CA IDMS Reviews

Name: CA IDMS
Brand: Broadcom
Rating: 5 (5 reviews)

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CA IDMS is a reliable, high-performance, web-enabled Database Management system (DBMS) for IBM z Systems that provides business value for hundreds of enterprises and government organizations. CA IDMS provides high-performance database management and transaction processing performance for existing and new workloads, helping you consolidate business functions on a central data repository, as needed.

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CA IDMS is the #31 ranked solution in top Database Development and Management solutions. PeerSpot users give CA IDMS an average rating of 9.0 out of 10. CA IDMS is most commonly compared to BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on zOS: CA IDMS vs BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on zOS. CA IDMS is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 74% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 19% of all views.

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Database Development and Management

April 2024

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Featured reviews

it_user558606

Application Development Manager at Aetna

Jan 3, 2017

It's a stable platform. We've used it for many years as part of the legacy applications going back to early 80s. We get network database performance. We're able to scale it up. It's effective. We've been able to fine tune it over the years to get really good performance out of it, and maintain…

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it_user558615

Lead Consultant at BT

Apr 26, 2018

Our primary use case is a customer service system, which records all the customer details, and follows through customer orders for British Telecom. It's performed on a mainframe system, and it is performed by various means. The database management system called IDMS is actually just the database…

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it_user558615

Lead Consultant at BT

Dec 1, 2016

The solution is the community - a tightly knit group of experts who have been working on the product set for many years. The user community is really useful, really helpful, and it makes everyone feel all part of the same world; that we're all going to help each other. They know its benefits of…

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CA IDMS market share

As of March 2024, the market share of CA IDMS in the Database Development and Management category stands at 0.5%, marking a decrease of 29.5% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Database Development and Management

Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

"The most useful feature is the governance feature, because it can show us and help us to manage user profiles very quickly and using it in assertive way."
"Technical support is very good. They are very knowledgeable, very quick to respond, and very nice people, too."
"It is a really stable platform. It has been around for many years. We trust it implicitly. "

Room for Improvement

"Right now, it's not easy to start using this solution. You have to take long course and train people. It's not an easy path."
"I would like to see it made simpler to operate and maintain."