Compare CA Mainframe Configuration Manager vs. Terracotta BigMemory

CA Mainframe Configuration Manager for IMS for z/OS (CA Mainframe Configuration Manager) can implement the necessary changes to IMS™ for z/OS application resource definitions without interrupting IMS access. It helps you manage your IMS environment more efficiently and keep information flowing freely, while meeting SLAs and maintaining the availability of business-critical data.

This mainframe configuration management solution provides functions that help you perform complex tasks more easily, increase the speed and integrity of configuration management and provide additional system maintenance functionality.

CA Mainframe Configuration Manager is an enterprise-level mainframe database management solution that can help your team:

Perform dynamic updates across all the IMS systems in an IMSPlex.
Manage and perform most tasks from an intuitive ISPF interface.

Go big, go fast with the world’s premier distributed in-memory data management platform that delivers extremely low, predictable latency at any scale. It’s the simplest, most cost-effective way to get lightning-fast, predictable access to big data—cutting processing time from minutes to seconds, or even less.

BigMemory makes your data available—in real-time—to your applications. Snap it into enterprise apps to speed up access to unlimited amounts of data in-memory, distributed across any size server array. Access 100s of TBs of data—or more—in real time. Scale up, scale out—even scale to the cloud.

Because BigMemory works without any proprietary virtual machines or special hardware, it’s easy to install. You can get started with as few as two lines of configuration change. It’s also wildly cost effective. At terabyte scale, BigMemory can slash application server footprint by 100x or more.