"The integration of IMS commands is very useful, because you do not have to switch to another tool to problem solve solutions."
"Enabled me to solve production problems faster or even avoid them preemptively with warnings."
"Valuable features include: SSM, which provides for orderly startup and shutdown; OPSLOG, which enables filtering by message-id, and/or jobname(s); Rules, as OPS/REXX interface streamlines deployment, interfaces easily with JES2 and z/OS."
"The service has been wonderful. I like the people that I have had to deal with. The process is very straightforward. I call or use the website."
"The follow-up surprised me. Making sure that I am happy with what I have gone to them on. They will call after I have made changes and verify that I am happy with the changes that I did have to make. If it did not fix the complete problem, they go back over it until I am satisfied."
"It reduces the number of repetitive motions required by a human to respond to the system."
"The performance of it is beyond exceptional. It is probably one of the best products that I have ever worked with. It is easy to use, comprehensive, and can perform almost any task you need it to."
"The documentation is simple, easy to follow, and use. A limited, first-time systems programmer can do it, in that it is out-of-the-box almost functional."
"It's very secure, because it's a legacy application."
"It's a very stable product. I very much like the SSM stuff in it. The rules engine, it's awesome."
"An expansion for distributed systems would be great, but probably not workable."
"More visualisation and support for mobile devices would be good."
"The GUI interface could be improved, but that is coming. They are working on that."
"Performing a stop/restart of OPS/MVS could be a little smoother. Without special coding, some undesired tasks will be started and some necessary tasks will be stopped if we have to bounce OPS/MVS during the day."
"Scalability is zero. It cannot be scaled because of its age."
"The further expansion of the mainframe teamcenter interface. Also, the web services support is something that I am looking into."
"It definitely needs more web-based interface, to be more mobile-open. More APIs, more open source to it."
"The reason sometimes it is not stable, we do not have the expertise to write the script."
"Some of the command sequences are too long."
"One thing that comes to mind is the MQ interface. The last time we tried to use it, it seemed a little clunky."
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BMC MainView is ranked 3rd in Mainframe Management while OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence is ranked 6th in Mainframe Management. BMC MainView is rated 9.0, while OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of BMC MainView writes "Enabled me to solve production problems faster or even avoid them preemptively with warnings". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence writes "The ability to use command rules is great when our operators have repetitive tasks, but we'd like to automate off of different highlighted messages without actually knowing what the message is". BMC MainView is most compared with IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON, SYSVIEW Performance Intelligence, ASG TMON and Rocket Software Mainframe, whereas OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence is most compared with BMC TrueSight Operations Management and SCOM.
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