IMS Project Mission and Goals

The mission of the IMS project is to improve members effectiveness by fostering an atmosphere of information sharing with a focus on all aspects of IMS and its interactions with the Enterprise Information Environment. To this end, the project:

• Schedules sessions to provide valuable education from IBM, other vendors and users
• Schedules sessions in response to attendee requests
• Schedules forums to allow for information interchange
• Influences SHARE, IBM and other vendors based upon member input

Our goals are:

• Increase the knowledge and effectiveness of member IMS technical people
• Increase members' awareness of industry trends and directions with regard to IMS connectivity and use
• from other platforms.
• Communicate members tactical and strategic concerns to SHARE and IBM
• Assist IBM in improving current and future products.

In order to achieve these goals, the IMS Project:

• Focuses on the technical requirements necessary to support an IMS system, particularly in the on-line environment. Support comprises IMS system installation and generation, IMS system maintenance, IMS performance and tuning, IMS operations, application support, SOA, Web 2.0, and other emerging technologies. 
• Is concerned with the interfaces to IMS/TM. These include: APPC, TCP/IP, OTMA, MQSeries, IMS Connect, JAVA, XML, SOAP, and the WEB among others. 
• Is concerned with the data management aspects of IMS/DB, including DBCTL, ODBA, HALDB and partitioned databases, and DB2 Stored Procedures. New in this area is JDBC, the storage of XML in IMS databases, and support of XQuery. This includes how data is defined, documented and stored; the manner in which programs ask for data; methods of administering data, the integrity of data and the tools (both hardware and software) used to perform these functions.
• Attempts to foster good and strong working relationships with IBM and other vendors’ development and technical support teams to help ensure their strong participation at SHARE.

IMS Project Sessions in San Jose

IMS Sessions for San Jose

IMS Project Web Links

These are selected sites on the World Wide Web that we believe will be of interest to those interested in IMS:

IMS Sessions from SHARE in Orlando 
IBM IMS Home Page 
IBM IMS Quarterly Newsletter 
IBM Dallas Systems Center IMS Technical Flashes 

IMS Listserv
IMS Redbooks

Project Officers

The following volunteers are responsible for coordinating the activities of the IMS Project. If you wish to contact any of these individuals click on the mailto link in the list below and you will be presented with a web page on which you can compose a short e-mail note.

We are especially interested in any sessions that you would like to see at future SHARE meetings. Please direct them to the Project Manager.