean H. Meltz, team lead for IMS Information Development at IBM's Silicon Valley Lab, in San Jose, California, has been an IMS technical writer for seventeen years.

Rick Long, IMS systems specialist with IBM's International Technical Support Organization (ITSO), writes about IMS and teaches IMS classes worldwide. He was previously an IMS systems programmer for IBM Global Services, Australia.

Mark Harrington, IMS systems programmer at IBM Global Services, UK, has spent twenty-two years working with IBM mainframes as developer, application designer, installer, and DBA.

Robert Hain has been an IMS systems programmer for seventeen years. He works for IBM Global Services, Melbourne, Australia, as part of the Telstra Alliance.

Geoff Nicholls, a member of IBM's Worldwide IMS Technical Support Team, works with IMS customers throughout Australia and Asia.

From the Back Cover

The Only Up-to-the-Minute Guide to IMS Version 9--Straight from IBM IMS Experts

• Introduces IMS, one of the world's premiere software products

• Thoroughly covers key IMS functions, from security to Java support

• For both new and experienced IMS administrators, programmers, architects, and managers

• Prerequisite reading for IBM IMS Mastery Certificate Program

IMS serves more than 95 percent of Fortune 1000 companies, manages 15,000,000 gigabytes of production data, and supports more than two hundred million users per day. The brand-new IBM IMS Version 9 is not just the world's #1 platform for very large online transaction processing: it integrates with Web application server technology to enable tomorrow's most powerful Web-based applications. Now, for the first time in many years, there's a completely up-to-date guide to understanding IMS in your business environment.

An Introduction to IMS covers

• Installing and configuring IMS Version 9

• Understanding and implementing the IMS hierarchical database model

• Understanding and working with the IMS Transaction Manager

• Mastering core application programming concepts, including program structure and IMS control blocks

• Taking advantage of IMS 9 Java programming enhancements

• Working with the IMS Master Terminal

• Administering IMS: system definition, customization, logging, security, operations, and more

• Running IMS in a Parallel Sysplex(r) environment

Whether you've spent a career running IMS or you are encountering IMS for the first time, this book delivers the insights and skills you need to succeed--as an application designer, developer, or administrator.

Edition details

• Publisher: IBM Pr
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0131856715
• ISBN 13: 9780131856714
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 558
• Editor: Meltz Dean