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  Accelerated In-memory data access for IMS Vendor: Data Kinetics Data Kinetics provides in-memory table-management tools for enhancing online transaction processing environments (CICS and IMS), batch applications, and DB2 stored procedures running on IBM-compatible mainframes. Data Kinetics' products offer significant performance improvements to the mainframe environment--from front-end processing time, right down to back-end CPU cycles. In business for over 30 years, Data Kinetics offers its customers world-class products, training, and support. Artix ESB Vendor: Iona Artix ESB is an extensible Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) that dramatically reduces operating costs for organizations with complex and heterogeneous IT systems by managing and securing a service-oriented architecture (SOA) without a centralized hub. Artix ESB easily enhances IMS and CICS applications to call off-host services without radical changes. It extends existing applications to the enterprise without coding. It integrate IMS and CICS, IMS and CICS screen transactions (BMS and MFS), and COBOL and PL/I applications into a SOA. ASG-SmartTest/IMS Vendor: ASG ASG-SmartTest/IMS is a component of ASG-Existing Systems Workbench (ESW), an integrated life-cycle solution for managing existing systems. It is the interactive tester and debugger for IMS/DC applications. SmartTest/IMS uses the Analytical Engine to populate the Application Knowledge Repository (AKR) to provide source-level debugging for COBOL, Assembler, and PL/I IMS/DC applications programs. With SmartTest/IMS, you can set up, execute, and log an application test session. ASG-TMON for IMS Vendor: ASG ASG-TMON for IMS helps data center managers, database administrators, and system programmers identify, respond to, and resolve IMS problems. It reduces application downtime, improves transaction and application throughput, and identifies problems affecting application performance. With ASG-TMON for IMS, performance analysts and capacity planners can identify trends and plan for growth, which often enables organizations to avoid upgrade charges. Attunity Connect IMS/TM Adapter Vendor: Attunity Attunity Connect provides an application adapter to IMS/TM, allowing applications to interoperate with IMS programs using XML interactions. Attunity’s interfaces can be used by applications in any computing environment including .NET, Java/J2EE, and legacy 3GL, providing a single solution for universal integration with existing IMS investments. Backup and Recovery Solution for IMS Vendor: BMC BMC Backup and Recovery Solution for IMS (BRS) is an integrated solution that brings together the functions of BMC Software's four cornerstone backup and recovery products: Image Copy, Recovery, Recovery Management, and Change Accumulation. It also brings additional features from three related utilities and requires only one install, versus seven installations for standalone utilities. BRS provides exclusive proactive technology that helps ensure recoverability and reduce technical and business exposures. CA Database Analyzer for IMS for z/OS Vendor: CA CA Database Analyzer for IMS for z/OS is a powerful IMS database analysis product that assists you in proactively uncovering errors that can result in data corruption. Early detection of errors allows you to address them before they impact the business. Additionally CA Database Analyzer for IMS for z/OS assists in testing and tuning of the randomizer routine needed by some high performance database types. CA Database Copier for IMS for z/OS Vendor: CA CA Database Copier for IMS for z/OS simplifies IMS database image copies by creating online, offline and incremental image copies that are efficient and secure. This helps you protect critical IMS data in the event of a hardware or software error that corrupts the database. CA Database Organizer for IMS for z/OS Vendor: CA CA Database Organizer for IMS for z/OS improves database availablity and performance through high–speed onine and offline maintenance tasks, including prefix resolution, data extraction, load, unload and reorganization. This allows you to safely make structural changes to the database to improve performance while minimizing negative impact on data availablity. CA DC Monitor Extensions for IMS for z/OS Vendor: CA CA DC Monitor Extensions for IMS for z/OS allows you to capture Fast Path transaction information if you are running earlier IMS version 7 or earlier. This allows you to fine tune your IMS database based on a complete set of information. CA File Master Plus for IMS Vendor: CA CA File Master Plus for IMS makes it easy for system and application programmers and database administrators to define multiple sets of IMS environments and to quickly and easily access these databases for data viewing, manipulation, and application testing. CA High Performance Recovery for IMS for z/OS Vendor: CA CA High Performance Recovery for IMS for z/OS reduces the time needed to perform IMS database recovery, efficiently restoring data access, automatically rebuilding indexes and recovering to any point in time, reducing the impact of a recovery on your organization. CA Secondary Index Builder for IMS for z/OS Vendor: CA CA Secondary Index Builder for IMS for z/OS improves database performance and availability by simply and quickly building Full Function and HALDB IMS primary and secondary indexes. It quickly rebuilds indexes after database reorganization and enhances database backup and recovery by eliminating the need to image copy and restore indexes. This saves resources and shortens the reorganization and recovery process. CA Secondary Index for IMS for z/OS Vendor: CA Conserve resources and improve performance by implementing automated secondary indexing capabilities for IMS Fast Path databases. Because you won't need to create secondary indexes on the application side, you can save significant money. CA Spool Print Management Vendor: CA CA Spool Print Management provides an independent spooling and print management system for all 3270-type, AFP-type, PCL-type, and PostScript-type SNA, TCP/IP, and FSS-connected printers. It provides enterprise-wide spooling and print capabilities to clients using VTAM, CICS, and IMS. CA Spool provides non-stop operation to relieve the JES workload, and collects reports from all platforms for printing, viewing, and storage into a single, centralized, secure report repository. Clone and Rename for IMS Vendor: Mainstar Clone and Rename for IMS (ICR) simplifies and automates cloning IMS subsystems and selected databases within minutes instead of hours, increasing data access and productivity. Many applications have critical requirements for quick and accurate cloning of entire IMS subsystems or select databases. Using current techniques, data cloning can require the better part of a day and requires a separate LPAR. ICR utilizes fast copy technology for speed (if available), and automation to enable cloning on the same LPAR to solve these problems. ICR renames the volume internals and data sets, and updates the cloned IMS subsystem or DBRC definitions if a database was refreshed. ICR enables users to gain access to critical data incredibly fast, with minimal downtime. CONNX - Data Access and Integration Vendor: CONNX Solutions Using a unique distributed SQL engine technology that allows organizations to scale from project to enterprise; from two-tiered to n-tiered; and from one to many data sources, CONNX offers real-time access to IMS data and joins IMS data with virtually any other enterprise data source (no matter where they reside) giving you a single view of your data as if it exists in one relational database. CONNX can access all company data (no matter what database method) through a single standard point of connection, reducing integration complexity. CONNX - Web Enablement Vendor: CONNX Solutions CONNX enables enterprise data with the use of any standards based development platform (such as Microsoft ASP.NET, IBM WebSphere, and Apache Tomcat), allowing you to create custom applications or use turnkey applications to leverage the Internet. CONNX - Ad Hoc Reporting Vendor: CONNX Solutions CONNX enables you to quickly and easily access information from IMS databases and other data sources with virtually any tool that is compatible with ODBC and OLE DB including the CONNX desktop query tool, InfoNaut. CONNX also offers InfoNaut Professional, a desktop query and reporting tool that allows you to build queries and create reports from table information or queries. CONNX DataSync Vendor: CONNX Solutions CONNX DataSync captures changes from an IMS source database and delivers them at user-defined intervals to a target data warehouse in a fraction of the time required by full extracts. This tool includes a unique incremental update feature that quickly detects with records have been added, deleted or changed and propagates the changes to the data warehouse. Synchronizations can be scheduled or performed on demand. CONNXSOA (Available in 2009) Vendor: CONNX Solutions CONNXSOA creates secure, reusable Web Services for your company’s data in three quick and easy steps: 1. Design 2. Test 3. Deploy. With its point and click wizard, you can select which internal and external parties, like employees, customers, partners, vendors, etc., can have access to your data. CONNXSOA eliminates the coding and custom programming often required when creating a Web service for data access. With CONNXSOA, you maintain your current investment in existing database systems as you create additional opportunities for your customers, partners, and vendors. Control Center for IMS Vendor: IBM Using Control Center for IMS provides a single point of control that simplifies system management tasks in an IMSplex environment. IMS administrators can work with a consolidated system view and manage all their IMS systems from a single station. DATA PACKER/IMS Vendor: BMC DATA PACKER/IMS helps maximize the customer's hardware investment while improving maintenance time and online performance. Through its multiple compression options, DATA PACKER allows the customer to select the best compression method for their unique data and provides compression of up to 80%. BMC Software's Extended Compression Architecture (XCA) to compress data helps reduce the I/O load as more data can be transferred per I/O occurrence. Associated CPU, storage media and data integrity issues are positively impacted. Database Director Vendor: NEON Enterprise Software Database Director rapidly reorganizes IMS databases while assuring 100% application availability during the process. By integrating with the powerful NEON Enterprise Software Eclipse Reorganization Utilities, online reorganizations are performed quickly and efficiently. DataVantage for IMS Vendor: DataVantage—Direct Computer Resources DataVantage for IMS moves production data into test environments quickly, improves test data management, and masks sensitive data. DataVantage for IMS is an IMS and DL/1 tool that enables quality application testing and development with an immediate return on investment. DELTA IMS Vendor: BMC The DELTA IMS products (DELTA IMS DC, DELTA IMS DB/DC, DELTA IMS VIRTUAL TERMINAL, and DELTA IMS for DBCTL) allow organizations to define IMS system components, expand user access and increase the size of the network without interrupting work flow and without running IMSGENs. The four integrated products can be used together to manage the complete IMS environment through a single user interface. These products can also be used on an individual basis to provide the flexibility needed to manage a specific IMS environment. DL/2 - IMS to DB2 Transparent Data Migration Vendor: Circle Computer Group DL/2 is a data migration and application transparency solution that enables the rapid migration of data from IMS/DB to DB2 without application changes. DL/2 customers not only benefit from the capabilities that DB2 brings to their data in terms of open data access and 24 by 7 availability, they also realize the cost and resource savings that come from supporting a single mainframe database environment. DL/2 is an established solution that has proven itself around the world in many different industries. Eclipse Backup and Recovery Utilities Vendor: NEON Enterprise Software The NEON Eclipse Backup and Recovery Utilities provide a solution for all types of IMS database recovery: point-in-time, full database recovery, and mainframe disaster recovery. The solution consists of an integrated set of products: Eclipse iRecover, Eclipse iChange and Eclipse iCopy. Eclipse iExtract Vendor: NEON Enterprise Software Eclipse iExtract is a powerful utility that quickly and efficiently extracts data from both IMS full-function and Fast Path databases. Because Eclipse iExtract directly accesses the database, its performance is unmatched. Eclipse iLM Vendor: NEON Enterprise Software Eclipse iLM provides an affordable, comprehensive set of tools for cleaning and maintaining IMS and CICS libraries, including ACB, DBD, PSB, and dynamic allocation libraries, DBRC, and the DFSDDIR member of MODBLKS. By verifying that IMS-related libraries are in sync with one another, Eclipse iLM ensures database integrity and availability. Eclipse Reorganization Utilities Vendor: NEON Enterprise Software Eclipse Reorganization Utilities provide the power and functionality you need for fast IMS reorgs, and can maintain even the largest and most disorganized IMS databases. It is no longer necessary to maintain and manage separate sets of IMS utilities for the different types of databases. The solution consists of an integrated set of products that support both IMS full function and Fast Path DEDB databases: iBuild, iCheck, iCopy, iLoad, iSurvey, and iUnload. Fast Path Enhanced Online Suite Vendor: BMC Fast Path Enhanced Online Suite is the premier product suite for managing DEDBs. It maximizes data availability, improves database performance, enables application enhancement through indexing, and speeds recoveries. The Fast Path Enhanced Online suite delivers ease of use and enhanced functionality to enable users to effectively plan and execute maintenance, analysis, indexing and recovery. Moreover, customers can better exploit the speed, flexibility and high capacity advantages of the IMS Fast Path database structure - while efficiently meeting its maintenance challenges. File-AID for IMS Vendor: Compuware File-AID for IMS enables users to: resolve production problems quickly and securely; easily create an IMS test environment for testing applications; easily move IMS data to web or distributed applications; process high-volume, complex changes using ISPF-driven templates; create easy-to-use profiles for novice IMS developers; disguise sensitive data. HALO Vendor: NEON Enterprise Software HALO provides near-continuous availability for IMS database partitioning and other restructuring. Online outages are reduced from hours to just seconds, allowing you to partition or restructure even the most critical databases without suffering long application outages that affect your business. IBM IMS Tools Vendor: IBM IBM has a wide range of IMS tools that can enhance the usability and profitability of this DBMS, eg IMS High Performance Image Copy, etc. IMS Parameter Manager for z/OS Vendor: IBM IBM IMS Parameter Manager enables IMS system programmers to control the specification and maintenance of IMS parameter library members by simplifying parameter management and by providing increased levels of parameter control. IMS Performance Analyzer for z/OS Vendor: IBM IMS Performance Analyzer has become the standard for IMS resource and performance management. IMS Performance Analyzer for z/OS, V4.1 provides end-to-end IMS Connect and IMS log reporting, revealing a transaction's life cycle through Connect and IMS. IMS Problem Investigator for z/OS Vendor: IBM IBM IMS Problem Investigator provides an enhanced level of problem determination services for IMS Transaction Manager (IMS TM) and IMS Database Manager (IMS DB) systems. IMS Problem Investigator complements IMS Performance Analyzer for z/OS for enhanced log analysis and reporting. The result is improved productivity for problem analysts, more efficient IMS application performance, and higher system availability making IMS log analysis quicker and easier than ever before. IMS SOA Integration Suite Vendor: IBM Access to IMS transactions:
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IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for IMS on z/OS Vendor: IBM IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for IMS on z/OS gives you the power to optimize the performance and availability of your vital IMS systems. It also provides a single point of control over IMS in Parallel Sysplex environments. With IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for IMS on z/OS you can report on the performance of coupling facility structure statistics, shared queue counts, database lock conflicts, and other critical IMS Attributes, helping you reduce or eliminate potential delays or outages. IMS Connect Vendor: IBM IMS Connect improves IMS TCP/IP access and enables easier access to IMS applications and data from the Internet. The functions provided by IMS Connect are indispensable for any IMS shop implementing an on demand business strategy. Ivory Service Architect Vendor: GT Software Ivory Service Architect is the centerpiece of the Ivory mainframe SOA solution, instantly turning mainframe developers into service developers for rapid mainframe SOA development. With Ivory Service Architect, developers can quickly and easily create and publish Web services, developing right-sized composite business services from existing mainframe assets with little or no training, and no consulting required. Ivory Service Architect consists of: Ivory Studio - graphical modeling environment; and Ivory Server - high performance SOAP processor with runtime service orchestration & WSDL repository. IMS Vendor: IBM IMS, IBM's premier transaction and hierarchical database management system, is the product of choice for critical on-line operational applications and data where support for high availability, performance, capacity and integrity, and low cost are key factors. InSync for IMS Online Vendor: Macro4 InSync for IMS Online provides a variety of database browsing and editing services for IMS users who do not have access to TSO. The easy-to-use interface matches the look and feel of other InSync components. Running as a user application in a Message Processing Region, InSync for IMS Online delivers a set of Edit and Browse services for IMS/DC users. Simple to install and use, it adheres to existing security protocols and has no system-level dependencies. LegaSuite for IMS Vendor: Seagull Software LegaSuite for IMS is a high-performance solution for transforming IMS applications into SOA assets with no coding. Development is rapid, so results are delivered quickly. At runtime it's fast, scalable, and reliable. LegaSuite for IMS includes visual development tools and runtime middleware. Lightning Utilities Vendor: NEON Enterprise Software The NESI Lightning Utilities offer a streamlined, effective solution for IMS Fast Path DEDB database capacity and performance. The Lightning Utilities also reduce CPU usage, efficiently managing sequential dependent (SDEP) and independent overflow (IOVF) capacity to optimize performance. MAXM Database Advisor for IMS Vendor: BMC The MAXM Database Advisor for IMS is an application that proactively and automatically manages full function database environment(s) across IMS and z/OS SYSPLEX's. The MAXM Database Advisor for IMS predicts threshold-exceeding space and database performance events as an exception that requires action within a user-specified lead time. This proactive notification gives the DBA advance warning so that required database maintenance can be planned and scheduled in such a way to have minimal impact on existing SLAs. The product is managed through a flexible, easy-to-use Windows based interface. MAXM Reorg/EP for IMS Vendor: BMC MAXM Reorg/EP for IMS performs the fastest offline reorganization available. The one-step process completes up to 40% faster than running the individual BMC Software Extended Performance utilities sequentially. The unload, reload, index build, logical relationship processing, and post-reorg image copy are completed in a single step. You can also perform individual reorganization tasks (such as adding a secondary index). Utility Manager generates optimized reorganization JCL. MAXM Reorg/EP for IMS with Online/Defrag Feature Vendor: BMC MAXM Reorg/EP for IMS with the Online/Defrag feature enables continuous availability for IMS full-function databases. The BMC-Software exclusive Online/Defrag feature reorganizes hot spots in a database with absolutely no outage. The Reorg function performs the fastest reorganization available. The unload, reload, index build, logical relationship processing, and post-reorg image copy are completed in a single step . You can also perform individual reorganization tasks (such as adding a secondary index). Utility Manager generates optimized reorganization JCL. Mission Control Vendor: NEON Enterprise Software Mission Control gives you complete control of your IMS Geoplex. Whether you have a single IMS subsystem or multiple IMSplex subsystems in multiple locations around the world, you can monitor, analyze, and manage your IMS databases, automating many of the routine tasks associated with database management. Online Reorganization Director Vendor: NEON Enterprise Software With Online Reorganization Director, you get 100% application availability during database reorganizations—and seamless integration with the IMS High Performance utilities. Partitioned Database Facility Vendor: NEON Enterprise Software Using Partitioned Database Facility (PDF) for IMS partitioning increases IMS database capacity and improves database performance, providing a cost-effective method for growing your business without impacting business applications. PDF allows you to manage capacity growth without redesigning IMS or requiring an all-or-nothing migration to partitioned databases. Prefix Update Vendor: NEON Enterprise Software Prefix Update performs IMS prefix resolution and prefix update operations in a single job step—so the process is faster and more efficient. Prefix Update eliminates the need to run two separate IMS utilities, with an intermediate file passed between the two job steps. RIPPLE-TRAC Vendor: Logic Online An impact is the effect or impression of one thing on another. Impact can be thought of as the consequences of a change. RIPPLE-TRAC is used to determine the scope of change requests as a basis for accurate resource planning and scheduling, and to confirm the cost/benefit justification. RIPPLE-TRAC estimates what will be impacted in software and related documentation if a proposed software change is made. RIPPLE-TRAC helps the process of assessing the effects on other components of the system resulting from the proposed change. RIPPLE-TRAC has become a framework or body of knowledge as a tool to make the full pattern of application interdependencies clearer. Within IMS, RIPPLE-TRAC could determine the impact of changing a segment name or a particular command code or find all the modules that use ‘CBLTDLI’ or what segments use ‘ DLET’ or any of the service calls. Shadow Suite Vendor: DataDirect Technologies The Shadow suite of Web-enablement products can transform IMS, IMS/TM, CICS, VMS, CA-IDMS, and ADSO screen-based applications into Web enablement components. The Shadow product suite can also be used to provide a Web services/SOA solution and real-time event processing that integrates mainframe data and applications. TriTune Vendor: AQM Solutions, a TRILOGexpert company TriTune is the most advanced and robust application Performance Analysis and Tuning tool on the market, designed to identify and address application inefficiencies in today’s massively-scaled z/OS-based systems. The product analyzes functions for IMS, CICS, DB2, and all common programming languages. APC for TriTune automates the use of TriTune, automatically detecting and alerting on runaways, starting TriTune measurements, and prioritizing tuning opportunities across the company’s entire z/OS environment. Verastream Transaction Integrator Vendor: Attachmate Verastream Transaction Integrator eases IMS service enablement in an SOA environment. The product offers superior performance and reliability to meet the demands of high-throughput, high-availability, transactional environments while masking the complexity of programs developed for IMS transactional environments. It offers an intuitive graphical user interface, Verastream Transaction Designer, which provides enhanced support for complicated copybook structures. This enables virtually all IMS programs to be easily consumed and used within a simple graphical designer. Xpediter/IMS Vendor: Compuware When a program problem surfaces in either a testing or production environment, developers need to get into an interactive test session with minimal effort. Xpediter/IMS assists developers to get right to the problem by allowing them to invoke interactive debugging sessions in a true IMS/DC environment. If you know of any new IMS-related tools or have any updates to this page, please contact me at trevor@itech-ed.com. |
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