IDMS

History of IDMS

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

This treatise first appeared in IDMS-L in June 1998 and Aug 1998. Several 'old timers' contributed thru IDMS-L. Later Chris Hoelscher published an edited version in 1999. Published on oziua.shorturl.com for a number of years this content has now been moved to the CA Australian IDMS User Group page by Gary Cherlet - and then to this WIKI by Linda Casey.

IDMS History - Part 1 - Origins of IDMS by Peter Karasz

• Early Sixties
• IDMS Name Makes Its Debut
• Enter Cullinane Corporation

IDMS History - Part 2

• IDMS In The Eighties Rise And Fall Of Cullinet
• Emergence Of New Players
• What Went Wrong from 1986 thru 1989
• ADS Plus PC and the entrance of Computer Associates

Potpourri

• The System R And IDMS SQL
• History Of IDMS Feedback
• IDMS SQL Adds