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l. Sort Order* 2. LA ID * 3. Course Title / LA Title *

An Introduction to IMS: Your Complete Guide to IBM's Information

1 INTSK189
Management System

2 SC19-3646 IMS fundamentals

3 SC19-3646 Hierarchy Structure

4 SC19-3646 IMS access Methods

5 SC19-3646 IMS Physical organizations

SC19-3646 IMS Control blocks and various control Block generation/Sysgen

7 SC19-3652 SPACE Management.

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8 SC19-3653-01 Utility Management.

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4. Description * Optional * in hours * Type *
Describe what IMS is and how it is used, Identify IMS
Transaction Manager and Database Manager Components,
Mandatory 8 ILT
List Types of IMS Databases and Describe the
Purpose of Control Regions and Support Regions

This course is designed to present an introduction to the

basic facilities of IMS, how these facilities work together, and
how application programs interact with them. The course
Mandatory 8 ILT
presents the IMS Database System, the IMS Transaction
Manager, and their use in today"s modern Enterprise
Systems.

To understand the basic Hierarchy. Introduction to DL/.

Mandatory 8 ILT
Extended DL/I functions.

Various access methods Mandatory 8 ILT

Various Database organizations such as

HSAM,GSAM,SHASM,HISAM,SHISAM,HDAM databases,
HIDAM. Overview of direct organization. Understanding
Mandatory 16 ILT
and Implementing Secondary Indexing and pointer
concepts. Choosing an IMS access methods out of
HSAM,HISAM,HIDAM,HDAM

Understand Database Descriptor, Program Specification

Mandatory 16 ILT
blocks and ACBs. Generation of these Control Blocks.

Calculating Space required for HDAM,HIDAM and HISAM.

Calculating Space required for Data component as well Mandatory 16 ILT
index portion.

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High performance unload, High performance load, Unload

with Broken pointer and Unload using Primary index.Back
up i.e. Batch back up, Online back up, Restore batch back Mandatory 80 ILT
out, Point in Time back out.. Forward recovery restore ,
Applying log only restore. Change accumulation.

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10. Link *

SG24-5352-00 and http://www-05.ibm.com/e-business/linkweb/publications/servlet/pbi.wss?CTY=US&FNC=SRX&P

http://www-05.ibm.com/e-business/linkweb/publications/servlet/pbi.wss?CTY=US&FNC=SRX&PBL=SC1

http://www-05.ibm.com/e-business/linkweb/publications/servlet/pbi.wss?CTY=US&FNC=SRX&PBL=SC1

http://www-05.ibm.com/e-business/linkweb/publications/servlet/pbi.wss?CTY=US&FNC=SRX&PBL=SC1

http://www-05.ibm.com/e-business/linkweb/publications/servlet/pbi.wss?CTY=US&FNC=SRX&PBL=SC1

http://www-05.ibm.com/e-business/linkweb/publications/servlet/pbi.wss?CTY=US&FNC=SRX&PBL=SC1

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http://www-05.ibm.com/e-business/linkweb/publications/servlet/pbi.wss?SSN=15H0H0012521691533&FNC=PBL&PBL=SC19

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