Increase business agility by virtualizing physical resources
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COPE transforms physical resources in various stages of IMS application development and testing into virtualized and extensible representations of this same set of physical resources. All that a developer, QA specialist, or database professional needs to do is change a set of required parameters, which COPE then copies and compiles to create virtual IMS systems.
- Virtualize an IMS subsystem with multiple versions of a given application, satisfying needs for development, integration test, UAT, pre-prod, and other desired environments
- Allow multiple copies of identically named objects to exist within a single IMS system without modifying application program names and libraries
- Share or have unique databases, Db2 table programs, and MFS formats for each system
- Apply an extensive set of ISPF-based applications to allow IMS objects such as programs and databases, and MFS and DYNALLOC members to be saved and compiled easily