Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Monday, August 29, 2011
I blogged about IBM’s IMS (Information Management System) at the end of July, saying that it has been around since 1968 and originated as a bill-of-materials program for NASA’s Apollo programme. I said that IMS effectively comes in two parts – there’s the Transaction Manager (TM) part and the Data Base (DB) part. I talked about different types of database, and I mentioned the Virtual IMS user group at www.fundi.com/virtualims.
Today I want to pose the questions: how much does an IMS development/test system cost? And how many development test systems does a site typically have installed?
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Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Sunday, July 24, 2011
IBM’s IMS (Information Management System) has been around since 1968 and originated as a bill-of-materials program for NASA’s Apollo programme. So why are so many Fortune 500 companies still using it today? Isn’t it “your dad’s technology” and completely inadequate for today’s tasks? Well, the answer is a resounding NO!
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Posted by Mike on Friday, June 17, 2011
BMC Software said Friday it has acquired a range of IMS (information management system) database software and related customers from Neon Enterprise Software, which recently lost a legal battle with IBM over a mainframe-related product called zPrime. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Neon’s IMS tools help mainframe users manage and keep up IMS database installations. Their addition to BMC’s existing lineup of mainframe software will create “the broadest and most comprehensive” IMS toolset in the industry, BMC said in a statement.
The deal follows last month’s settlement of a long-running legal dispute between Neon and IBM over zPrime.
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Posted by Mike on Sunday, February 13, 2011
Now I’m not here to tell you what software to buy and what to ignore, but if you haven’t had a look at IBM’s Transactional Analysis Workbench software yet, I think you should. It’s one of those pieces of software that kind of joins up the dots and allows you to see the bigger picture when you thought there was a performance problem. It can help identify performance issues in one subsystem – CICS, IMS, DB2, MQ, or even z/OS itself – when the symptoms of the problem are appearing in a completely different subsystem.
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Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Sunday, January 16, 2011
With so much of IBM’s software now in its 40s, it’s no wonder that using it requires quite a lot of knowledge. And many people have developed a whole range of nifty tips and tricks that they can use when things go wrong or to help make things work better. That’s where user groups come in. A user group provides an opportunity for people to share their hints and tips with others, and, in return, learn some tried-and-tested new ones.
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Posted by Mike on Saturday, November 6, 2010
Here’s a place to find free Online IBM Reference Manuals for Mainframe Cobol, Batch Processing, Online Processing, Tools, Editors, Utilities, Databases and Messages. I’m sure there are probably others, so feel free to leave comments.
IBM Mainframe Manuals for VS COBOL II, IBM COBOL, Enterprise COBOL, MVS JCL, OS/390 JCL, z/OS JCL, TSO, ISPF, SDSF, DFSORT, ICETOOL, CLIST, REXX, PL/I, CICS/ESA, CICS/TS, DB2, DB2/UDB, IMS, SQL Codes, Abend Codes, ErrorCodes, System Messages, SOC errors, CICS Abends etc…
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Posted by Mike on Wednesday, January 27, 2010
They run under operating systems like CICS and IMS.” There was a time when there was a big difference between these enterprise systems and the PC and Web applications that Silicon Valley entrepreneurs build. …
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