We performed a comparison between BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on zOS and IBM App Connect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), MuleSoft, Matillion and others in Cloud Data Integration."BMC Data Management improved our data recovery process by simplifying it."
"I have worked with DB2's great features in the last five years. The IDAA feature transformed the vision of warehousing, business analytics, and big data at my bank. Besides the mainframe, I saw that this solution was evolutionary. It gives real-time information."
"When using IBM stacks, IBM App Connect is suitable and integrates well with other IBM products like WebSphere."
"I would say that the most valuable feature is the array of connectors and integration tools."
"It has different type of interfaces that can integrate with companies."
"The most valuable feature is the security."
"Provides good security features."
"It has an efficient design flow."
"There is a friendly interface for configuration, and integration is made easy."
"The solution is fast and supports Open UI 3.0 certification."
"DB2 is a hard tool to grasp. It's hard for users to learn how to use it. It's not easy to see how it works."
"One area for improvement with this product could be in providing clearer guidance and tools for disaster recovery planning and execution."
"IBM App Connect should improve security features."
"IBM App Connect is scalable. From the administration side, they need to improve the RBAC model, as well as the clustering of this product. It will be good if we can start up the cluster, via IBM Connect Console. Some other products like MuleSoft, are providing this type of administration. MuleSoft is easy to use and user friendly."
"Plugins for the repositories are difficult to find."
"They reply in one or two hours at most, but they could be better."
"The setup time for App Connect could be improved."
"The product should improve its support."
"The user interface of IBM App Connect can be a little bit more user-friendly, I would say because the first-time developer is onboarded while using IBM App Connect, he or she may get a little intimidated or daunted looking at all the options available or the pipelines, et cetera."
"When we do a version upgrade of the system, the platform is kind of complicated."
BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on zOS is ranked 21st in Database Development and Management with 2 reviews while IBM App Connect is ranked 11th in Cloud Data Integration with 20 reviews. BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on zOS is rated 8.6, while IBM App Connect is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on zOS writes "Improves disaster recovery processes and offers an efficient CPU cycle optimization ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM App Connect writes "Very flexible and user-friendly; embeds with other technologies; no dependency on queue manager". BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on zOS is most compared with AWS Database Migration Service, Qlik Replicate and Dataloader.io, whereas IBM App Connect is most compared with IBM Cloud Pak for Integration, Mule Anypoint Platform, webMethods Integration Server, IBM InfoSphere DataStage and StreamSets.
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