Stonebranch Universal Automation Center Room for Improvement

One hiccup we've had is due to the fact that we have other internal scheduling tools. We're able to talk to them, but we have trouble with some of the networking between them, so we're still trying to work out the kinks there. Also, there's the z/OS agent. We've had troubles with GDGs, with recovery. Say we have a job that fails on a Saturday and there are other jobs that update that generation. If they go to fix the one from Friday, it picks up right where it left off. It doesn't know about the future generations that were created. We've been trying to have Stonebranch correct that for us, and that's probably the biggest open issue. And they're the hardest ones to install and upgrade. Mainframe, in general, seems to be a hurdle, in my opinion. View full review »

There is a component called the OMS, which is the message broker. We rely on infrastructure, resiliency, and availability for that piece. If that could change to be highly available just as a software component, so that we don't have to provide the high-available storage, etc. for it, that would be a plus. It would just be cheaper to run. View full review »

* Virtual resource priorities could be better. * Maybe in the future, the use of queues. * Promoting objects to multiple environments at once. View full review »

The FTP tasks. Ever since UAC changed to using cURL for FTP, we have had a lot of issues. 90% or more of our FTP tasks have been moved away from the UAC task type to our own FTP task using WS-FTP pro (which has more flexibility, that UAC does not offer such as PGP encryption) View full review »

REST API can be improved by exposing more information about running instances. For example, the failed error message of a Stored procedure task cannot be seen through the API. Other features that would be helpful is to dynamically insert new tasks to be run at run time when certain conditions are met. Currently, that's possible with a web service task but only one task can be inserted at a time for one instance which is limiting possibilities. View full review »

* FTP tasks have been an issue. * It has also been challenging to support PGP encryption which is a fairly standard encryption method. View full review »

For me, Stonebranch can do more than integration and scheduling, like real-time interfacing services and point-to-point to integration. With this, we don't want to invest money on multiple tools for different purposes. View full review »

In my opinion, training materials and FAQ/support should be improved. For people who start using UAC in a DevOps model, it's hard to understand configuration and how UAC works, how to create workflows, etc. More online classes or tutorials. View full review »

More number of FAQs should be provided because I found it hard to configure when I started using this tool. View full review »

* A migration tool for encrypted username/password to use the new keystore feature. * Enabling proxy certificates for IBM's System SSL would be great. View full review »

Lifecycle management. View full review »

Dealing with customer requirements and enhancements. The process now is a little bit non-transparent. View full review »

Have a better graphical workflow overview, more information on icons, the UI uses. We would like to have information in dependencies in virtual recourses. View full review »

* The API's need to fully meet the capabilities of the user interface. * Better support of workload balancers (F5). View full review »

In my opinion, scheduler sometimes is getting turned off due to causes that Opswise was not predicted. View full review »

* Run in Unix and Windows environments Additional features: * Migration tool for encrypted username/password to use the new Keystore feature * UDM third-party file transfer * Enable proxy certificates for IBM System SSL. View full review »