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<UL><LI>The IBM Information Management System (IMS) is unsurpassed in database and transaction processing availability and speed. With the demands of the evolving e-business environment, and a marketplace working in Web time, IMS delivers the integrity, capability, and performance customers have learned to expect from IBM.
<LI>IBM is enhancing the IMS Database Manager (IMS DB) and the IMS Transaction Manager (IMS TM) with IMS Version 8 (V8), which enables you to shape how you:
<LI>Transform the way you do business with integrated information
<LI>Build e-business applications that tolerate the rigors of doing business on the net
<LI>Run a scalable, available, safe, and easily manageable environment
<LI>Leverage everything you learn in the process, and mine all your information to make better decisions
<LI>IMS V8 TM continues as IBM's premier transaction server for environments that employ relational and hierarchical data stores and require the utmost in integrity, capacity, availability, and performance for e-business and enterprise computing environments.
<LI>IMS V8 DB continues as IBM's premier hierarchical database server to provide and enhance high performance/capacity, superior integrity, and continuously available database management solutions for IMS TM and CICS users. </UL>
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