This book will teach you the basic information and skills you need to develop applications with IMS on IBM mainframe computers running z/OS. The instruction, examples and sample programs in this book are a fast track to becoming productive as quickly as possible using IMS with COBOL and PLI. The content is easy to read and digest, well organized and focused on honing real job skills. Acquiring these skills is a key step in mastering IMS application development and maintenance so you'll be ready to perform effectively on an IMS programming team.

This book will teach you the basic information and skills you need to develop applications with the COBOL programming language on IBM mainframe computers running z/OS. The instruction, examples and sample programs in this book are a fast track to becoming productive with COBOL as quickly as possible. The coverage includes COBOL with VSAM, IMS, DB2 and CICS. The content of this book is easy to read and digest, well organized and focused on honing real job skills. Acquiring these skills is a key step in mastering COBOL application development so you'll be ready to perform effectively on an application development team.

IMSTM Version 11 continues to provide the leadership in performance, reliability, and security that is expected from the product of choice for critical online operational applications. IMS 11 also offers new functions to help you keep pace with the evolving IT industry. Through the introduction of the new IMS Enterprise Suite application developers with minimal knowledge of IMS Connect can start developing client applications to communicate with IMS. With Open Database, IMS 11 also provides direct SQL access to IMS data from programs that run on any distributed platform, unlocking DL/I data to the world of SQL application programmers. In this IBM® Redbooks® publication, system programmers get the steps for installing the new IMS components, and the application programmer can follow scenarios of how client applications can take advantage of SQL to access IMS data. We describe the installation of prerequisites, such as IMS Connect and the Structured Call Interface component of Common Service Layer address space and document the set up of the three new IMS drivers: - Universal DB resource adapter - Universal JDBC driver - Universal DL/I driver Our scenarios use the JDBC driver for type-4 access from Windows® to a remote DL/I database and DB2® tables and extend it to use IBM Mashup Center to provide an effective Web interface and to integrate with Open Database. Important: IMS Enterprise Suite V2.1 is the last release of the IMS Enterprise Suite that includes the DLIModel utility plug-in. Customers should migrate to using IMS Enterprise Suite V2.2 or later, which includes the IMS Enterprise Suite Explorer for Development. DLIModel utility projects can be imported into new IMS Explorer projects. In this book, any references to generating IMS metadata classes by using the DLIModel utility are comparable to the actions used to generate the classes using the IMS Explorer for Development.

This book will teach you the basic information and skills you need to develop applications on IBM mainframes running z/OS. The instruction, examples and sample programs in this book are a fast track to becoming productive as quickly as possible in VSAM, IMS DB and intermediate level DB2. The content is easy to read and digest, well organized and focused on honing real job skills. IBM z/OS Quick Start Training for Application Developers is a key step in the direction of mastering IBM application development so you'll be ready to join a technical team.

This book will teach you the basic information and skills you need to develop applications with CICS on IBM mainframe computers running z/OS. The instruction, examples and sample programs in this book are a fast track to becoming productive as quickly as possible using CICS with the COBOL programming language. The content is easy to read and digest, well organized and focused on honing real job skills. Acquiring these skills is a key step in mastering CICS application development and maintenance so you'll be ready to join a CICS programming team.

Over the last few years, IBM® IMSTM and IMS tools have been modernizing the interfaces to IMS and the IMS tools to bring them more in line with the current interface designs. As the mainframe software products are becoming more integrated with the Windows and mobile environments, a common approach to interfaces is becoming more relevant. The traditional 3270 interface with ISPF as the main interface is no longer the only way to do some of these processes. There is also a need to provide more of a common looking interface so the tools do not have a product-specific interface. This allows more cross product integration. Eclipse and web-based interfaces being used in a development environment, tooling using those environments provides productivity improvements in that the interfaces are common and familiar. IMS and IMS tools developers are making use of those environments to provide tooling that will perform some of the standard DBA functions. This book will take some selected processes and show how this new tooling can be used. This will provide some productivity improvements and also provide a more familiar environment for new generations DBAs. Some of the functions normally done by DBA or console operators can now be done in this eclipse-based environment by the application developers. This means that the need to request these services from others can be eliminated. This IBM Redbooks® publication examines specific IMS DBA processes and highlights the new IMS and IMS tools features, which show an alternative way to accomplish those processes. Each chapter highlights a different area of the DBA processes like: PSB creation Starting/stopping a database in an IMS system Recovering a database Cloning a set of databases

This book will help you learn the basic information and skills you need to develop applications with DB2 11 for z/OS. The instruction, examples and questions/answers in this book are a fast track to becoming productive as quickly as possible. The content is easy to read and digest, well organized and focused on honing real job skills. DB2 11 for z/OS Basic Training for Application Developers is a key step in the direction of mastering DB2 application development so you'll be ready to join a technical team.