IBM announced IMS Version 11 this week. Details here: http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/8/897/ENUS208-258/ENUS208-258.PDF
The Quality Partnership Program (QPP) for IMS V11 will begin on January 16, 2009. The general availability date will be announced later. IMS V11 will run on z/OS 1.9 or above. Some of the notable enhancements planned for Version 11 include: * Universal JDBC access to IMS DB from any standard JEE (Java Enterprise Edition) environment and even from several non-JEE environments. (Presently you are obliged to use WebSphere Application Server for z/OS, at least in a JDBC "gateway" role. There are still significant advantages to that, but this enhancement means WAS z/OS is not a requirement for such access. If you wish to federate data access across IMS DB and other databases, then InfoSphere Classic Federation Server for z/OS is a good choice.) * Numerous IMS Connect enhancements, particularly in network functionality and robustness. * New tooling and runtime support for creating industry standard Web services quickly and efficiently out of existing MFS-based IMS TM applications. This functionality supports Service Component Architecture (SCA), Enterprise Metadata Discovery (EMD) 1.1, and BPEL, and you can orchestrate these IMS Web services in long running business processes using WebSphere Process Server, for example. There is a very long list of additional enhancements planned for IMS V11 that will also be made available for IMS V10 as part of the service process. Please check the announcement letter for details. In addition to the IMS SOAP Gateway with RDz no charge downloadable offering (previously mentioned), IBM is making available the IMS Web 2.0 Solution, currently as a technology preview. You can get more details and access to this technology here: http://www.ibm.com/software/data/ims/mashup.html This technology brings your IMS assets into XML, ATOM, and/or RSS feeds to participate in Web Mashups. Have no clue what any of those things are? Check the Web site -- and the YouTube video showing these state-of-the-art Web technologies. - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan / Asia-Pacific E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
