"Enabled me to solve production problems faster or even avoid them preemptively with warnings."
"The integration of IMS commands is very useful, because you do not have to switch to another tool to problem solve solutions."
"The performance of it is beyond exceptional. It is probably one of the best products that I have ever worked with. It is easy to use, comprehensive, and can perform almost any task you need it to."
"OPS/REXX is valuable because it allows us almost unlimited flexibility in automating our system."
"Valuable features include: SSM, which provides for orderly startup and shutdown; OPSLOG, which enables filtering by message-id, and/or jobname(s); Rules, as OPS/REXX interface streamlines deployment, interfaces easily with JES2 and z/OS."
"The follow-up surprised me. Making sure that I am happy with what I have gone to them on. They will call after I have made changes and verify that I am happy with the changes that I did have to make. If it did not fix the complete problem, they go back over it until I am satisfied."
"The documentation is simple, easy to follow, and use. A limited, first-time systems programmer can do it, in that it is out-of-the-box almost functional."
"It's a very stable product. I very much like the SSM stuff in it. The rules engine, it's awesome."
"Stability is probably the best out-of-the-box. Put it in, set it up, and you leave it alone. It works wonderfully."
"Their technical support is incredible, immediately responsive, and even if it is not updated to Level 2 support sometimes, they chip in providing more detailed answers and options to fix the problem."
"An expansion for distributed systems would be great, but probably not workable."
"More visualisation and support for mobile devices would be good."
"Because of its age, it's a little bit difficult to modernize some of the integrations and some of the functions."
"It definitely needs more web-based interface, to be more mobile-open. More APIs, more open source to it."
"The GUI interface could be improved, but that is coming. They are working on that."
"It’s a complex product. The initial installation is easy, but implementing various functions is a constant process."
"Scalability is zero. It cannot be scaled because of its age."
"Performing a stop/restart of OPS/MVS could be a little smoother. Without special coding, some undesired tasks will be started and some necessary tasks will be stopped if we have to bounce OPS/MVS during the day."
"The interfaces to USS, CA UIM could be better. CA Common Services interfaces - namely Zdata Mover, Zmessage Service, Zdatacolletcor - are poorly documented."
"The reason sometimes it is not stable, we do not have the expertise to write the script."
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BMC MainView is ranked 3rd in Mainframe Management while OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence is ranked 6th in Mainframe Management. BMC MainView is rated 9.0, while OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of BMC MainView writes "Enabled me to solve production problems faster or even avoid them preemptively with warnings". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence writes "The ability to use command rules is great when our operators have repetitive tasks, but we'd like to automate off of different highlighted messages without actually knowing what the message is". BMC MainView is most compared with IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON, SYSVIEW Performance Intelligence, Rocket Software Mainframe and ASG TMON, whereas OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence is most compared with BMC TrueSight Operations Management, IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON and SCOM.
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