CA IDMS Room for Improvement

it_user558606 - PeerSpot reviewer
Application Development Manager at Aetna

I don't have anything to add. I've heard about web services. We might be looking at a Java connection or web services in the future. It's serving our purpose right now. We're not looking for anything new.

For what we do, it meets all our needs. We have to use DB2 when we need more relational constructs, expanded inquiry and reporting; so it's not perfect in that regards.

We use it really for our transaction processing, not as much for reporting. For transaction processing, it's doing the job we need. To go into more in-depth, high-volume reporting, we offload a lot of the data to DB2.

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it_user558615 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Consultant at BT

I would like to see it made simpler to operate and maintain. I am a database administrator with many years of experience, but there are quite a few people who have not had the same experience. They would appreciate and benefit from a simplification and if it was made easier to use and maintain.

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it_user558615 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Consultant at BT

I'd like to see some of the installation, maintenance, and support functions simplified so that some of our younger, newer members can take advantage of the product and maintain it to the same standard that the older members have in the past.

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it_user558612 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Consultant at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

We need to make it much easier to support and maintain, because the skills required are quite specialized and we're not going to have people in the future who've got the necessary experience and knowledge. So that's something that really needs to be addressed; it needs to be simplified.

For example, at the moment, to reorganize the database to increase the size is a very time consuming process. You need to know exactly what you're doing. We would like to be able to automate tasks like this so that anybody can pick it up and do it without having years of experience.

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ALiBS Solutions at ALiBS Solutions

Right now, it's not easy to start using this solution. You have to take a long course and train people. It's not an easy path.

Something that could be added is more user-friendly screens that could help to facilitate the management.

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