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'''UCCEL Corp''', previously called University Computing Company ("UCC"), was a [[data processing]] [[service bureau]] on the campus of [[Southern Methodist University]] in [[Dallas]], Texas.<ref name="oral_hist">[http://purl.umn.edu/107720  Oral history interview with Sam Wyly]. [[Charles Babbage Institute]], University of Minnesota</ref> It was founded by the Wyly brothers (Sam and Charles, Jr.) in 1963.<ref name="oral_hist"/> The name change in the mid-1980s was brought about by Gregory Liemandt, placed as [[CEO]] by the majority [[stockholder]], a Swiss citizen named [[Walter Haefner]] through Careal Holding AG of [[Zürich]].{{uncited|date=July 2019}} By 1972, the company operated a middle-sized datacenter in Troy, Michigan, and a huge facility in Arlington, Texas, based on top-of-the-line IBM/360 (and later IBM/370) processors.
Uccel's "big-ticket item" claim to fame was software called UCC-1/TMS ([[Tape Management System]]), an [[IBM mainframe]] product for managing the [[tape library]] in an [[OS/MVS]] [[operating system]] environment.  In 1980, they developed their second "big hitter" and most profitable product, UCC-7 ([[job scheduler]]).  The UCC-1, UCC-7, UCC-11 ([[batch job]] rerun/restart add-on) suite led the market for tape management and job scheduling.
In 1986, UCCEL Corporation purchased Cambridge Systems Group, Inc., which marketed for SKK, Inc. and their market-leading [[ACF2]] mainframe security product.{{uncited|date=July 2019}}  In June 1987, Uccel was unexpectedly bought out by its archrival, [[Computer Associates]], which aggressively sold directly competing products CA-Dynam/TLMS (tape management), CA-Scheduler and batch job scheduling products originally from [[Capex Corporation]] (flagship products "Optimizer" and "TLMS")  and Value Software, plus CA-Top Secret (security / mainframe [[discretionary access control]]).
==References==
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*https://web.archive.org/web/20070927231947/http://www.horatioalger.com/members/member_info.cfm?memberid=wyl70
*http://www.samandcharleswyly.com/sam-wyly-business-industry-texas.htm
*http://www.umich.edu/~msjrnl/backmsj/011397/wyly.html
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