BMC AMI DevX vs Superblocks comparison

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BMC and Superblocks are both solutions in the AI Software Development category. BMC is ranked #23 with an average rating of 8.2, while Superblocks is ranked #31 with an average rating of 7.5. BMC holds a 0.3% mindshare in ASD, compared to Superblocks’s 0.4% mindshare. Additionally, 94% of BMC users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 66% of Superblocks users who would recommend it.

BMC AMI DevX

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94% willing to recommend

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66% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

BMC AMI DevX

Ranking in AI Software Development

23rd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Software Configuration Management (1st), Debugging (3rd), Database Development and Management (9th), Mainframe Application Development (1st), Test Data Management (2nd), Mainframe Testing Tools (1st), Data Masking (3rd)

Superblocks

Ranking in AI Software Development

31st

Average Rating

7.0

Reviews Sentiment

5.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Low-Code Development Platforms (26th)

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the AI Software Development category, the mindshare of BMC AMI DevX is 0.3%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Superblocks is 0.4%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

AI Software Development Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
BMC AMI DevX	0.3%
Superblocks	0.4%
Other	99.3%

AI Software Development

Featured Reviews

Mitanshu Shrimali

System Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Modern workflows have accelerated mainframe delivery and simplify understanding legacy code

BMC AMI DevX can be improved primarily by streamlining initial configuration and installation, simplifying advanced documentation, and enhancing UI/UX feature discoverability. While the platform successfully bridges modern IDEs such as VS Code with z/OS, user feedback highlights the need for simplifying setup and onboarding configuration. The initial installation and login process can be simplified. Although it feels complex initially, once completed, there is nothing to do with installation repeatedly since it is a one-time process. However, it is still somewhat complex. Basic tutorials are available that address teams implementing the configuration of multi-vendor tools and integration, but documentation gaps exist that frequently force heavy reliance on vendor support. Additionally, certain components across the workspace and diagnostic tools retain a legacy feel or hide powerful features behind deep menus, so UI/UX features can be simplified. Integrating with non-BMC enterprise testing or new CI/CD orchestrators can require custom engineering rather than native plug-and-play connectors. Optimizing large-scale performance is also important, as heavy resource consumption during deep runtime analysis for large-scale code mapping can impact performance over slower network connections for extremely dense application modules.

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Anam Jafri

Senior Engineer, Cloud Operations at Cvent

Internal tooling has streamlined access control and operational workflows for cloud teams

The UI is good in most cases, but several friction points have emerged through real-world usage that require workarounds. The pain points are UI customization ceiling. When the team needs non-standard UI patterns, custom layouts, conditional forms, sections, and dynamic component trees, the visual builder becomes a constraint. Workarounds using custom HTML and CSS components are possible but slow and very fragile. There is no structured way to write unit tests for Superblocks logic. Debugging complex JavaScript flows inside the builder is cumbersome compared to a proper IDE environment. Another pain point is documentation and error messages. When an integration fails due to API connection issues or permission errors, the error message surfaced in the builder is often opaque, increasing the debugging time. Superblocks also lacks performance under complexity. Applications with many nested components, large data sets, or high-frequency refresh requirements show noticeable rendering lag. For an infrastructure dashboard displaying live metrics across dozens of resources, this is a real limitation. We have hundreds of AWS accounts, and when someone views the VPN topology or VPC topology of some of the AWS accounts, we see lag issues.

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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."

"Otherwise, it works fabulously, and I think everyone should adopt it."

"With the use of ISPW, we were able to reduce our deployment time for specific applications by utilizing the auto-deploy features."

"I think the most valuable features are code management, code deployment, and code generation. The fact that those three features are included makes BMC Compuware ISPW a robust product. If one of those features was missing, it would be less robust and less interesting. But because it has those three features, it is a very good solution for code development and management."

"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."

"The visual ability to see potential downstream impacts to changes being made assists our developers in understanding the impact associated with their change."

"We can develop in parallel today on ISPF, but it's giving us the advantage of the newer interface into the mainframe programming languages that younger programmers can use and are familiar with, rather than using the ISPF green screen."

"I like the ability to flow through the source and see what happens to the data as the statements are executed. If there is a fault, it will track the event, and we can then look back to see why it may have caused the fault. You can also reverse engineer your test. You can set it so that you can go backward as well as forward in your test. This is something that I haven't done here at my company. Compuware Xpediter is one of the best debugging tools for mainframe software development. We have currently licensed only the COBOL language for Xpediter, but I know they have other languages, including Assembler, PL/I."

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"The best features Superblocks offers include high-quality UI components and the Clark AI agent, which enables fast-speed prototyping and beneficial configurations for initial prototypes and large applications needing easy integration with various databases."

"With Superblocks, the full workflow submission, routing, approval, provisioning, audit, and deleting the access after twelve hours was built in under a week."

"The time and effort were saved, almost halved, and we were able to build the interfaces and integrate existing APIs more efficiently."

Cons

"The solution could be improved by being better integrated with the open world. In the next release, I would like to have the ability to work in an open environment whilst remaining integrated with the legacy environment."

"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."

"I choose eight out of ten because of two frustrating parts: one is the navigation complexity sometimes, and the other is the configuration that gets erased over reboots or cleaning of the saved directory configs."

"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."

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

"DB2 is a hard tool to grasp. It's hard for users to learn how to use it. It's not easy to see how it works."

"When you're setting up the parameters for how ISPW will work in your shop, there are a lot of questions that have to be answered... BMC Compuware should have more in-depth explanations about what the choices in each question mean. If you pick A, what does that mean has to happen? What does that impact? If you pick B, what does that mean? What does that impact?"

"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."

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"I chose a six out of ten because, while the UI components and quality are good, the backend presents challenges and there are some limitations including fewer options and less optimal animations that could improve usability."

"One area where I think Superblocks could improve is debugging and troubleshooting complex workflows."

"Superblocks also lacks performance under complexity. Applications with many nested components, large data sets, or high-frequency refresh requirements show noticeable rendering lag."

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 price point is great."

"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."

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

"In general, Compuware tools are very competitive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

25%

Outsourcing Company

Insurance Company

Construction Company

33%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Outsourcing Company

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	10
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	30

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Questions from the Community

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

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was pretty seamless.

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What needs improvement with BMC AMI DevX?

I don't think there's anything to add in terms of improvements for BMC AMI DevX; it is quite effective and works well with BMC AMI Data, the other platform we use.

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What is your primary use case for BMC AMI DevX?

My main use case for BMC AMI DevX is modernizing development in IBM networks, and it helps in combining the old legacy IBM systems we have with the new ones that we perform for DevOps and DevSecOps...

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What needs improvement with Superblocks?

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What is your primary use case for Superblocks?

My company recently adopted Superblocks three or four months ago. I work in a Cloud Infrastructure team, and our primary use for Superblocks is building internal operations tooling, dashboards, wor...

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What advice do you have for others considering Superblocks?

Be intentional about what you are building in Superblocks versus custom. Superblocks is excellent for building internal tools with standard functionality. If a tool requires deeply custom hooks, hi...

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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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Superblocks streamlines complex workflows, automates tasks, and unifies data sources into cohesive dashboards, enhancing data visualization and team collaboration.

Superblocks stands out for its flexibility in building custom applications and strong integration with different APIs and tools. It assists in monitoring and managing project performance efficiently, customizing internal tools to fit specific business requirements. The intuitive design ensures quick adoption, while scalability and security enable efficient management of large-scale data. Despite some room for improving large-scale data processing and navigation, enhanced integration with third-party tools and user documentation could further optimize its functionality and customization options.

What are the most important features of Superblocks?

Flexibility: Allows building custom applications tailored to specific needs.
Scalability: Efficiently manages large-scale data without compromising performance.
Security: Ensures data protection and compliance with industry standards.
Intuitive Design: Facilitates quick adoption and ease of use for teams.
Robust API Support: Enhances integration with different tools and services.
Performance Reliability: Provides consistent performance and support.

What are the key benefits and ROI of using Superblocks?

Efficiency: Saves time by automating repetitive tasks and simplifying workflows.
Data Consolidation: Unifies data sources for better visualization and decision-making.
Collaboration: Enhances team collaboration through cohesive dashboards and tools.
Customization: Adapts to specific business requirements, improving effectiveness.
Performance Management: Monitors and manages project performance efficiently.

In industries like finance, healthcare, and manufacturing, Superblocks is implemented to automate processes, consolidate data for clear visualization, and ensure efficient management of extensive data. Its customization capabilities allow companies to tailor its use to their specific business needs, improving operational efficiency and project oversight.

Superblocks

Sample Customers

NRB, Iberdrola, Consorzio Servizi Bancari

1. Airbnb 2. Amazon 3. Apple 4. ATT 5. Bank of America 6. BlackRock 7. Citigroup 8. CocaCola 9. Comcast 10. Costco 11. Delta Air Lines 12.Disney 13. eBay 14. ExxonMobil 15. FedEx 16. Ford Motor Company 17. Google 18. Goldman Sachs 19. Home Depot 20. IBM 21. Intel 22. JPMorgan Chase 23. Kraft Heinz 24. McDonalds 25. Merck 26. Microsoft 27. Nike 28. Oracle 29. PepsiCo 30. Procter Gamble 31. Starbucks 32. Tesla

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