IMS Visibility and Knowledge Building

ATERAS ensures that the customer teams (and the ATERAS teams) have a full understanding of the existing IMS database, as well as a full understanding of the post-conversion relational database. DB-Shuttle™ generates many reports and diagrams to assist with this knowledge-building process:

• Complete Entity Relationship Model (ERM) diagrams for the new relational databases
• Summary reports of the IMS file sizes and usage
• Matrix reports that relate files to tables, fields to columns, IMS records to extract programs, and more
• Date Finder reports that allow team members to define selected fields and columns to ensure that the migration addresses all requirements for date conversion
• Additional ad hoc reports that assist in further detailed identification of the unique characteristics of the IMS database and its conversion