- IMS DB - Home
- IMS DB - Overview
- IMS DB - Structure
- IMS DB - DL/I Terminology
- IMS DB - DL/I Processing
- IMS DB - Control Blocks
- IMS DB - Programming
- IMS DB - Cobol Basics
- IMS DB - DL/I Functions
- IMS DB - PCB Mask
- IMS DB - SSA
- IMS DB - Data Retrieval
- IMS DB - Data Manipulation
- IMS DB - Secondary Indexing
- IMS DB - Logical Database
- IMS DB - Recovery
Discuss IMS DB
IMS stands for Information Management System. IMS was developed by IBM with Rockwell and Caterpillar in year 1966 for the Apollo program to send a man to the moon. It started the database management system revolution and still continues to evolve to meet data processing requirements. IMS provides an easy-to-use, reliable, and standard environment for executing high-performance transactions. IMS database is used by high-level programming languages like COBOL to store data in hierarchical arrangement and access it.
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