An Introduction To Ims: Your Complete Guide To Ibm's Information Management System
Long, Rick; Harrington, Mike; Hain, Robert; Nichols, Geoff; Meltz, Dean [Editor]
Language: English
Published by IBM Pr, 2005
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- Title
- An Introduction To Ims: Your Complete Guide To Ibm's Information Management System
- Author
- Long, Rick; Harrington, Mike; Hain, Robert; Nichols, Geoff; Meltz, Dean [Editor]
- Publisher
- IBM Pr
- Publication year
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0131856715
- ISBN 13
- 9780131856714
- Item weight
- 37 ounces
- Dimensions
- 7x1x9
IBMs 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 IBMs 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. Whats more, IBM continues to upgrade IMS: Versions 12, 11, and 10 meet todays 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 youre a DBA, database developer, or system programmer, it brings together all the knowledge youll need to succeed with IMS in todays 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
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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.
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