Challenge It was a risky proposition for one state agency in the U.S. They were looking at the wholesale conversion of their IMS data to Db2. Like other IMS shops, they knew they needed to get off IMS but they had several reasons to be wary. Why so risky? At one time their IT team had experimented with a manual conversion. It involved only a very small portion of their data, but it took six months to do. Meanwhile the daily updates on the department’s client-management system, which recorded details on the activities and needs of a quarter million people, kept piling up. At some point their IMS system could conceivably just stop working, which of course is unacceptable for any agency, especially for one in a large, high-growth state. Meanwhile the maintenance and licensing o

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