We performed a comparison between Endevor and IBM Rational ClearCase based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Broadcom, BMC, Microsoft and others in Software Configuration Management."It provides secure, controlled access to source management."
"The flexibility, because I know a lot of the competition pigeonholes you into definitions and character limitations, and Endevor is wide open."
"Our automation, our development implementations are all automated, which is a huge amount of time savings."
"Any question that an auditor has about our processes and approvals is all stored in Endevor."
"In the last year or so, we had a need to start using a CICS web services, and mesh them in with some distributed functions on an enterprise service bus. We put the web services into Endevor and we manage that way now."
"It can be very flexible, as far as how you use it. You can make it do nearly anything, but in really clever ways. It is very versatile."
"The source integrity is the most valuable feature."
"We can make it do pretty much whatever we want, depending on just how complicated we want it to be, as it is pretty flexible."
"ClearCase integrates well with other engineering tools and frameworks such as the Eclipse environment."
"IBM Rational ClearCase is a stable solution. I have not had any difficulty with reliability."
"The main challenges are its limited interface and the complexity of the customization."
"Learning the tool for the first time was extremely difficult, and it could be because of all the other processes we had around it. But knowing you can do these things in batch, you can do things in the foreground or online mode, and then these, you have to have a package for. There are these rules, and some of the concepts inside the tool are not clear, like what is the CCID? Why do I have to have one? What is that? And how is it used? As a developer, it's not important to me - I don't know what a CCID is, and I don't care - but apparently it's important to someone."
"The scalability of Endevor could improve."
"It is still kind of behind the times. It needs to catch up with all the millennials that want a distributed look and feel."
"Sometimes finding errors and output can be difficult because it spits out so many messages that it is hard to figure out which ones are the ones you need to look at and what flow did it actually take through the processor."
"If I had to comment on an area of improvement or something new in the next or future version, I would like to see AI-assisted coding and impact analysis for mainframes."
"Interfacing with some change control products that are not CA's, it's a little glitchy on the approvals of changes. It requires special needs for the users for approvals."
"They need to ditch the Eclipse plugin and just make the development environment for Z the standard Eclipse interface."
"The protection needs to be improved."
"I have found it very difficult to understand many functionalities in IBM Rational ClearCase. We have had many problems and it is not user-friendly."
Endevor is ranked 1st in Software Configuration Management with 45 reviews while IBM Rational ClearCase is ranked 4th in Software Configuration Management with 5 reviews. Endevor is rated 8.8, while IBM Rational ClearCase is rated 6.4. The top reviewer of Endevor writes "A highly stable tool for managing mainframe software development projects that require significant expertise". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Rational ClearCase writes "Difficult to use, not efficient, but stable". Endevor is most compared with BMC Compuware ISPW, OpenText ChangeMan ZMF, CA Harvest Software Change Manager and IBM Engineering Workflow Management, whereas IBM Rational ClearCase is most compared with Git, GitHub, Bitbucket and IBM Rational ClearQuest.
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