IMS TM Application Support
Direct SQL Access to Valuable Mainframe Logic
Employing the Progress DataDirect industry-standard ODBC, JDBC, and ADO.NET database drivers, DataDirect Shadow provides developers with direct SQL access to valuable IMS TM application logic. Using Shadow for IMS TM integration provides benefits across the application lifecycle.
Shadow reduces development time and costs by expanding the pool of developers and applications that can access IMS through standards-based interfaces. And, Shadow utilizes a common Eclipse-based development tooling to facilitate the integration process. With Shadow, organizations leave mainframe data and logic in place and avoid the cost of data replication or migration, ultimately relying on the mainframe as a true enterprise data server.
- Converts IMS business logic assets into virtual RDBMS stored procedures
- Works with any IBM supported version of IMS
- Allows developers to interact with IMS transactions as stored procedures with metadata, requiring no additional programming
- Delivers superior performance and scalability via transaction aggregation and filtering as well as other performance optimization controls
- Ensures operations are consistent with organizational standards by supporting APPC and OTMA protocols
- Diverts up to 99% of processing-intensive IMS integration away from the mainframe’s General Purpose Processor to IBM’s zIIP specialty engine
- Lowers MIPS capacity usage and reducing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
