We performed a comparison between ChangeMan ZMF and Endevor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Configuration Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We audit once a year for our ChangeMan access, accurate financial programs, and all of that. Auditors really love ChangeMan for how easy it is to get through and how tight the security is on it. Our internal auditors, external auditors, and SOX editors love this solution. We're in the healthcare business, so HIPAA regulations and all such things are a big deal, and this makes all that really simple."
"Scalability is great. It has absolutely met every need for us so far. We do have some concurrent development paths and we're able to flexibly assign variables. At the same time, our skeletons assemble where we want them to, so the scalability is very good."
"The developers can very easily see what has changed on a particular piece of source code or a program, and others can look at that as well so they can coordinate their changes. It makes it much easier to promote a piece of code up to production."
"The flexibility, because I know a lot of the competition pigeonholes you into definitions and character limitations, and Endevor is wide open."
"Having something that is out-of-the-box that you can customize to suit your organization's needs is huge."
"The most valuable feature of Endevor is the software controller."
"It provides secure, controlled access to source management."
"We backup people's source code for them."
"The source management is excellent."
"The source integrity is the most valuable feature."
"As such, there's nothing wrong with the product. It is great, but there are small things that can be better to make it much more friendly. The way you navigate through fields can be improved. If I'm going to stage a component over something that exists and that I've created in another library, and I want to pull it in and write it over what I've got there in my package, I've got to type in that data set name every time. That can be aggravating. It is not a big deal. The way things are sorted can also be improved. If you're doing a delete of a bunch of components, you can't sort those out by type or anything. Some things are just standard, and you can't look at them in a way that would be helpful."
"I would like to see them enable parallel development for online. It's available now for batch stuff on the mainframe. Jenkins, IBM, and Rocket all supposedly already have safe and workable version of Git for the mainframe. With that in mind, we need to know where our feature is."
"The scalability of Endevor could improve."
"The solution is very expensive."
"Sometimes finding errors and output can be difficult because it spits out so many messages that it is hard to figure out which ones are the ones you need to look at and what flow did it actually take through the processor."
"I would like to have better integration with other products."
"They need to ditch the Eclipse plugin and just make the development environment for Z the standard Eclipse interface."
"Interfacing with some change control products that are not CA's, it's a little glitchy on the approvals of changes. It requires special needs for the users for approvals."
"If I had to comment on an area of improvement or something new in the next or future version, I would like to see AI-assisted coding and impact analysis for mainframes."
"It is difficult to find file programs and use a different tool for the setup as the compilation process is all locked up."
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ChangeMan ZMF is ranked 5th in Software Configuration Management while Endevor is ranked 1st in Software Configuration Management with 45 reviews. ChangeMan ZMF is rated 7.6, while Endevor is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of ChangeMan ZMF writes "Very flexible with Johnny-on-the-spot tech support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Endevor writes "A highly stable tool for managing mainframe software development projects that require significant expertise". ChangeMan ZMF is most compared with BMC Compuware ISPW, whereas Endevor is most compared with BMC Compuware ISPW, CA Harvest Software Change Manager, IBM Rational ClearCase and IBM Engineering Workflow Management. See our ChangeMan ZMF vs. Endevor report.
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