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IBM IMS on System z Porting Questionnaire

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Your answers to the questions below will help us provide you with an assessment of the changes needed (if any) to build and run your application on IBM IMS on z/OS. Please take the time to answer the questions below, answering questions where the information is available and pertinent to your product.

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About you

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About your product/application.

1)	What is the name of your product/application?

2)	Please give a brief description of your application and its architecture:

3)	What are the prime motivations for moving to IMS for z/OS?

4)	What are the different components of your software, and which of these pieces need to be ported to z/OS?

5)	What platforms (hardware and software) have you deployed this product on?

6)	In which software language(s) is this application or its components written in?

7)	Application behavior: Is this application multi-threaded, does it rely on byte order (big or little endian), and/or does it require two phase commit?

8)	Does your product require any IBM or 3rd party software running on z/OS?

9)	Please list your customers (information is for IBM internal purposes only):

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Additional comments:

About your target platforms

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What version(s) of IMS do you plan to use?

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Any specific z/OS version required?

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Will your application run on z/OS, or just access transactions or databases on z/OS?

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Do you plan to run your application on z/OS, Linux on z, or both?

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Do you have access to a z/OS system for developing and testing?

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Do you have the resource to develop and test on a z/OS system?

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Additional comments:

About your database access

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What databases are you currently supporting? Please include versions and platforms

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Does your product use any proprietary database technology?

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What database interfaces (e.g. ODBC, JDBC, etc) do you use?

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Do you use triggers, user defined functions, or stored procedures?

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Can you briefly describe how your application uses a database? For example, roughly how many records/rows (how large the database is), and how many transactions do you expect in a day?

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Do you store/query XML data? If you do, how do you store it? Do you use or plan to use IMS XML function?

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Are there any specific IMS features that you are interested in?

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Additional comments:

More about you

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What do you want to gain from an assessment?

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When do you want to do an assessment review?

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