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==History==

OAM was created in the 1980s "as a prototype product for an insurance company to replace microfiche." Initially OAM supported optical storage and magnetic disks. In the 1990s support for [[Magnetic tape data storage|magnetic tape]] was added. In 2011 support was added for storage of objects in a z/OS unix file system&mdash;either [[zFS (IBMz/OS file system)|zFS]] or [[Network File System|NFS]].<ref name=Vitse>{{cite journal|last1=Vitse|first1=Caroline L.|title=Reintroducing Object Access Method|journal=IBM Systems Magazine|date=September 2011|url=http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/mainframe/storage/Data-Management/reintroducing_OAM/|accessdate=Sep 4, 2014}}</ref>

In the 1990s, Object Access Method was used by the [[Canadian Intellectual Property Office]] to store documents related to patent processing.<ref name="Taylor1995">{{cite journal|last1=Taylor|first1=Ray H.|title=TECHSOURCE: a project to automate the patent operations of the Canadian Intellectual Property Office|journal=World Patent Information|volume=17|issue=3|year=1995|pages=159–164|issn=01722190|doi=10.1016/0172-2190(95)00017-T|quote=The IODM uses data from within its DB2 database tables to determine the ___location of the documents and retrieves them using the Object Access Method (OAM).}}</ref>