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IMS, IBM's Premier Transaction and Database Managers for critical online applications

Enables you to reuse your existing and new IT investment for SOA, provides business flexibility, eases new application development, manageability and reduces TCO.

• IMS Transaction Management system provides technological leadership to communicate with the network; manages input/output processing and security; provides message queuing, formatting, logging and recovery; and ensures scheduling, execution, and checkpoint/restart of online and batch message and data processing programs.
• IMS Database Management system organizes the data in different structures to optimize storage and retrieval, and ensure integrity and recovery.
• IMS 10 enhancements help you with Information On Demand business enablement, growth, availability, and systems management that today's and future environments and cost measures require.
• Integrated, open access with enhanced XML and Web services connectivity, and broadened Java and XML tooling to ease development
• IMS 9 enhancements include broadened access with JavaTM and XML enhancements and storage of XML data in IMS databases and Integrated IMS Connect function.
• IMS 8
• IMS 7

Product framework

Included components IMS Connection Function Enables easier access to IMS applications and data from the Internet Additional tool(s) IBM DB2 and IMS Tools Tools to enhance IMS performance and management IMS SOA Integration Suite IMS SOA Tools and functions for integration and on demand environments

Additional products, services and solutions

Services IMS Control Center Distributed graphical user interface for IMS operations