Managed Application Control Blocks (ACBs)
Implementing the IMS catalog and converting to managed ACBs
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IMS Paradigm Shifts: Converting to Managed ACBs
This video describes the benefits and high-level steps to convert to IMS managed ACBs.
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IMS catalog
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IMS management of ACBs
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IMS and Ansible for managed ACBs and IMS catalog for self-provisioning
Read more →IMS Native z/OS DDL utility
DDL provides for three intuitive and easy to use verbs: CREATE, ALTER, and DROP. The language is so popular that it has become the de facto industry standard.
Starting with IMS 15.3, you can use the IMS Data Definition utility to submit DDL. This utility does not require IMS Connect and ODBM, and runs in a BMP region of IMS.
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IMS Native z/OS DDL utility (Data Definition utility)
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Using DDL to define databases and program views
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Data Definition utility (DFS3ID00) batch enhancement
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IMS Database: versatile, powerful, and still running the world
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IMS has been around for over half a century and some of the top fortune 100 companies continue to use IMS.
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