We performed a comparison between BMC Compuware File-AID and Broadcom Test Data Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Delphix, Broadcom, DATPROF and others in Test Data Management."The product has made our mainframe data management process easier. It has helped us save manhours. The tool's most valuable feature is the ability to edit tape files. Its ability to clone files is beneficial in application development."
"I like the ability that it has to format copy books in a presentable manner. So, you will be able to see the starting offset in length of each field within the layout."
"The most valuable feature is the Portal that comes with the tool. That helps make it look much more user-friendly for the users. Also its ease of use - even for developers it's not that complicated."
"The masking of data has really been key for us to be able to replace PII with fake values."
"There is other stuff that they are working on right now, and that includes things like the vTDM or Virtual Test Data Management. That is where they have the ability to do test data clones. It is really neat because after doing some of that creation, or if you are going to do some subsetting, then you have a great looking database."
"When I run my App Test, I can directly connect with TDM. I can publish all my data into one table in TDM, then run my App Test directly."
"It removes manual intervention. A lot of the time that we've spent previously was always manually, as an individual running SQL scripts against databases, or manually going through a UI to create data. These solutions allow us to incorporate automation and self-service to eliminate all of our manual efforts."
"The scalability is outstanding. We're able to scale it to any size of data that we want. We can do small data sets, we can do large data sets."
"The synthetic data generation is really good... You can write rules and create permutations and combinations according to your needs. Or you can take a snippet of the Prod data and replicate it."
"Broadcom TDM's best feature is the self-service portal."
"We plan to replace BMC Compuware File-AID due to its price. Two years back, we paid 11,000 dollars. However, the current price is 27,900 dollars. The price has increased to at least eight times its initial cost. We would need to pay around 60,000 dollars to have all three products together. We also encountered issues during version updates."
"Technical support has gotten better over the years, though there's always room for improvement."
"All financial institutions are based on mainframes, so they're never going to go away. There are ppportunities to increase functionality and efficiencies within the mainframe solution, within this TDM product."
"I would say implementing test data management requires a lot of effort and time...Even if you have experienced people, it takes time."
"Broadcom Test Data Manager is for data management. I would like to see some extension with data warehousing concerning ETL. It should also integrate with Jira or other reporting tools. Currently, after creating data, we update tickets and other information in various tools. This would enable us to attach relevant files or information to specific tickets."
"They could make it easier to model databases, because right now it is really technical, so to train someone on it takes a while."
"Broadcom TDM takes a long time to import documents, which wastes time that could be spent on other things."
"It has a feature called TDM Portal, where testers can find test data by themselves, based on multiple models. They can reserve the data so that it belongs to one group or individual. Obviously, that data is not available to anybody else... This feature is for one environment. But if a different group of testers wanted that data for a different environment, they can't use it via CA TDM. That feature doesn't exist."
"Needs improvement on SAP test data generation for SAP testing."
"We had one user that was primarily working on it, who probably spent a few months initially setting it up."
BMC Compuware File-AID is ranked 7th in Test Data Management with 2 reviews while Broadcom Test Data Manager is ranked 2nd in Test Data Management with 32 reviews. BMC Compuware File-AID is rated 8.6, while Broadcom Test Data Manager is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of BMC Compuware File-AID writes "Helps to make mainframe data management process easier and saves manhours ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Broadcom Test Data Manager writes "Helps to create synthetic data and new data sets ". BMC Compuware File-AID is most compared with IBM File Manager, File Master Plus, IBM Fault Analyzer for zOS and Informatica Test Data Management (TDM), whereas Broadcom Test Data Manager is most compared with Delphix, Informatica Test Data Management (TDM), IBM InfoSphere Optim Test Data Management (TDM), K2View and BMC Compuware Topaz Enterprise Data.
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