Overview

If you want to run IMS applications in an enterprise server, you can either create a new enterprise server specifically for this purpose, or use an existing enterprise server. If you create a new enterprise server, you should choose Micro Focus Enterprise Server with Mainframe Subsystem Support on the first page of the Add Server dialog.

Once you have created a new enterprise server or modified an existing one, you can configure it for IMS. Depending on your IMS applications, the various configuration operations you need to perform are as follows:

• enabling IMS
• enabling JCL
• specifying the location of genned files
• creating a resource group
• adding a resource group to a startup list
• defining transactions
• calculating shared memory area requirements

These operations are covered in the following sections.

Resources, SITs and startup lists are all CICS concepts. This is because support for IMS in Enterprise Server is closely integrated with support for CICS. As a result, much of the configuration necessary to run CICS applications in an enterprise server is also necessary to run IMS applications.