Talk:IBM Information Management System

This IBM hype is more of an advertisement than a Wikipedia article
I don't understand why this article has not been flagged as an advertisement: "...IMS is still going strong over 40 years later..." In what sense is it "going strong"? Certainly not in terms of market share among database systems. Does that mean that the last few installations of it are still running? No new database would be set up with IMS. That sentence should be taken out. — Preceding unsigned comment added by CousinJohn (talk • contribs) 19:57, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

Just because you don't encounter it in your travels, IMS is still very much alive. As of 2008 it was generating $700M in revenue for IBM. It would be interesting to know how many DBMS engines generate that amount of annual revenue. DEddy (talk) 22:23, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

IMS - Integrated Management Strategy
Integrated Management Strategy, (do we mean 'Information Management System' here?), is an intelligent guideline especially prepared for the megasite management purposes. It provides all required information, procedures and tools to guide the megasite manager through the whole megasite management process from the initial screening to the final definition of the remediation scenarios and long term site management plan. It helps to distinguish the areas of the megasite with the highest risk and set up priorities for the level of risk reduction, degree of decontamination and consequentially related investments on the basis of risk assessment for the area. This often allows to minimize the costs of the project and maximize effectiveness by relocating investments into the most endangered areas of the site. The Strategy provides as well a decision making tool for the most effective treatment technology to be applied at the site.

SQL and DL/I
"SQL owes its heritage to DL/I" is nonsense. SQL is a (somewhat inaccurate) implementation of ideas first raised by Ted Codd - see Relational modelfor history. DL/I (part of Information_Management_System) is the best-known instance of the [Hierarchical model]. So I'm removing the sentence.Philcha 22:04, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Jargon
This article is detailed but not really something someone (even a computer science student) could look at to appreciate IMS (but they may understand the btrieve article). I guess my goal is to get it so a bank teller wondering what this IMS thing she/he uses all day is all about (even if they don't understand what VSAM, HIDAM, SSA's, etc are). I tried explaining DB a little more generally, but it's late and I'm sure someone has a better way of explaining it. DC explanation needs work and a mention of the deadlock detection feature should def make it up here. Long live IMS! Jonnyct (talk) 05:40, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Alt. name
If I'm thinking of the same product, we always called it InfoMan rather than IMS, but that may just have been our company. Has anyone else heard it referred to it by that name? --Jameboy (talk) 15:23, 22 September 2022 (UTC)