Many IMS shops are 24x7 operations, so there is nothing about IMS that prevents you from running batch and online concurrently.
Converting DLI/batch jobs to BMP is a relatively trivial matter. There are application considerations that have to be taken into account, but that has nothing to do with IMS per se. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
