We performed a comparison between ChangeMan ZMF and Endevor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Configuration Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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."
"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."
"In the last year or so, we had a need to start using a CICS web services, and mesh them in with some distributed functions on an enterprise service bus. We put the web services into Endevor and we manage that way now."
"The flexibility, because I know a lot of the competition pigeonholes you into definitions and character limitations, and Endevor is wide open."
"It standardizes the processing of all the development. Everything gets produced in a constant and consistent manner."
"They've got plug-ins now to run it through Eclipse, they've got a lot of APIs, they handle UNIX files. I can't really think of any serious lack that they haven't addressed."
"The most valuable features are stability and ease of use."
"Endevor is easy to use."
"The developers can very easily see what has changed on a particular piece of source code or a program, and others can look at that as well so they can coordinate their changes. It makes it much easier to promote a piece of code up to production."
"We can make it do pretty much whatever we want, depending on just how complicated we want it to be, as it is pretty flexible."
"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."
"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."
"It is difficult to find file programs and use a different tool for the setup as the compilation process is all locked up."
"Endevor can improve parallel development."
"It is still kind of behind the times. It needs to catch up with all the millennials that want a distributed look and feel."
"Interfacing with some change control products that are not CA's, it's a little glitchy on the approvals of changes. It requires special needs for the users for approvals."
"I would like to have better integration with other products."
"The customer service and support team are not helpful."
"They need to ditch the Eclipse plugin and just make the development environment for Z the standard Eclipse interface."
"There are a lot of screens in it. The process for moving out my other solutions, it could be more convenient. There are a lot of steps to go through and a lot of screens to go through to get it accomplished."
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ChangeMan ZMF is ranked 5th in Software Configuration Management while Endevor is ranked 1st in Software Configuration Management with 45 reviews. ChangeMan ZMF is rated 7.6, while Endevor is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of ChangeMan ZMF writes "Very flexible with Johnny-on-the-spot tech support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Endevor writes "A highly stable tool for managing mainframe software development projects that require significant expertise". ChangeMan ZMF is most compared with BMC Compuware ISPW, whereas Endevor is most compared with BMC Compuware ISPW, CA Harvest Software Change Manager, IBM Rational ClearCase and IBM Engineering Workflow Management. See our ChangeMan ZMF vs. Endevor report.
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