ChangeMan ZMF Reviews

Name: ChangeMan ZMF
Brand: Rocket Software
Rating: 4 (3 reviews)

Vendor: Rocket Software

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Change management solutions that tackle the complexity of developing, deploying and maintaining software applications.

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ChangeMan ZMF is the #5 ranked solution in top Software Configuration Management solutions. PeerSpot users give ChangeMan ZMF an average rating of 7.6 out of 10. ChangeMan ZMF is most commonly compared to Endevor: ChangeMan ZMF vs Endevor. ChangeMan ZMF is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 81% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 28% of all views.

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reviewer1527093

Development Team Lead at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Mar 14, 2021

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. Unfortunately, as good as ChangeMan is, if we're listing downfalls, they should be talking to me about this. Not me having to go talk to them about it. Hopefully, they have this in the works and they are positioning their product for the future. That's just a straightforward comment. It really comes down to whether they are complacent or not. The other thing that should improve is cost. Git, even on the mainframe, a large part of the components "free". They're the way you set them up yourselves and they're self-sustaining and built into the infrastructure. You can't charge me for that. I gave ChangeMan an overall score of eight, but what could drive them to a nine is coming up with a way for all my code that belongs together to be tracked and moved together. Everything should move based upon the mainframe; it needs to be alerted and synchronized.

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reviewer1441137

Compliance Manager at a hospitality company with 10,001+ employees

Dec 1, 2020

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.

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it_user585879

Application Support Specialist with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jan 12, 2017

The main purpose of ChangeMan for my position is to compile code and control versions of the code. I don’t need to submit separate JCL jobs as ChangeMan does this for me. I just need to add the necessary parameters once and it’s done. What’s most valuable to me is the ability to compile the code…

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ChangeMan ZMF market share

As of June 2024, the market share of ChangeMan ZMF in the Software Configuration Management category stands at 4.3%, up from 3.1% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Valuable Features

"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."
"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."

Room for Improvement

"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."
"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."

Pricing

"It's on a yearly basis. I am not aware of any additional costs."

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Financial Services Firm

28%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Insurance Company

13%

Computer Software Company

11%

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Media Company

Government

Logistics Company

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Energy/Utilities Company

Healthcare Company

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Transportation Company

Legal Firm

Hospitality Company

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ChangeMan ZMF customers

SPTS Technologies, Generali France, Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (BBH), Kutxa-Vital-Banco Madrid, Space and Naval Warfare Information Technology Center (SPAWAR ITC)