Software Products Developed at Hursley
The museum is attempting to create a definitive list of products developed at Hursley. The following is an incomplete pass from the knowledge of the curators with some additional help from IBM retirees. If you are able to provide any new information or corrections to the existing data, please contact Peter Short. There is a comprehensive list of all IBM hardware and software on Wikipedia.
| Year | Code Name | Product Name | Department | Description |
| PL/I | ||||
| Websphere Business Integrator for AIX | ||||
| GDDM / GKS | Graphical Kernel Standard | |||
| Victory | MQSeries on z/OS | Websphere MQ | ||
| Agamemnon | MQ Integrator | Websphere Message Broker | ||
| ? | ? | Graphics editor software / Logica ? | ||
| BABS | Complex Systems | BOAC Ticketing System | ||
| GDDM / Pclink | ||||
| Severn | GDDM / OS2link | |||
| CICS/NT | CICS | May have been replaced later by a Windows NT port of the CICS/OS2 code base. | ||
| 1964 | PL/I F Compiler | Programming Centre | High level programming language compiler (System/360 Operating System PL/I F) | |
| 1964 | SUPPAK | 7090-based Simulator of S/360. Support Package mainly used by IBM developers, including Hursley S/360-40 diagnostic package developers. Believed available to customers at IBM computer centres and released as a free product. | ||
| 1965 | CAS | Controls Automation System - design automation software package used in development & testing of microcode for S/360 - internal tool | ||
| 1968 | New PL/I Compiler - Optimising Compiler I) OS ii) DOS | |||
| 1970 | PL/I Optimising Compiler | Programming Centre | Focussed on optimised code generation | |
| 1970 | PL/I Checkout Compiler | Programming Centre | 'Provided speedy diagnostic support for PL/I developers | |
| 1970 | PL/I Checkout Compiler | |||
| 1971 - 1974 | VTAM | Virtual Telecommunications Access Method (SNA, NCP, 3705). First version NCP for 3705 - 1971. Transferred to Kingston 1974. | ||
| 1973 | Language RPQ | 3741 / 3742 | Special Engineering | Cyrillic and other |
| 1973 | Programme Function Control | 3741 | Special Engineering | Enable enhanced control of 3741 models 1 & 2 |
| 1974 | CICS | CICS | Comes to Hursley - formal transfer completed Jan 1975. | |
| 1974 | CICS / VS | |||
| 1974 | New Database for Medium Size Applications | |||
| 1974 | INPS | 3790 RPQ | Special Engineering | Italian Social Security System - revamp diagnostics and MAPS, bit mapping of software to support increased disk storage |
| 1976 | GAM | Graphics Access Method | ||
| 1977 | Ironman | Programming language for imbedded systems (Marks & Maddock) | ||
| 1977 | PADAS | Product Test / Product Assurance | Product Assurance Design Automation System | |
| 1978 | DPS | Distributed Presentation Services - for use with terminals such as the 3279 & 8775 | ||
| 1979 | GDDM | |||
| 1979 | SNATAM | SNA Access Method - IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin (TBD 03-79 p4216-4218). Originally an engineering development tool for testing SNA based products. | ||
| 1979 | REX | Product Test / Product Assurance | Internal version of Rexx | |
| 1979 | GDDM / PGF | Including the Interactive Chart Utility | ||
| 1981 | IDTF | Interactive Display Text Facility - data & text handling | ||
| 1982 | Rexx | System Product Interpreter | UKSC | Restructured Extended Executor - interpreted programming language, first Rexx product, part of VM/System product. Followed by dozens of other IBM REXX products & non-IBM implementations. |
| 1982 | IPG | Interactive Presentation Graphics | ||
| 1984 | Graphics Control Programme | For PC-G & GX (Aragon / Genoa) | ||
| 1984 | GDDM R4 | |||
| 1984 | GOCA | Graphic Object Content Architecture - 3270 data interface standard | ||
| 1985 | GDDM / IVU | |||
| 1985 | CICS/CMS | CICS | CICS development tool running on VM/CMS | |
| 1986 | 5777-EAD | Leisure industry support programme | ||
| 1987 | Desktop Publishing Solution | |||
| 1987 | OS/2 Presentation Manager | Joint project with Microsoft | ||
| 1987 | SAA | Systems Application Architecture | ||
| 1987 | ADA | DoD / MoD defence related programming language for imbedded systems (Maddock) | ||
| 1987 | Desktop Publishing Solution | |||
| 1987 | LEXX | Live Parsing Editor | UKSC | Syntax-colouring text editor written for the Oxford English Dictionary in 1985, released as a UK Country Programming Offering in 1987 and also as a VM PRPQ. |
| 1987 | IAX | IAX Image Processing | Sheridan House | Image processing system for VM, released as programme offering. |
| 1987 | WSD | Passfield (X.25) support for PC - shipped with original Passfield | ||
| 1987 | WSD | Passfield (X.25) support for PC/RT | ||
| 1987 | CICS/VM | CICS | Meant as a fuller implementation of CICS/CMS intended for production work. Tied in with 9370 distributed processing model. Cancelled during develoment of release 3. | |
| 1988 | TOOLSRUN | VM / DSNX | Sheridan House | File & data management software developed at Hursley, released by Endicott. |
| 1988 | LPEX | LPEX for OS/2 | Sheridan House | OS/2 product implementation of LEXX, later transferred to Endicott and released for Windows, Java etc. and used in Eclipse. |
| 1988 | Oryx | IBM Object Rexx | Sheridan House | Object oriented Rexx for OS/2, later also released for Windows 95 and NT in 1997 |
| 1988 | Finisterre | WSD | PC software for Fastnet ISDN adapter card | |
| 1988 | Walnut | WSD | Passfield (X.25) support for OS/2 Extended Edition | |
| 1988 | Stonehenge | WSD | PC-based SNA:OSI bridge | |
| 1988 | Windfall | Personal A/S | WSD | Software, in conjunction with Warwick |
| 1988 | RIPSS | |||
| 1989 | CICS/ESA Version 3 | CICS | ||
| 1989 | CICS/OS2 | CICS | Bought in from American 3rd party, written in MicroFocus COBOL. | |
| 1990 | The GPE Project | New Technologies | Funded by Hursley, developed by Peter Ward & Colin Parrott, University of Leeds.
Documentation: - History & Overview - Technical Description - Presentation - Examples |
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| 1991-92 | Highnoon | AConnS | Application Connection Services | |
| 1992 | GDDM V3.1 | |||
| 1993 | Mayflower | MQSeries on distributed platforms / Websphere MQ | ||
| 1993 | GoServe | (component) | IBM Fellow (Lab Manager Group) | Web server for OS/2 and later for Windows & Linux; first fully-compliant HTTP 1.0 server (1996), used as a component in a number of products. |
| 1993/94 | CICS/6000 | CICS | Or CICS/AIX? Initial main development contracted out to DataLogic, Harrow. Also involved an IBM startup in the US - Transarc, later absorbed into IBM. Ported to HP/UX, Sun Solaris & Digital OSF (?) by other companies. | |
| 1994 | CallPath | Computer telephony integration product providing support for AT&T, Rolm, Siemens, and Northern Telecom switches. | ||
| 1994 | DirectTalk | |||
| 1995 | CICS Client for Windows & Mac | CICS | ||
| 1995 - 2002 | LANDP | New versions for OS/2, DOS, AIX. 1996 Windows support. 2000 LANDP Version V5, 2002 V6. | ||
| 1996 | Java Development Toolkit | For OS/2 & AIX | ||
| 1996 | JTC | Java VM for OS/2 | IBM Fellow (Lab Manager Group) | Port of Java to OS/2 (and later other IBM O/Ss) - Java Technology Centre |
| 1997 | NetRexx | NetRexx | IBM Fellow (Lab Manager Group) | A dialect of Rexx for the Java platform included with the VM operating system product; also available as a free compiler. |
| 1999 | RMI over IIOP | RMI over IIOP, developed jointly by IBM and Sun, is a new version of RMI (Remote Method Invocation) for IIOP (Internet Inter-ORB Protocol) that combines RMI's easy programming features with CORBA's interoperability. | ||
| 2001 | decNumber | (component) | IBM Fellow (Lab Manager Group) | Decimal floating point reference implementation (and testcases for hardware) now included in dozens of IBM and non-IBM products, GCC etc. core proof-of-concept for the decimal floating-point arithmetic in the IEE 754-2008 standard. |
| 2007 | decFloats | (component) | IBM Fellow (Lab Manager Group) | High speed decimal floating-point package based upon Densely Packed Decimal encloding and emulating System/z and POWER decimal hardware; also used in dozens of products and by SAP, CA etc. |