PowerExchange can read bulk data from a CA IDMS source on a z/OS system. However, PowerExchange cannot write bulk data to an IDMS target.

PowerExchange treats IDMS as a nonrelational DBMS. Consequently, you must create a data map for an IDMS data source from the PowerExchange Navigator. PowerExchange uses the data map to access IDMS source data and metadata to create a relational view of the source records for processing.

Because the IDMS database runs on a z/OS system, it is remote from the system or systems on which the PowerExchange Navigator, PowerCenter Client, and PowerCenter Integration Service run. Therefore, you must run an additional PowerExchange Listener on the remote z/OS system and verify that PowerExchange and PowerCenter can communicate with it.

Also, PowerExchange might require that the IDMS load libraries or the PowerExchange copies of these load libraries be APF-authorized, depending on how you set some DBMOVER configuration statements.