IMS and SOA High Availability and Workload Balancing

With the ever-increasing options to integrate IMS into an SOA world, care must be taken to ensure that the proper decisions are made for scalability, backup, and failure scenarios. This session explains and compares different options including DVIPA, Sysplex Distributor, IMS Connect Datastore routing, and the use of aliases with ODBM to manage workload requests for IMS resources. Suzie M. Wendler, IBM Corporation