ChangeMan ZMF vs Endevor comparison

ChangeMan ZMF
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100% willing to recommend
Endevor
Read 45 Endevor reviews
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92% willing to recommend
 

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We performed a comparison between ChangeMan ZMF and Endevor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

ChangeMan ZMF
Ranking in Software Configuration Management
6th
Average Rating
7.6
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Endevor
Ranking in Software Configuration Management
1st
Average Rating
8.8
Number of Reviews
45
Ranking in other categories
Mainframe Application Development (3rd)
 

Market share comparison

As of June 2024, in the Software Configuration Management category, the market share of ChangeMan ZMF is 4.2% and it increased by 32.3% compared to the previous year. The market share of Endevor is 31.9% and it decreased by 18.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Mainframe Application Development
3.1%
 

Featured Reviews

BL
Mar 14, 2021
Very flexible with Johnny-on-the-spot tech support
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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it_user616050 - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 26, 2017
Time-submitted packages allow for silent, off-hours installs into production.
Version tracking Footprinting ACM Admin tools (build SCL) Time-submitted packages allow for silent, off-hours installs into production. I find the ISPF interface to be lacking. It seems like you have to navigate to a lot of different screens to work with the same element. I have used this…
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Pros

"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."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Endevor is the software controller."
"The most valuable features are stability and ease of use."
"It offers security and audit of changes in information assets (software)."
"The source integrity is the most valuable feature."
"They've got plug-ins now to run it through Eclipse, they've got a lot of APIs, they handle UNIX files. I can't really think of any serious lack that they haven't addressed."
"Being able to compare versions is helpful."
"Endevor is easy to use."
"It puts all our source in one product. We know where to go to gather all our source code and which source is associated with which executable. It's a one-stop-shop, one place to go for everything."
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Cons

"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."
"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."
"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."
"Endevor can improve parallel development."
"Interfacing with some change control products that are not CA's, it's a little glitchy on the approvals of changes. It requires special needs for the users for approvals."
"If I had to comment on an area of ​​improvement or something new in the next or future version, I would like to see AI-assisted coding and impact analysis for mainframes."
"The solution is very expensive."
"Learning the tool for the first time was extremely difficult, and it could be because of all the other processes we had around it. But knowing you can do these things in batch, you can do things in the foreground or online mode, and then these, you have to have a package for. There are these rules, and some of the concepts inside the tool are not clear, like what is the CCID? Why do I have to have one? What is that? And how is it used? As a developer, it's not important to me - I don't know what a CCID is, and I don't care - but apparently it's important to someone."
"The initial setup can be less complex and has room for improvement."
"They need to ditch the Eclipse plugin and just make the development environment for Z the standard Eclipse interface.​"
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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's on a yearly basis. I am not aware of any additional costs."
"The solution is very expensive."
"It's competitively priced and, as far as I know, it's just an enterprise license. We have found it is worth the money."
"Just make sure if you are going to license, ensure you license the right features.​"
"It's worth the value. The pricing is fairly good, justifiable for the return on investment."
"The product is expensive."
"Licensing is fairly simple, you don't need multiple licenses."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
28%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Insurance Company
13%
Computer Software Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
29%
Computer Software Company
23%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Insurance Company
8%
 

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Midsize Enterprise
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What do you like most about Endevor?
Endevor is easy to use.
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What needs improvement with Endevor?
The product’s implementation process is complicated and restrictive. It is difficult to find file programs and use a different tool for the setup as the compilation process is all locked up, at lea...
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What is your primary use case for Endevor?
We use the product as a source manager and program manager. It helps in controlling the mainframe code and performing data migrations.
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Also Known As

Open Text, Micro Focus ChangeMan ZMF
CA Endevor Software Change Manager, Endevor Software Change Manager, CA Software Change Manager for Mainframe, CA Endevor SCM
 

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Rocket Software
Broadcom
 

Overview

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

CA Endevor Software Change Manager (CA Endevor SCM) is the most widely used change management software for the mainframe environment. It can automate your entire development process, adapting to your specific business requirements and helping ensure consistency and complete control. Integration with IBM Rational Developer for System z can improve productivity, accelerate time-to-delivery and ensure the auditability of all programmer activities. Eclipse-ready, CA Endevor SCM helps shorten the learning curve for application developers. It provides your team with business-driven, customizable lifecycle paths and automated version control to protect your software assets and help maintain application integrity.
 

Sample Customers

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