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Volume 37, Number 4, 1998
Nontopical issue
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Technical Note -- IMS celebrates thirty years as an IBM product -- Author bio

by K. R. Blackman

Biographical sketch of author

Kenneth R. Blackman IBM North America Division, Advanced Technical Support--Dallas Systems Center, Santa Teresa Laboratory, 555 Bailey Avenue, San Jose, California 95141 (electronic mail kblackm@us.ibm.com). Mr. Blackman is a member of the IMS Advanced Technical Support Group of the IBM Dallas Systems Center. His primary focus is connectivity to IMS. He started working with IMS in 1971 as a systems programmer. In 1983 he joined IBM at the Santa Teresa Laboratory as an IMS developer. He has worked in the areas of APPC/LU 6.2 support in IMS, object-oriented technology, IMS WEB, TCP/IP connectivity to IMS, and Open Data Base Access to IMS DB. He is a graduate of the IBM Systems Research Institute and has received an IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award. He has also received the IBM Fourth Plateau Invention Achievement Award.