BMC Compuware File-AID vs BMC Compuware Strobe comparison

File-AID is Compuware’s cross-platform file and data management solution that enables developers and QA staff to quickly and conveniently access necessary data and files instead of hunting around for them. In turn, developers devote less time to data-related tasks and spend more time developing new functionality and managing production problems. Rightsizing your test data provides confidence to make code changes without unintended consequences.

File-AID gives developers the ability to:

• Effectively manage files and data across platforms
• Access all standard file types regardless of record length or format for application integration
• Automatically compare data files or objects to simplify the test results validation process
• Reformat files by easily modifying an existing file format instead of starting from scratch
• Extract and load related subsets of data from multiple databases and files
• Ensure all test conditions are met by selecting the precise application test data you need
• Customize test data for a particular application and specific conditions
• Automate these activities using tools you already own, such as Jenkins

Compuware Strobe is the industry-leading mainframe application performance management and analysis solution for mainframe applications. With Strobe, IT departments can pinpoint application inefficiencies that cause excessive CPU consumption, elongated elapsed times and reduce hardware and software costs while increasing customer satisfaction.

With Strobe, mainframe teams can:

• Locate and improve resource-consumptive database calls
• Identify tuning opportunities to reduce monthly software licensing costs (MLC)
• Resolve performance issues before they impact application service levels
• Apply analytics to captured data to produce reports showing high-resource consumption and applications that need tuning
• Measure activity of both online and batch-processing applications in single and multiple- system environments
• Identify several I/O problems, including inefficient VSAM file buffering
• Create and schedule automatic, reusable measurements
• Automatically detect performance problems by using a rolling average of CPU consumption and elapsed-time metrics