IMS08 IMS User Interface Strategy - IMS UG June 2013 Melbourne

IMS Technical Conference

IMS User Interface Strategy

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Greg Vance

IBM STSM, IMS Development

IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory

[email protected]

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Overview

� User Interface Strategy

� Explorer for Development

� Web console for administration


� Mobile

� Questions

User Interface Strategy


User Interface Strategy

IMS User Interface Enhancements

AdministratorsDevelopers


IMSISPF Mobile

IMS Explorer for Development



IMS Application Development (AD) Challenges

Shrinking knowledge base around IMS &

hierarchical data base model

Difficult to find DLI programmers


Lack of integrated development solutions and tools

Difficult to test and deploy applications

Fewer experienced COBOL and PL/I programmers

IMS ExplorerIntegration Strategy

Out of the box shell-sharing with:

• IMS Tools

• Rational Development for Systems z

• Including RDz UT


•Problem Determination Tool

• Debug Tool, File Manager

• IBM Data Studio

• CICS Explorer

….

Introduction the IMS Enterprise Suite Explorer

� Easier visualization and editing of IMS Database and Program Definitions

– Provide graphical editors to:

• Display IMS database hierarchical structures

• Display/create/edit PSBs

• Add/Edit fields in DBDs

– Import Cobol CopyBooks and PL/I Structures into database segments


– Generates DBD and PSB source

� Ability to easily access IMS data using SQL statements

– Leveraging IMS v11 Universal JDBC driver

� Connectivity to the z/OS system

– Browse a Data Set and submit JCLs

– Import DBD and PSB source files from a Data Set to IMS Explorer, and export generated source back to the host.

Displaying an IMS Database Structure via Green Screen


Logical Relationship in a DBD Source

Displaying a physical IMS Database Structure with IMS Explorer


Displaying a logical IMS Database Structure with IMS Explorer


A concatenated segment and its underlying

source segments



Querying an IMS Database with DFSDDLT0


Querying an IMS Database with IMS Explorer with Universal JDBC driver

1 – Start by establishing a connection to an IMS system ….

IP and Port for IMS Connect

Create a

new connection…


Point to an IMS Explorer project with the PSB that will be used to connect

to an IMS database

Querying an IMS Database with IMS Explorer with Universal JDBC driver

2 – Connect … and start querying, updating, deleting IMS data

SQL Builder with content assistance to

Here you can create SQL scripts with

Select, Update,

Delete, Insert


View w/ the SQL results

assistance to build a SQL statement

Connection

PSB = Schema

DB PCB = Database

Database Segments

Delete, Insert statements

Browsing Data Sets and Submitting JCL’s


Browsing Data Sets and Submitting JCL’s with the IMS Explorer

Browse data sets


JES output is displayed

here

Edit a data a set member

Want to Learn More About IMS Explorer?

www.ibm.com/ims�Click on IMS Enterprise Suite

� Click on IMS Enterprise Suite Explorer for

Development (IMS Explorer for Development)


Development (IMS Explorer for Development)

Web Console Administration


Web Console Administration

Connect and Discover

� Configure IMS Connect connections

� Discover IMS Resources

– IMSPlexes

– IMS Connects

– Operations Manager


– Operations Manager

– IMS's

• Transactions

• Databases

• Programs

• Routing Codes

� Relationships

� Management

Web Console Vision

� Provide IMS system programmers and DBAs a state-of-the-art user interface to manage, configure, and deploy IMS systems

� Full operational control over all IMS address spaces


� Full command of IMS resources

– Programs, transactions, databases, etc

� Immediately react to and resolve issues in the system

� Cloud-style IMS system management

– IMS region profiling, application profiling, application deployment

“I want the most junior systems programmer to understand while the most senior the ability to tune”


Web Console Advantage

� Skills

– Designed to help both new and experienced users

� Competitive edge

– Critical access to important information


– Critical access to important information

– Deliver results faster and more efficiently

– Reduce operational cost

� Flexibility

– 24x7 Access to data from anywhere at anytime

• Smart phones

• Tablets

– Software integration

24x7

Service Agility, development scenario…

"Hey Simon, I need to test my new version of the

payroll Transaction I created using RDz and the

IMS Explorer for Development.”

"Sure Abigail, all you need to now is log

into the IMS Web Console and use the

Start and Stop capabilities; I will send you

a link."

FASTERFASTER


"Thanks, I'll test my Transaction on the

development IMSPlex later today."

"That should be fine, let me know if you need anything

else.

SIMPLERSIMPLER

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Prototype

� View the Enterprise

– Hierarchical and logical grouping of resources

� IMSplex at-a-glance

– Immediate insight into properties of any given IMSplex

– Drill-down for advanced insight and action

� Transaction Insight


– Transaction and program status immediately available

– Operate directly on transactions

� Database Insight

– Status and attributes immediately available

– Operate directly on databases

� Program Insight


– Operate directly on programs

� Routing Code Insight


– Operate directly on routing codes

Prototype

� At-a-glance Status Icons

– Colored status icons help identify troubled resources

� Context Sensitive Help

– Hover hints


– Hover hints

– User driven help panel

– Suggestive corrective actions

� Product Integration

– Seamless integration across IMS and IMS Tools

� User Profiles and Caching

� Zero Install Footprint for Clients

� Installs on z/OS and Windows

From....SYSPLEX1 (EC03127)

LPAR 1

IMS2

IMS CONNECT

IMSPLEX (PLEX1)

TransDatabasePrograms Routing Codes


LPAR 3

IMS3IMS1

IMS CONNECT

IMS CONNECT

LPAR 2IMSPLEX (PLEX2)

Operations Manager

Operations Manager

TSO SPOC


SCIODBM


..configure....

Define the environment Configure IMS

Connect


Auto Discover IMSPlexes

To....� Hierarchical view of

IMS Resources

� Logically grouped and auto discovered

� Quickly navigate from one resource to


one resource to another

Search the Enterprise� Search

– Search for any resource that has been

configured or discovered

• Resources include IMS Transactions, Databases, Programs and Routing Codes

– Search result types are identified by keyword


– Search result types are identified by keyword

– Instantly view the found resource and drill further

into the resource

Search the EnterpriseSearch for

Transaction ADDINV

Results continue to narrow down till you

have stopped typing


Searching the entire enterprise for a match

while you type “ADD....”

IMS Resource Relationships� Resource Relationships

– At a glance see how resources are related

– Relationships between resources in one view

– Quickly diagnose problems between resources



IMSIMS

IMS

IMSIMS

IMS

IMS Resource Relationships


Transaction Insight


Operate Directly on Databases


At-a-glance Status Icons� Statuses are aggregated and

represented by icons

– Severe, Success, Warning

� Hover help displays the aggregated statuses

Statuses are shown as icons

Hover icons for the status


– Can drill in to a row and access our integrated help

� Intended direction would allow for users to configure the status colors to their own business logic

NOTINIT BAL TRA

QERR CPIC DYN

STOQ IOPREV

STOSCHD LCK

USTO QSTP

SUSPEND

Status icon definitions for transactions

Context Sensitive Help� Hover hints

– Helpful to new users

� User driven help panel

– Context sensitive help

� Corrective actions

Context sensitive help

panels


� Corrective actions

– Suggestions corresponding to the status

Hover help available for

attributes

Corrective actions, how to

handle a particular status

How to get started?

� IMS Tools Product

– IBM Tools Base Administration Console for

z/OS

� PID: 5655-V93


� PID: 5655-V93

� FMID: HAHN140

Mobile


Mobile

Why mobile

� By 2020, the number of mobile devices worldwide will exceed 24 billion

– IMS needs to enable mobile apps to interact more easily

with IMS


� Essential technology that will enable customers to deliver on their business imperatives

� Modern, integrated interfaces lower the skills barrier

“Mobile is a mandatory transformation in the evolution of computing”

Client/Server

Web/Desktop

Mobile/Wireless/Cloud

Mobile enables:


Mobile enables:

• Premium Customer Service – hotel

bookings, flight check-in, etc

• Broader Marketing Reach – Put your

branded icon on your customers’ smart device

• Increased Revenue

• Increased Operational Efficiency – extend

your existing enterprise systems to the mobile platform

ISPF

Build mobile applications

Connect to, and run System z applications in support of mobile

Manage mobile devices and System z applications

Secure my mobile business

Extend existing business capabilities to mobile devices

Transform the business by creating new opportunities

Mobile and System z

Mobile computing – the next wave of computing for System z


• NEW! IBM Mobile Messaging client updates to extend mobile devices to WebSphere MQ on z/OS

• NEW! Cognos Mobile on z/OS for view of dashboards, reports, etc.

• NEW! CICS TS Feature Pack for Mobile Extension V1.0 and INTENDED! IMS 13 with native JSON support

• NEW! IBM Mobile Development Lifecycle Solution v4 for development of multiplatform mobile applications

• NEW! Secure access to System z and mobile acceleration using Worklight capabilities with IBM Integration Bus on z/OS V9.0

• NEW! IBM DataPower Gateway Appliance V6allowing IMS transactions to consume external web services

Developed a mobile app in just three months for citizens to send their taxes securely via mobile

Developed a citizen-centric application including real-time public bus, camping permits and city work

Built a mobile app for students to get schedules, emergency information, grades and other academic info

IMS and Mobile

� IMS intends to deliver enhanced support for mobile applications by implementing WAS

Liberty Profile support with integrated REST endpoint, which will enable use of the

lightweight data-interchange format JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)

� Mobile application development

� Target is IMS administration

� Mobile enablement for

� IMS transactions


� IMS transactions

� IMS data

IMS Mobile Enablement – Current Architecture

IBM z/OS

IMS Connect

IBM Worklight

Server

Transaction Manager

IMS Application

Mobile

Devices

IMS

SO

AP

Gate

way

SQL Adapter

HTTP Adapter

IMS Explorer for Dev

Web / Desktop

Roll your own

(proprietary)


Database Manager

IMS DB

Co

nn

ect A

PI

IMS

Un

ive

rsa

l Driv

er

IMS Explorer for Admin

Web-enabled IMS apps

ISPF

IMS mobile enablement – intended architecture

IBM z/OS

Transaction Manager

IMS Application

Mobile

Devices

WAS Liberty ProfileJSON

IBM Worklight

Server

SQL Adapter

HTTP Adapter


IMS Connect

Database Manager

IMS DB

Web / Desktop

ISPF

REST API

IMS Mobile Apps

JSON

IMS

SO

AP

Gate

way

IMS

SO

AP

Gate

way

SO

AP

, JD

BC

, WA

S

Mobile connectivity scenario with DataPower

• DataPower as secure mobile gateway

IBM WebSphere DataPower

Mobile

Devices

Legacy apps, Web apps, Services


IBM WebSphere DataPower

REST & JSON over HTTPS

SOAP over HTTPS

Questions ?


Questions ?

Technology

IMS08 IMS User Interface Strategy - IMS UG June 2013 Melbourne