CA IDMS Reviews

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

4.5 out of 5

5 reviews
100% willing to recommend

430 followers

What is CA IDMS?

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 IBM IMS: CA IDMS vs IBM IMS. CA IDMS is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 69% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 24% of all views.

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Database Development and Management

October 2024

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Featured reviews

it_user558606

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

Lead Consultant at BT

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

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 mindshare

As of November 2024, the mindshare of CA IDMS in the Database Development and Management category stands at 0.8%, down from 0.8% 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."