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.
Whether you've spent a career running IMS and you need to quickly master IBM IMS Version 9, or perhaps you're among the thousands of IT professionals who 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.
Chapter 1 IMS : then and now
Chapter 2 Overview of the IMS product
Chapter 3 Accessing IMS
Chapter 4 IMS and z/OS
Chapter 5 Setting up and running IMS
Chapter 6 Overview of the IMS database manager
Chapter 7 Overview of the IMS hierarchical database model
Chapter 8 Implementing the IMS hierarchical database model
Chapter 9 Data sharing
Chapter 10 The database reorganization process
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