BMC AMI DevX vs Endevor comparison

BMC and Broadcom are both solutions in the Software Configuration Management category. BMC is ranked #1 with an average rating of 7.7, while Broadcom is ranked #3. BMC holds a 10.0% mindshare in SCM, compared to Broadcom’s 13.5% mindshare. Additionally, 91% of BMC users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of Broadcom users who would recommend it.

BMC AMI DevX

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90% willing to recommend

BMC AMI DevX

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 15, 2026

Endevor and BMC AMI DevX are competing enterprise software management tools for enhancing mainframe operations. BMC AMI DevX appears to have the upper hand with advanced features that justify its cost.

Features: Endevor offers comprehensive version control, robust integration capabilities, and automated build processes suitable for complex environments. BMC AMI DevX excels with advanced debugging tools, real-time monitoring, and extensive automation, with specialized functionalities for intricate system management.

Room for Improvement: Endevor could benefit from an improved footprint checking process, reduced time consumption for support responses, and enhancements in its csv utility and reporting. BMC AMI DevX might enhance user-friendliness, reduce its learning curve for less experienced users, and incorporate more seamless updates to match evolving enterprise demands.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Endevor provides a streamlined deployment model and responsive customer service, easing implementation. BMC AMI DevX, supported by extensive documentation and personalized support, smoothens deployment for larger enterprises with its proactive support model and detailed guidance.

Pricing and ROI: Endevor's competitive setup cost attracts budget-conscious buyers and delivers ROI by streamlining workflows. BMC AMI DevX, though costlier upfront, offers significant ROI through enhanced productivity and reduced downtime, balancing its high initial cost with potential long-term gains in operational efficiency.

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Categories and Ranking

BMC AMI DevX

Ranking in Software Configuration Management

1st

Ranking in Mainframe Application Development

1st

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Debugging (4th), Database Development and Management (16th), Test Data Management (5th), Mainframe Testing Tools (1st), Data Masking (4th), AI Software Development (202nd)

Endevor

Ranking in Software Configuration Management

3rd

Ranking in Mainframe Application Development

3rd

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Software Configuration Management category, the mindshare of BMC AMI DevX is 10.0%, down from 29.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Endevor is 13.5%, down from 34.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Software Configuration Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
BMC AMI DevX	10.0%
Endevor	13.5%
Other	76.5%

Software Configuration Management

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Abulfazal Irfan

Devops Engineer / Ispw Admin at a insurance company with 201-500 employees

Tight deployment controls have secured production and simplified complex release rollbacks

The best feature of BMC AMI DevX Code Pipeline that impresses me is the fallback functionality. The fallback functionality impresses me because when developers deploy large releases involving multiple components, such as COBOL programs, underlying copy books, and CICS modules, backing out changes would typically become a nightmare. With ISPW, developers can back out the entire release or entire package. If they deployed 100 components and want to back out everything, they can do so with one function and back out all components without worrying about backing out each individual component. They can back out the entire deployment set, which handles everything and brings them back to the previous versions. Developers can also selectively back out a subset of the deployed components. They also have the ability to revert to not just the most previous version but can go back several versions if they choose to do so. This gives them a lot of flexibility.

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RobertMartin3

Production Supervisor Technical at Ontario Power Generation

Asset dashboards have created slow, rigid workflows and have limited effective life cycle tracking

The single dashboards do not help my team or the company as a whole. I feel the dashboards are not helpful because the search features are not customizable. The software is web-based and the server is extremely slow. To improve Endevor, its cloud or web-based server capabilities should be increased so that the software is faster. The ability to customize reports should be increased.

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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

"My guess is this would have taken twice as long, or we would have had many more issues without using Xpediter."

"Test data management capabilities are good."

"The product has made our mainframe data management process easier. It has helped us save manhours. The tool's most valuable feature is the ability to edit tape files. Its ability to clone files is beneficial in application development."

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

"The debugging is really the most important feature, enabling us to be able to step through."

"One of the features that the developers like is that they can retrieve what they need with the tool. They don't have to go through some process or request something be done by another team. They can get the programs they need, compile them, retrieve the JCL and alter the JCL if they need to, and put these programs wherever they need to go for their testing."

"It's a modernized development portal and helps reduce the learning curve for younger people coming in to work on the platform,"

"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."

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"What I like about Endevor personally is it can be very flexible, as far as how you use it, and you can make it do nearly anything, but in really clever ways."

"The tools are specifically designed for mainframe environments, providing features tailored to the unique requirements of the systems, ensuring there are no mistakes."

"Endevor helps me manage the asset life cycle by allowing us to evaluate all of our utility equipment in the software."

"It standardizes the processing of all the development. Everything gets produced in a constant and consistent manner."

"The most valuable feature of Endevor is the software controller."

"The approach of writing a single set of Endevor processors to work across multiple instances of the application (separate systems) made the processors fairly complex, but once you understand them, they are so powerful."

"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."

"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."

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Cons

"We plan to replace BMC Compuware File-AID due to its price. Two years back, we paid 11,000 dollars. However, the current price is 27,900 dollars. The price has increased to at least eight times its initial cost. We would need to pay around 60,000 dollars to have all three products together. We also encountered issues during version updates."

"It would be nice to have an audit trail to see what mainframe developers are using what."

"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."

"I'm waiting to see what 19.2 for Topaz looks like, but I have a problem with the JES Explorer right now. It limits you to a certain prefix for job names and there are some groups that have multiple prefixes that they'd like to see all at once in their job names, because of how they work in a group. And they can't see that in the JES Explorer."

"While I am aware of the possibility to integrate Git with BMC AMI DevX zAdviser, this integration does not fit within our solution landscape."

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

"The only thing that bothers me about BMC AMI DevX Code Pipeline is the screen movement."

"I find it more cumbersome to use Topaz."

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"Learning the tool for the first time was extremely difficult, and it could be because of all the other processes we had around it."

"The initial setup can be less complex and has room for improvement."

"If they deploy it correctly, then it provides a tremendous benefit, but if you lay it out wrong, it can be a nightmare to work with."

"Endevor can improve parallel development."

"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."

"It is still kind of behind the times. It needs to catch up with all the millennials that want a distributed look and feel."

"The main challenges are its limited interface and the complexity of the customization."

"Currently the only solution is to continue creating environments for use with agile development which is a maintenance nightmare, or ask the application teams to redesign their software so it is contained within their own applications."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price point is great."

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

"In general, Compuware tools are very competitive."

"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."

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

"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."

"It's worth the value. The pricing is fairly good, justifiable for the return on investment."

"The solution is very expensive."

"Licensing is fairly simple, you don't need multiple licenses."

"Just make sure if you are going to license, ensure you license the right features."

"The product is expensive."

"It's competitively priced and, as far as I know, it's just an enterprise license. We have found it is worth the money."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

32%

Insurance Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Construction Company

Financial Services Firm

29%

Insurance Company

10%

Construction Company

Computer Software Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	18

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	40

Questions from the Community

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

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To improve BMC AMI DevX, consideration should be given to cloud-style provisioning and development models, as well as integration of more AI capabilities. Enhancements in VS Code extensions to deve...

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Also Known As

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

CA Endevor Software Change Manager, Endevor Software Change Manager, CA Software Change Manager for Mainframe, CA Endevor SCM

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

BMC

Endevor provides automatic build processes, history logging, source code management, and integration for agile development. It focuses on lifecycle management, catering to code security and traceability with flexibility and scalability.

Endevor is designed for mainframe environments, offering features like version control, automated compilation, and code integrity. Its integration capabilities facilitate development transitions from development to production, ensuring auditing, security, and synchronization. The flexibility it provides accommodates changing technologies, supporting a wide range of application lifecycle processes. While it excels in many areas, some aspects, such as integration with open systems and the modernization of ISPF and Eclipse Plugin, require enhancements.

What are the key features of Endevor?

Automatic Build Processes: Streamlines code compilation and validation.
History Logging: Maintains comprehensive change records.
Source Code Management: Ensures security with strict controls.
Integration for Agile Development: Enhances collaboration and efficiency.
Application Lifecycle Management: Includes approval gates and audit trails.

What benefits do users seek in reviews?

Customization: Supports bespoke needs and growing platforms.
Ease of Use: Simplifies complex development processes.
Scalability: Adapts to enterprise demands and workload increases.
Error Reduction: Standardized approaches minimize mistakes.
Flexibility: Accommodates evolving technology standards.

Industries traditionally utilize Endevor for structured mainframe code management, ensuring consistency and reliability in software lifecycles. It's used to transition code through phases like development and QA, intensively managed to retain code stability and security, key for sectors reliant on large-scale legacy system operations.

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Sample Customers

NRB, Iberdrola, Consorzio Servizi Bancari

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