Rocket Zena Room for Improvement

JuanGonzalez6 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Solutions Manager at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees

With the current on-prem version of the solution we use now, the graphical interfaces are complicated and a bit difficult to work with, but I understand the new web cloud version is much more user-friendly.

The documentation has room for improvement. With the solution, it is really difficult to find any sort of guide or documentation on the full capabilities of Rocket Zena. At least to our knowledge. We haven't seen much support from that.

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Gus Calero - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. IT Product Manager at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

There is a limit of 6,000 components in a particular process. The processes that we've developed have a lot of components, but there's a limit, which is fine, but it would be great if it just didn't have that limitation. I understand the system limitation and so forth, but it would be great to not have this limitation.

Another one that is probably a little bit bigger for me is that when there is an issue or there's an error, it writes on a different screen. I have to find the actual process name and go to a different screen to view the alert that got generated. On that screen, everyone's processes, not just the processes of the folks in my department, are thrown. It takes me a while to find the actual error so that I could go in there and look at the alert. It could be because of the way it was set up, but at least for me, it isn't too intuitive. For processes, Rocket Zena has four bubbles. It's green if a process is running and nothing has failed. It's yellow if something inside a process has failed, but the rest of the process is running. It's red if a process has failed, and it's blue if a process is complete. If there's something yellow, you can dig into a process and eventually find the error. For alerts, there's another screen, and this alert screen has everyone's alerts. Generally, I only have a view of the components that are owned by my department, but when I go to the alerts screen, the alerts from everyone in the company are there. Because I am not on the admin side, I don't know if this is something that wasn't set up properly on the admin side or if it is something that could have been improved in the tool.

They can improve the UI loading time, at least in dev. It takes a long time. It could be because it has got so many components. It literally takes two or three minutes before it loads and you start using it. They can make some updates to get it up and running faster.

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Bridgette Friedman - PeerSpot reviewer
System administrator at a wholesaler/distributor with 1,001-5,000 employees

In the web interface, it stacks the tasks across the top, and they accumulate until you close or clean those out. That seems a little cumbersome. You must right-click and close all tabs constantly to keep the console clean and manage your views. 

Some of the documentation in the knowledge base can be hard to navigate. You have to search through lots of products to find the correct version of your product. Sometimes when you have that, you still get documentation or knowledge-based information for something unrelated to what you're using.

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Saurabh Sadotra - PeerSpot reviewer
Mainframe System Programmer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Rocket Zena is a mainframe-based job scheduler. I would like it to be more open so that we can use it on a distributed platform. 

Control-M is available on the cloud. Rocket is only on-premises now. You can have Azure Cloud, download, and set up Control-M from there, and you can set it up from there. I would also like to have Rocket on the cloud. This will also help Rocket in getting a bigger client base. 

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RC
Data Center Operations Executive at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

They have a lot of room for improvement. Because we follow the Rocket Zena scheduler from our company, and previously, we used Control-M, it was a different product that was more expensive. That is why Zena was chosen by the organization.

Rocket Zena does not show the connections between different applications/components.

You may have several processes if you like, but if it's only one application, there will be a lot of jobs, however, you cannot combine two applications in a single process. It would be a mess.

I would like them to improve the connection between different processes to have better insight.

You can see that Rocket Zena is not capable of achieving that until all of the apps are in the same process, but if they are in different processes, you are unable to.

It is rare to have all of the applications in one process, most of the time it is in different processes.

Another needed improvement is the monitoring of its agents. 

When the server is down/stopped, you will not be able to notice that something is down from your Rocket Zena on the dashboard, but if you look at the agent's list, you will see a red color indicating that the server is down. There is no alert saying that this agent is uncontactable, or something along those lines.

In the next release, I would like to have an alert feature to indicate when an agent is down.

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Akash Vishwakarma - PeerSpot reviewer
RPA Developer at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

One area where it could be improved is communication between the different servers. Sometimes there are processes that have already been completed but we get a status notification that they're still active. We need improvement there because sometimes there are delays between the server and the agent part. There needs to be more focus on the agent: how to read the logs and agent notifications.

And a feature I would like to see is a notification if a server is not working.

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PD
DevOps Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The UI is not intuitive, and it would be nice if there was a web interface.

It would be nice if Zena could provide a solution directly with RPM packages instead of us having to install it manually and then craft RPM packages ourselves.

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WM
Enterprise Business Intelligence Administration and Management at a government with 11-50 employees

The scheduling mapping is a little disjointed. There is no wizard-type approach. There are a lot of different things that you have to do in completely different areas. 

They could probably add the functionality for creating all components of a mapping or an OPA schedule. The component creation could be done collectively rather than through individual components.

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