For IBM mainframe customers, Db2 provides the rich relational database functionality required by today’s e-business and business intelligence applications. It has become the database of choice for zOS. But, for many long-time mainframe customers, extending the benefits of Db2 to legacy IMS data has remained out of reach. For one state agency, the risks and work involved with a manual data conversion kept them from moving forward. However, the increasing maintenance and licensing of IMS was costing the department hundreds of thousands of dollars annually. Eventually, they faced legislatively mandated changes in the department’s client-management software system and they had to find a solution to move from IMS to Db2. They chose Elevate IMS – a data migration and application transparency solution specifically designed to address the challenges of IMS data migration to Db2. View this webinar on-demand to learn: • How Elevate IMS works • How the agency used Elevate IMS to move to Db2 with no change to their normal day-to-day operations • The multiple hard and soft cost savings the agency has seen by moving to Db2

1. Elevate IMS
Eliminate the Risk from Your IMS to Db2 Plans
Presented by:
Bill Bostridge – VP Data Infrastructure Optimization
Mike Picou – Solutions Consultant

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3. • Introduction
• Why migrate from IMS to DB2
• Customer Stories
• State of Florida – Department of Corrections
Mike Picou – Florida DOC – DBA Manager
• Value Proposition
• Q&A
Agenda

4. • IBM’s IMS is a hierarchical database and has been in organizations for decades
• Applications are mission critical and complicated
• Huge costs in supporting IMS
• Staffing, IMS DB licensing, 3rd party management tools for IMS (BMC,
Compuware, CA, IBM)
• Enforced upgrades to current versions of IMS DB (On average every 2 years)
• Benefits in moving to Db2
• Web applications, new fields, new lines of business
• Drastically reduced infrastructure costs
• But rewriting applications is hard to get right
IBM Information Management System (IMS)

5. • A combination of IMS to Db2 migration and mapping tools to migrate IMS segments to Db2 tables
• The interface between the IMS applications, which do not change and the migrated IMS data that is now
residing in Db2
• Allows the replacement of IMS DB with Db2, eliminating the need for IMS support tools (BMC,
Compuware, etc.)
• Consolidates your database maintenance activities to one platform – Db2
• Replacing IMS DB so that all your production data is now residing in Db2
• A transparent data migration route from IMS DB on z/OS to DB2 on z/OS
What is Elevate IMS?

6. Transparent migration process overview

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9. • Makes it easier and less risky to move IMS applications to
Db2 to alleviate staffing challenges and licensing costs
associated with IMS.
• Converts the underlying database to Db2 without changing
the IMS application programs, and eliminates the need for
third-party IMS tools or IMS DBA and Systems expertise.
• Once databases have been converted, SQL and Db2 skills
can be used to make changes and/or add new functionality
to existing applications
• In many cases Elevate IMS becomes a stepping stone to full
application modernization using native Db2/SQL
The justification for Elevate IMS

10. Simplicity
• One less platform to maintain
• Eliminate replication of data – “one version of the truth”
• Eliminate on-going DBA and programming support for IMS DB
• Consolidation of application maintenance to Db2 /SQL skills
Cost Reduction
• Eliminate software licensing costs for IMS DB and IMS tools
• Eliminate enforced IMS DB upgrades – V13, V 14 V15 and so on…
Reduce Migration Risk
• Over time, rewrite components to native SQL
• Make an orderly move to modernize your applications
Benefits of transparent data migration

11. Eliminate
Risk
Time and effort to complete
project is minimal, compared
with an application rewrite
Information
Access
Make data securely available
across the entire enterprise –
consolidate to a single
RDBMS – Db2 on z/OS
Transparent
Migration
Elevate IMS is a transparent
data migration, no
application changes required
Proven
Solution
Elevate IMS has proven itself
around the world in a wide
variety of vertical industries.
Reduce overall maintenance costs and
increase IT staff productivity by
consolidating all your critical data into Db2
The smart
approach to
IMS data
migration

12. Question? – Does you organization just want to remove IMS DB and the
associated support overhead and on-going licensing costs?
“We just want to get out of IMS”
OR
We would like to get our IMS data into a relational model in DB2 to
further the life of the applications and support new business initiatives
“We want to be in DB2”
Benefit to IMS application user community
Increased
Agility
Higher
Service
Levels
Cost
Reduction
Reduced
Complexity

13. Migration options
DBDCopyDBDCopyDBDCopy
IMS Segment Type
DBD
DB2 Table
SEQ SCH
CB2CB1SEQ CB2 CB3
SEQ SCH
CB2CB1SEQ CB2 CB3
SEQ SCH
SEQ CB1 CB2 SEQ SEQ
SEQ SCH
KEY CB1 CB2 CB3 CB4 FLAG
Char Date Char Int Dec Char
KEY CB1 CB2 CB3 CB4
Char Date Char Int Dec
KEY
Char Char Char Char Char
CB1 CB2 CB3 CB4
KEY Col
Char Char
OPTION 1
OPTION 2
OPTION 3
OPTION 4
Based on :
- IMS DBD Segment
+ Copybook
Based on :
- IMS DBD Segment+
+ Copybook
+ DB2 data type
+ re-engineering
Based on :
- IMS DBD Segment
Based on :
- IMS DBD Segment
+ Copybook
+ DB2 data type
CB3 CB4
CB1 CB3 CB4
CB1 CB3 CB4

14. Post migration with Elevate IMS
• SQL can be used to access data
• DB2 built in functions can be used for
analytical/decision support type processing
• Average, Count, etc – Option 3 conversion
• Faster database changes
• Easier modeling, give various database models
a try
• Less COBOL coding to filter records, the records
returned are the ones you want
• Analysis tools help spot potential performance
problems before production implementation
• Sophisticated tuning tools available
• Can test/develop queries in ad-hoc tools such a
SPUFI without writing a COBOL program
• Deliver requests for information using ad-hoc
reporting tools much faster than writing a COBOL
program
• Over time, rewriting to native DB2/SQL maybe of
benefit?

15. Customer Stories and
Use Cases

16. NASCO is owned by and exclusively serves Blue Cross and Blue
Shield Plans as a claims processing provider for over 23 million
members across the United States. They were concerned with
the costs they were spending for IMS and related tools . They
also knew they were at risk of a skills shortage as their IMS
staff members were headed to retirement and needed to take
action to reduce that risk. After looking at all the alternatives,
they quickly decided that using Elevate IMS to migrate their
IMS data to Db2 was their best option.

17. Customer was very focused
on reducing cost, their team very
fully engaged right from the start.
CTO buy-in, DBA team and
Application teams all supporting the
solution in the initial engagement
and through the successful Pilot.
BCBS - Claims
Processing
Provider
OBJECTIVE
• Eliminate IMS DB and IMS tools to reduce
significant MLC charges from IBM
CHALLENGE
• Hybrid 3rd party solution from EDS that was
complex
• Complex applications with custom interfaces
to IBM resources
SOLUTION
• Migrate IMS data to DB2 using Syncsort’s
Elevate IMS
BENEFITS
• Most efficient migration approach to reduce
long term costs
• Easier management with consolidation to Db2
• Reduced risk as IMS skills are heading toward
retirement

18. Florida Department of Corrections
Uses
Elevate-IMS
to help modernize their Offender Based Information System
OBIS

19. Florida Department of Corrections
DESCRIPTION
• The OBIS system tracks approximately 250,000 offenders in the State of Florida, both Incarcerated and on Probation.
• Retains historical data for all offenders remanded to the Department of Corrections by the State Courts.
• Had been in constant development for over 25 years, adding functionality as demanded by internal requirements, State Legislation
and Court Orders.
• Written primary in COBOL using IMS/DB as the main intake database.
CHALLENGES
• Functionality requirements becoming more and more complex as the workforce shrunk and more reliance was placed on the system.
• Courts and legal legislation requirements becoming more rapid and complex.
• Need for faster response to change requests and additional functionality requirements
• More Ad-Hoc requests for data
• Need to have large amounts of data available on-line. The physical files of IMS/DB were filling up and needed to be partitioned
(expanded), which would be problematic in DOC’s IMS environment. A 2 year life expectancy on several databases was estimated.
• Db2 was also in use, administering both IMS and Db2 was time consuming and problematic.

20. Florida Department of Corrections
SOLUTIONS EXAMINED
• Do nothing
• This was not an option as several IMS/DB physical files were approaching their limit. A 2 year life was estimated.
• Re-write/re-platform
• Estimated at 50-60 million, the state legislature was unwilling to allocate the funds.
• How to duplicate 25 years of user requirements, state legislation and court orders in a 2-3 year project.
• Migrate IMS data to DB2 using Syncsort’s Elevate-IMS

21. Florida Department of Corrections
BENEFITS of Elevate-IMS
• Program business logic continued to work as before.
• Significant data typing in Db2 was possible (Dates and Numeric values), to take advantage of the Db2 built in
functions.
• New functionality could be delivered using Db2/SQL coding skills.
• Fast proto-typing of new database functions now possible.
• Expansion of the physical files (databases partitioning) in Db2 was possible ‘behind the scenes’ alleviating space
requirements.
• Significant cost reduction with elimination of IMS DB and IMS tools licensing. Over 17 IMS/DB supporting software
products were eliminated in addition to IMS/DB.

22. Complex IMS application
environment, required migration to
Db2 to support increased
functionality requirements and pave
the way to application
modernization
Florida
Department
of Corrections
OBJECTIVE
• Consolidate data to one DBMS and provide
modernization platform in Db2
CHALLENGE
• Legislature unable to approve funding for
multi-million $ rewrite
• Cost reduction and on-going application
modernization
SOLUTION
• Migrate IMS data to DB2 using Syncsort’s
Elevate IMS
BENEFITS
• Significant cost reduction with elimination of
IMS DB and IMS tools licensing
• Application change requests now delivered
via SQL/Db2 skills
• IMS databases migrated to Db2
implementing Db2 native data types

23. Extend Life of
Applications
Moving to a relational DB
model without need to
rewrite applications
Staffing
Challenges
Fewer and fewer developers
and DBA’s with IMS Skills
Cost
Reduction
License fees for IMS and
related tools can be very
expensive
There are 3 reasons
companies choose Elevate
IMS to migrate from IMS to
Db2
Why Elevate
IMS?

24. • Finance
• Insurance
• Healthcare
• Local and State Government
• Manufacturing
• Retail
• All customers have gained significant fiscal and operational benefits
by migrating to Db2 with Elevate IMS
Hear first hand from Damon Anderson
Director of Data Services at Anixter about their successful migration project
http://www.syncsort.com/en/Resource-Center/Mainframe/Webcasts/IMS-to-
DB2-Migration
Over 100 projects completed globally

25. Q & A