# Uccel > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Uccel > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Uccel.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uccel > Source revision: 1352534910 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Multiple issues| {{Promotional|date=October 2024}} {{more footnotes needed|date=August 2014}} }} {{Use American English|date=September 2025}} '''UCCEL Corp''', previously called University Computing Company ("UCC"), was a [data processing](/source/data_processing) [service bureau](/source/service_bureau) on the campus of [Southern Methodist University](/source/Southern_Methodist_University) in [Dallas](/source/Dallas), Texas.[http://purl.umn.edu/107720 Oral history interview with Sam Wyly]. [Charles Babbage Institute](/source/Charles_Babbage_Institute), University of Minnesota It was founded by the Wyly brothers (Sam and Charles, Jr.) in 1963. The name change in the mid-1980s was brought about by Gregory Liemandt, placed as [CEO](/source/CEO) by the majority [stockholder](/source/stockholder), a Swiss citizen named [Walter Haefner](/source/Walter_Haefner) through Careal Holding AG of [Zürich](/source/Z%C3%BCrich).{{citation needed|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](/source/Tape_Management_System)), an [IBM mainframe](/source/IBM_mainframe) product for managing the [tape library](/source/tape_library) in an [OS/MVS](/source/OS%2FMVS) [operating system](/source/operating_system) environment. In 1980, they developed their second "big hitter" and most profitable product, [UCC-7](/source/CA-7_(software)) ([job scheduler](/source/job_scheduler)). The UCC-1, UCC-7, UCC-11 ([batch job](/source/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](/source/ACF2) mainframe security product.{{citation needed|date=July 2019}} In June 1987, Uccel was unexpectedly bought out by its archrival, [Computer Associates](/source/Computer_Associates), which aggressively sold directly competing products CA-Dynam/TLMS (tape management), CA-Scheduler and batch job scheduling products originally from [Capex Corporation](/source/Capex_Corporation) (flagship products "Optimizer" and "TLMS") and Value Software, plus CA-Top Secret (security / mainframe [discretionary access control](/source/discretionary_access_control)). ==References== {{reflist}} *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{{Dead link|date=February 2026 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }} *http://www.umich.edu/~msjrnl/backmsj/011397/wyly.html Category:Southern Methodist University Category:Service companies of the United States Category:Computer Associates Category:Software companies based in Texas Category:Software companies established in 1963 --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Uccel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uccel) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uccel?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.