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 More Details

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 Resources

Recordings

October 2023

System z (Mainframe) as the Enterprise Information Server

Stan Muse
Consulting Services Account Manager
Edge Solutions and Consulting

August 2023

What IBM Z Cyber Vault means for an IMS environment

Tracy Dean
Product Manager
IMS Tools, and z/VM Tools IBM

June 2023

Simplifying IMS Performance Problem Identification and Determination

James Martin
Senior Solutions Advisor
Rocket Software

April 2023

Mainframe Systems (IMS, CICS, etc) As Clients in the New World

Dusty Rivers
Senior Director
US Systems Z at Mainline Information Systems

February 2023

Lessons Learned—IMS Application Modernization to the Cloud

Scott Quillicy
Senior Director
Precisely

December 2022

Distributed access to IMS via Java

Joseph Leamon
IMS Software Engineer (UDB) at IBM and Mahmood Abuzaina,
Software Engineer at IBM

October 2022

Provision your databases in modern ways

Radek Mrvec
Staff Software Engineer
Mainframe at Broadcom Software

August 2022

What's New with IMS Performance Solution Pack

James Martin
Senior zSolutions Advisor
System Z, at Rocket Software

June 2022

Ansible and IMS: Part II - Getting started with the Ansible IMS collection

Haley Fung
IBM Product Manager for IMS and Ansible for Z

April 2022

How to use IMS log records to investigate transaction response time

Loc Tran
Lead Software Developer
BMC Software

February 2022

IMS as a client in the new world

Dusty Rivers
Director, z Systems
Adaptigent

December 2021

Ansible and IMS: Automate IMS with Red Hat Ansible Certified Content for IBM Z

Haley Fung
IBM Product Manager for IMS and Ansible for Z

October 2021

Overview of Fast Path DEDBs

Karen N Tischer
DBA IMS Education & Consulting, Instructor/Consultant

August 2021

From Legacy to Infinity & Beyond

Dougie Lawson

June 2021

Making IMS the most secure system on the planet

Al Saurette
VP Business Development
Maintegrity Inc

Gary Euler
Consultant
Maintegrity Inc

April 2021

Saving CPU time with IMS database administration

Thomas Esser
zSolutions Architect, Director, IMS Solution Advisors
Rocket Software

February 2021

Reached the IMS Database 4/8gig line, Now What?

Nick R Griffin
WorldWide IMS Specialist
BMC

December 2020

Performance and IMS

James Martin
Senior Solution Advisor
Rocket Software

October 2020

IMS Can't do That... or Can It?

Dusty Rivers
Director, z Systems Software: IMS & CICS
GT Software

August 2020

Implement IMS Analytics for Better Business Outcomes

Nick R GriffinWorldWide IMS Specialist
BMC

June 2020

4 Paths to Digital Transformation in IMS

Haley Fung
IBM Offering Manager for IMS

December 2019

Providing system integrity for multiple LPARs with improved GDPR and PCI/DSS compliance

Gary Euler
Consultant
MainTegrity Inc

Al Saurette
VP Business Development
MainTegrity Inc

October 2019

Managing changes in IMS environments

Glenn Witt
Principal SQA Engineer
BMC Software

August 2019

IMS APIs... You Don't Know, What you Don't Know

Dusty Rivers

June 2019

What's new in IMS Connect Extensions V3.1

James Martin
enior Solutions Advisor
Rocket Software

April 2019

IMS CDC to Kafka - Performance and Tuning

Scott Quillicy

February 2019

IMS Open Database

Kevin Hite

December 2018

Pervasive Encryption and IMS

Dennis Eichelberger

August 2018

A smarter way to mange and configure your IMS Systems

David Mierowsky
Managing Director
Fundi Software

October 2018

Rethink The Way You Manage IMS

Rosemary Galvan
IMS Tools Solutions Advisor

July 2018

Your Blueprint for Digital Transformation, starting with IBM Z and IBM IMS

Betty Patterson Bucci
Distinguished Engineer, IMS Chief Architect
IBM

April 2018

Adding additional IMS Test Environments with COPE

Thomas EsserEMEA IMS Specialist
Compuware Software Group

PDF Presentations

October 2023

System z (Mainframe) as the Enterprise Information Server

August 2023

IBM Z Cyber Vault and IMS

June 2023

Simplifying IMS Performance Problem Identification and Determination

April 2023

Mainframe Systems (IMS, CICS, etc) As Clients in the New World

February 2023

Lessons Learned—IMS Application Modernization to the Cloud

December 2022

Distributed access to IMS via Java

October 2022

Provision your databases in modern ways

August 2022

What's New with IMS Performance Solution Pack

June 2022

Ansible and IMS: Part II - Getting started with the Ansible IMS collection

April 2022

How to use IMS log records to investigate transaction response time

February 2022

IMS as a client in the new world

December 2021

Ansible and IMS: Automate IMS with Red Hat Ansible Certified Content for IBM Z

October 2021

Overview of Fast Path DEDBs

August 2021

From Legacy to Infinity & Beyond

June 2021

Making IMS the most secure system on the planet

April 2021

Saving CPU time with IMS database administration

February 2021

Reached the IMS Database 4/8gig line, Now What?

December 2020

Performance and IMS

October 2020

IMS Can't do That... or Can It?

August 2020

Implement IMS Analytics for Better Business Outcomes

June 2020

4 Paths to Digital Transformation in IMS

December 2019

Providing system integrity for multiple LPARs with improved GDPR and PCI/DSS compliance

October 2019

Managing changes in IMS environments

August 2019

IMS APIs... You Don't Know, What you Don't Know

June 2019

What's new in IMS Connect Extensions V3.1

April 2019

IMS CDC to Kafka - Performance and Tuning

February 2019

IMS Open Database

December 2018

Pervasive Encryption and IMS

October 2018

Rethink The Way You Manage IMS

August 2018

A smarter way to mange and configure your IMS Systems

July 2018

Your Blueprint for Digital Transformation, starting with IBM Z and IBM IMS

April 2018

Adding additional IMS Test Environments with COPE

February 2018

IMS and APIs (the Good, the Bad, and the UGLY!)

December 2017

Don't Get Fined! Learn about GDPR and the Impact to Your IMS Recovery Process

October 2017

SQL to IMS

More detailed answers to questions.

August 2017

Real-Time Streaming—IMS to Apache Kafka and Hadoop

June 2017

IMS Open Database: You need to know what application developers do not know

April 2017

IMS in an API and Cognitive World

February 2017

IMS User Exits for Data Tailoring

December 2016

IMS Infrastructure and the CSL

October 2016

IMS to Big Data—Common Traits of Successful Implementations

August 2016

The IMS Catalog Revolution

June 2016

IMS Connect for Enterprise Workloads

April 2016

Accelerate Enterprise Systems Application Delivery with DevOps

February 2016

Why IMS Still Matters, Using IMS Data and Transaction in Mobile, BI/BA and Cloud Apps

December 2015

Thinking the unthinkable—how do I retire redundant IMS applications?

October 2015

Creating a HALDB Test Environment

August 2015

Replicating IMS Data to IDAA and PureData Analytics

June 2015

Automation for IMS Connect

April 2015

Enterprise Application Modernization with the IMS ICAL

February 2015

Reduce IMS CPU Cycles by 30% and Include Complex IMS Transactions in New Business Applications

December 2014

IMS and the IDAA

October 2014

Best Practices—Populating Big Data Repositories from IMS

August 2014

Reducing planned outages

June 2014

A simpler solution for issuing outgoing Web services calls from IMS applications

April 2014

Finding problems in a mixed environment—Transaction Analysis Workbench

February 2014

IMS test data management

December 2013

IMS in the Connected World - Why You Should Pay Attention!

October 2013

Tuning Your Mainframe IMS Batch Processing

August 2013

Putting IMS/DB in Business Analytics / Intelligence

June 2013

Taking IMS to New Heights—What the Future Holds for IMS

April 2013

IMS Configuration Manager: streamlining the transition to dynamic resource definition

February 2013

Best practices: maximizing the use of your IMS data through replication

December 2012

Nearing 24x7 availability with structure changes too!

October 2011

IMS performance—taming the beast

August 2012

Best Practices: IMS to Relational Data Movement

June 2012

Modernizing IMS

April 2012

Using IMS Performance Solution Pack for z/OS to analyze IMS performance problems

February 2012

Memoirs of a HALDBA

December 2011

IMS 12

October 2012

Database Performance—Could Have, Should Have, Would Have

August 2011

IMS replication for high-availability

June 2011

MSU reduction due to in-memory table management with (any) IMS applications

April 2011

Simplify and improve database administration by leveraging your storage system

February 2011

Solving the problem when IMS isn't the cause

April 2010

Improving the performance, efficiency, and TCO of SOA integration for IMS

February 2010

The logical answer: IMS logical relationships

December 2009

Reducing mainframe costs—in a BIG way!

October 2009

Mainframe integration is not a strategy

August 2009

IMS Open DB functionality in IMS V11

June 2009

Understanding Specialty Processors

April 2009

IMS Modernization: Making the Business Case

February 2009

The right “change”: SQL-based middleware

December 2008

IMS and Web 2.0

October 2008

Autonomics and IMS databases

August 2008

IMS and SOA

June 2008

Migrating to IMS V10

April 2008

IMS Disaster Recovery—Part 2

February 2008

IMS Disaster Recovery—Part 1

December 2007

Why Assembler is a 21st Century Language

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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.