We performed a comparison between BMC Compuware Xpediter and Gen 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."
"Full packets, enable you to develop software and systems using these packets, and implement software on the mainframe side and the client side. You can use the same packets, so it's very powerful."
"You can easily manage the code, and you can easily find other changes, other group changes, other models, other components."
"CA Gen has provided us web development capability."
"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 cannot use DB2 specifications, DB2 comments, easily."
"The product needs to be well marketed, then adopted. I am not seeing many customers using the product."
BMC Compuware Xpediter is ranked 6th in Mainframe Application Development while Gen is ranked 4th in Mainframe Application Development. BMC Compuware Xpediter is rated 8.6, while Gen is rated 8.6. 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 Gen writes "Rapid development software tool. Mature solution to make changes and put them in production". BMC Compuware Xpediter is most compared with IBM Debug Tool, InterTest, BMC Compuware Topaz Workbench and IBM Fault Analyzer for zOS, whereas Gen is most compared with IBM Rational Developer for z Systems.
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