I personally have not done this. But... I think the native IMS method is the (free?) IMS Universal JDBC driver.
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ims/15.2.0?topic=drivers-programming-ims-universal-jdbc-driver Yes, there are middleware products for this kind of thing. IMS, as a plain out-of-the-box install, doesn't speak TCP/IP. For that you need to have OTMA installed, and maybe IMS Connect. I'd be willing to be that most solutions are going to require OTMA. Is that installed on the client system? -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Phil Smith III Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2025 9:47 AM To: [email protected] Subject: IMS question 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 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
