IMS Connect? https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ims/15.5.0?topic=connect-ims-client-support
On Thu, Apr 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM Phil Smith III <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks to all; keep 'em comin' but I've sent the info along and this may > well solve the issue! > > -----Original Message----- > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
