Case Study: U.S. State Agency achieves seamless IMS-to-Db2 migration and significant cost savings with Precisely's Syncsort Optimize IMS

U.S. State Agency - Customer Case Study

U.S. State Agency faced a risky, wholesale migration of a large IMS environment to Db2 after a manual pilot took six months for only a small subset while daily updates for a quarter‑million clients continued; IMS maintenance and licensing was costing roughly $800,000 annually. To avoid operational disruption and budget overruns they selected vendor Precisely and its Syncsort Optimize IMS solution and services for the conversion.

Precisely’s Syncsort Optimize IMS software and services team re‑engineered more than 1,200 IMS data fields, mapped IMS segments to Db2 tables, and executed a transparent cutover while day‑to‑day IMS operations continued. The migration delivered SQL‑based application development, eliminated cumbersome replication, unlocked Db2 decision‑support capabilities, and removed the roughly $800,000 annual IMS maintenance/licensing expense, yielding clear operational and cost improvements.