We performed a comparison between BMC Compuware Xpediter and Endevor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about BMC, IBM, Broadcom and others in Mainframe Application Development."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."
"It standardizes the processing of all the development. Everything gets produced in a constant and consistent manner."
"Any question that an auditor has about our processes and approvals is all stored in Endevor."
"We have been able to replicate entire SDLCs for new clients and have them loaded and ready to use Endevor in as little as one week. This was possible with the use of Endevor variables within the processors, so that a single processor was able to function for multiple systems across the entire SDLC."
"The most valuable features are stability and ease of use."
"It provides secure, controlled access to source management."
"We can make it do pretty much whatever we want, depending on just how complicated we want it to be, as it is pretty flexible."
"Stability has been really good. I have actually never had to open an issue or report an issue since I have been running it."
"Having something that is out-of-the-box that you can customize to suit your organization's needs is huge."
"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."
"Endevor can improve parallel development."
"The customer service and support team are not helpful."
"There should be better integration between CA Endevor Software Change Manager and Zowe."
"I would like to have better integration with other products."
"The initial setup can be less complex and has room for improvement."
"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."
"There are a lot of screens in it. The process for moving out my other solutions, it could be more convenient. There are a lot of steps to go through and a lot of screens to go through to get it accomplished."
"They need to ditch the Eclipse plugin and just make the development environment for Z the standard Eclipse interface."
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BMC Compuware Xpediter is ranked 6th in Mainframe Application Development while Endevor is ranked 3rd in Mainframe Application Development with 45 reviews. BMC Compuware Xpediter is rated 8.6, while Endevor is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of BMC Compuware Xpediter writes "From a development perspective, it allowed me to validate every line of my logic if necessary, most times in one pass". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Endevor writes "A highly stable tool for managing mainframe software development projects that require significant expertise". BMC Compuware Xpediter is most compared with IBM Debug Tool, InterTest, BMC Compuware Topaz Workbench and IBM Fault Analyzer for zOS, whereas Endevor is most compared with BMC Compuware ISPW, OpenText ChangeMan ZMF, CA Harvest Software Change Manager, IBM Rational ClearCase and IBM Engineering Workflow Management.
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