"The report writer in TMON is a very good add-on for batch reports which weren't available in OmegaMon/CICS."
"If something breaks and it goes down when it's not supposed to, automation brings it right back up."
"With the automation pieces we can bring this region up or take this region down, and it allows us to always meet our time critical requirements."
"It is an easy product to use and it is stable."
"Their technical support is incredible, immediately responsive, and even if it is not updated to Level 2 support sometimes, they chip in providing more detailed answers and options to fix the problem."
"Because we can define complex commands, the training of new operators is quicker. We can also put checks in place, that will prevent user errors."
"I do not have to keep recordings. It is there and is proactive. It helps the operators, human editors, and me."
"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."
"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."
"We're like it to be possible to move some more workload to our ZIIP processors to save us some billing for general workload."
"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 GUI interface could be improved, but that is coming. They are working on that."
"Because of its age, it's a little bit difficult to modernize some of the integrations and some of the functions."
"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."
"The interfaces to USS, CA UIM could be better. CA Common Services interfaces - namely Zdata Mover, Zmessage Service, Zdatacolletcor - are poorly documented."
"The further expansion of the mainframe teamcenter interface. Also, the web services support is something that I am looking into."
ASG TMON is ranked 4th in Mainframe Management with 1 review while OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence is ranked 6th in Mainframe Management. ASG TMON is rated 10.0, while OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of ASG TMON writes "Easy to install and use with good support and ". 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". ASG TMON is most compared with IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON, Rocket Software Mainframe, BMC MainView and SYSVIEW Performance Intelligence, whereas OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence is most compared with BMC MainView, IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON, BMC TrueSight Operations Management and SCOM.
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