An Introduction to IMS: Your Complete Guide to IBMs Information Management System

IMS System Services provide the following services to both IMS DB and IMS TM:

  • Provide data integrity

  • Restart and recover IMS after failures

  • Provide security, by controlling access to and modification of IMS resources

  • Manage the application programs, by dispatching work, loading application programs, and providing locking services

  • Provide diagnostic and performance information

  • Provide facilities for operating IMS

  • Provide interfaces to other z/OS subsystems that communicate with IMS applications

The IMS System Services are, by:

  • Issuing IMS commands

  • Running IMS-supplied utility programs

  • Running IMS-supplied or user-written exit routines

  • Defining the services you want as part of the system definition process

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