Hi,
We are a large IMS DC/DB shop and CICS DB2/IMS DBCTL. IMS is still an
order of magnitude more efficient than DB2. That is not saying anything
bad about DB2 it is designed for more flexible data manipulation and
easier development by offloading more business and data handling logic
into the DBMS. DB2 is a relational database and IMS a hierarchical one
though IMS appears to be geared up to take on some new abilities soon
with V10.
IMS is wickedly efficient ask some of the large banking and delivery
concerns that still use it to process large transactions volumes.
One of my co-workers has this in his signature line and I do not dispute
it...
Do you bank? Do you use ATMs? Then you've used IMS. Nothing has ever
compared to the reliability and speed of IMS.
I would probably agree finding warm bodies that can code efficiently in
the IMS/DC environment is a growing challenge.
Best Regards,
Sam Knutson, GEICO
System z Performance and Availability Management
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So IBM is giving up on the "Lotus Notes" race and now declaring all
their
software as "Open Source".... " We lost the race .. but we will put our
finger in
MS's eye before we go away"..
Can we now get all the "old loyal IBM customers" to phase Lotus out
please ?
Like IMS/DC ? People still do not phase it out... and you still have
x'perts
arguing that it's valid to do the same type of work, using 10 times the
quantity
of resources... it's amazing.
Note: If Larry Craig can "hang in there" then so can Lotus and IMS
DB/DC.
Anton Britz
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