An Introduction to IMS: Your Complete Guide to IBM Information Management System (2nd Edition)

An Introduction to IMS: Your Complete Guide to IBM Information Management System (2nd Edition)

<div sercontent=""> <p style="margin:0px;"> </p> <p style="margin:0px;"> <b>IBM’s Definitive One-Stop Guide to IMS Versions 12, 11, and 10: for Every IMS DBA, Developer, and System Programmer</b> </p> <p style="margin:0px;"> </p> <p style="margin:0px;">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. In <i>An Introduction to IMS, Second Edition</i>, leading IBM experts present the definitive technical introduction to these versions of IMS.</p> <p style="margin:0px;">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.</p> <p style="margin:0px;"> </p> <p style="margin:0px;"> <b>Coverage includes</b> </p> <p style="margin:0px;"> </p> <ul> <li>What IMS is, how it works, how it has evolved, and how it fits into modern enterprise IT architectures</li> <li>Providing secure access to IMS via IMS-managed application programs</li> <li>Understanding how IMS and z/OS® work together to use hardware and software more efficiently</li> <li>Setting up, running, and maintaining IMS</li> <li>Running IMS Database Manager: using the IMS Hierarchical Database Model, sharing data, and reorganizing databases</li> <li>Understanding, utilizing, and optimizing IMS Transaction Manager</li> <li>IMS application development: application programming for the IMS Database and IMS Transaction Managers, editing and formatting messages, and programming applications in Java™</li> <li>IMS system administration: the IMS system definition process, customizing IMS, security, logging, IMS operations, database and system recovery, and more</li> <li>IMS in Parallel Sysplex® environments: ensuring high availability, providing adequate capacity, and balancing workloads</li> </ul> </div>