IBM IMS CONSULTING AND SERVICES IMS Consulting and Services is a staff of highly skilled technical consulting professionals whose individuals average over 20 years experience in supporting IMS users worldwide. They represent the focal point for IMS expertise both within IBM and throughout the IMS user community. These technical experts are available as consultants to enhance your own IMS talent and help guarantee a successful project. Successful engagements have included a wide range of industries, including finance, communications, insurance, manufacturing, health care, package delivery, transportation, software development, and even other consulting firms. In addition to their U.S. clients, their services have been used by customers internationally in South Africa, Australia, Malaysia, Spain, Denmark, Germany, and the United Kingdom for engagements ranging from such diverse activities as architectural reviews of major application systems, detailed application and data base design, general IMS system and application performance analysis and tuning, and system availability studies. This consulting team regularly speaks at the IMS Technical Conferences both in the United States and in Europe. The IMS Consulting and Services team has in-depth IMS product knowledge covering: - All versions of Transaction Manager and Database Manager - Fast Path - DBCTL - IMS and CICS and DB2 - APPC (LU6.2) - Client/Server - IMS in an Object Oriented environment - DCE - RPC - Open Systems, Multi-Vendor implementation - ETO (Extended Terminal Option) - Batch implementations - Parallel Transaction Systems, Sysplex and N-way data sharing - Automated Operations ******************************************************************** To contact IMS Consulting and Services: On the Internet: MDOWNER@VNET.IBM.COM OR call (817)962-5206 ******************************************************************** IMS Consulting and Services is part of IBM's Application Enabling Systems Center in Dallas, Texas.