"It's stable enough. I haven't noticed any problems since it was installed."
"Once automatic IPL has been defined, anyone can perform an IPL with very little intervention. We know that all of the components will be started correctly."
"It is an easy product to use and it is stable."
"If something breaks and it goes down when it's not supposed to, automation brings it right back up."
"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."
"It reduces the number of repetitive motions required by a human to respond to the system."
"OPS/REXX is valuable because it allows us almost unlimited flexibility in automating our system."
"Stability is probably the best out-of-the-box. Put it in, set it up, and you leave it alone. It works wonderfully."
"I can and interrupt what's going on, bring a job down if I need to, and bring it back up."
"We can't see the percentages to see the percentages of the CPU utilized. We should be able to see how much was used by our part of the system. Now, we have to continuously recalculate that information."
"One thing that comes to mind is the MQ interface. The last time we tried to use it, it seemed a little clunky."
"Some of the command sequences are too long."
"Scalability is zero. It cannot be scaled because of its age."
"The interfaces to USS, CA UIM could be better. CA Common Services interfaces - namely Zdata Mover, Zmessage Service, Zdatacolletcor - are poorly documented."
"It’s a complex product. The initial installation is easy, but implementing various functions is a constant process."
"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."
"The GUI interface could be improved, but that is coming. They are working on that."
IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON is ranked 1st in Mainframe Management while OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence is ranked 6th in Mainframe Management. IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON is rated 5.0, while OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON writes "Good stability but it is lacking the ability to see historical information ". 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". IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON is most compared with BMC MainView, Rocket Software Mainframe, SYSVIEW Performance Intelligence, ASG TMON and IntelliMagic Vision for zOS, whereas OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence is most compared with BMC MainView, BMC TrueSight Operations Management and SCOM.
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