Unstructured legacy data access/migration
Modernization and integration teams gain a governed path to discover, understand, access, update, stream, and migrate legacy IMS-DB and VSAM data using approved layouts and shared catalog definitions. This reduces reliance on green-screen tools, custom extract jobs, hand-written DDL, and disconnected lineage tracking while enabling APIs, event pipelines, and SQL migration targets from trusted mainframe data structures.
Challenges
- IMS-DB and VSAM layouts are inspected on green screens instead of a shared, approved catalog.
- Teams lack a governed path to browse, query, and update IMS hierarchies and VSAM records under RACF.
- Streaming changes and migrating VSAM to SQL still depends on custom extract jobs, hand-written DDL, and disconnected lineage.
Benefits
- Discover IMS-DB and VSAM sources in AtomIQ and bind COBOL layouts in CoreIQ catalogs for governed access.
- Browse, query, and where gated update IMS segments and VSAM KSDS records under the caller’s RACF identity.
- Stream VSAM changes to Kafka or webhooks and migrate schemas and records into SQL with persisted field-to-column lineage.
This capability brings IMS-DB and VSAM assets into a shared modernization workflow. AtomIQ can be used to discover data sources, while CoreIQ catalogs preserve approved layout associations so teams can work from governed definitions instead of ad hoc green-screen inspection or separate tooling.