The one thing that gets a lot of attention is the 100,000 transactions per second benchmarked for Fast Path processing. And if you want a short summary of all what's new, then take a look at the 'What's New' tab over here at the IBM IMS pages. Do take a look at the features tab too, because there's some interesting news on pricing as well :
IMS 13 helps lower the Total Cost of Ownership. With IMS, you can expect:As I already told you in my previous post, IMS claims to step up in the same way as DB2 did already. It should consume less resources/mips (out of the box) and still deliver a much better performance. By the way, I mentioned that DB2 was celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, but did you also know that IMS turned 45 (!) this year.
- Cost-effective zIIP solutions for some IMS workloads that lower CPU consumption by up to 15%
- Up to 62% CPU time savings for Java Applications
- Savings on network support
- Lower operating costs through exploitation of z/OS and System z
- Superior environmental efficiency in power, cooling, and space
IMS 13 becomes available on October 25, 2013 and requires at least z/OS 1.13.
While I was browsing around I also came across some interesting IMS resources.
I mentioned the IMS Newsletter quite some time ago, but the latest issue came out yesterday and also focuses of course on the new IMS 13 release. You can find it over here. One article gives more detail on how IMS 13 efficiency is improved to reduce MIPS usage. You can subscribe to the newsletter at this page.
And if you're on twitter, you can also follow @IBM_IMS to get all the breaking news on IMS. And while you're at it, just start following Helene Lyon as well : @HeleneLyon.
1 comment:
Thank you for your informative article! I checked the "What's New" list and stumbled about this:
"- Native SQL support for COBOL enables SQL in COBOL programs to access IMS databases and provides SQL processing natively in IMS."
This sounds interesting....
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