BMC AMI DevX vs DataMasque comparison

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BMC and DataMasque are both solutions in the Data Masking category. BMC is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.0, while DataMasque is ranked #8 with an average rating of 10.0. BMC holds a 5.7% mindshare in DM, compared to DataMasque’s 1.1% mindshare. Additionally, 93% of BMC users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of DataMasque users who would recommend it.

BMC AMI DevX

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93% willing to recommend

DataMasque

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between BMC AMI DevX and DataMasque based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Data Masking solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

BMC AMI DevX

Ranking in Data Masking

3rd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Software Configuration Management (1st), Debugging (2nd), Database Development and Management (11th), Mainframe Application Development (1st), Test Data Management (4th), Mainframe Testing Tools (1st), AI Software Development (30th)

DataMasque

Ranking in Data Masking

8th

Average Rating

10.0

Reviews Sentiment

3.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Governance (29th)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Data Masking category, the mindshare of BMC AMI DevX is 5.7%, up from 4.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of DataMasque is 1.1%. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Data Masking Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
BMC AMI DevX	5.7%
DataMasque	1.1%
Other	93.2%

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AkshayChaudhari

Data Specialist at TCS

Modern workflow has improved COBOL debugging and simplifies understanding complex legacy code

The most valuable feature is the integrated COBOL debugging and code analysis capability. Being able to step through programs, set breakpoints, and monitor variable values to understand how the program flow operates makes troubleshooting much easier and more structured. I also appreciate the modern development environment for editing COBOL, browsing datasets, and submitting JCL jobs without constantly switching between different tools. The code navigation and AI-assisted code understanding capabilities are also useful for working with unfamiliar legacy applications. The code understanding features have been useful when I need to work with unfamiliar COBOL applications. They help me explain existing code, identify the relationships and dependencies between programs and copybooks, and make it easier to understand the overall program flow. Instead of manually tracking every section of a large legacy application, I can use the AI assistance to get a quicker understanding of what the code is doing and where a change may have an impact. This reduces the time to get familiar with older code and makes maintenance and troubleshooting more straightforward and efficient.

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Nierojan Pushparajan

Director of Software Engineering at TelliHealth

Masking sensitive test data has improved compliance and now enables safe, realistic debugging

The best features DataMasque offers that stand out to me are the flexibility to create rule sets and mask UUIDs, which have been really beneficial. Additionally, their customer service and technical support have been very helpful in getting this set up. The flexibility in creating rule sets has helped my team specifically because we have lots of dependencies on different databases and different database types. We have an RDS instance and an OpenSearch instance. Having those rule sets really allowed us to connect data between the two because the same data can be across multiple datasets. Creating these rules enabled us to not think too much about which ones need to be unique or which ones need to be the same across different tables. Whenever we run into issues or questions, we are able to talk to the DataMasque team, and they give us a reasonable technical response within a good timeframe that allows us to solve our issues pretty quickly. We have not had huge delays or blockers because of the communication between us and DataMasque. I appreciate the consistency to continue to improve the application, and there are new features coming out this year that will be tools we use. DataMasque is doing a great job of adding new features, and we will definitely be using them in the future. DataMasque has positively impacted our organization by already showing visible benefits in security and reduced risks for compliance, even though we are still in the process of setting up production and using it to the full extent. It will allow our developers to troubleshoot issues easily without the risk of viewing PHI or anything similar. We are seeing the benefits already of that, but we still need to complete the full integration and incorporate it into our workflows to see the full benefits, which we are currently in the process of. So far, it has been really good. By just masking production data, we can go into this masked database set to understand edge cases and issues as they come up from support without the developers having to look at any production data. They can go into this masked dataset and see the problem firsthand, something we would not have caught with our dev dataset because it is such a smaller amount of data, whereas production has a vast amount of data that we can look through.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The most valuable feature of Topaz is Xpediter. It's more flexible than Xpediter through MVS."

"From a user perspective, the GUIs make it easier for people to see and interact with files on the mainframe."

"BMC AMI DevX tools have noticeably impacted our developers' productivity and efficiency."

"The smart editor helps because it will code-complete for me. I can see code working a lot faster and I'm able to get things coded in less time."

"I like the ability that it has to format copy books in a presentable manner. So, you will be able to see the starting offset in length of each field within the layout."

"BMC Data Management improved our data recovery process by simplifying it."

"For bank applications, DB2 is the best on the market."

"Once we got the configurations and deployment rolled out, it was very stable. I haven't had any major issues with Eclipse or the Topaz Workbench plugins."

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"Being able to generate the masking rules directly from the tool based on what it finds during the data discovery helps ensure that all sensitive fields are identified and masked."

"DataMasque has positively impacted our organization by already showing visible benefits in security and reduced risks for compliance, even though we are still in the process of setting up production and using it to the full extent."

"We can now have a staging environment very much like a production environment, which improves our testing and product quality."

"We were able to profile all 400+ databases in our environment, identify compliance data that was not known or identified previously and allow the teams a self-service option to restore to lower environments."

Cons

"One area for improvement with this product could be in providing clearer guidance and tools for disaster recovery planning and execution."

"BMC AMI DevX's logging in feature is not so great. Furthermore, the startup of BMC AMI DevX takes a long time to start up before it loads."

"The ISPW plugin could be improved to add some functionality which is already in ISPF panels and not in the plugin."

"Their technical support could be better. There were times where, when we reported bugs, they would fix one bug but add another one. That's probably because of their support model. A lot of organizations are developing software using Agile rather than the Waterfall method, so things are happening all over the place. You get things quicker, but sometimes one fix will break another one or add other bugs."

"We have noticed that Topaz supported Eclipse environments are rather old. It would be nice if Topaz were compatible with the more current Eclipse releases."

"It would be good if the vendors would work together or at least have some collaboration between them, so they would know what would work and what wouldn't work. Right now, the way things are working, they're relying on the customer to make everything work."

"The ability to edit source code that has special characters is limited. The ability to incorporate or convert REXX into macros that are usable under the Topaz software is not there. And the REXX macros that I have developed over 40 years of work are useless, so I have a toolbox I can't use or deploy using the Topaz technology, while I can use it under MVS."

"The area for improvement is related to the testing tools that are available for unit testing or acceptance testing. I know they have some out there that we are not licensed for at this time, but it seems like some of the Eclipse tools that are used for other programming languages, they're all just built-in and they're a little more intuitive to the developers. Making those testing tools as intuitive as possible, and as integrated as possible into the workbench, would be really beneficial."

More BMC AMI DevX cons

"UUID generation could be improved."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"In terms of pricing, there isn't an extra charge for the parts of it we use. It comes with the licenses we purchased for other products, so no complaints there. The licensing is built in with the other products that you purchase from Compuware."

"It has saved our developers time and effort when working on documentation, which is now more readable and fluent."

"The only thing I would mention related to the licensing and/or the pricing, is that they have some visualization features in there that are licensed by concurrent users. We're starting to trip up on that. We're looking to probably increase the number of concurrent licenses that we have. But those types of licensing strategies, where they license by concurrent users or the number of seats is confusing for some people. They don't understand why it works sometimes and doesn't work other times."

"The price point is great."

"In general, Compuware tools are very competitive."

"I like the seat-based licensing much more than MSU-based licensing, and that the cost has been competitive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

29%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Construction Company

Energy/Utilities Company

24%

Construction Company

18%

Outsourcing Company

14%

Comms Service Provider

11%

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	9
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	24

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for BMC Compuware Topaz Enterprise Data?

My understanding is that BMC AMI DevX is an enterprise product with custom licensing, so pricing is typically negotiated based on factors such as the modules purchased, organization size, and usage...

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What needs improvement with BMC AMI DevX?

BMC AMI DevX is a strong platform, but there are a few areas where it could improve, such as simplifying the initial installation and configuration, especially for first-time users. It could also i...

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What is your primary use case for BMC AMI DevX?

My main use case for BMC AMI DevX is to work with COBOL and JCL development on IBM. I mainly use it for editing, browsing data sets, submitting jobs, and debugging applications. I appreciate the Ec...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for DataMasque?

As we are still in the early stages, I can't say anything definitive about pricing yet, but I believe it will be usage-based, which should work well.

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What needs improvement with DataMasque?

UUID generation could be improved. Although UUIDs were masked correctly, some validation rules were not supported, requiring a switch from validators to pattern matching. Expanding native UUID vali...

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What is your primary use case for DataMasque?

I created a staging environment with production-like data.

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Also Known As

File-AID, Data for Db2, Code Debug, Data Studio, Workbench for Eclipse, Code Pipeline

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Overview

BMC AMI DevX is a mainframe DevOps platform for IBM Z environments that helps development and platform engineering teams increase release velocity, reduce change risk, and build a sustainable mainframe developer workforce.

Whether the priority is attracting the next generation of mainframe talent, safely evolving decades of business-critical code, accelerating release velocity, or demonstrating development ROI to leadership — BMC AMI DevX is designed to address all on a single platform. Teams can connect existing tools and adopt capabilities incrementally using an open-borders integration approach.

A 2025 Forrester Total Economic Impact study found that customers using BMC AMI DevX onboarded developers 50% faster, completed code changes 33% faster, increased release frequency by 50%, and reduced change failure rate by 33%.

Key capabilities:

Modern IDE integration (VS Code, Eclipse) with a unified development environment that reduces context switching
AI-powered code analysis including dependency mapping, impact analysis, and runtime execution path visualization
Automated unit, functional, integration, and performance testing with code coverage analysis
Git-compatible CI/CD integration with event-driven webhooks and an open plug-in library
DORA metrics and DevOps KPI tracking with AI/ML anomaly detection across the mainframe SDLC

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DataMasque offers robust data masking, maintaining referential integrity while ensuring security and compliance. Its features support realistic dataset testing without exposing sensitive data, integrating seamlessly across databases.

DataMasque is designed to protect PII and PHI by masking sensitive information across interconnected databases and cloud platforms. This ensures applications, reporting, and integrations are not impacted by structural inconsistencies. Its adaptable rule set and auto-generation of masking rules aid in swift deployment, enhancing data security frameworks and accelerating release cycles. DataMasque also provides strong technical support and continues to enhance its capabilities with ongoing improvements. Users find value in its existing functionality while looking forward to further usability enhancements, including expanded capabilities for unstructured data and improved post-masking validation.

What Are DataMasque's Main Features?

Identical Data Masking: Ensures masked data retains the appearance and formatting of original data, enhancing usability.
Referential Integrity Preservation: Maintains data relationships across systems, crucial for accurate testing and reporting.
Automation: Facilitates seamless integration and efficient masking operations without manual intervention.
Scalability: Supports growth and handles large datasets across distributed environments.
Compliance and Security Alignment: Helps meet regulatory requirements like GDPR while maintaining robust security.
Speed and Accuracy: Guarantees rapid data processing with precise masking rule application.
Rule Set Flexibility: Offers custom rules to adapt to specific data structures and needs.
Auto-Generation of Masking Rules: Automatically creates rules, speeding up deployment and reducing configuration errors.

What Benefits and ROI Should Users Consider?

Data Security Enhancement: Significantly reduces the risk of data breaches by masking PII and PHI.
Improved Compliance: Aligns with regulatory standards, helping avoid legal and financial penalties.
Faster Release Cycles: Reduces time to market by enabling secure, realistic testing environments.
Risk Reduction: Minimizes hazards associated with data exposure in non-production environments.
Integration Ease: Smoothly integrates across databases, maintaining consistency and accuracy.

DataMasque is implemented across technology, healthcare, finance, and retail industries to safeguard sensitive data without disrupting operations. It assures that development, testing, and analytics use environments that mirror live systems closely, which is critical for sectors handling large volumes of personal data.

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Sample Customers

NRB, Iberdrola, Consorzio Servizi Bancari

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