We performed a comparison between BMC Compuware File-AID and DATPROF based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Delphix, Broadcom, DATPROF and others in Test Data 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."
"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."
"I am very impressed with the capabilities of the software."
"The most valuable feature is that it's easy to use... We were able to quickly port a JD Edwards application into the DATPROF solution and we were able to scramble the data in that application. It's a single tool that helps us to do that across applications."
"The data modeling software gave additional insights for debugging in the case of circular foreign keys."
"The most valuable feature of DATPROF Privacy for us is the possibility to mask sensitive test and development data on different kinds of databases. Furthermore, the tool comes with different useful masking functions. It is possible to mask deterministic and it is possible to add your own functions. The tool has an intuitive interface and customer support is fast and efficient."
"Its ease of use is valuable. It's pretty straightforward. With minimal training or with minimal guidance, it can be used."
"Technical support is good. They are friendly and fast."
"We have some customers who are in both SAP and non-SAP. When we do scrambling for different applications, it is extremely important that DATPROF and the SAP applications talk to each other and synchronize. Otherwise... [an] identity [can be] lost, from a name perspective."
"We can create synthetic test data for our different development teams without needing production data, which is an excellent capability."
"Technical support has gotten better over the years, though there's always room for improvement."
"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."
"They could improve the solution by expanding the APIs. If there were options to integrate it with other solutions, that would help."
"We organized the orchestration via ServiceNow/Runbook. It would be nice if DatProf software had this functionality as well."
"From what I know, there are some challenges with respect to the number of data formats that can be made available. This is something that can be improved."
"Although it is possible to mask flat files inside DATPROF Privacy, the current solution is solid. However, it can be improved with an improved user interface."
"The product could be improved by adding functions to mask flat files and XML data."
"I feel that we have to do a lot of reworking of the template implementations... Maybe it is a limitation, but as a customer, it feels like we need to start from scratch every time. It would help if we could reuse at least some of what we have already done."
"Right now, we need to make process agreements with our supplier to keep our source and target database in line with the current production version. This may become an issue when (if) we reach a CI/CD level with multiple releases per day."
"The synthetic data-generating element of the tool is relatively new, so we sometimes encounter bugs, though when we inform DATPROF, they act quickly to fix any issues. Of course, the fewer bugs we face, the better."
BMC Compuware File-AID is ranked 7th in Test Data Management with 2 reviews while DATPROF is ranked 3rd in Test Data Management with 8 reviews. BMC Compuware File-AID is rated 8.6, while DATPROF is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of BMC Compuware File-AID writes "Helps to make mainframe data management process easier and saves manhours ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of DATPROF writes "Eliminated compliance issues for non-SAP applications, and gives us real, comprehensive data masking". BMC Compuware File-AID is most compared with IBM File Manager, File Master Plus, IBM Fault Analyzer for zOS, Broadcom Test Data Manager and Informatica Test Data Management (TDM), whereas DATPROF is most compared with Delphix, K2View and Broadcom Test Data Manager.
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