BMC Compuware Strobe vs BMC Compuware Xpediter comparison

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

Xpediter is Compuware’s mainframe application interactive debugging tool. It also offers code coverage for mainframe application analysis.

Xpediter enables developers to get into an interactive test session with minimal effort and quickly move applications into production with greater confidence.

With Xpediter, developers can:

• See and control source code execution line by line
• Fully understand what each individual instruction is doing
• See and control all data variables within a test session
• Resolve production abends without impacting program logic or risking data corruption
• Monitor and control execution with added flexibility
• Use Code Coverage to view documented proof that code has been executed
• Trap transactions initiated by a remote source or a non-terminal task
• Gain full control of testing
• Create conditions during test to ensure execution of all code in a program
• Work alongside other developers who are debugging application code in the same or different logical IMS systems through Xpediter’s integration with COPE IMS virtualization technology