We performed a comparison between CA Harvest Software Change Manager 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."Using this solution, we were able to implement a full process for all of our lifecycles."
"The ability to give our teams functionality from a control perspective, allowing them to decide how they want to implement the tool, is valuable."
"Our automation, our development implementations are all automated, which is a huge amount of time savings."
"The most valuable feature of Endevor is the software controller."
"In the last year or so, we had a need to start using a CICS web services, and mesh them in with some distributed functions on an enterprise service bus. We put the web services into Endevor and we manage that way now."
"The most valuable feature of Endevor is customization and ease of use."
"The tools are specifically designed for mainframe environments, providing features tailored to the unique requirements of the systems, ensuring there are no mistakes."
"The approach of writing a single set of Endevor processors to work across multiple instances of the application (separate systems) made the processors fairly complex, but once you understand them, they are so powerful."
"Being able to compare versions is helpful."
"It standardizes the processing of all the development. Everything gets produced in a constant and consistent manner."
"Technical support for this solution is very good, although they can still use improvement in some regards."
"Password complexity is not enforced by the tool."
"Security features can be improved."
"It is difficult to find file programs and use a different tool for the setup as the compilation process is all locked up."
"It is still kind of behind the times. It needs to catch up with all the millennials that want a distributed look and feel."
"There are a lot of screens in it. The process for moving out my other solutions, it could be more convenient. There are a lot of steps to go through and a lot of screens to go through to get it accomplished."
"There should be better integration between CA Endevor Software Change Manager and Zowe."
"They need to ditch the Eclipse plugin and just make the development environment for Z the standard Eclipse interface."
"I would like to have better integration with other products."
"Needs more audit capability when it comes to changes to settings that are made by administrators, as many of these are done through the panels and are therefore not logged as an action against a configuration item."
"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."
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CA Harvest Software Change Manager is ranked 8th in Software Configuration Management while Endevor is ranked 1st in Software Configuration Management with 45 reviews. CA Harvest Software Change Manager is rated 7.2, while Endevor is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of CA Harvest Software Change Manager writes "Powerful UDP functionality with a user-friendly interface". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Endevor writes "A highly stable tool for managing mainframe software development projects that require significant expertise". CA Harvest Software Change Manager is most compared with , whereas Endevor is most compared with BMC Compuware ISPW, ChangeMan ZMF, IBM Rational ClearCase and IBM Engineering Workflow Management. See our CA Harvest Software Change Manager vs. Endevor report.
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