Overview of BMC AMI Change Manager for IMS

BMC AMI Change Manager for IMS makes it easy to make changes to your IBM IMS database environment. It provides:

• A modern graphical user interface (GUI) and guided workflows for making changes to IMS DBDs, PSBs, buffer pools, catalog entries and managed ACBs.

• Support for both the existing GEN and CATALOG processes so that the BMC tools are agnostic to your implementation (or lack of) the IBM IMS Catalog environment. It provides a bridge of functionality across both the environments and assists in conversion.
• Procedures and workflows for managing IMS control blocks and catalogs, which, in turn, can help users of any experience level. 
• Interactive generation and execution of the IMS type-2 commands.
• Ability to activate and back out of IMS managed ACB changes.
• Ability to analyze the impact of changes and generate jobs to implement changes.
• Usability functions to manage an IMS mainframe environment, and also assists in training new IMS system programmers and database administrators. 
• Insight into objects stored in either the PSB/DBD/ACBLIB or the CATALOG/Directory folders. This provides a common base to use BMC management for your environment both now and in the future. 
• A strong platform for understanding, tuning, and managing the PSB and DBD objects, including graphical editors for each.

The key benefits of BMC AMI Change Manager for IMS are as follows:

• It makes less experienced DBAs effective in managing IMS environments with a GUI interface and scripted workflows.
• It assists experienced IMS DBAs with implementation of the IMS catalog. 
• It reduces the risk of making incorrect changes to your IMS environment with easy reversal of any changes, online comparison, and cross-reference reporting, and help text that explains the usage of parameters.