Virtual IMS User Group Sponsors

BMC Software

Previous Virtual IMS Meetings

December 2024 – Understanding What IMS Applications Can Do and How You Can Benefit From REST APIs

December 2024 – Understanding What IMS Applications Can Do and How You Can Benefit From REST APIs

October 2024 – Dynamically manage aspects of your IMS Connect environment without recycling IMS Connect

October 2024 – Dynamically manage aspects of your IMS Connect environment without recycling IMS Connect

August 2024 – Pervasive Encryption and IMS

August 2024 – Pervasive Encryption and IMS

June 2024 – Introduction to IMS Catalog & IMS Managed ACBs

June 2024 – Introduction to IMS Catalog & IMS Managed ACBs

April 2024 – How to Help IBM and YOU Quickly Resolve IMS Problems

April 2024 – How to Help IBM and YOU Quickly Resolve IMS Problems

February 2024 – Replacing IBM IMS DB

February 2024 – Replacing IBM IMS DB

December 2023 | IMS Connect Reimagined

December 2023 | IMS Connect Reimagined

October 2023 | System z (Mainframe) as the Enterprise Information Server

October 2023 | System z (Mainframe) as the Enterprise Information Server

August 2023 | What IBM Z Cyber Vault means for an IMS environment

August 2023 | What IBM Z Cyber Vault means for an IMS environment

June 2023 | Simplifying IMS Performance Problem Identification and Determination

June 2023 | Simplifying IMS Performance Problem Identification and Determination

April 2023 | Mainframe Systems (IMS, CICS, etc) As Clients in the New World

April 2023 | Mainframe Systems (IMS, CICS, etc) As Clients in the New World

February 2023 | Lessons Learned—IMS Application Modernization to the Cloud

February 2023 | Lessons Learned—IMS Application Modernization to the Cloud

December 2022 | Distributed access to IMS via Java

December 2022 | Distributed access to IMS via Java

October 2022 | Provision your databases in modern ways

October 2022 | Provision your databases in modern ways

August 2022 | What’s New with IMS Performance Solution Pack

August 2022 | What’s New with IMS Performance Solution Pack

June 2022 | Ansible and IMS: Part II – Getting started with the Ansible IMS collection

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

April 2022 | How to use IMS log records to investigate transaction response time

February 2022 | IMS as a client in the new world

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

December 2021 | Ansible and IMS: Automate IMS with Red Hat Ansible Certified Content for IBM Z

October 2021 | Overview of Fast Path DEDBs

October 2021 | Overview of Fast Path DEDBs

August 2021 | From Legacy to Infinity & Beyond

August 2021 | From Legacy to Infinity & Beyond

June 2021 | Making IMS the most secure system on the planet

June 2021 | Making IMS the most secure system on the planet

April 2021 | Saving CPU time with IMS database administration

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

December 2020 | Performance and IMS

October 2020 | IMS Can’t do That… or Can It?

October 2020 | IMS Can’t do That… or Can It?

August 2020 | Implement IMS Analytics for Better Business Outcomes

August 2020 | Implement IMS Analytics for Better Business Outcomes

June 2020 | 4 Paths to Digital Transformation in IMS

June 2020 | 4 Paths to Digital Transformation in IMS

December 2019 | Providing system integrity for multiple LPARs with improved GDPR and PCI/DSS compliance

December 2019 | Providing system integrity for multiple LPARs with improved GDPR and PCI/DSS compliance

October 2019 | Managing changes in IMS environments

October 2019 | Managing changes in IMS environments

August 2019 | IMS APIs… You Don’t Know, What you Don’t Know

August 2019 | IMS APIs… You Don’t Know, What you Don’t Know

June 2019 | What’s new in IMS Connect Extensions V3.1

June 2019 | What’s new in IMS Connect Extensions V3.1

April 2019 | IMS CDC to Kafka—Performance and Tuning

April 2019 | IMS CDC to Kafka—Performance and Tuning

February 2019 | IMS Open Database

February 2019 | IMS Open Database

December 2018 | Pervasive Encryption and IMS

December 2018 | Pervasive Encryption and IMS

October 2018 | Rethink The Way You Manage IMS

October 2018 | Rethink The Way You Manage IMS

August 2018 | A smarter way to mange and configure your IMS Systems

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

July 2018 | Your Blueprint for Digital Transformation, starting with IBM Z and IBM IMS

April 2018 | Adding additional IMS Test Environments with COPE

April 2018 | Adding additional IMS Test Environments with COPE

February 2018 | IMS and APIs (the Good, the Bad, and the UGLY!)

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

December 2017 | Don’t Get Fined! Learn about GDPR and the Impact to Your IMS Recovery Process

October 2017 | SQL to IMS

October 2017 | SQL to IMS

August 2017 | Real-Time Streaming—IMS to Apache Kafka and Hadoop

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

June 2017 | IMS Open Database: You need to know what application developers do not know

April 2017 | IMS in an API and Cognitive World

April 2017 | IMS in an API and Cognitive World

February 2017 | IMS User Exits for Data Tailoring

February 2017 | IMS User Exits for Data Tailoring

December 2016 | IMS Infrastructure and the CSL

December 2016 | IMS Infrastructure and the CSL

October 2016 | IMS to Big Data—Common Traits of Successful Implementations

October 2016 | IMS to Big Data—Common Traits of Successful Implementations

August 2016 | The IMS Catalog Revolution

August 2016 | The IMS Catalog Revolution

June 2016 | IMS Connect for Enterprise Workloads

June 2016 | IMS Connect for Enterprise Workloads

April 2016 | Accelerate Enterprise Systems Application Delivery with DevOps

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

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?

December 2015 | Thinking the unthinkable—how do I retire redundant IMS applications?

October 2015 | Creating a HALDB Test Environment

October 2015 | Creating a HALDB Test Environment

August 2015 | Replicating IMS Data to IDAA and PureData Analytics

August 2015 | Replicating IMS Data to IDAA and PureData Analytics

June 2015 | Automation for IMS Connect

June 2015 | Automation for IMS Connect

April 2015 | Enterprise Application Modernization with the IMS ICAL

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

February 2015 | Reduce IMS CPU Cycles by 30% and Include Complex IMS Transactions in New Business Applications

December 2014 | Leveraging IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator to Analyze your IMS Data

December 2014 | Leveraging IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator to Analyze your IMS Data

October 2014 | Best Practices—Populating Big Data Repositories from IMS

October 2014 | Best Practices—Populating Big Data Repositories from IMS

August 2014 | Reducing planned outages

August 2014 | Reducing planned outages

June 2014 | A simpler solution for issuing outgoing Web services calls from IMS applications

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

April 2014 | Finding problems in a mixed environment—Transaction Analysis Workbench

February 2014 | IMS test data management

February 2014 | IMS test data management

December 2013 | IMS in the Connected World – Why You Should Pay Attention!

December 2013 | IMS in the Connected World – Why You Should Pay Attention!

October 2013 | Tuning Your Mainframe IMS Batch Processing

October 2013 | Tuning Your Mainframe IMS Batch Processing

August 2013 | Putting IMS/DB in Business Analytics / Intelligence

August 2013 | Putting IMS/DB in Business Analytics / Intelligence

June 2013 | Taking IMS to New Heights—What the Future Holds for IMS

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

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

February 2013 | Best practices: maximizing the use of your IMS data through replication

December 2012 | Nearing 24×7 availability with structure changes too!

December 2012 | Nearing 24×7 availability with structure changes too!

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August 2012 | Best Practices: IMS to Relational Data Movement

August 2012 | Best Practices: IMS to Relational Data Movement

June 2012 | Modernizing IMS

June 2012 | Modernizing IMS

Upcoming Virtual Meetings

February 11, 2025

Virtual IMS User Group Meeting

Deal with growing cybersecurity risks and do Real-time and after-the-event IMS analytics, all at the same time

Sahil Gupta
Senior Product Developer
BMC

Santosh Belgaonkar
Staff Specialist Product Developer
BMC

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April 8, 2024

Virtual IMS User Group Meeting

IMS Catalog implementation using Ansible Playbooks
Dennis Eichelberger
IBM

June 10, 2025

Virtual IMS User Group Meeting