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<h3>IMS Fundamentals</h3>
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Learn about the main components of IBM IMS: IMS Database Manager (IMS DB),
IMS Transaction Manager (IMS TM), and common system services for IMS DB and IMS TM.
Learn how these components work and interact with applications, how IMS databases differ from each other
and differ from relational databases message types, security, maintenance, troubleshooting, and more.
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<p>In this 8-hour, introductory course, you’ll learn about the parallels and differences
between C and PL/I, particularly in language syntax, program structure, declarations,
loops, data types, arrays, structures, and more.</p>
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Logical relationships establish a logical access paths between segments that are usually in different databases. In this course, you’ll
learn how to code the DBDs and PSBs for IMS databases involved in logical relationships, adjust the performance of these
databases, and review IMS Monitor reports to see whether the logical relationships are effective.
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Learn about IMS databases, including the
structure of database records, how those records are accessed, DBDs, PSBs, DL/I calls,
secondary indexes, logical relationships, database types,
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<p>IMS DBRC, which is a feature of the IMS Database Manager, helps with the recovery of IMS databases.</p>
<p>In this comprehensive course, you'll learn how to install, customize, administer, and maintain DBRC.
This course is for experienced IMS system programmers and database administrators who need to work with DBRC.
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<h3 style="color: black;">IMS Data Sharing</h3>
<p>When more than one IMS system has concurrent access to an IMS database, those systems are sharing data.
In this advanced course, you'll learn about IMS data sharing capabilities, how multiple
IMS systems on different LPARs and processors can access and update the same databases
with complete integrity, and how to implement and maintain a data sharing environment.</p>
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<p>In this intermediate course, you’ll learn how to design, implement,
maintain, troubleshoot, and recover IMS High Availability Large Databases (HALDBs).
You’ll learn how other IMS databases can be migrated to HALDB and the advantages of using HALDBs.</p>
<p>This is an intermediate course for experienced IMS database administrators who implement and manage HALDBs.</p>
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<h3 style="color: black;">IMS Fast Path Implementation</h3>
<p>This is an advanced course for IBM IMS system administrators, database administrators,
and application programmers who design or implement IMS Fast Path applications in an
IMS Transaction Management (TM) or IBM CICS Database Control (DBCTL) environment.
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<p>This advanced course shows you techniques and tools for diagnosing
and repairing corrupted IMS databases, including full-function,
DEDB, and HALDB. To do that, you’ll need to understand
database access methods, secondary indexes, database layouts,
control interval (CI) layouts, sequential dependents (SDEPs),
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<p>This course shows you how to tune IBM® IMS™ databases.
It also discusses IMS database options that affect performance such as data set considerations
and buffering for Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM) and Overflow Sequential Access Method
(OSAM) databases.</p>
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<p>In this comprehensive course, you’ll learn about IMS DB access methods,
how to code DBDs and PSBs, use IMS utilities to reorganize and recover
databases, use the DL/I test program, and how to prepare a job stream
to load a database.</p>
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<p>Learn about IMS architecture, installation, transaction management, locking, logging, connecting IMS to IBM CICS® and IBM Db2®,
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<p>Learn about the relationships between IMS components so that you can explain IBM's recommendations for IMS
diagnostic setup. Learn how to use the IMS Interactive Dump Formatter, identify the key z/OS® IPCS commands
that are useful for IMS problem diagnostics, perform the methodology for debugging IMS abends, and understand the
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<p>Learn how shared message queues work in IBM IMS, and how full-function queues and Fast Path expedited message handler (EMH) queues
are shared within a parallel sysplex environment. Learn how to prepare and implement IMS shared queues
and manage and troubleshoot an IMS shared queues environment.</p>
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<p>In this advanced course, you'll learn how to use and adjust IMS
Transaction Manager (IMS TM), other components in the IMS system, and z/OS
components, commands, processes, parameters, and more to ensure that the
IMS TM system is running as efficiently as possible.</p>
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<p>Learn about the IMS database control (DBCTL) environment, which provides access between CICS and
IMS-managed databases. Learn how to install, configure, maintain, troubleshoot, and support
an IMS DBCTL system, and understand the IMS architecture that applies to database management and attaching
to CICS systems and transactions.</p>
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<b>Time</b>: 12 hours
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<p>This course shows you through lectures and lab demos how to write
application programs that use Data Language One (DL/I) to process
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<p>In this course, you'll learn how to code application programs that perform processing