BMC Compuware Strobe vs IBM Application Performance Analyzer for zOS comparison

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We performed a comparison between BMC Compuware Strobe and IBM Application Performance Analyzer for zOS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
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IBM Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS, IBM APA
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Overview

Compuware Strobe is the industry-leading mainframe application performance management and analysis solution for mainframe applications. With Strobe, IT departments can pinpoint application inefficiencies that cause excessive CPU consumption, elongated elapsed times and reduce hardware and software costs while increasing customer satisfaction.

With Strobe, mainframe teams can:

  • Locate and improve resource-consumptive database calls
  • Identify tuning opportunities to reduce monthly software licensing costs (MLC)
  • Resolve performance issues before they impact application service levels
  • Apply analytics to captured data to produce reports showing high-resource consumption and applications that need tuning
  • Measure activity of both online and batch-processing applications in single and multiple- system environments
  • Identify several I/O problems, including inefficient VSAM file buffering
  • Create and schedule automatic, reusable measurements
  • Automatically detect performance problems by using a rolling average of CPU consumption and elapsed-time metrics

IBM Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS measures and reports how applications use available resources. This easy to use tool helps you identify system constraints and improve application performance.

Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS:

  • Helps you maximize the performance of your existing applications and improve response time of online transactions and batch turnaround times.
  • Gives you the information needed to isolate performance problems in applications and test the effect of increased workloads on your systems.
  • Monitors, analyzes and reports the performance of CICS, Assembler, COBOL, PL/I, C/C++, DB2, IMS WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Application Server applications.
  • Collects samples from the monitored address space and analyzes the system or resource application usage of CPU, DASD, I/O or the total address space.
  • Features online analysis reports that can be created as PDF or XML files, so that you can view them on workstations or transfer them easily to other applications.
Sample Customers
Chunghwa Telecom, Helvetia, Comerica Bank, Erste Group, Bank of Ireland, Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance Company (SFBCIC)
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Financial Services Firm31%
Manufacturing Company14%
Computer Software Company12%
Insurance Company9%
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Financial Services Firm35%
Computer Software Company9%
Insurance Company9%
Manufacturing Company9%
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Small Business10%
Midsize Enterprise8%
Large Enterprise82%
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Small Business9%
Midsize Enterprise8%
Large Enterprise83%
Buyer's Guide
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
March 2024
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability. Updated: March 2024.
765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.

BMC Compuware Strobe is ranked 59th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability while IBM Application Performance Analyzer for zOS is ranked 5th in Mainframe Testing Tools. BMC Compuware Strobe is rated 8.0, while IBM Application Performance Analyzer for zOS is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of BMC Compuware Strobe writes "Stable with a good database and a good interface". On the other hand, BMC Compuware Strobe is most compared with IBM Application Performance Management and Mainframe Application Tuner, whereas IBM Application Performance Analyzer for zOS is most compared with BMC Compuware Hiperstation and Mainframe Application Tuner.

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