We performed a comparison between IBM Rational ClearQuest and OpenText ChangeMan ZMF based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Broadcom, BMC, Microsoft and others in Software Configuration Management."The combination of a highly flexible state machine together with a platform independent API enables possibilities to automate many steps that in many systems are manual."
"It can be adapted to any process flow and easily be integrated with other in-house tools using the ClearQuest API."
"We audit once a year for our ChangeMan access, accurate financial programs, and all of that. Auditors really love ChangeMan for how easy it is to get through and how tight the security is on it. Our internal auditors, external auditors, and SOX editors love this solution. We're in the healthcare business, so HIPAA regulations and all such things are a big deal, and this makes all that really simple."
"Scalability is great. It has absolutely met every need for us so far. We do have some concurrent development paths and we're able to flexibly assign variables. At the same time, our skeletons assemble where we want them to, so the scalability is very good."
"Lack of a modern web interface compared to other systems might discourage customers."
"As such, there's nothing wrong with the product. It is great, but there are small things that can be better to make it much more friendly. The way you navigate through fields can be improved. If I'm going to stage a component over something that exists and that I've created in another library, and I want to pull it in and write it over what I've got there in my package, I've got to type in that data set name every time. That can be aggravating. It is not a big deal. The way things are sorted can also be improved. If you're doing a delete of a bunch of components, you can't sort those out by type or anything. Some things are just standard, and you can't look at them in a way that would be helpful."
"I would like to see them enable parallel development for online. It's available now for batch stuff on the mainframe. Jenkins, IBM, and Rocket all supposedly already have safe and workable version of Git for the mainframe. With that in mind, we need to know where our feature is."
IBM Rational ClearQuest is ranked 6th in Software Configuration Management while OpenText ChangeMan ZMF is ranked 5th in Software Configuration Management. IBM Rational ClearQuest is rated 7.2, while OpenText ChangeMan ZMF is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of IBM Rational ClearQuest writes "Tracks change requests, problems, and physical asset management. I would like to see data type for floating point numbers. ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenText ChangeMan ZMF writes "Very flexible with Johnny-on-the-spot tech support". IBM Rational ClearQuest is most compared with Jira, IBM Rational ClearCase, HCL Compass and IBM Rational Synergy, whereas OpenText ChangeMan ZMF is most compared with Endevor and BMC Compuware ISPW.
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