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Project: ims-java-lab

Description

This lab was designed to help application programmers access an IMS database through the IMS JDBC driver from both a distributed application and a native application. The lab was originally designed to be instructor led but with the long term goal of eventually being a self paced lab that anyone can take. The lab instructions can be found within the README.md file

Potential Future Changes

• Application
  • Add exercises for JMP application deployment
  • Add exercises for JEE application (Liberty) deployment
• Backend
  • Modify the lab to run against a public IBM Z demo system such as zserveros
  • Modify the lab to run against a cloud provisioned zPDT
  • Provide IMS DBD and PSB source files and instructions for user to provision their own system
• Application deployment
  • Incorporate a Jenkins workflow to automate native application deployment
  • Convert project to be Maven based
• Additional projects
  • A Java-COBOL language interoperability lab
  • A Java-PL/I language interoperability lab
  • A more advance JDBC lab
    • Mapping, Variable Length Segments, Custom Type Converters