We performed a comparison between CA Database Management for DB2 for zOS and Quest Spotlight based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Oracle, Quest Software, SolarWinds and others in Database Development and Management."The most important features are batch reporting and the ability to create repositories, enabling automated analysis. These are valuable because they enable me to do automated analysis of trends over time and reduce the time for comparing performance between two periods to identify anomalies."
"It takes advantage of new features of DB2."
"It is very stable. We have had no issues."
"Improved monitoring and performance management."
"It helps us to reduce hardware costs and to optimize processing times."
"The tool is a SaaS product where I just need to type a URL and start with the design process. I can integrate all elements of source control like GitHub, GitLab, etc. The tool also supports authentication-related provisions like SSH."
"I consider the solution very scalable."
"Its dashboards are most valuable. The drill-down of the dashboards is useful."
"They need to provide a way to create and maintain performance repositories. The online tool is not perfect, but it is giving me what I need."
"Minor stability issues."
"All the information we need, we could use to have it in a more usable format."
"Some customizations of the dashboard, such as having backup reports, would be useful."
"There's no reporting with this tool, and there really should be. They should add that into future releases."
"The software does not support webhooks. It doesn't support advanced versions of APIs. The tool also doesn't support advanced versions of specifications. The change that we do in one part of the model is not reflected throughout the specification. There are also some mutations in the clones. I am not able to do a local source control with the product as well."
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CA Database Management for DB2 for zOS is ranked 30th in Database Development and Management while Quest Spotlight is ranked 6th in Database Development and Management with 4 reviews. CA Database Management for DB2 for zOS is rated 8.8, while Quest Spotlight is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of CA Database Management for DB2 for zOS writes "The most useful feature is the ability to create strategies across the products". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Quest Spotlight writes "Good tool for the design and development of public APIs". CA Database Management for DB2 for zOS is most compared with CA IDMS and CA Datacom, whereas Quest Spotlight is most compared with Oracle Enterprise Manager, Quest Foglight for Databases, Redgate SQL Toolbelt, SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer and IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server.
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