We performed a comparison between CA Database Management for DB2 for zOS and CA IDMS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Database Development and Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most important features are batch reporting and the ability to create repositories, enabling automated analysis. These are valuable because they enable me to do automated analysis of trends over time and reduce the time for comparing performance between two periods to identify anomalies."
"It helps us to reduce hardware costs and to optimize processing times."
"It is very stable. We have had no issues."
"Improved monitoring and performance management."
"It takes advantage of new features of DB2."
"Technical support is very good. They are very knowledgeable, very quick to respond, and very nice people, too."
"The most useful feature is the governance feature, because it can show us and help us to manage user profiles very quickly and using it in assertive way."
"It is a really stable platform. It has been around for many years. We trust it implicitly. "
"Minor stability issues."
"They need to provide a way to create and maintain performance repositories. The online tool is not perfect, but it is giving me what I need."
"All the information we need, we could use to have it in a more usable format."
"Right now, it's not easy to start using this solution. You have to take long course and train people. It's not an easy path."
"I would like to see it made simpler to operate and maintain."
CA Database Management for DB2 for zOS is ranked 29th in Database Development and Management while CA IDMS is ranked 30th in Database Development and Management. CA Database Management for DB2 for zOS is rated 8.8, while CA IDMS is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of CA Database Management for DB2 for zOS writes "The most useful feature is the ability to create strategies across the products". On the other hand, the top reviewer of CA IDMS writes "We get network database performance. It supports our back office". CA Database Management for DB2 for zOS is most compared with , whereas CA IDMS is most compared with IBM IMS and CA Datacom. See our CA Database Management for DB2 for zOS vs. CA IDMS report.
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