We performed a comparison between BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on zOS and Informatica PowerExchange based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Oracle, Quest Software, SolarWinds and others in Database Development and Management."I have worked with DB2's great features in the last five years. The IDAA feature transformed the vision of warehousing, business analytics, and big data at my bank. Besides the mainframe, I saw that this solution was evolutionary. It gives real-time information."
"BMC Data Management improved our data recovery process by simplifying it."
"Provides a significant amount of control over the landscape and overall implementation."
"The most valuable feature is connectivity to data sources."
"It is a scalable and versatile solution."
"It is easy to integrate the solution with other tools."
"Overall, it's a good tool. It's currently number one on the market. It pretty much has all the necessary capabilities to pull the incremental data from the source system, technically speaking."
"The solution can connect to different systems i.e. mainframe, IMS or AS/400 Legacy Systems."
"The agentless RCDC enablement through PowerExchange is a great idea and has worked very well so far."
"This product is easy to install and it can be done in a few hours."
"DB2 is a hard tool to grasp. It's hard for users to learn how to use it. It's not easy to see how it works."
"One area for improvement with this product could be in providing clearer guidance and tools for disaster recovery planning and execution."
"The major shortcoming of PowerExchange is high availability and failover. None of the versions we've used to date have had the out-of-the-box ability to enable failover and high-availability requirements. This is a significant challenge and risk."
"The solution needs better integration with other tools."
"I would like the stability to improve."
"The product is not suitable for application integration."
"Should diversify more, maybe with a reporting and visualization utility,"
"Real-time has not been enhanced that much over the past few years. There has not been as many features added like they did before."
"Apache Spark has a machine learning algorithm, an area where Informatica PowerExchange lacks."
"I would like to have easier integration with cloud platforms."
BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on zOS is ranked 21st in Database Development and Management with 2 reviews while Informatica PowerExchange is ranked 21st in Data Integration with 19 reviews. BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on zOS is rated 8.6, while Informatica PowerExchange is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on zOS writes "Improves disaster recovery processes and offers an efficient CPU cycle optimization ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Informatica PowerExchange writes "Comprehensive, capable of handling large volumes, and helpful for fast-paced movement of data". BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on zOS is most compared with AWS Database Migration Service, Dataloader.io, Qlik Replicate and IBM App Connect, whereas Informatica PowerExchange is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Oracle GoldenGate, Qlik Replicate, Azure Data Factory and Informatica Cloud Data Integration.
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