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Trends Industry signals to keep you in the know Continued Innovation Improvements to IMS make it a first-rate data-management solution BY BARBARA KLEIN satisfaction surveys. Customers are extending their existing IMS applications, and also adding new ones. As a result, the business is growing, and IBM continues to invest in IMS. Last year, the top 10 percent of customers increased their IMS usage by 84 percent from a year prior. In the future, clients can rely on IMS to exploit the latest in technologically advanced hardware and software, to help customers achieve new levels of price performance while at the same time leverage their existing investment in skills and applications for information access across the Internet. In this article, I’ll describe IMS 10 and enhancements added since its general availability and ones you can look forward to in IMS 11. C hances are you’re using IMS* when you turn on a light, make a telephone call, get a business loan, process accounting records, use your ATM card, rent a car, purchase insurance, send a package, trade stocks, control inventories, process payroll, update personnel records, control a railroad and more. After 40 years, IBM’s IMS solutions remain unmatched in high volume at lowest cost per transaction, as well as in high resiliency and quality. IMS is the product of choice for critical online operational applications and data where support for high availability, performance, capacity and integrity, and low cost are key factors. IBM ensures IMS has and maintains the highest quality through continuous improvement—guided through client requirements and usage. As a result, IMS has received the highest ratings in customer 2009 ibmsystemsmag.com/mainframe IMS Remains Unmatched IMS is still the leader for transaction efficiency. Id e a l t r a n s ac t ion a nd d at a pr of i le s i nc lud e transactions that r un billions of times a year, t ransactions t hat change inf requent ly, high ly structured data and access patterns, and transactions and data with large scalability and/or ver y high availability requirements. IMS on the mainframe is therefore best for applications that have lifetime transaction volumes in the billions or even trillions (e.g., ATMs, orders, claims and assembly lines all make use of this optimized environment). I M S c on t i n u e s t o m e e t t h e s e t r a n s a c t i on requirements with the latest Transaction Manager (T M ) and Database Manager (DB) capabi lities. I MS T M prov ides tech nologica l leader sh ip to communicate with the network. It supports and integrates customer environments–providing robust, secure and scalable enterprise technology. It also provides transparency and flexibility to application programmers, building on their existing skills and 10 M A R C H/A PRIL
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IBM Systems Magazine, Mainframe - March/April 2009

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of IBM Systems Magazine, Mainframe - March/April 2009

IBM Systems Magazine, Mainframe - March/April 2009
Table of Contents
Editor's Desk
Trends:  Improvements to IMS Make it a First-Rate Data-Management Solution
IT Today:  Cloud Computing Helps Reduce Spending and Increase ROI
Case Study:  Wakefern Food Corporation exchanges an aging solution for a new, more functional systems to accelerate date transfers
Cover Story:  After 45 Years, Innovation Brings the Mainframe Full Circle
Feature:  Innovation Keeps the Mainframe on Track to Meet Changing BI Needs
Administrator:  Performance Toolkit for z/VM
Developer: Options for Optimizing Web-Service Creation
Mainframe's 45-Year Timeline
Technical Corner:  A System Programmer's Guide to Data Warehousing
Advertiser Index
Product News
Stop Run:  Readers Share Their Mainframe Memories
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IBM Systems Magazine, Mainframe - March/April 2009 - Table of Contents
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IBM Systems Magazine, Mainframe - March/April 2009 - Editor's Desk
IBM Systems Magazine, Mainframe - March/April 2009 - 9
IBM Systems Magazine, Mainframe - March/April 2009 - Trends:  Improvements to IMS Make it a First-Rate Data-Management Solution
IBM Systems Magazine, Mainframe - March/April 2009 - 11
IBM Systems Magazine, Mainframe - March/April 2009 - 12
IBM Systems Magazine, Mainframe - March/April 2009 - 13
IBM Systems Magazine, Mainframe - March/April 2009 - IT Today:  Cloud Computing Helps Reduce Spending and Increase ROI
IBM Systems Magazine, Mainframe - March/April 2009 - 15
IBM Systems Magazine, Mainframe - March/April 2009 - 16
IBM Systems Magazine, Mainframe - March/April 2009 - 16a
IBM Systems Magazine, Mainframe - March/April 2009 - 16b
IBM Systems Magazine, Mainframe - March/April 2009 - 17
IBM Systems Magazine, Mainframe - March/April 2009 - Case Study:  Wakefern Food Corporation exchanges an aging solution for a new, more functional systems to accelerate date transfers
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IBM Systems Magazine, Mainframe - March/April 2009 - 22
IBM Systems Magazine, Mainframe - March/April 2009 - 23
IBM Systems Magazine, Mainframe - March/April 2009 - Cover Story:  After 45 Years, Innovation Brings the Mainframe Full Circle
IBM Systems Magazine, Mainframe - March/April 2009 - 25
IBM Systems Magazine, Mainframe - March/April 2009 - 26
IBM Systems Magazine, Mainframe - March/April 2009 - 27
IBM Systems Magazine, Mainframe - March/April 2009 - 28
IBM Systems Magazine, Mainframe - March/April 2009 - 29
IBM Systems Magazine, Mainframe - March/April 2009 - Feature:  Innovation Keeps the Mainframe on Track to Meet Changing BI Needs
IBM Systems Magazine, Mainframe - March/April 2009 - 31
IBM Systems Magazine, Mainframe - March/April 2009 - 32
IBM Systems Magazine, Mainframe - March/April 2009 - 33
IBM Systems Magazine, Mainframe - March/April 2009 - 34
IBM Systems Magazine, Mainframe - March/April 2009 - 35
IBM Systems Magazine, Mainframe - March/April 2009 - Administrator:  Performance Toolkit for z/VM
IBM Systems Magazine, Mainframe - March/April 2009 - 37
IBM Systems Magazine, Mainframe - March/April 2009 - 38
IBM Systems Magazine, Mainframe - March/April 2009 - 39
IBM Systems Magazine, Mainframe - March/April 2009 - Developer: Options for Optimizing Web-Service Creation
IBM Systems Magazine, Mainframe - March/April 2009 - Mainframe's 45-Year Timeline
IBM Systems Magazine, Mainframe - March/April 2009 - M2
IBM Systems Magazine, Mainframe - March/April 2009 - M3
IBM Systems Magazine, Mainframe - March/April 2009 - M4
IBM Systems Magazine, Mainframe - March/April 2009 - 41
IBM Systems Magazine, Mainframe - March/April 2009 - 42
IBM Systems Magazine, Mainframe - March/April 2009 - 43
IBM Systems Magazine, Mainframe - March/April 2009 - Technical Corner:  A System Programmer's Guide to Data Warehousing
IBM Systems Magazine, Mainframe - March/April 2009 - 45
IBM Systems Magazine, Mainframe - March/April 2009 - 46
IBM Systems Magazine, Mainframe - March/April 2009 - Product News
IBM Systems Magazine, Mainframe - March/April 2009 - Stop Run:  Readers Share Their Mainframe Memories
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IBM Systems Magazine, Mainframe - March/April 2009 - Cover4
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