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IMS Connect improves IMS TCP/IP access and enables easier access to IMS applications and data from the Internet. The functions provided by IMS Connect are indispensable for any IMS shop implementing an on demand business strategy. IMS Connect provides high performance communications for IMS, connecting one or more TCP/IP clients or local OS/390 or z/OS clients with one or more IMS systems. IMS Connect includes the following functions:
- Provides commands to manage the communication environment.
- Assists with workload balancing.
- Reduces design and coding efforts for client applications.
- Offers easier on demand business access to IMS applications and operations with advanced security and transactional integrity.
- Supports the IBM-supplied client, IMS TM resource adapter, which allows you to rapidly create and run Java applications that access IMS transactions from the Internet through IMS Connect.
The functionality of IMS Connect has been provided as IMS Connect V2.2, a separately priced tool offered by IBM DB2 and IMS Tools. This functionality has also been integrated with IMS Version 9. Recent enhancements improve manageability, usability, and performance, as well as provide support for IMS Connect Extensions for z/OS, a separately priced tool that enhances performance and availability reporting for the IMS Connect tool and the integrated IMS Connect functionality of IMS Version 9. You can find more information about the integrated IMS Connect function of IMS version 9 in either the IMS Version 9 Release Planning Guide or the IMS Version 9 IMS Connect Guide and Reference, both of which are available from the DB2 Information Managment Software Information Center. You can find more information about the IMS Connect V2.2 tool on the IBM DB2 and IMS Tools IMS Connect page.
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