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Agenda
 IMS basics
 Hierarchal data concepts
 IMS Accesses methods

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IMS: Information
management system
 IMS consists of two components
 IMS Database Manager - IMS/DB
 IMS Data Communications facility –
IMS/DC

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IMS/DB: Information
Management system database
 IMSDB system covers all aspects of
arranging, accessing and modifying
data based on the hierarchical model
of data management

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IMS/DC: IMS Data
Communications facility
 Manages the scheduling of IMS
transactions and handles online and
database restart and recovery in
case of system failures data
management

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IMS: Key Words
 Segment: the smallest piece of data that
can be accessed;a group of related fields
 Hierarchy: the order in which segments
are arranged in a DB. Sequence is from
top to bottom, left to right, front to back
of the DB structure.
 Sequence field/key: a field used to
maintain and access occurrences of a
segment type in key sequence under the
parent; can be defined as unique or non-
unique
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IMS: Key Words
 Path: a leg of the database hierarchy
 Movement: traversing the DB in
hierarchical sequence
 Position: location in the DB relative to a
particular segment
 Level: position of a segment in the
hierarchy relative to the root segment;
root is always level one

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IMS: Program Types
 Batch program (DLI)
 Batch message processing program
(BMP)
 Message processing program ( MPP)
 Non-conversational
 Conversational

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 Hierarchical Data concepts

BDO

Account Details Project Manager

Project Details Team Leader

Team Member

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Hierarchical Data concepts
BDODETAL<bdoemp_no>
ACCTDETL <acct_id>
PROJCTMG <pmemp_no>
PROJDETL <projct_no>
TEAMLEAD <tlemp_no>
TEAMMEMB <tmemp_no>

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IMS Database Organization
 Hierarchical Direct Access Method (HDAM)
 Hierarchical Index Direct Access Method
(HIDAM)
 Simple Hierarchical Index Sequential Access
Method (SHISAM)
 Hierarchical Sequential Access Method (HSAM)
 Hierarchical Index Sequential Access Method
(HISAM)
 Generalized Sequential Access Method (GSAM)
 Data Entry Database (DEDB)

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IMS ACCESS METHODS
 Hierarchical Direct (HD): HDAM / HIDAM
 Hierarchical Sequential (HS): HSAM / HISAM
(Used less)
 Data Entry DataBase (DEDB): Suitable for
High performance & high availability
 Index Databases: Used to physically
implement secondary indices & HIDAM primary
indices
 Generalized Sequential Access Method
(GSAM): Extend restart/recovery Facilities of
IMS DB Manager to Non-IMS sequential file.

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Operations on IMS database
 Read
 Update
 Delete
 Insert

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Read
 Sequentially
 Accessing Twin segments
 Accessing all segments
 Full Key
 Accessing Main segment
 Accessing Child segment
 Partial key
 Accessing Main segment
 Accessing Child segment

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 Reading

Milind Sunil

AEB PM1AEB Metlife PM1ML

PDAEB TL1 PDML TL1 TL2

TM1 TM2 TM3 TM1 TM2 TM1

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Update
 Updating Key Field (Not Possible)
 Updating Non Key Field

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 Updating
Changing address
Changing address

Milind Sunil

AEB PM1AEB Metlife PM1ML

PDAEB TL1 PDML TL1 TL2

TM1 TM2 TM3 TM1 TM2 TM1

Changing
Project code

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Delete
 Deleting Parent segment
 Deleting Child Segment

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 Deleting

Milind Sunil
Deleting Team
Leader
AEB PM1AEB Metlife PM1ML

PDAEB TL1 PDML TL1 TL2

TM1 TM2 TM3 TM1 TM2 TM1

Deleting Team member

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Insert
 Inserting Parent segment
 Inserting Child segment

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 Inserting

Milind Sunil Sham

AEB PM1AEB Metlife PM1ML

PDAEB TL1 PDML TL1 TL2

TM1 TM2 TM3 TM1 TM2 TM1 TM2

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Summary
 What is IMS?
 Hierarchical data organization
 Operations on IMS database
 Read
 Update

 Delete

 Insert

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