Thanks to all; keep 'em comin' but I've sent the info along and this may well 
solve the issue!

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of 
Denis
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2025 3:59 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: IMS question

Hi,

IMS has its own address space which is called ODBM or IMS Open Database. It has 
an IMS Universal JDBC Driver. It either requires the IMS Catalog for Metadata 
or you have to use IMS Explorer to create the Metadata (by importing DBD, PSB 
and possibly copybook sources).

DVM and Infosphere Classic Federation Server for z/OS can also provide JDBC 
access to IMS data and tools to create the metadata mapping.

Denis.


On Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 04:47:47 PM GMT+2, Phil Smith III 
<[email protected]> wrote: 





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

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