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    Overview

    ThruPut Manager automatically and intelligently optimizes batch processing. By balancing workload and improving batch throughput, ThruPut Manager delivers significant savings in software license fees and monthly licensing costs (MLC), and may allow you to defer expensive hardware upgrades. Systems programmers can use ThruPut Manager to: Better prioritize batch processing based on business-related policies and goals Automatically select the most urgent jobs first without system overload Verify jobs have the resources they need and proactively manage resource contention between jobs Minimize rolling 4-hour average (R4HA) processing peaks with or without “soft capping”.

    Zeke Optimizes your workload through real-time, logical, and physical resource control to automatically check condition codes at every step and to react in real time.

    Zeke schedules and submits events at machine speed, and it improves system efficiency and throughput by checking physical and logical resources before job dispatching. It checks step-level condition code for you by utilizing the IBM® SMF facility and allows job cancellation based on condition codes.

    Through Zeke, you can easily view schedule information on a single screen and gain highlighted exceptions automatically by using the Schedule View feature. Zeke also features import/export facilities to ease migration across Zeke for z/OS implementations or to move from test to production environments.

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    Reliance, Raley's, Oney, Primerica, Postbank
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    Financial Services Firm36%
    Insurance Company11%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Government5%
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    Financial Services Firm29%
    Insurance Company21%
    Manufacturing Company12%
    Computer Software Company7%
    Company Size
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    Small Business17%
    Midsize Enterprise1%
    Large Enterprise82%
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    Small Business11%
    Midsize Enterprise2%
    Large Enterprise87%
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    BMC Compuware ThruPut Manager is ranked 28th in Workload Automation while Rocket Zeke is ranked 18th in Workload Automation with 1 review. BMC Compuware ThruPut Manager is rated 10.0, while Rocket Zeke is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of BMC Compuware ThruPut Manager writes "The service level and automated capacity manager functions allow us to control priorities, support SLA's and manage our 4HRA and reduce MLC for some software bills". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rocket Zeke writes "It's a reliable solution that gets a lot done quickly". BMC Compuware ThruPut Manager is most compared with IBM Workload Automation, whereas Rocket Zeke is most compared with Rocket Zena, Control-M, Tidal by Redwood, CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence and AutoSys Workload Automation.

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