© 2008 IBM Corporation IMS Trends and Direction Larry Lange Program Director, Business Development IMS Development IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory June 2008

© 2008 IBM Corporation

IMS Trends and Direction

Larry Lange

Program Director, Business DevelopmentIMS DevelopmentIBM Silicon Valley Laboratory

June 2008

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IMS Update © 2008 IBM Corporation

Virtualization Progressive renovation vs. rip and replace SOA Java SQL XML Web 2.0 mash-ups …

All supported in IMS

Yes, we are talking about IMS!It’s not your grandfather’s IMS anymore

Trends and Technologies driving today’s IT landscape

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Information On Demand and SOATwo sides of the same coin…

SOA provides business flexibility

IOD provides the trusted information needed by your services

“You will waste your investment in SOA unless you have enterprise information that SOA can exploit.”

– Gartner Research

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IMS: The High-Performance Application and Data Server for System z

Unix

Integration focal point for SOA: key to a successful Enterprise Architecture

Remarkable performance

Rock-solid reliability and security

Most cost efficient run-time environment

Integrated message queuing, transaction processing and data base management

Open, standard interfaces allowing ‘any-to-any’ connectivity and access

Fully integrated into today’s A/D toolsets

Natural XML support

Robust runtime support including JAVA, C, COBOL, PLI and Assembler

Learn more here at www.ibm.com/ims

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Hierarchy of Application Servers

Smaller, dedicated communities Often changing Single purpose Predictable workload

Cross-enterprise community Extremely stable and reliable environment Mixed workload Highest levels of performance, security, availability, system resiliency More cost-efficient run-time environment

Workload, Performance, Cost Efficiency

Mainframe Servers

Unix ServersWindows/Linux

z/OS

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Interesting Facts about IMS

A viable, thriving business

Development capacity is growing!

Customers are increasing their IMS usage

IMS growth keeping pace with CICS and DB2 for z/OS

Many customers are modernizing IMS applications – with IMS!

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Performance When it Counts

Hundreds of thousands of customers are late as servers slow to a crawl…

Meltdown – computers are over- whelmed at deadline…

Our IMS systems help BNP Paribas process 24 million banking transactions a day for our web users and our branch offices. IMS has provided the speed we need to run our business!

Sylvie NicponMainframe Architect Group MgrBNP Paribas

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>100MIMS Transactions/day by one customer on single system

200MUsers a day served by IMS

Transactions/day through IMS50B

Production Data managed by IMS15M GB

- Gartner Group

A large and loyal IMS installed base. Rock-solid reputa- tion of a transactional workhorse for very large workloads. Successfully proven in large, Web-based applications. IMS is still a viable, even unmatched, platform to implement very large OLTP systems, and, in combination with Web Application Server technology, it can be a foundation for a new generation of Web-based, high-workload applications.

3MMIPS running IMS

IMS Runs the World...

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Highlights of the survey include:

Respondents consider mainframes as critical to service oriented architecture and web services initiatives as a data hub and transaction server

74% of respondents do not believe they can successfully move mission critical workloads to a distributed platform at any cost

Customer Outlook for Mainframe Industry

Survey conducted by BMC Software, as reported in Business Wire on 8/28/07

Annual Worldwide Mainframe Industry Survey1,000+ large mainframe customers

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Major Corporations Depend on IMS

Approximately 80% of the largest retail banks in the US, Germany, Japan, and Australia use IMS for their core banking

Most large package tracking companies run IMS

Most automotive companies use IMS to support the assembly lines (build lists, parts where used, parts)

Most large insurance companies in the US and EMEA run IMS for policy billing and claims

Most telecommunications companies use IMS

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China Construction Bank

Challenges Data center consolidation - high available/exponential growth

- More than 375M accts, 18,000 branches, substantial data/transactions

Solution Parallel Sysplex with data sharing

HALDB and Fast Path database support

Disaster recovery and automation tools

Benefits Ultra high availability/capacity for growth

Automated management for fast recovery

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FedEx

Initial Package Recording Branch Offices

– FedEx

– FedEx Kinko’s Large Vendors

– Amazon– Others

Distribution Centers– Sorting trucks/depots– Airports

Technology Networks– Regional domestic– Worldwide

FedEx applica-tion servers

50M - 110M trans/day

thru Connect

Package Recording in Transit Points in travel Driver scanners

z/OSIMS

systems services Connect

transactionmanagement

databasemanagement

OTMA

WebSphere MQ

IMS DB

DB2

Applications for FAA flight plans Flight crews Assignment/Training Aircraft Maintenance

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Verizon

Verizon processes in excess of 4 billion IMS transactions each month. IMS continues to provide both the performance benefits and data integrity guarantee that our business customers demand.

George Sharpe, Verizon

Challenges

Deliver large amounts of business critical data to a large online user community quickly, accurately, and around the clock

– Single applications process 1 million transactions/hour

– 4.3 billion total transactions monthly

– 10 thousand+ concurrent users

– 24 X 7 availability

Solution

IMS

Expected Benefit

High performance and availability

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Customer Workload by Version

V10 in production during QPP

V10 ramping up quickly

V9 GA Oct 2004, predominate version in customer usage today

V8 end of service is Nov 2008

IMS allows skip version upgrade

IMS Workload by Version

V7

V6 +below

V9V8

V10

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IMS Roadmap

Most new releases every 2-3 years– IMS V9 GA October 2004, IMS V8 GA October 2002

– IMS V10 QPP started Jan 2007– IMS V10 GA October 2007– IMS V10+1 now in development/test– IMS V10+2 “on the drawing board”

Two current supported field releases– N-2 release out of service 1 year after current release GA

Key focus areas for new versions– Scalability, performance, throughput, RAS

– Ease of use, automation, lessen skill requirement

– SOA application integration, standards, compliance

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IMS SOA Strategy

Protect customer investments by making it easy and cost efficient to reuse and modernize IMS applications and data

Fully integrate with WebSphere/Rational servers and tooling in a service-oriented architecture (SOA) environment

Encourage new application development by supporting standards – e.g. XML, SOAP, Java, JDBC, etc.

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Best SOA Integration of IMS

Congratulations to Wachovia at IOD 2007:

A major part of Wachovia's SOA environment is supported by IBM WebSphere, IMS software and IBM eServer zSeries hardware. Wachovia has built a set of foundational and business services that it needs to support its delivery channels, such as its online banking, call center and interactive voice response channels. With the IMS Connect solution, users can access all of the client's core business applications - such as its retail banking, customer information, relationship and deposit systems - on the IMS system. Currently, the SOA environment supporting the OLB channel supports over four million users. Keith Harris

Manager of ArchitectureWachovia

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Banking 2015 study projects industry landscape, challenges & opportunities for Banks.

Banking Vision

Business Model

Industry Models

IBM's Reference Architecture for Banking gives core Business, Application & Technology blueprints

Partnerships

Architecture

Deployment

Component Business Model (CBM) shows process views of the Bank

Information FrameWork (IFW) shows data, process and integration models

Progressive Renovation approach to deploy new core systems in phased, low-risk manner

IBM teams strategically with leading Core System Independent Software Vendors

Information FrameWork

Data Model

Function Model

Workflow Model

IBM’s Reference Architecture for Banking

Implementation Optimization

Implementation OperationsApplication Maintenance

Optimization

InfrastructureOptimization

Savings

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“With the IMS Connect solution, users can access all of the client’s core business applications—such as its retail banking, customer information, relationship and deposit systems—on the IMS system. Currently, the SOA environment supporting the online banking channel supports more than four million users.”

— Keith HarrisManager of Architecture

Wachovia

Business Challenge

Business Benefits

Solution IBM IMS with integrated IMS Connect Function IBM WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation IBM System z 990 IBM Business Consulting Services IBM Software Services for WebSphere

Wachovia Corporation

Provides a single set of business and foundational services to support existing and future delivery channels Helps eliminate duplicate business logic to reduce IT maintenance and support costs Reduces costs by leveraging common services Offers a high performance server environment to support more than 4 million customers

Simplify the IT environment and provide consistent information across all delivery channels to reduce costs and better support new services.

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Challenge

Present existing IMS transaction programs as Web Services in a timely manner

Solution

The IMS SOAP Gateway and WebSphere Developer for zSeries (WDz)

Expected Benefit

Provide for the rapid deployment of existing IMS transaction programs without additional programming and development cost

Caterpillar

The IMS SOAP gateway allows us to expose IMS transactions as web services and provides access from any client capable of submitting SOAP requests, without additional software requirements.

Steve ClantonIT Transactional Services, Caterpillar Inc.

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Challenges Security

– Provide flexibility replacing SMU with RACF and/or ACF2

SOA– Exploit SOA with IMS in development environment

Solution Implementing structure in handling security

Exploit IMS Soap gateway

Benefits

Fast and easy way to handle IMS security

Meet customer demands utilizing SOA

Volvo IT

IMS SOAP gateway enables Volvo to exploit SOA in their development environment and because of this, we can inter-operate with applications independent of location, programming language and platform. This enables reuse and maximizes business flexibility.

Anders OhrnbergSenior IMS Technical SpecialistVolvo Information Technology

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Landesbank Baden-Württemberg(LBBW) Challenges

Business opportunities demanded that LBBW update its IMS-based brokerage application

Very tight timeframe

Solution SOA-enable IMS application using GT Software’s Ivory

Service Architect

Build new web-interface using IBM WebSphere

Benefits IMS and mainframe are the cornerstone of LBBW’s SOA

~80% reuse of the IMS-based Web services for new applications

Mainframe developers “learn SOA by doing” with Ivory

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Reducing Skill Requirements and Maintenance Costs

Easing Use in

Installation

Management

Maintenance

Providing Information and Education

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IMS Information and Education

“An Introduction to IMS” book available IMS on the Web: www.ibm.com/ims

– 2007 IMS education schedule

– Presentations, papers, newsletters, fact sheets, announce letters, redbooks

Schedule of seminars, webcasts and teleconferences Technical support info (search on IMS) Information center - enables search across IMS, DB2

and Tools documentation Migration, skills transfer, customized offerings at

[email protected]

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Conferences and Events

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IMS and z: Lowering the Total Cost of Ownership

IBM provides specialized processors – Strategic z/OS execution environment

– Increased system productivity, reducing general purpose processors demands and making capacity available for other workloads

IMS takes advantage of z application assist processors (zAAPs) for Java workloads

– Run at a lower total cost of ownership

– Transparently execute without application change

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IMS V10 continues to leverage z leadership capabilities, offering a broad range of scalability and continually increasing performance/capacity

IMS and z: Breaking Barriers in Scalability

Practically limitless volumes of data

Increased bandwidth for I/O, logging, and MSC

Faster shared message and data handling

More transaction throughput

>44,000IMS transactions/second with database update on a SINGLE IMS Projected to z10

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Team IMS Partner Program

Enable IMS Tools vendors and ISVs to provide “Day 1” support for their products.

Partner with ISVs or Resellers for Cooperative Marketing, Sales and Services

Developer’s Program for Application package vendors to support IMS.

Joint development/subcontractor relationships.

– What packages do you use with IMS?

– What packages would you like IMS to work with?

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Trust Your Business to IMS

Simplifying access and integration for reuse and reduced costs

Handling high transaction loads for growth

Ensuring quality and availability for industrial strength resiliency

Delivering innovation for business flexibility and competitiveness

Helping companies worldwide achieve business results

performance

highest load

quality

innovationreliability

quality

innovation

highest loadflexibility

performance reliability

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© 2008 IBM Corporation IMS Trends and Direction Larry Lange Program Director, Business Development IMS Development IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory June 2008