DataStage Connectivity to IDMS

thebird · Post by **thebird** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 10:50 am

Hi All,

Has anyone connected to an IDMS through DataStage? Can you share the details of how this was done, as to -

1) what connector used
2) the version of the connector

It would also be good if someone can tell me upto what versions of IDMS does the connectors support.

The requirement is to connect to a Mainframe system with an underlying IDMS, to extract the data from it and load to a Target system.

Appreciate the help in advance.

Thanks

The Bird

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 12:09 pm

The Datastage EE MVS edition contains optional components for working with IMS viewsets and data sets.

thebird · Post by **thebird** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 1:42 pm

Hi Ray,

We don't have the license for the MVS edition, but only the Enterprise Edition (PX). I am trying to find out how I can use PX to connect to an IDMS.

The IBM folks said that you can connect using an IDMS connector, but I wanted to know if there was a limitation on the IDMS version that this connector supports.

Maybe I'll have to see if we can get hold of the manuals for the connector.

Thanks

thebird · Post by **thebird** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 5:06 pm

Hi All,

The IBM support got back saying that there was an IDMS connector for the Classis Federation for oz/390 which could be used with DataStage to connect to IDMS.

On browsing through the net, it seemed that this connector supports only versions 14.1 and 15.0, while the IDMS system at our end is 12.0... Not sure if this approach is gonna work at all.

Has anybody out here worked with the Classic Federation tool?
Any input regarding the IDMS connector for the Federation or info on whether it supports version 12.0 of IDMS would be of great help.

Thanks

The Bird