Construction Drawing Abbreviations. The following is a list of abbreviations found on a typical set of construction drawings designed to help you interpret information on your blueprints.
IDMS. IDMS is primarily a network database management system for mainframes. It was first developed at B.F. Goodrich and later marketed by Cullinane Database Systems. Since 1989 the product has been owned by Computer Associates, who renamed it Advantage CA-IDMS and later simply to CA IDMS.
Forefront Identity Manager (FIM), formerly known as Microsoft Identity Integration Server (MIIS), is used to facilitate synchronization between multiple endpoints. For Example: (FIM sits between Active Directory and User Profile Service Application and is responsible for syncing changes between both endpoints.