"Enabled me to solve production problems faster or even avoid them preemptively with warnings."
"The integration of IMS commands is very useful, because you do not have to switch to another tool to problem solve solutions."
"Because we can define complex commands, the training of new operators is quicker. We can also put checks in place, that will prevent user errors."
"OPS/REXX is valuable because it allows us almost unlimited flexibility in automating our system."
"I do not have to keep recordings. It is there and is proactive. It helps the operators, human editors, and me."
"It's very flexible. You can customize what you need to, which is good. For example, you can do your own coding inside the tool, make your own scripting tooling."
"The documentation is simple, easy to follow, and use. A limited, first-time systems programmer can do it, in that it is out-of-the-box almost functional."
"I can and interrupt what's going on, bring a job down if I need to, and bring it back up."
"It reduces the number of repetitive motions required by a human to respond to the system."
"Valuable features include: SSM, which provides for orderly startup and shutdown; OPSLOG, which enables filtering by message-id, and/or jobname(s); Rules, as OPS/REXX interface streamlines deployment, interfaces easily with JES2 and z/OS."
"More visualisation and support for mobile devices would be good."
"An expansion for distributed systems would be great, but probably not workable."
"The interfaces to USS, CA UIM could be better. CA Common Services interfaces - namely Zdata Mover, Zmessage Service, Zdatacolletcor - are poorly documented."
"The GUI interface could be improved, but that is coming. They are working on that."
"Because of its age, it's a little bit difficult to modernize some of the integrations and some of the functions."
"The further expansion of the mainframe teamcenter interface. Also, the web services support is something that I am looking into."
"The reason sometimes it is not stable, we do not have the expertise to write the script."
"One thing that comes to mind is the MQ interface. The last time we tried to use it, it seemed a little clunky."
"Performing a stop/restart of OPS/MVS could be a little smoother. Without special coding, some undesired tasks will be started and some necessary tasks will be stopped if we have to bounce OPS/MVS during the day."
"It’s a complex product. The initial installation is easy, but implementing various functions is a constant process."
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BMC MainView is ranked 3rd in Mainframe Management while OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence is ranked 6th in Mainframe Management. BMC MainView is rated 9.0, while OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of BMC MainView writes "Enabled me to solve production problems faster or even avoid them preemptively with warnings". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence writes "The ability to use command rules is great when our operators have repetitive tasks, but we'd like to automate off of different highlighted messages without actually knowing what the message is". BMC MainView is most compared with IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON, SYSVIEW Performance Intelligence, ASG TMON and Rocket Software Mainframe, whereas OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence is most compared with BMC TrueSight Operations Management and SCOM.
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