Can somebody suggest good learning source of IMS?

I would like to learn working with IMS, can somebody suggest me a good source? I'm not sure if it matters to say that I have quite good exposure and experience with INSYNC DB2 and QMF. So anything that can depict and explain the advantages and disadvantages over IMS would be really helpful. Please provide me a good page where i get good explanation and han开发者_JAVA百科ds on scope.. Thanks

Try for the below listed books.

1. IMS for the Cobol Programmer, Part 1: Data Base Processing With Ims/Vs and Dl/I Dos/Vs By Steve Eckols

2. IMS for the Cobol Programmer, Part 2: Data Communications and Message Format Service (Pt.2) by Steve Eckols

3. I. M. S. Programming Techniques: Guide to Using D. L./1 by Dan Kapp and Joseph F. Lebe

Option 3 is a very good book which gives very well structured examples. Good luck

IBM IMS Tutorials

If you're interested in books, you can serach Amazon for IBM IMS.