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.
In addition to these components, IMS Connect manages communications for IMS, connecting one or more clients with one or more IMS systems. IMS Connect also handles workload balancing, and supports the IBM® supplied client, the IMS TM resource adapter.
The following diagram shows the layers of communication between IBM Integration Bus and IMS.
The WebSphere MQ-IMS
bridge is a component of WebSphere MQ for z/OS. You can use it to access applications
on your IMS system from WebSphere MQ applications. For more information
about the WebSphere MQ-IMS
bridge, see WebSphere MQ Version 7.5 product documentation
online.
The IMS SOAP Gateway is a web service
solution that integrates IMS assets
in a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) environment. For more information,
see IMS SOAP Gateway web page.
For more details about how IMS works with IBM Integration Bus, see IMS nodes.
For further information about IMS and
its components, see the IBM Information Management Software Library web
page,
which contains links to the IMS information
center and associated IBM Redbooks® publications.