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First printing, March 2012 ISBN-13: 978-0-13-288687-1 ISBN-10: 0-13-288687-1 [...]... via IMS Connect for one customer • IMS manages over 375 million accounts for one customer IMS and Enterprise Integration Today’s IT architecture requires end -to- end integration across the enterprise and with key partners, suppliers, and customers Such an architecture enables enterprises to respond with flexibility and speed to any customer demand, any market opportunity, and any external threat This level... challenged American industry to send an American man to the moon and return him safely to earth, thus launching the Apollo program North American Aviation, in partnership with IBM, fulfilled the requirement for an 1 2 Chapter 1 IMS: From Apollo to Enterprise automated system to manage large bills of material for the construction of the spacecraft in 1965 In 1966, the IBM and North American Aviation teams... control IMS as a Transaction Manager IBM developed an online component to ICS/DL/I to support data communication access to the databases The DL/I callable interface was expanded to the online component of the product to enable data communication transparency to the application programs A message queue function was developed to maintain the integrity of data communication messages and to provide for scheduling... Stansel, and Terry Carroll of IBM, and Bernard Goodman, Michelle Housley, and Andy Beaster of Pearson Education, for their guidance and patient assistance in the creation of this book • Clark Gussin, Visual Designer at IBM, for his assistance with the illustrations in this book • Don Streicher, Dean Meltz, Suzie Wendler, Kevin Hite, and other members of the IBM IMS organizations for their input to the... Adapter, and the IMS Universal drivers IMS Enterprise Suite SOAP Gateway enables IMS applications to provide and request web services independent of platform, environment, application language, or programming model • Integrated Integration has always been an IMS priority IMS ships connectors and tooling with IBM WebSphere® solutions so that customers can connect to IMS applications and data by using the tools... - IMS Advanced Technical Skills, consults on IMS connectivity, IMS application modernization and System z integration architectures, and presents IMS topics at technical conferences and seminars • Diane Lynne Goff, IBM IMS Advanced Technical Skills Senior I/T Specialist, has presented IMS topics at technical conferences and seminars, worked with IMS customers, and provided System z hardware and software... than 20 years of her IBM career working with IMS and IMS Tools, testing IMS software, teaching IMS basics, and marketing IMS Tools • John Butterweck, IBM Worldwide IMS Technical Support Team member, specializes in assisting customers with IMS installation and maintenance • Sandra L Sherrill, IMS Worldwide Market Manager, has spent more than 20 years working on IMS teams Preface IBM® Information Management... addressed by an infrastructure that meets the following requirements: • Based on open standards IMS fully supports Java standards for application development and XML for transparent document interchange • Heterogeneous IMS applications can be developed on workstations and run in the host environment IMS applications and data can be accessed from any platform, including Linux®, almost anywhere on the... input and efforts of many people, some of whom are listed here Our wholehearted thanks go to all who participated in and supported this project, particularly to the following people: • Dean Meltz, Rick Long, Mark Harrington, Robert Hain, and Geoff Nicholls for the information in the IMS Primer and the first edition of this book, which was the foundation for this second edition • Susan Visser, Steve Stansel,... the IMS Transaction Manager: Data Communications), these components comprise a complete online transaction and database processing environment that provides continuous availability and data integrity IMS delivers accurate, consistent, timely, and critical information to application programs, which in turn deliver the information to many end users and programs IMS has been developed to provide an environment . Management An SOA Approach to Managing Core Information By Allen Dreibelbis, Eberhard Hechler, Ivan Milman, Martin Oberhofer, Paul Van Run, and Dan. im- mense potential of business intelligence (BI) and its impact upon many facets within the organization–but it’s not easy to transform BI’s potential into