Thomson Financial (Datastream)

In nearly four decades of operation, the Thomson Financial Datastream product has built an enviable reputation for quality, coverage, and customer service. Datastream draws on the world's most comprehensive historical numerical financial database to deliver top quality research and analytical products for the global financial services marketplace. Thousands of investment analysts, fund managers and economists rely on Datastream services to provide key data sets and powerful analytics.

At the heart of the Datastream system is a CA-IDMS database and that system has made extensive use of Cogito tools for CA-IDMS for over ten years. Crucial to the system performance is the EZ-Synchro product which permits Datastream to split the DLIVE application processing across multiple CA-IDMS central versions with full buffer coherency, and EZ-Synchro CrossMVS option, which provides buffer coherency across multiple CPUs without the need of Sysplex or a Sysplex coupling facility. Datastream also use EZ-Megabuf Sequential to boost the performance of many batch processes and CA-IDMS utilities.

Thomson Financial have also made extensive use of Cogito consulting services for the support of their CA-IDMS systems.

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