IMS Connect Extensions for z/OS

• Do you need to access IBM IMS databases over the internet?
• Are you looking to increase the return on your IBM Connect investment?
• Would your IMS system administrators like to be able to provide comprehensive event recording and performance monitoring for IMS Connect?
• Is dynamic workload balancing, simplified problem determination, streamlined performance tuning and customization just a few of the things you’d like to have with your current IMS Connect environment?

IBM IMS Connect Extensions is IBM's premier TCP/IP access product, enabling On Demand Business applications to access IBM IMS databases over the Internet. IMS Connect Extensions for z/OS increase the return on your IBM Connect investment. The product speeds and simplifies problem determination; streamlines performance tuning and customization; and improves the manageability, availability, and security of IMS Connect. IMS Connect Extensions does this by providing comprehensive event recording and performance monitoring for IMS Connect, centralized operational management, dynamic workload balancing, and additional security facilities.

Just a few of the Version 2.1 enhancements include an interface for issuing IMS Connect commands and viewing the responses: Issue key IMS Connect commands from the IMS Connect Extensions status monitor or from a command shell; Configure granular access security for IMS Connect commands; and Identify and then stop long IMS Connect client sessions. In addition, it provides a new utility that allows users to create and modify in batch, all IMS Connect Extensions definitions.

IBM IMS Connect Extensions is IBM’s premier TCP/IP access product, enabling On Demand Business applications to access IBM IMS databases over the Internet. It provides:

• Ability to Analyze problems and optimize performance by recording key IMS Connect events
• Improve system security with flexible access control
• Simplify the deployment of WebSphere and SOAP clients
• Create detailed IMS Connect reports in conjunction with IBM’s IMS Performance Analyzer for z/OS
• Sole IMS Connect problems in conjunction with IBM’s IMS Problem Investigator for z/OS
• View graphical real-time reports of TCP/IP activity with IBM’s OMEGAMON XE for IMS on z/OS

Program number: 5655-S56
Application Management

IMS Connect IMS Performance Analyzer IMS Problem Investigator

IMS Connect Extensions operates with any of the currently available and supported IMS versions.

IMS Connect Extensions operates on any hardware configuration that supports the required versions of IMS

For more information on system requirements, see the Program Directory on the Library page.