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IDMS skills are becoming scarcer while relational database expertise is more commonplace. As this legacy data is in many cases a significant asset to the business, converting to the typically strategic open SQL based environment will future proof the business in terms of data skills allowing for faster and more flexible access to critical business information.

This paper will be relevant to any CIO, CTO or senior IT executive who is responsible for COBOL/IMS DB-based, business applications running in production on an IBM MVS platform.

This paper will be relevant to any CIO, CTO or senior IT executive who is responsible for system developed using Mantis, and who are considering the possibility of migrating these systems by converting the programming language to COBOL.

This paper will be relevant to any CIO, CTO or senior IT executive who is responsible for COBOL/IMS DB-based, business applications running in production on an IBM MVS platform.

This paper will be relevant to any CIO, CTO or senior IT executive who is responsible for system whose data is held on VSAM and flat file repositories, and who are considering the possibility of migrating these systems to relation database equivalent structures.