In 1997, the Unidata Corporation merged with VMark Systems to form Ardent Software.

IBM subsequently created the Information Management group of which Data Management is one of the sub-areas under which the IBM U2 family comprised UniData and UniVerse along with the tools, SystemBuilder Extensible Architecture (SB/XA), U2 Web Development Environment (U2 Web DE) and wIntegrate.

On 1 October 2009 it was announced that Rocket Software had purchased the entire U2 portfolio from IBM.

This includes the system's VOC (vocabulary) file that contains every command, filename, keyword, alias, script, and other pointers.

Nonhashed files are used to store data with little or no logical structure such as program source code, XML or plain text.

This type of file is stored as a subdirectory within the account directory on the host operating system and may be read or edited using appropriate tools.

Thus, if John Jones happened to get a second email address, the record may be updated to: where the close bracket (]) represents a value mark.

[9] Client Tool interfaces include: Both UniVerse and UniData support TLS transport level data encryption and record and file level encryption of data at rest using OpenSSL.

Additional API encryption functionality is also available to allow custom solutions or meet specific regulatory requirements.

[10] Rocket Software Universe and Unidata have limited ability to create web-based front-ends to Universe/UniData content.