We performed a comparison between CA Datacom and CA IDMS 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."Nowadays, CA is doing a lot of improving as far as online maintainability of definitions, which is a huge improvement over the past. I'm able to do a lot of changes without any outage."
"It is a solid product."
"Scalability is definitely one thing. The size of the database can grow without any issues. We've got one database table that's got over a billion rows in it; quite a bit of data, and it handles access like a champ."
"The initial setup is fairly straightforward for a mainframe product."
"It definitely cuts down on our support costs. I do not get woken up in the middle of the night very often for a problem with Datacom."
"Technical support is very good. They are very knowledgeable, very quick to respond, and very nice people, too."
"It is a really stable platform. It has been around for many years. We trust it implicitly. "
"The most useful feature is the governance feature, because it can show us and help us to manage user profiles very quickly and using it in assertive way."
"For the "no-outage maintainability" of things, they are making improvements as we speak, but there is definitely still room for more of that."
"The only minor issue that we have had with Datacom is in the installation guide: Some of the sizings for the databases have not really worked out for us, so we had to go in and resize them."
"I would like to see it made simpler to operate and maintain."
"Right now, it's not easy to start using this solution. You have to take long course and train people. It's not an easy path."
CA Datacom is ranked 33rd in Database Development and Management while CA IDMS is ranked 31st in Database Development and Management. CA Datacom is rated 9.0, while CA IDMS is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of CA Datacom writes "It is like a black box type of product. We just set it up and it runs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of CA IDMS writes "We get network database performance. It supports our back office". CA Datacom is most compared with CA Database Management for DB2 for zOS, whereas CA IDMS is most compared with IBM IMS, CA Database Management for DB2 for zOS and Adabas.
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