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Preface
IBM® Information Management System (IMS™) provides leadership in performance,
reliability, and security to help you implement the most strategic and critical enterprise
applications. IMS also keeps pace with the IT industry. IMS, Enterprise Suite 2.1, and IMS
Tools continue to evolve to provide value and meet the needs of enterprise customers.
With IMS 12, integration and open access improvements provide flexibility and support
business growth requirements. Manageability enhancements help optimize system staff
productivity by improving ease of use and autonomic computing facilities and by providing
increased availability. Scalability improvements have been made to the well-known