Does IMS still support a hierarchical data base? That might be hard to map into Db2 (sick*)?
* That means sic and I'm sick of renames that only change the case. ;-) -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Martin Trübner Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2025 11:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: IMS question External Message: Use Caution Phsiii, wouldn't it make more sense to look for a bridge from IMS to DB2? They are way closer that any other product and there will be (or at least was) a package that does that. Martin Am 10.04.25 um 16:47 schrieb Phil Smith III: > This question was passed to me from someone else, so it may be so off-base > it's not even wrong (TBH I can spell "IMS" about two out of three times and > that's the extent of my knowledge): > > Is there a product that lets a non-z/OS system interact with IMS/DB using > ODBC/JDBC? I'm thinking that Data Virtualization Manager may be the > answer:https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/dvm/1.2.0?topic=sources-configuring-access-ims-databases > but figured someone might have done this and have some advice. > > This is for a client who has a need to tour some z/OS data in Db2 (for which > they have a driver) and IMS. > > TIA > > ...phsiii > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
