Virtual IMS User Group

Sponsored by:

The Virtual IMS user group is free to its members.

We are pleased that BMC Software is able to help us maintain the independence and existence of this group.

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We are looking for additional co-sponsors for the Virtual IMS user group.

The user group has been in existence since 2007 and is well-respected among users of IMS. The user group gives its sponsors an opportunity to show that they are working with, and helping to build, the IMS user community.

Currently, the user group meets six times a year with a presentation filling most of the meeting. In the other months, members receive a newsletter. And there is a Facebook page, a Twitter feed, and a LinkedIn group keeping members up-to-date with information about new products or product updates, and articles about IMS.

Virtual IMS Articles and Blogs

Moving to OSAM encryption: the easy way to get more IMS database security

Paul Gandolfo

7 March, 2023
IBM Z and LinuxONE Community

Avoiding downtime, bottlenecks, and other dramas with better IMS Connect workload routing

Adam Limbert

3 March, 2023
The Db2 Portal Blog

Curious how IMS 15.3 performs on the new IBM z16 platform?

Amanda Stephens and Justin Soe

9 February, 2023
IBM Z and LinuxONE Community

Introducing the IMS Connect ALTPCB Output Enhancement!

Jack Yuan and Sanjay Kaliyur

28 November, 2022
IBM Z and LinuxONE Community

Introducing the new IMS Connect send-only with error protocol!

Bill Huynh and Sanjay Kaliyur

1 August, 2022
IBM Z and LinuxONE Community

Writing IMS Applications Using PL/I and Java Interoperability

Joseph Leamon

13 July, 2022
IBM Z and LinuxONE Community

IMS Support for Z Security and Compliance Center

Sanjay Kaliyur

21 June, 2022
IBM Z and LinuxONE Community

zDDL - an easy peazy way to submit IMS DDL

Deepak Kohli

21 June, 2022
IBM Z and LinuxONE Community

Rediscover why enterprises trust IMS DB to manage their critical data

Mario Perotti

21 June 2022
IBM Z and LinuxONE Community

Amplify your enterprise with IMS TM

Mario Perotti

21 June, 2022
IBM Z and LinuxONE Community

IMS database: versatile, powerful, and still running the world

Deepak Kohli

20 June, 2022
IBM Z and LinuxONE Community

Starter IMS and JVM Dashboards available for OMEGAMON Data Provider

James Porell

1 June, 2022
IBM Z and LinuxONE Community

Can IMS Connect to the Outside World?

Trevor Eddolls

21 April 2022
TechChannel

IMS and JVM streaming via OMEGAMON Data Provider now available

James Porell

16 March 2022
IBM Z and LinuxONE Community

Is your IMS restart taking too long? Could it be hung?

Michelle Carey

4 March, 2022
IBM Z and LinuxONE Community

Go ahead. Be picky! Import only the DBDs and PSBs that you want

Michelle Carey

4 March, 2022
IBM Z and LinuxONE Community

IMS 15 Managed ACB Enhancement: OPTION(NOCHECK) to IMPORT DEFN SOURCE(CATALOG)

Michelle Carey

2 March, 2022
IBM Z and LinuxONE Community

Good news! 31-bit COBOL can now talk to 64-bit Java in IMS

Carlos Alvarado

16 February 2022
IBM Z and LinuxONE Community

Go ahead, store more data in IBM IMS DEDB databases ... up to 40 terabytes of data!

Michelle Carey

10 February 2022
IBM Z and LinuxONE Community

What happens when you pair z/OS Connect with IMS?

Richard Antikoll

8 February 2022
IBM Z and LinuxONE Community

How Does IMS 15.2 Performance Stack Up Compared to IMS 15.1?

Richard Antikoll

22 November 2021
IBM Z and LinuxONE Community

Want to significantly reduce Application Trace Facility CPU usage?

Vitali Mints

30 September 2021
IBM Z and LinuxONE Community

Performance Enhancement for IMS TM and Db2 Customers Using RACF

Sanjay Kaliyur

2 July 2021
IBM Z and LinuxONE Community

More On IMS Usage

Subhasish Sarkar

27 March 2021
Planet Mainframe

An Introduction to IBM IMS OTMA

Subhasish Sarkar

29 January 2021
TechChannel

Understanding IMS OTMA Commit Mode and Synchronization

Subhasish Sarkar

25 January 2021
TechChannel

Assessing IBM® IMS™ OSAM encryption performance

Jasdeep Singh

Updated 21 January 2021
IBM Z and LinuxONE Community

A Simple Way to Enhance IMS Database Dynamic Segment Layouts

Carlos Alvarado

Updated 16 January 2021
IBM Z and LinuxONE Community

Understanding How a ‘CM0 SL1’ Input Message Sent to IMS Connect Works in the Case of a Client NAK

Subhasish Sarkar

15 January 2021
TechChannel

Data Privacy for Diagnostics: Securing Diagnostics for IMS

Sanjay Kaliyur

16 December 2020
IBM Z and LinuxONE Community

IMS Support for z/OS Workload Interaction Correlator

Sanjay Kaliyur

16 December 2020
IBM Z and LinuxONE Community

Pushing the Limits of Modern Security: Pervasive Encryption for IMS OSAM Databases

Sanjay Kaliyur

15 December 2020
IBM Z and LinuxONE Community

Farewell to the IMS DevCenter

Greg Summers

10 November 2020
IBM Z and LinuxONE Community

Manage IMS performance spikes

James Porell

12 June 2020
IBM Z and LinuxONE Community

Announcing the new IBM z/OS IMS collection to manage middleware components using Ansible

Haley Fung

28 May 2020
IBM Z and LinuxONE Community

How to provision an IMS DB/TM system with the IBM z/OS Provisioning Toolkit

Eric Su

20 May 2019
z Systems Developer Community

Curious about IMS RFEs?

Jasminder Singh

2 June 2017
LinkedIn

Evolution of IMS to a complete Enterprise solution: White paper

Vinodh Kumar Natanasigamani

IMSPLEX Implementation Considerations

www.dbazine.com

When Bad Things Happen to Good Messages

Robert Blackhall

www.dbazine.com

Virtual IMS User Group

Sponsored by:

The Virtual IMS user group is free to its members.

We are pleased that BMC Software is able to help us maintain the independence and existence of this group.

Sponsorship opportunity

We are looking for additional co-sponsors for the Virtual IMS user group.

The user group has been in existence since 2007 and is well-respected among users of IMS. The user group gives its sponsors an opportunity to show that they are working with, and helping to build, the IMS user community.

Currently, the user group meets six times a year with a presentation filling most of the meeting. In the other months, members receive a newsletter. And there is a Facebook page, a Twitter feed, and a LinkedIn group keeping members up-to-date with information about new products or product updates, and articles about IMS.