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<UL><LI>IMS V8 is focused on further strengthening its support as the e-business Server of choice. This is in support of IBM's Strategy for helping customers in their e-business enablement and the growth, availability, and systems management that the e-business environment requires. IMS focus thus is on continually improving performance/capacity, availability, systems management/usability, open access, and supporting tools for the e-business environment. The goal is to deliver the next stage of this function.
<LI>IMS has been providing support as an e-business Server with improvements in data, workload, and network sharing. IMS is providing with V8 more transparent Sysplex Terminal Management to enhance e-business availability.
<LI>Systems Management too has been a key area with IMS customers in managing their e-business servers. IMS has focused traditionally on ensuring a single system image. IMS provided workload management information and support of VTAM's Generic resources to help with the balancing of work across the Sysplex. IMS is providing with V8 additional e-business Server management enhancements with Sysplex-wide Resource Management, Sysplex-wide Single Image Operations, Simplified System Definition and Improved Diagnostics.
<LI>IMS V8 is also providing continued enhancements to eliminate bottlenecks and impediments to growth.
<LI>Java is a key area for new application development. IMS Java support and the IMS Connector for Java provide Java application development/execution in IMS and in applications/servlets accessing IMS. These IMS Java enablers utilize the VAJava development tools. IMS continues to provide enhanced performance for this environment, and provide better integration with the VisualAge and WebSphere development tool set. New Technology as it evolves with XML is also continuing to be exploited to enable new Application Development tooling. IMS is forging a strong alliance with the AD community to provide an integrated tool solution for supporting IMS Java and connectivity to the Internet.
<LI>Additional Systems/Data Management and Business Intelligence tools are also being provided to better integrate and ease use of IMS as an e-business server. As tooling evolves we will continue to take advantage of the latest technologies for our customers to enhance their ability to use our products with these tools.
<LI>In addition we continue to provide whatever we can for education and usability of our products. We are planning major changes to the way our users use our information through a graphical Information Center that they can use to build their own custom books. IBM is also moving from BookManager toward PDF as a long-term, online book solution. </UL>
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