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BMC AMI Ops vs SYSVIEW Performance Intelligence comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

BMC AMI Ops
Ranking in Mainframe Management
3rd
Average Rating
9.6
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Workload Automation (29th)
SYSVIEW Performance Intelli...
Ranking in Mainframe Management
4th
Average Rating
8.8
Number of Reviews
27
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the Mainframe Management category, the mindshare of BMC AMI Ops is 23.4%, up from 20.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SYSVIEW Performance Intelligence is 14.6%, up from 12.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Mainframe Management Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
BMC AMI Ops23.4%
SYSVIEW Performance Intelligence14.6%
Other62.0%
Mainframe Management
 

Featured Reviews

The service level and automated capacity manager functions allow us to control priorities, support SLA's and manage our 4HRA and reduce MLC for some software bills.
There currently is a WUI that allows an operator a single pane of glass to see how TM is performing to meet service policies within a JESMAS environment. This is a new feature and multiple individuals have expressed desire to not only see real time monitoring, but the ability to historically go back at least several hours or possibly an entire day to review history.
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It provides information that supports our duties in problem alerts, problem investigation, and performance monitoring and management.
For one particular environment, the capturing, recording and presentation of IBM CPUMF data would be useful. IBM Mainframes now produce data on processor cache performance. There is a mechanism for capturing that data within z/OS. It is useful for comparing machines and the impact of the number of partitions and logical to physical processors ratios.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Enabled me to solve production problems faster or even avoid them preemptively with warnings."
"The integration of IMS commands is very useful, because you do not have to switch to another tool to problem solve solutions."
"Thresholds with alerts are valuable, enabling us to fix a problem before it has an impact."
"Ability for system diagnostics"
"I also really appreciated all the work that everybody did to get it functional for JES3, and they continue to do so, even though IBM said they are going to do away with JES3."
"It is easy to see if anything is wrong. The queues on the system are fast, and it is very intuitive to locate something."
"​The stability is very reliable. We have not had any issues."
"When we changed to JES3, the programmers didn't have to know anything. The product provided the same interface with the same look and feel."
"I use most of the SMS space management extensively, but also the features that enable me to look at dumps and different dataset allocations to the system, and performance data from the queueing and delays."
"Between the tech support and the person I was working with, they have been extraordinary."
 

Cons

"More visualisation and support for mobile devices would be good."
"An expansion for distributed systems would be great, but probably not workable."
"The things that I would think about would be in relation to JES3. However, I don't know if they'll be able to do much more with that because I don't know how much longer IBM is going to be supporting JES3. So I can understand not doing additional development. But if I were to suggest something it would be the JES3 initiators, the JES3 queues."
"​We are using Datacom as the database system, so maybe a little bit more integration with that.​"
"They are already working on improvements. One of them is the operational intelligence, which is a lot of stuff I am trying to learn and work on right now, which SYSVIEW reports to that all the system things which are going on."
"The documentation format could be better. I noticed with the last release that all of the manuals were bundled into one. It used to have a separate installation guide, user guide, etc."
"If a unit of work ID is associated with a CICS, a DB2, and a MQ transaction, and having that capability correlate to those different technologies via one business application transaction which would be beneficial."
"The documentation, like installation guides and stuff, put it all in one place.​"
"It confuses a lot of people because there are so many features, but when they see me bouncing around they say, "I didn't know it did that, I didn't know it did that." It takes a long time to find all the different features that are available."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"If you already use other products from BMC, you might be able to get a package deal from BMC's sales department."
"Pricing is a little steep, but there are a lot of other functions that it brings together. It gives you one window to look through to get to a lot of different features. The more products you have from CA, the better pricing they have, the more you can get them doing more things for you."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
30%
Government
9%
Insurance Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
21%
Computer Software Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Performing Arts
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise24
 

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Also Known As

BMC MainView, BMC Automated Mainframe Intelligence, Ops Monitoring, Ops Automation for Batch ThruPut
CA SYSVIEW Performance Management, CA SYSVIEW, Unicenter CA-SYSVIEW Realtime Performance Management
 

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Sample Customers

Costco, Dell, Apple, Citi, AT&T, FedEx, Johnson&Johnson, Comcast, Caterpillar, Vodafone, Sysco, Google, Oracle, Microsoft, Walt Disney
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