IBM IMS Configuration Manager for z/OS is a configuration management tool that you can use to analyze, modify, and deploy IMS resources and parameters. IMS Configuration Manager makes changing resources and parameters quicker, easier, and more reliable. The tool leverages dynamic resource definition (DRD), introduced in IMS 10, to install resources: combining DRD with the ability to work with resources offline, follow change management policies, and annotate resource definitions.

This product helps reduce the time needed to deal with system parameters as well as reducing the risk of error. It can help improve the IMS version-to-version migration process significantly via its automated features and validation operations.

IMS Configuration Manager supports your application development and maintenance life-cycle:

• Development environments – it makes ad-hoc changes to IMS definitions quick and straightforward
• Production environments –  it bundles and tracks related changes, automates installation and rollback, and maintains an audit history of all changes

IMS Configuration Manager provides major benefits such as:

• Reduced cost of implementing DRD and managing system parameters and MODBLK resources
• Simplification and standardization of change management processes
• Faster time-to-market for new IMS applications

IMS Configuration Manager is branded and distributed internationally by IBM.