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Venerable IMS still attracts tools
- By Rich Seeley
- March 5, 2003
Princeton Softech, a provider of tools for managing data from heterogeneous
databases, has extended its legacy tool to work with IMS. Far from being an
historical footnote, the venerable mainframe-based IMS software from IBM is
still in use at more than 95% of Fortune 1000 companies, said Jim Lee, vice
president of product marketing for the Princeton, N.J.-based tool vendor.
''We've recently added support for IMS,'' he said while explaining the new
features found in Version 5.1 of the firm's Relational Tools suite of
application testing tools for the mainframe environment. ''We found,
interestingly enough, that even though it is legacy, there are still quite a few
large, large customers that run a lot of legacy IMS applications that relate to
DB2. So we provide access to IMS data.''
The Princeton Softech tools are focused on managing the data being used in QA
departments running testing technology from vendors such as Mercury Interactive,
Lee explained.
QA professionals use the Princeton tools to extract data from a variety of
databases, including Oracle, DB2, Sybase and Informix, for testing, Lee said.
The suite also includes tools for creating and editing data for tests and for
comparing data following tests, he added.
About the Author
Rich Seeley is Web Editor for Campus Technology.