CA Endevor Administrator at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
Jun 19, 2018
It puts all our source in one product. We know where to go to gather all our source code and which source is associated with which executable. It's a one-stop-shop, one place to go for everything.
Information Technology and Services Consultant and Contractor at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Feb 18, 2018
We have been able to replicate entire SDLCs for new clients and have them loaded and ready to use Endevor in as little as one week. This was possible with the use of Endevor variables within the processors, so that a single processor was able to function for multiple systems across the entire SDLC.
CA Endevor Administrator at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
Jun 19, 2018
One feature of Endevor is its Backout feature. If there is a problem, it can back out the executables. The only problem with that is that it will not back out the source in Endevor. For example, you can do a back out and it will back out the executable to the previous version, but it doesn't back out the source version in Endevor. It would make it much better if when you did a back out of Endevor, it would back out both the source and the executable and keep them in sync.
Infrastructure Engineer at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.
Nov 26, 2017
Sometimes finding errors and output can be difficult because it spits out so many messages that it is hard to figure out which ones are the ones you need to look at and what flow did it actually take through the processor.
Security Manager & CM Specialist & Mainframe Specialist en eSoft at eSoft 2006
May 9, 2023
If I had to comment on an area of improvement or something new in the next or future version, I would like to see AI-assisted coding and impact analysis for mainframes.
Information Technology and Services Consultant and Contractor at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Feb 18, 2018
Needs more audit capability when it comes to changes to settings that are made by administrators, as many of these are done through the panels and are therefore not logged as an action against a configuration item.
Automation Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Nov 26, 2017
Learning the tool for the first time was extremely difficult, and it could be because of all the other processes we had around it. But knowing you can do these things in batch, you can do things in the foreground or online mode, and then these, you have to have a package for. There are these rules, and some of the concepts inside the tool are not clear, like what is the CCID? Why do I have to have one? What is that? And how is it used? As a developer, it's not important to me - I don't know what a CCID is, and I don't care - but apparently it's important to someone.
Mainframe System Administrator II at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Nov 26, 2017
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.
Software Configuration Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Feb 6, 2018
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.
