IMS: Powering the 21st

Century
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At the brink of the new century, IMS is still leading the way. More than 30 years
since the first IMS-ready message fro the Apollo Space program, IMS and the
S/390 are breaking technology barriers, but sometimes taken for granted.
Information technology has significantly changed to address the changing world
of business. Market forces have been changing the way we do business.
Regulation, economics, have been changing as businesses become more global.
Growth of the Internet, the global reach, the new commerce channels are
changing the way everybody does business, like the upswing in mergers and
acquisitions. Views into information are becoming as important as the information
itself. Amalgamation and aggregation is becoming widespread in the industry.
Businesses are exploiting new technologies to enable new customers with new
information across the web, in a global day. Businesses are being challenged
with balancing priorities and need new ways to gain and retain competitive edge
to address increasing demands and sophistication of their customers. IMS
customers are at the bleeding edge of this reality. Yet at its heart, business stays
the same. Industry forces are making the highest demands for performance and
availability, along with interoperability, flexibility, and support for new, emerging
technologies. This is something IMS people have been hearing for years. And
IMS continues to help efficiently provide heterogeneous access across global
networks and in addressing companies' changing needs. IMS is now providing
integrated solutions with IMS to help our customers further.
This will cover the IMS strategy, recent announcements for IMS and the S/390
environment in which it runs, and future directions for IMS in powering the 21st
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Open Software Leadership
1998 US Database Patents
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Enterprise Solutions
Information Mining for Personalization
Using All of IBM's "arms and legs"
Solutions, Services, Classes, Benchmarks
Services Engagements from Labs Directly
Design Center for e-transaction Processing

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 IBM is focusing on a set of objectives which include IMS to provide strength for
parallel and distributed environments with open software leadership. Data and
Transaction Management are key to delivering collaborative software, providing
access and management technologies and integrating systems management tools.
IMS is providing the leading edge strength in this area. IMS was first to exploit parallel
and distributed environments. New IMS patents in the past year have well exceeded
the combined total of our nearest competitors.
Open solutions, being provided across the enterprise are developed for end-to end,
mixed-tier environments, exploiting the individual system features and differentiators,
integrating mixed environments with middleware, improving systems management,
and delivering connectivity and interoperability with Java, Component Broker, and
WebSphere tools for IMS. All of this is being enabled in conjunction with other
systems our customers are using.
Personalization and growth are critical to remaining competitive. IBM provides
broader, high performance access to existing IMS applications/data, and
personalization of this information with tools for gathering, analyzing, filtering and
presenting in new ways through information mining technologies.
IBM offers guidance with solutions and services through IBM Global Services,
Education and Training, Systems Centers, and service engagements from our
laboratories directly. IMS specialists from Dallas systems enter and Santa Teresa
Laboratory are available to help offer you additional consultation and services.
A new design center, located in Poughkeepsie, NY, has been set up to work with
customers to design and build integrated e-Commerce solutions ad end-to-end
application prototyping. All IBM platforms and many non-IBM ones will participate in
the center. IBM skills in Research, Software, Services, Networking will support
customers worldwide,
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e-business Transforming Key Business
Processes With Internet Technologies

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 The future is in creating/expanding new-existing information out to
wider networks of people, economically. Customer's needs must be
addressed, new technologies exploited, application concerns handled.
We need to help you ensure simplicity, maintain security, maximize
your skills, while optimizing your company's return on investment.
e-business is no longer simply about static web pages -- it's about
putting your entire business on the internet, integrating new
applications with existing transaction systems to handle the explosive
growth of the Internet economy. It's a place where customers,
suppliers, and business can come together securely, anywhere, any
time.
e-transaction processing is about the evolution of e-business.
Extreme Information Technology needs for e-transaction processing
are scalability, non-disruptive capacity upgrades, availability, security,
flexibility, high bandwidth, balanced systems with the ability to handle
mixed workloads and system and storage management. Advanced
Transaction processing calls for continuous up time for applications,
high levels of security, end-to-end business transaction integrity, real
time data currency, and management of unpredictable volumes.

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IMS and S/390 Solutions Enabling
e-transaction Processing

Your Needs... IMS and S/390 Deliver...

Flexibility to handle Workload Manager links
unpredictable volumes business priorities with
transactions
Continuous up time for Parallel Sysplex is designed
applications for continuous computing
High Levels of Security has always been a
Security design point
End-to-End Parallel Sysplex Coupling
Transaction Facility manages locking
Integrity across multiple servers

Real Time Data A single instance of data is

Currency shared across all
applications in a Parallel
Sysplex environment
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 In the new world of e-transaction processing, S/390 and IMS can uniquely integrate
new applications with existing data to harness the global al opportunity of
enterprise-critical e-business. IMS meets extreme Information Technology needs for
e-transaction processing.
IMS and the S/390 have been delivering on the promise of e-business and continue
to do so with new enhancements for e-transaction processing bandwidths capable of
supporting the largest web sites and transaction rates through GB ethernet, Fiber
connection technology and industry leading webserving with the IBM WebSphere
Application Server Enterprise Edition, and SecureWay Communications Server for
OS/390. A balanced system is provided for world class solutions with the S/390
Workload manager, Tivoli manager for OS/390 and the new OS/390 InfoPrint -- the
first server to print through Internet protocols. IMS together with the S/390 are
delivering more comprehensive security protection, featuring centralized management
and a strong suite of end-to-end products. We continue to provide and enhance our
leading edge end-to-end transaction integrity and real time data currency with the
sharing of data, networks, and messages, utilizing the sysplex and its Coupling
Facility.
Our technology transition from bipolar to CMOS allowed us to deliver improving
price/performance to our customers. That improvement approaches a factor of 100
over the last 120 years. In 2Q, S/390 MIPS shipment grew 118 percent, marking the
4th consecutive quarter of better than 60 percent MIPS growth. Customer surveys
indicate that about 1/3 of this year's MIPS volumes will be used for new workloads,
like e-business related applications.
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IBM Storage Area Networks
Providing dedicated, centrally managed, secure
information infrastructure
Enabling any-to-any interconnection of servers and
storage systems
Enterprise Storage Server: The new Standard
Breakthrough Performance
Comprehensive Availability
Extensive Connectivity
Heterogeneous attachments
- any server to any storage
Multiple protocols (FICON, SCSI, ...)
Low Total Cost of Ownership

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 Customers also face challenges in managing storage. Then need to facilitate
enterprise-level universal access and sharing of resources, support unpredictable
explosive information technology growth, provide affordable 24X365 availability,
simplify and centralize storage resource management, improve information
protection and disaster tolerance, and enhance security and data integrity of new
computing architectures. A Storage Area Network (SAN) is a dedicated centrally
managed, secure information infrastructure, which enables any-to-any
interconnection of servers and storage systems. Over a 30-year evolution, SANs
are now rapidly being extended and integrated into enterprise-wide distributed
network environments using Fiber Channel Technology.
The IBM Enterprise Storage Server is a new generation of enterprise disk storage
systems designed to provide world class performance, scalability, and universal
access to data across all enterprise computing environments. ESS provides
extensive scalability with capacity configurations ranging from 420 GB to 11.2TB.
Breakthrough performance is made possible by a powerful storage architecture,
SSA disks and in special synergy with S/390 storage. Comprehensive availability is
there with no single points of failure or repair. The ESS Remote Copy function
improves availability by mirroring the data in a remote location, thereby providing
availability should a disaster occur. With FlashCopy you can have a guaranteed
point-in-time copy of your data in 2-5 seconds. The ESS connects to all the major
channel types including ESCON, Ultra SCSI, FICON, and FC/AL; plus all major
server types such as S/390, UNIX, Intel-based servers, and the AS/400. The ESS
can attach to fibre today via the IBM SAN data gateway. The ESS will provide the
lowest total cost of ownership due to its low initial acquisition cost, field upgrade
capability, and the ESS specialist storage management software.
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Supporting e-business Transformation

Development Application Secure Network

Tools and Server and Management
Components Software Software

NT OS/2 AIX HP-UX Netware Linux Solaris OS/400 OS/390

Extend Existing Applications into the world of e-business

Rich Capabilities to support simple-to-sophisticated
applications
Rapid Application Development environment based on
Cross-Platform Standards, including Java
Systems Managed for 24X7/365/Hundreds of Millions
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Key to all of this is:
Cross-platform distributed middleware for access to your existing and
new IMS applications and data.
An application development environment that brings things together
and offers consistency. WebSphere and Java can provide the
development tools and run time application server environments across
platforms.
Integrated end-to-end systems management capability to manage
networks applications and databases and all the other things that
customers run in their environment. Tivoli can provide the systems
management.
And of course IMS is providing Transaction and Database integration
for this. We are focusing for IMS on all the parts and their integration, in
particular on the integration of products, of applications, and the
development and runtime tools used with them, and of the operational
environment.

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 IMS Runs the World...
Most Corporate Data is Managed by IMS
Over 90% of Fortune 1000 Companies use IMS
IMS Manages over 15 Billion GBs of Production Data
$2 Trillion/day transferred thru IMS by one customer

About 50 Billion Transactions a Day run through IMS

IMS Serves Close to 150 Million Users a Day
64.6 Million IMS Trans/Day Handled by One Customer on a Single
Sysplex
120M IMS Trans/day, 7M per hour handled by one customer
670K/sec (60 Million/day) across TCP/IP to a single IMS

Ninth Largest Revenue Producing "Software

Company"
"A still large and loyal IMS installed base due to the rock
solid reputation of a transactional power horse for very
large workloads. IMS is already successfully proven in
large, web-based applications."
Gartner Group Report, Sept. 10, 1998.
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 Industries world-wide rely on IMS to run their businesses. IMS is part of
everyday life. Chances are you are using IMS when you turn on a light, make a
telephone call, get a business loan, process accounting records, use your ATM
card, put money in a bank, rent a car, purchase insurance, travel, send a package,
track in-transit packages, trade stocks, control inventories, process payroll, update
personnel records, control an assembly line, control a railroad, use corporate
database, run a government agency, conduct international business/banking, and
many more.
More than ninety-percent of the Fortune 1000 companies use IMS. IMS serves
150 million end users, managing about 15 billion Gigabytes of production data and
processing about 50 billion transactions every day. IMS still owns the high-volume
on-line transaction and database management environment. IMS customers have
been driving their own growth with IMS. 64.6 million transactions were handled by
one customer in a single 1998 day on a single sysplex system. 7 million
Transactions/ hour and 120 million transactions/day were handled by another
customer. IMS in-house testing reached 670 transactions/sec (nearly 60
milllion/day) across TCP/IP to a single IMS on a single machine (9672RX5).
IMS, IBM's premier hierarchical transaction and database management system,
is the product of choice for critical on-line operational applications and data where
support for high availability, performance, capacity,integrity, and low cost are key
factors. Today, IMS manages the world's mission-critical data and has been at the
forefront of the swing back to mainframe usage.
From a Gartner Group Research Report "A still large and loyal IMS installed base
due to the rock solid reputation of a transactional power horse for very large
workloads. IMS is already successfully proven in large web-based applications."
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Migrating Forward - the IMS
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IMS License Distribution

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As IMS has been making major improvements to quality,
installability, and usability, new versions are becoming
easier to install and use. IMS customers have been
moving rapidly forward to take advantage of newer
technology provided with the more recent versions of IMS.
IMS Version 5 proved to be the fastest growing version in
IMS history. The newest IMS, Version 6, with significantly
more function than any earlier versions, now appears to
be exceeding that rate of install. IMS licenses have been
growing and revenue this year has exceeded expectations
with double digit growth year to year.

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 IMS is Providing e-business Solutions
Parallel Sysplex Network, Message, and
Data Sharing
Systems Management Function and Tools
Open Access to IMS Transactions and Data
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 The IMS Transaction and Database Server for S/390 is evolving to further
strengthen its support for Enterprise and Network Computing environments.
IMS has been providing increased capacity and incremental horizontal growth
and offering improved availability with network, message and data sharing,
utilizing the coupling facilities of the S/390 and the latest technological
advancements for security and integrity of OS/390.
IMS has also been providing improved systems management in automated
operations, workload balancing, dynamic routing, dump analysis and
packaging enhancements. Building on a tradition of success, IBM has been
offering additional product and tools for IMS which enhance enterprise
computing systems management, availability, and capacity (for example, with
the new Sysplex Recovery coordination, and High Performance DB tools).
IBM is also offering additional product and tools enhancements for Network
Computing to simplify access to both legacy and new IMS applications and
data. IMS V5 introduced the IMS Open Transaction Manager Access facility
for better integration and efficient access of IMS by other S/390 subsystems,
such as MQSeries, TCP/IP, and DCE/RPC.
IMS has been rolling out solutions for the e-business IBM Connectors. These
consist of common cross-product solutions, such as IMS Connector for Java,
and MQSeries Connector for Lotus Notes with IMS, and for common internet
access to IMS and CICS applications. IMS Connectors provide IMS solutions
for network, internet, and object connectivity, and utilize the latest technology
offered for the Web, Java, and Component Broker. IMS has been enabled for
the 21st century and the Internet and as a result continues to grow.
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IMS in a Parallel Sysplex

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Easier access and management of enterprise applications and data

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 IMS continues to strengthen its support of the enterprise by providing the highest in performance,
availability, security, integrity, at the least cost per transaction. In doing this it has been exploiting the
hardware/software environments that it has grown up along side of. IMS fully exploits for customer
advantage the new technology and power of OS/390 and the Parallel Sysplex.
Existing IMS data sharing capability was enhanced with IMS Version 5 to take advantage of the
coupling facility for storing lock information and for easy availability of that information by all systems
in the Sysplex environment. The lock manager in each system could access the locks as they
needed to. In addition to data sharing, IMS V5 provided necessary information to the MVS workload
manager to assist with workload balancing of resources across the Sysplex. IMS also enhanced
message routing between systems to take advantage of workload balancing information, and IBM
provided the IMS Workload Router to use these facilities to push the work to the available system.
IMS V5 also provided Remote Site Recovery, which allowed backing up an IMS system with another
at a different location. A database at another system is maintained to match the primary database
and/or a log is maintained that can dynamically and quickly update that remote data base to allow
takeover in the event of failure.
Significant enhancements for IMS V6 are being added to those provided in IMS V5 to complement
the Parallel Sysplex hardware and operating systems facilities. IMS V6 improves the IMS V5 Data
Sharing and Workload manager enhancements with additional data sharing (storing changes and
unaltered data on the coupling facility for Sysplex access, and providing additional Fast Path
sharing), message sharing (providing message queues and fast path messages on the coupling
facility for Sysplex access), and message routing enhancements (utilizing VTAM Generic resource
support). As customer workload grows, the power that distributing data and applications across the
Sysplex provides is needed. End users want to be able to access applications and data
transparently, regardless where the work is processing. This enhanced support provides improved
end user interaction, improved IMS availability, improved workload balancing, and offers increased
capacity and growth in moving into Parallel Sysplex environments.
IMS's Fast Path capability continues to be enhanced to provide the fastest access through the
system, continuing to lead database products. Against industry standard benchmarks it continues to
show as the best price performance at the lowest cost, confirming that nothing in the transaction
market matched the speed and power of the IBM S/390 with IMS.
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IMS Version 6

Availability Performance/Capacity
Daylight Savings Time 8 GB DB Support
FP DEDB Online Change UCB/VSCR
Fast DB Recovery >255 SID's
Online Storage Reclaim Sysplex Sharing Innovations
ETO Automatic Logoff/Signon Queues
Data Caching
Timeout SDEP's
VSO
Systems Management EMH
VTAM Generic Resources DBRC Performance/Parallelism
Date Beyond 1999 Expanded Year with Recon I/O
Format DBCTL Single Cycle Commit
DFSMS Concurrent Copy
Dump Analysis and Evaluation Aids Network Computing
in Problem Diagnosis Distributed Synchpoint
Generic Start Region WWW Connection
Sysplex Communications APPC Security use of System
Sysgen Improvements Authorization Facility
Eliminate Conditional Assemblies Message Retrieval for Absent
Packaging Applications
Reduce Installable Entities and Separate
Features

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 IMS V6 availability enhancements also include Daylight Savings
Time support, Online Change of Fast Path Data Entry Databases,
Faster Database Recovery, Online Storage Reclaim, and the
Extended Terminal Option Timeout. Systems Management
enhancements include support for VTAM generic resources, Yr2000
4 digit date support, DFSMS Concurrent copy, problem diagnosis,
generic start of regions, Sysplex communications, eliminating
sysgen conditional assemblies and packaging enhancements, which
reduce the number of installable entities and separate features.
Performance/Capacity enhancements extend the size of the
Databases, the Unit Control Blocks (UCBs) into virtual storage and
the number of System Identifiers, and improve performance of IMS
Data Base Recovery Control (DBCTL) facility, DBCTL commit and
data sharing. Network Computing enhancements include Distributed
two-phase commit, Internet connectivity, APPC security, and
message retrieval for absent applications.

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SIS-West

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Problem: 24-hour Home Banking required redesign

into 24-hour database update with minor or no
change to existing applications
Solution: New design of IMS Fast Path Data Entry
Databases
Benefits: Legacy applications needed little or no
change, to allow:
Consistent reporting from on-line Databases
Reporting on any historical information for the given time period
Vertical view to the data (changes over time)
24 hour update of Databases

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 SIS West provides Savings bank services across Germany, handling
1000 transactions per second on 4 IMS systems. SIS West redesigned
their customer information system to run in production for almost 18
months without interruption. The database was about .4 Terabytes of
data, spread over 4 IMS systems. On-line changes are applied at any
time. Several hundred reports are taken per day, some of them are
based on final processing of the last day, others on last ultimo, or the
10th or the 20th of the month. Until June the customer allowed reporting
on the last year-end. Some reports are taken on the last position. New
applications are on development to deal with changes over time. A
second database is in pre-production process. This is the savings
account database, which is even larger. Due to the new technique,
gradually, manageable, changing to truly 24-hour operation is possible
without losing pace in a rapidly changing world. Hundreds (600-800) of
legacy programs would have been affected in a regular redesign.
Today, banks around the world are providing home banking to their
users. Credit Mutuel, in France, was one of the early users of home
banking. They had provided access for their customers to their IMS
applications and data with MQSeries Web solutions.

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Victoria

Dynamic Workload
Distribution

Challenge: Increase capacity to handle heavy

initial growth of application
workload; and allow for continuous
unlimited growth for the long run.
Solution: Full database sharing utilizing both
IMS and DB2 sharing capabilities;
and complementing this with
dynamic online transaction workload
distribution with Shared Queues.
Benefits:
Basis provided for unlimited growth
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 Victoria is a member merged into the ERGO group, the
second largest insurance group in Europe. They have a
centralized computer center in Dusseldorf, Germany, and
they are executing about 4.5 million IMS transactions each
day and serving over 8 million customers. The growth of
their application workload was about to outgrow the
capacity of their installed production base (H5 8- way). An
upgrade to a 10-way model would only have put off the
real issue -- how to deal in the long run with continuous,
unlimited growth. Among other possibilities, they decided
to go the way of full database-sharing utilizing both IMS
and DB2 sharing capabilities because of its unlimited
growth potential. To take full advantage of the new
Parallel sysplex architecture, this was logically the first of
two steps. Dynamic online transaction workload
distribution complements database sharing and is the
basis for the unlimited growth mentioned before.

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Delivering IMS Function
2H98
Sysplex Sharing IMS V6 VGR Enhanced
IMS V6 Open Database Access (ODBA)
IMS V6 OTMA Callable Interface
IMS Object Connector V2
Leveraging Java IMS TOC Connector for Java (in VAJava 2.0 for NT)
Improving Tools IMS Performance Analyzer V1 R2
IMS Y2K Exit (MFS)
IMS DBRC Secure
IMS Index Builder
IMS DB Control Suite
IMS Partition DB Version 2
IMS Parallel Change Accum
IMS Parallel Reorg
IMS Data Stream Tuner (for 3270 data streams)
IMS ETO Support Product

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 IBM had been providing a host of new function in the latter part of
1998 for IMS. These have included enhancements to IMS V6,
delivered through the service process, including VTAM Generic
Resources support enhanced to allow VTAM to own/manage the
affinities allowinh end users to logon to another IMS in the event of
failure, the Open Database Access (ODBA) facility with improved
IMS DB access from other subsystem and a Callable interface to the
Open Transaction Manager Access Facility (OTMA), new IMS
Systems Management Tools (IMS Performance Analyzer, replacing
IMS PARS and IMS ASAP with ease of use enhancements and R2
supporting Shared Queues; IMS Y2K Exit for correctly sequencing
date key segments; IMS DBRC Secure to secure DBRC assets; IMS
Index builder removing primary index rebuild restrictions; IMS DB
Control suite providing front-end to IMS base, IBM performance, and
third party utilities for reorg, recovery, and management of IMS
assets, and on-demand space monitor facilities; Partition DB V2
providing partitioned index support; and Parallel Change Accum
providing parallel operation of change accum), and new Java, Web
enablement, and object facilities, delivered across the web with the
IMS Connector for Java. And IBM continues to enhance its
object-oriented programming support for IMS.
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Middleware Subsystem Access
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Traditionally messages come into IMS through its SNA data communication protocol
from VTAM. With APPC/IMS support in Version 4, IMS took advantage of the new
Cross Coupling facility (XCF) to communicate with APPC/MVS. This was a software
facility that allowed MVS subsystems to communicate more efficiently.
With the IMS Version 5 Open Transaction Management Access (OTMA) facility, IMS
extended its use of XCF for use by other IBM subsystems, such as MQSeries, and the
new IMS TCP/IP OTMA Connection (TOC), providing them more efficient and richer
capabilities in accessing IMS. OTMA allows access to existing, unchanged IMS
applications on any IMS TM system on any MVS system of an MVS sysplex as well.
The recently available IMS OTMA Callable interface provides a high level interface
for access to IMS applications from other OS/390 subsystems. It presents an API to a
C or C++ program to enable access and execution of IMS transactions through the IMS
OTMA facilities. With this simple and easy-to-use interface, the invoker of the APIs can
submit a transaction or command to IMS from within the OS/390 environment without
the necessity of understanding the more technical protocols of the MVS Cross
Coupling Facility or the IMS OTMA. This enhancement makes OTMA easier to use,
providing a callable interface for other IBM subsystems, such as those of the
Component Broker technology, and for non-IBM subsystems as well.
The Open Database Access facility (ODBA), for easier database access, has also
been recently provided. ODBA can be used for enhanced IMS Database access by
other OS/390 subsystems, such as DB2 Stored Procedures. DB2 Stored Procedures
can now access IMS DB data as well as DB2 data. Through DB2 Stored Procedures,
and the IMS ODBA facility, IMS DB data could thus also be accessed more directly
across the web using Net.data.

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 AGF-SI Group

First in EMEA to implement

IMS TOC in production!

Challenge: Provide the quickest access to IMS transactions

from Thin client (less middleware than possible)

Solution: TCP/IP client access and Intranet access to

existing IMS transactions (2-tier implementation)

Benefits: Maximize value of existing S/390 investment in

IMS/DB2 applications and data

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 AGF-SI, a service company for the French Insurance group,
AGF, which operates in 36 countries worldwide. Besides the
continuous development of all information systems, AGF-SI is
also responsible for implementing advanced technologies that are
based on the network computing architecture. These projects
have strengthened the company's position in its industry.
AGF-SI's online activity is around 1.8 million transactions per day
(an average of 35 DL/I and 5 DB2 calls per transactions). AGF-SI
decided to minimize the number of software layers and hardware
platforms between the client and the IMS server using the IMS
TCP/IP OTMA Connection (TOC).
The IMS TOC provides enhanced communication linkages
between remote workstations and IMS utilizing the IMS Open
Transaction Manager Access (OTMA) facility. It supports multiple
TCP/IP clients accessing multiple IMS systems.
40% of online activity at AGF today is processed through the
IMS TOC to windows clients.

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IMS Connector for Java in VAJava

Accessing IMS from Java Applications:

Back-end Services
(IMS)

Java Application TCP/IP

using OS/390
IMS Connector
for Java
IMS

Other TCP/IP
IMS
clients XCF
Connect IMS
OTMA Application
Programs

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 IMS is exploiting the latest programming technologies for the
Internet and Java. This includes enablement of interactive and
multimedia applications in a simplified fashion. With Java, users can
transparently download and seamlessly run applications. It is
becoming widely used and is platform independent.
IBM is also providing a Common Connector Framework with a set
of common, consistent Java interfaces that connectors for any
subsystem can and are implementing, making it easier for
programmers not to worry about the differences between those
subsystems. For such, IMS has provided an IMS Connector for Java
in the VA Java Enterprise Edition Version 2.0. By being compliant
with the Common Connector Framework, IMS Connector for Java
can be used in any component server environment that supports the
Common Connector Framework.
This can be used for the runtime environment of a Java Application.
When a user executes the application and provides the appropriate
input data, IMS Connector for Java within the Java Applications will
establish a TCP/IP connection with IMS TOC on the host. IMS TOC
will then forwards the transaction request to IMS OTMA (the Open
Transaction Manager Access Facility provided initially with IMS V5),
using MVS's XCF (Cross-system Coupling Facility) and sends the
output back to the IMS Connector for Java.
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 IMS Connector for Java in VA Java

Accessing IMS from Java Servlets in WebSphere:

Back-end Services
(IMS)
Web Server +
WebSphere
Web Browser
Application Server
OS/390

TCP/IP IMS

IMS
Connector XCF IMS
TOC
Servlets OTMA Application
Programs

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In the servlet runtime environment, a user can invoke the
HTML page using the web browser and put in the input
data. The request will be sent to the webserver and the
corresponding servlet will invoked by the WebSphere
application server. The servlet will then use the IMS
Connector for Java to establish and connect with IMS, and
invoke the requested transaction with the input data
through IMS TOC.
The output result will be handed back to the IMS
Connector for Java in the servlet via IMS TOC and send to
the output HTML page by the web server.
Development on NT can thus be deployed in any
WebSphere environment.

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IMS Tools 1999 Product Portfolio
Data Management - HP Utilities & Aids IMS System Extensions
DBT: (5685-093) DBRC Secure (5697-D87)
SMU - HD Pointer Checker
HSSR - High Speed Unload HD Compression-Extended (5655-085)
FRR - High Speed Reload Partition DB (5697-D85)
LMU - Library Management Tools
FACB - Fast Acbgen Y2K Exit (5697-E04)
Zapper - VSAM Zapper Performance Management Tools
Fast Prefix Resolution
IMS PA - Performance Analyzer (5697-B89)
SDO - Seq DAM Optimizer
DRCF - Dynamic Res Ctl Facility (5697-D14)
IPR - Parallel Reorg (5697-D13)
Unload Application Development, Cntl, Test
Reload
Index Builder BTS - Batch Terminal Simulator (5655-A14)
Fast Scan
Fast Prefix Resolution Backup and Recovery
IMS Index Builder (5697-C33) DBT: (5685-093)
ICE - IC w Pointer Checker & Compression
TM Management - Utilities & Aids Recovery Saver (5655-A68)
DST - Data Stream Tuner (5697-D69) Parallel Change Accum (5697-E32)
ETO Support (5697-D68) Fast Path - Utilities and Aids
DBT: (5685-093)
MRQ - Message ReQueuer (5655-136)
DEDB UR -Unload/Reload
WLR - Workload Router (5697-B87) DEDB PC -Pointer Checker
DEDB TA -Tuning Aid
Database Administration Fast Recover - Fast Path Recovery (5655-109)
Control Suite (5697-D15)
DBICF (5697-B92)

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 IBM has been providing a wide range of price/performance,
competitive Systems Management tools for IMS. The tools
provide support for speeding up and reporting on
performance, extend the functions of and assist with testing
of IMS, and provide system tools for querying, validating,
managing, and tuning the IMS Database. These include for
example tools necessary to maintain and repair databases.
Many tools serve multiple purposes. IBM offers tool
functionality like IMS Control Suite that is not available from
any other vendor. IBM offers high performance tools that are
competitive within the industry at an affordable price. In fact
when taken together "price/performance and functionality",
IBMs IMS tool can be considered the best in the industry.

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with performance, availability, simplicity

Solution: Replace existing Tools with IBM IMS Tools

Benefits: IMS DBT Fast Unload (HSSR) is faster

IMS DBT Fast Reorg Reload is faster for
HIDAM databases
IMS Index Builder is faster
Bonus of IMS Partition DB and still saved
money
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 Tucson Medical Center (TMC) conducted benchmarks between
IBM's Database Tools and competitive Top of the Line tools.
TMC was interested in evaluating IBM tools because of a
concern over the cost of competitive tools. The challenge given
to IBM was to prove that we had "comparable" performance and
could meet TMC's reorg batch window times.
TMC's benchmark results showed successful performance. In
addition, the extra bonus that TMC received was to implement
IMS Partition DB to solve their data capacity and availability
issues. Even with obtaining extra tools, TMC still saved money
with IBM solutions.
To quote, Tucson Medical's conclusion was, "IBM delivers cost
savings and improved availability."

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Delivering IMS Function
1999

IMS V5/V6 Refresh

Tivoli Performance Reporter for OS/390
Systems Automation/390 IMS Feature
IMS V6 support via SA/390 service stream
IMS Classic Connect V2 for NT/AIX
Net.Commerce V3.1.2 for OS/390
IMS Dynamic Resource Control Facility
IMS V5/6 Database Fiber Optic Channel Support
IMS V6 Extended Recovery Control Coordination

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 Earlier this year, IMS V5 and V6 were refreshed for easier installation and
serviceability of enhancements.
The Tivoli Performance Reporter for OS/390 V1.4 became available offering
centralized systems reporting over the enterprise, valuable in performance
reporting, capacity management, service-level management, and accounting,
and providing even easier access to enterprise-wide IMS data, via the new
Viewer, a Java interface that allows graphical and tabular representations of
Performance Reporter data from any desktop environment.
The IMS feature of the Systems Automation/390 product (providing single
operations point of control for IMS) was updated to support IMS V6.
In April we provided a new version of the IMS Classic Connect product.
In addition for web enabling commerce we have announced a new release of
Net.Commerce for OS/390 which provides access to IMS applications and data.
In keeping with our direction to continue to enhance our IMS Tools, we made
available the Dynamic Resource Control Facility, an online monitor that puts
comprehesive resource information at your fingertips and helps you spot and
resolve potential problems before they become critical.
IBM also delivered IMS DB support for the S/390 Fiber Channel, the new high
performance I/O channel being delivered with the new processors. FICON is a
fully compatible evolution of parallel and ESCON channels and provides both
improved I/O rates as well as additional bandwidth.
We are also providing IMS XRC Coordination to help synchronize IMS and
DB2 data in an Remote Site Recovery environment. 42
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Challenge: Provide IMS customers with advanced data

integration and analysis capabilities leveraging
existing IMS data assets.
Solution: DataJoiner Classic Connect, DB2 Spatial Extender,
DataPropagator technologies
Benefit: New forms of analysis possible utilizing IMS
databases. Easily integrate IMS data with other
business data in the enterprise.
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 IMS has been providing Business Intelligence solutions with
Data Joiner's Classic Connect as well as with other data
replication/propagation tools, such as the IMS DataPropagator.
The IMS Data Propagator allows captured IMS database changes
to be propagated into a DB2 database and vice versa. This can
allow for consistent point in time data available across both
environments. The IMS Data Propagator can provide IMS
customers with advanced data integration and analysis
capabilities, while leveraging their existing IMS data assets.
Classic Connect 2.11 made available earlier this year provided
enhanced communication, data access and data mapping
functions for customers using relational queries to access IMS
and VSAM data. In conjunction with DataJoiner, users can, from
a variety of client platforms, submit a standard SQL query that
accesses IMS and VSAM data consistently with DB2 data. A
workstation end user can issue an SQL join across IMS, VSAM,
DB2 and non-IBM databases as well. Additional enhancements
are provided for performance, scalability, reliability, and security.
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IMS - Version 7
Enhancements
Enhance DB Recovery
Extend Large Data Base Support
Enhance Connectivity
Faster Restart with Multinode Persistent
Sessions
Continuous Availability
Systems Management
IMS IMS IMS
Performance/Capacity
Network Computing

Benefits
Enhanced Workload balancing
Increased availability
Enable customer growth investments
Preserve current application investments
Enabling new applications

Strategic, Open Access, S/390 Enterprise Server

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 To help all our customers with growth, availability, and systems
management, IMS Version 7 is being provided. It includes the new
Rapid Network Reconnect Facility, providing faster reconnect,
utilizing the facilities of VTAM's Multinode Persistent Sessions. IMS
is also providing enhanced support for database recovery, through
a new Online Recovery Service feature. And IMS is extending its
large database support and extending partitioning to other database
types. It also includes the new IMS Connect a new feature for
enhanced access to IMS through TCP/IP.
These enhancements, as well as additional support, is being
provided to continue improvement in availability, systems
management, performance/capacity and for optimizing use of IMS
in enterprise and distributed computing environments.

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IMS V7 High Availability Large DB Support
for IMPROVED CAPACITY
DB Name = MASTER
Master DB Name: MASTER
TYPE=HDAM
TYPE= HDAM
TYPE=PHDAM
TYPE= PHDAM
Partitions: PART1, PART2, PART3

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DS1 DS2 A B ILDS

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A B ILDS
A B ILDS
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Objective:
Extend IMS DB Full Function database size
Provide data availability through partition
independence.
Provide smaller subsetting of the database
making it easier to manage.
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 High Availability Large Data Base (HALDB) support allows
for 1001 partitions to a max capacity of 40 gigabyte each.
This means you can have over 40 Terabytes OSAM and
VSAM databases. That would be 20,000 3390 devices. This
works out to 6600 bytes for each person on earth. This
compares to V5/6 when we just expanded to allow 8-gigabyte
databases
This support also allows for a partition to be taken offline,
have something done to it and be independently brought back
online. This means each partition could be individually
unloaded and reloaded and while offline a batch reorg could
be done to on it. Or the entire database could be taken offline
and each partition could be reorged in parallel, greatly
speeding up the offline reorg process.

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IMS V7 Online Recovery Service Feature
for IMPROVED AVAILABILITY

DB DB2

Objective: To provide database recovery

processing in an online, IMS environment
while offering customers
Support for recovery from logs, simultaneous
and point in time recovery
Reduced time critical databases are
unavailable in case of failure without operation
and resource unavailability on an ongoing basis
and on all critical databases
Improved error recovery
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 The Online Recovery Service (ORS) is a separately
orderable/priced feature of IMS V7. This feature gives a
customer the ability to recover multiple database datasets
by reading log volumes in parallel and applying the
database changes to multiple database datasets
simultaneously. Recovery-related processing takes place
only when recovery is required. In addition, I/O overhead
for recovery is reduced. This feature also gives a customer
the ability to recover data bases to a 'point in time' which is
earlier than the last committed updates.

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IMS V7 Connect Feature for
IMPROVED SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT

Objective:
Improve performance with persistent sockets
Enhance usability with user exits and
asynchronous output support
Ease serviceability with Dump formatting
enhancements
Enhance manageability with SMP support

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 IMS Connect, a new separately priced feature of IMS V7, provides
enhanced IMS TCP/IP support. Enhancements include SMP installability,
as well as enhancements for performance, usability, and serviceability.
New functions being added to the IMS V7 Connect feature include:
-- Improved performance with persistent sockets.
Persistent sockets support eliminiates the connect and disconnect used
for each IMS transaction connection. The user has the option of
specifying how long the connection should remain in existence.
-- Enhanced usability with user exits and asynchronous output support.
Asynchronous output support allows IMS applications to direct output to
an IMS Connect client under client-code control as to when to request the
asynchronous output.
-- Eased serviceability with dump formatting enhancements.
Dump formatting aids in the debugging of problems.
-- Enhanced manageability with System Modification Program/Extended
(SMP/E) support. SMP/E is the standard software used to ease
installation and service of IMS.
Additional enhancements to TCP/IP support will be provided through the
IMS V7 Connect feature.

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 IMS Version 7
Availability Systems Management
Online Recovery Service Feature Connect feature
Rapid Network Reconnect Tivoli Readiness
Enhanced Shared Queues/FP ETO Autologon and Printer
sharing enhancements
SLUP session status SHQs Associated Printer suppo
RECON Upgrade/Coexistence RACF PassTicket
I/O toleration USERID/LTERM clarification
Fast Path MADS enhancements Deferred ACB open
MSC exit usability enhancement
Performance/Capacity Diagnostics/Serviceability
High Availability Large Database enhancements
support Compatibility enhancements
DB Fiber Channel support Installation enhancements
DBRC enhancements Commands enhancements
Large DBRC Recon Record support Migration
MSC Descriptor Limit
Additional Operator Information
New Exits
Logger enhancements
New execution parameters
ACBGEN capacity/perf enhancements
DBRC enhancements
Fast Path Monitor support
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 IMS V7 includes numerous other availability, performance and systems
management enhancements. To name a few:
Rapid Network Reconnect, utilizing the facilities of VTAMs Multinode
Persistent Sessions, permits IMS TM to automatically reconnect terminal
sessions following any kind of IMS failure and subsequent IMS restart,
thereby reducing network reconnect time after IMS, MVS or VTAM failure in a
sysplex environment. It provides fast terminal reconnect to IMS by eliminating
terminal logons and VTAM session startup traffic. IMS restart is required after
IMS failure.
Shared Queues and Fast Path sharing enhancements, utilizing the coupling
facility, provide asynchronous APPC/OTMA (open transaction manager
access facility) shared message queue enablement, additional client support
(multiple clients and additional client information and control), enable user
autologon for a printer when application output becomes available and
performance and miscellaneous enhancements to shared Fast Path
Expedited Message Handler "(EMH)" and Sequential Dependent Segments
(SDEPs).
IMS is being made Tivoli ready and enhancements are being provided for
management of IMS through the Tivoli Global Enterprise Manager, and the
Tivoli Manager for OS/390.
IMS Database Recovery Control (DBRC) enhancements improve
diagnostics information, improve Database integrity protection, eliminate
abends, provide large Recon record support, Recon loss notification, and
migration/coexistence.
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 The IMS Transaction and Database Server for S/390 is evolving to further
strengthen its support for Enterprise and Network Computing environments. As
IMS customers grow and utilize the Sysplex enviornment, IMS support would be
focusing on improved operations and Systems Management. Open access
continues to be expanded and enhanced, in particularly in the Java area. New
Technology as it evolves, such as XML, would continue to be exploited. For this
IMS continues to focus on performance, capacity, availability, security, integrity at
the lowest cost.

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Enhanced Sysplex/Systems Management

Enhancing
Data Sharing
Workload Sharing
Network Sharing
Operations

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 The IMS Transaction and Database Server for S/390 is evolving to further
strengthen its support for Sysplex for improvements in data, workload, and
network sharing. Transparent Terminal Recovery across Sysplex would be
provided to continued higher availability into the future.
Systems Management too has been a key area with IMS customers. Each
machine used to require its own console and operator. A single console and
operator can now be used for displaying and handling the multiple console
images for the multiple machines. Additional, consistent systems management
across systems is being provided with Tivoli.
IMS has focused traditionally on ensuring a single system image. It has
provided a single IMS MP image and has provided a single IMS image across
systems with MSC as well. Sysplex wide resource management has also
provided recent enhancements. IMS provides workload management
information and supports VTAM's Generic resources to help with the balancing
of work across the Sysplex. The IMS Automated operations interface too has
assisted with automated operations. In the future, IMS is providing additional
enhancements with Online Recovery Service, and later would be providing
Sysplex-wide Resource management and Sysplex-wide single image
operations.
Additionally, IMS has been providing continued enhancements to reduce the
installation efforts. In this regard, IMS would continue toward reduction of the
sysgen activity and an eventual genless system.
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IMS Java Roadmap
Enterprise
JavaBeans
Java support
application
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support

Client
access

CORBA
TCP/IP IIOP
SNA
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Runtime monitoring
IMS workload balancing

An evolutionary model...
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 IMS had provided initially the IMS Client for Java to help customers get started with Java.
Now, along with VisualAge Java, IMS provided the IMS Connector for Java -- beans (session
objects) for IMS access from a Java servlet, through Visual Age Java and the IMS TCP/IP
OTMA Connection (TOC). The IMS Connector for Java enables the use of visual tools in
generating Java applications with IMS access. Servlets could be created by the WebSphere
suite of tools and deployed in the WebSphere runtime environment. Connectors can be "wired"
into these servlets to provide remote access to Database, Transactional, and other back-end
applications. The Programmer wires the beans using VA Java, and uploads the wired
Navigator bean for servlet building. The Page Designer builds servlets using WebSphere
Application Server tools and uploads completed Servlet for producer to deploy. There are
many different Connectors shipped with WebSphere and VA Java. It is important that these
connectors fit into a consistent usage model to minimize differences that programmers deal
with to create servlets with remote system access. To this end, there are consistency
requirements and a Common Connection Framework specification to define Java interfaces
that Connectors are implementing to better fit with IDEs and VA JAVA EAB.
The Enterprise JavaBean Server and Container support is also being provided for scalable
runtime environment to execute a large number of these IMS and other session objects
concurrently. This support is being provided through Component Broker in conjunction with
WebSphere.
IMS would also provide distributed coordinated commit for the generated servlet application
with IMS applications and Java applications, running under IMS.
Java applications too could run under IMS control, accessing IMS DB and DB2 data.

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 Maintaining IMS High Availability

12
11%
10% Unscheduled outages
10 (LWSH)
9%
Significant Improvements Since 1993
8% Still Need to Address Application Bottlenecks
8
7%
50 hr/mth
6%
6 Application Bottlenecks, Batch Image Copies
5% Full Function Reorgs
Percent to go 4%
4
to full 7x24 Total outage
3% Scheduled outages
(out of <1% per year
6 hr/yr
356/24 2%
2
=8760 hr/yr) 9 hr/mth
1%

Full 7x24

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 In looking at what IMS has offered its customers, high availability
has always been very key to IMS customers. Since 1993, one
customer has been driving down their planned and unplanned
outage to less than 1% per year. Most of the scheduled outages
have been taken care of. The bulk of what remains in scheduled
outages is from application bottlenecks, batch image copies, and full
function transaction reorganization activity.

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Availability Improvements thru Defect
Reduction

Continuous Review of Defects Escaping Test

Earliest Possible Vendor Involvement and Product Cycle

Integrated System Evaluation Testing in POK to GA

Ongoing Integrated Test in POK Parallel Enablement Lab after GA

Expanded Regression Testing of Fixes

Past Future
Present

Defect Reduction
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 Significant ongoing work to reduce defects has been going on to
improve the unscheduled outages and improve availability That work
has included continuous review of defects escaping test, early vendor
involvement, integrated system evaluation test in POK before GA,
ongoing integrated test in their Parallel Enablement Lab after GA, and
expanded regression testing of fixes. This reduces any
customer-seen problems and speeds up their installation process, as
well as ensures continued improvement of availability in production.

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 End-to-End Performance

IMS Serving Mission-critical

Applications and Data Access
across the Enterprise and
Transaction and Data access per over the Internet
second

Achieved thru enhancements

across the IBM product line.

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 In web computing the system must match capacity to business
requirements on an as-needed basis and provide an easy growth
path, minimize downtime and provide quick return on investment.
These are available with IMS and the S/390. Recent
enhancements have included improvements to the processing of
requests, yielding overall increases in throughput. Performance
improvements, higher bandwidth networking, and numerous
other enhancements continue to make IMS and the S/390 a
powerful, flexible system for growth in web serving as well as the
rest of mission critical work.
IMS solutions exploit the security, performance, and other
facilities of the S/390 to optimize performance. Testing with IMS
TOC and with the IMS Connector for Java have demonstrated
very high transactions rates.

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 Cost of Computing Evolution

Console
w/Operators
per Machine
100
Control with
Multiple
80 Console
Images
Single
Operation Operation
using
60 3GL Enhanced Application
Automation System Software/Hardware
Appl
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Development
Middleware
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Development

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CMOS
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Past Present Future
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 IMS has significantly helped contribute to bringing down the
Cost of Computing. IMS operational and other systems
management improvements have continued to bring down the
costs of operations.
Enhanced IMS Middleware and Object Oriented
Programming has helped lower the application costs.
Focus now continues to help with the Application costs utilizing
Java.
And by exploiting the new CMOS technology and other
advances in technology in the hardware and operating
systems, IMS has helped lower the systems software/hardware
costs.

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IMS: Powering e-business for the 21st
Century

Transforming
core business processes with
emerging technologies using IMS

Leveraging Building
existing new
investment of IMS applications
knowledge for IMS
& information

Running
mission-critical programs in a scalable,
available, safe environment with IMS
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 You enter the e-business cycle at any point -- focusing on leveraging your
existing knowledge and information, transforming your core business
processes, building new applications, and running a scalable, available,
safer environment. You use existing data to sharpen decision making and
responsiveness. You prioritize which processes and applications need to be
extended. You build new reusable applications integrated with existing ones.
And you maximize deployment on secure platforms. And for each of these
elements of the cycle, we are providing you the IMS solutions that you will
need to help make all this work easily. Built on the power of the S/390,
billions of dollars worth of IMS applications have been developed to run your
mission-critical work in a safe environment with IMS. If you have money in a
bank, feed, house, clothe your family, or protect them with health or
insurance services, use educational or government information, etc., most
of the information about this is kept securely in IMS databases, accessed
through high performance IMS transactions and rapidly being processed
across the internet for wider use. IBM will continue to invest heavily in IMS
to enhance IMS to meet the stringent requirements of its customers -- to
help them transform their core business processes with emerging
technologies using IMS. Exploiting the latest in technologically-advanced
hardware and software, IMS will help customers achieve new levels of
price-performance and, at the same time, leverage their exiting investment
in skills and applications for access across the internet.

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