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<h6>Engage</h6>
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<h1>Advocates and ideas</h1>
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<p>Get an IMS advocate to represent you and learn how to submit ideas to the IMS team.</p>
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<p>Get an IMS advocate to represent you. Also, submit your ideas to enhance the IMS product.</p>
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<a class="button button-primary button"
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aria-label="Request an IMS Advocate"
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Request an IMS Advocate
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Request an IMS advocate
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<section class="white-bg pure-g">
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<div class="pure-u-1 pure-u-md-1-4 section-header">
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<h2>Who are they?</h2>
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<p>IMS Advocates are folks that work at the IMS lab.</p>
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<p>IMS Developers</p>
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<p>IMS developers</p>
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<p>IMS Testers</p>
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<p>IMS testers</p>
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<p>IMS Level 2 support</p>
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<p>IMS support</p>
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<p>IMS Product managers</p>
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<p>IMS product managers</p>
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<h2>What do they do?</h2>
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<p>An IMS Advocates job is to help IMS clients.</p>
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<h2>1</h2>
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<p>They are there to get you what you need to be successful with IMS.</p>
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<p>They can help you be more successful with IMS.</p>
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<h2>2</h2>
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<p>A good IMS advocate is a lobbyist for their IMS clients.</p>
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<p>They lobby for their clients.</p>
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<h2>3</h2>
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<p>IMS advocates ensure to have regular calls with their clients.</p>
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<p>There is no cost to the client.</p>
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<h2>4</h2>
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<p>IMS advocates are NOT salespeople, they don't earn commission.</p>
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<p>They are <i>not</i> salespeople; they don't earn commissions.</p>
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<div><img src="wp-content/Db2-buffer-pool.svg" alt="" class="icon-md icon-invert"></div>
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<div><p>A client made their Db2 DBA in charge of IMS.</p></div>
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<h4 class="advocacy-action">Advocacy action</h4>
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<p>The IMS team set up educational webinars for Db2 DBA's.</p>
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<h4>Challenge</h4>
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<p>A Db2 DBA needed to learn how to run IMS databases.</p>
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<h4>Advocacy action</h4>
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<p>Advocate assembled live and self-paced IMS database education for the client.</p>
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<div><img src="wp-content/File-storage.svg" alt="" class="icon-md icon-invert"></div>
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<div><p>A client requested to have a DEDB greater than 2K AREAs.</p></div>
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<h4 class="advocacy-action">Advocacy action</h4>
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<p>Enhancement released to increase DEDBs storage to 9,999 AREAs.</p>
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<h4>Challenge</h4>
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<p>Client requested that their DEDBs have more than 2,048 areas per database.</p>
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<h4>Advocacy action</h4>
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<p>Advocate pushed for an enhancement to allow DEDBs to have 9,999 areas per database.</p>
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<div><p>A client opened a case for an issue regarding a PoC.</p></div>
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<h4 class="advocacy-action">Advocacy action</h4>
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<p>Made sure to escalate the matter to get attention to the case and to get it resolved sooner.</p>
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<h4>Challenge</h4>
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<p>Client needed a quick turnaround for a proof of concept.</p>
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<p>Advocate helped escalate the requirement to resolve the situation sooner.</p>
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<h2>Shape the future of IMS</h2>
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<p>We invite you to shape the future of IMS, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas
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that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:
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<p>We invite you to shape the future of IMS, including adding input to product roadmaps, by submitting ideas
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that matter to you the most.
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<h3>Search existing ideas</h3>
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<p>Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service.
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Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on
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them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for.
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<h3>Review ideas and post your own</h3>
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<li><p>Review existing requirements to enhance IMS.</p></li>
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<li><p>Optional: Comment, vote, or subscribe to those enhancements.</p></li>
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<li><p>Post an idea if it doesn't already exist.</p></li>
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<li><p>Get feedback from the IMS team and other customers to refine your idea.</p></li>
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<li><p>Subscribe to follow the idea through the IMS ideas process.</p></li>
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<h3>Post your ideas</h3>
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<li><p>Post an idea.</p></li>
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<li><p>Get feedback from the IMS team and other customers to refine your idea.</p></li>
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