In the mid-1980s, it was claimed that some 2,500 IDMS licenses had been sold. The IBM-ported version runs on IBM mainframe systems ( System/360, System/370, System/390, zSeries, System z9). The original platforms were the GE 235 computer and GE DATANET-30 message switching computer: later the product was ported to IBM mainframes and to DEC and ICL hardware. Goodrich, all add-on products were listed and billed as separate products – even if they were mandatory for the core IDMS product to work.

Because Cullinane was required to remit royalties back to B.F. Eventually, a deal was struck with John Cullinane to buy the rights and market the product.

The Chemical Division computer group had given some thought to selling copies of IDMS to other companies, but was told by management that they were not in the software products business. Since ISL was actually written in ISL, it was able to be ported to other machine architectures with relative ease, and then to produce code that would execute on them. ISL was designed as a portable system programming language able to produce code for a variety of target machines. Goodrich Chemical Division, and re-written in a language called Intermediate System Language (ISL). In the early 1960s IDS was taken from its original form, by the computer group of the B.F. The roots of IDMS go back to the pioneering database management system called Integrated Data Store (IDS), developed at General Electric by a team led by Charles Bachman and first released in 1964. Since 1989 the product has been owned by Computer Associates (now CA Technologies), who renamed it Advantage CA-IDMS and later simply to CA IDMS. Goodrich and later marketed by Cullinane Database Systems (renamed Cullinet in 1983).

The Integrated Database Management System ( IDMS) is a network model ( CODASYL) database management system for mainframes.

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