Virtual IMS User Group: Modernizing IMS Backup and Recovery – The Strategic Shift to Cloud Storage

📅 July 14, 2026
🕦 11:30 AM ET

As enterprise data volumes continue to grow and cyber threats become increasingly sophisticated, organizations are rethinking how IMS backup and recovery environments are designed, secured, and maintained.

In this session, Sujata Mane of BMC Software explores the architectural and operational shift from traditional tape-based backup strategies toward modern software-defined cloud storage approaches for IMS environments.

Attendees will gain insight into how organizations are integrating native z/OS technologies with public and private cloud object storage while maintaining compatibility with existing DBRC processes and JCL workflows. The session will also examine how Cloud Data Sets (CDS) and zIIP specialty engines can help reduce CPU overhead, improve recovery performance, and support evolving cyber resiliency requirements.

Topics include:

• Integrating Cloud Data Sets with existing IMS recovery workflows
• Reducing mainframe CPU utilization through zIIP offloading
• Improving recovery readiness and Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs)
• Implementing immutable WORM policies and logical air-gapping strategies
• Modernizing backup and recovery operations without disrupting established IMS processes

Designed for IMS systems programmers, architects, infrastructure teams, and operations professionals, this presentation offers a practical look at how cloud-enabled recovery strategies are reshaping enterprise resilience and long-term data protection planning.

Speaker

Sujata Mane
BMC Software

Sujata Mane is a Senior QA Engineer at BMC Software with more than 11 years of mainframe experience across development and support roles. She has delivered technical solutions for organizations in the banking, insurance, and manufacturing industries, including State Farm, MetLife, HSBC, and Northern Trust. Her expertise includes COBOL, JCL, DB2, and VSAM, with recent specialization in modern enterprise backup and recovery technologies.