IMS Reviews & Product Details

I'm really impressed on how this age old monk has evolved over the time. I got an opportunity to work IBM IMS for 7-8 years. I must brag about it's processing speeds for the High Volume Of Records, Robustness, Impressive scalability, Economically Viable,

Secured environments and No fear of Runtime exceptions. To be honest, I never faced an outage in my service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is a scope of improvement in the areas like user friendly GUI and in creating user manuals that imparts issue resolution and knowledge on the fly. It's an hard nut for a new learners. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The IMS have some unique features which makes this IMS database from relational database and the design of algorithm is implemented in such a way that the best result will get in the least amount of time. This makes the transaction process fast and user friendly. It can handle thousands of processing requests in a single go. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The restoring process takes much time in IMS as compare to other relational databases. There are very rare instances in the banking industry where we need to retrieve the 1000 days back data but when it is required in case of IMS database it is taking bit much more time than relational database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have been part of Life Insurance, Telecom and Credit Card Industries for more than 12 years .

As a programmer Analyst implementing and deploying data conversation between back end and front end system have always been a challenge to me. Database Management with IMS was very

helpful since the hierarchical data storage allows us to communicate with data for industries

with direct consumer needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Naturalization of Data in IMS is predated where the searchability of data is slower. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Security

Reliability

Big volume of data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It should be more flexible

not being a DB relational penalizes its use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Quick access to the data even if the data records span to millions. Highly reliable both in batch and online environments. I have worked in large enterprise applications that use IMS, the experience has always been top-notch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lack of SQL like interface to perform data operations. The query constructs are not easy to understand for a beginner or an intermediate programmer. The learning curve is quite steep compared to other RDMS systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

IMS is a message-based transaction manager and hierarchical-database manager for z/OS®. External applications can use transactions to interact with applications that run inside IMS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The IMS Database component stores data using a hierarchical model, which is quite different from IBM's later released relational database, Db2 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Good for simple input or display of data in concise, organized manner. Facility available to display sub-records in a scrollable format. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

seems to be on it's way out in favor of more modern looking interfaces. can be a bit cumbersome in terms of setting up online transactions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Data stored and retrieved are very secure since it resides inside the Mainframe server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This type of storing data is getting degraded and getting replaced by conventional DB2. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

IMS calls are faster than any other type of Databases Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lack of expertise in IMS....it seems many new people coming does not have better understanding of IMS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1.helpful in checkpoint restart logic 2. Data retreival time in IMS is very fast as compared to DB2 system Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Complicated hierarchical structure of IMS database Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

applications can be created, controlled and changed, regardless of the kind of network or platform on which they run Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Due to big network architecture troubleshooting is complex Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the High Security of IMS. The performance is also good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

this does not support the non-relational databases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to understand and navigate. The availability to show result set is good Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Automatic suggestions for errors to route to ibm page. Troubleshooting is complex. There should be more ims specialists Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Check-in and check-out process and also we can keep each and every revision easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like to use IMS , nothing is there to dislike it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

IMS 15 uses pervasive encryption of data and reduces the cost of generating deep insights by keeping your data on IBM Z Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Risk to leak important information data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Processing Power, reliability, maintainability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ancient technology that is not a strategic platform by IBM Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its lowest cost transaction db management system, merts all standard requirements with one set of policies, reduced cost in audits Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing as such to mention here but problems can come up with ims is lack of resources when u jave more than one month systems Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its reliability. I have experienced outages very rarely. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its hard to find IMS specialists. This should be taken into account. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Has great throughput, can do DB & DC simultaneously Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hierarchical databases are old technology Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Growth in future and learning curves is very good Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Need to work on more new and niche technology work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like High level performance of the database Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is not much flexible to use and conversion of DL/I calls is not easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The precise data.I recommend companies to use IMS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have not felt IMS is not helpful anytime Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

OLTP systems are harder to manage but with IMS its easier Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Relatively expensive hardware compared to RDBMS or other DBs requirement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

it is hierarchical database and it is easy to retrieve the data via IMS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

it is old technology and DB2 will take the place of IMS in upcoming years. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its very likely to have IMS for all connections Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its mandatory that some one added premium for connecting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.