We performed a comparison between BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on zOS and IBM App Connect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), MuleSoft, Matillion and others in Cloud Data Integration."I have worked with DB2's great features in the last five years. The IDAA feature transformed the vision of warehousing, business analytics, and big data at my bank. Besides the mainframe, I saw that this solution was evolutionary. It gives real-time information."
"BMC Data Management improved our data recovery process by simplifying it."
"App Connect's best feature is that it can be deployed in a container."
"It's stable to use, connect with the cloud, and to deploy."
"Technical support is good."
"It's a powerful application for collaboration. It has many features for customization and integration."
"Provides good security features."
"There is a friendly interface for configuration, and integration is made easy."
"I would say that the most valuable feature is the array of connectors and integration tools."
"The most valuable feature is the user-friendliness of the application."
"DB2 is a hard tool to grasp. It's hard for users to learn how to use it. It's not easy to see how it works."
"One area for improvement with this product could be in providing clearer guidance and tools for disaster recovery planning and execution."
"Plugins for the repositories are difficult to find."
"The product should improve its support."
"They reply in one or two hours at most, but they could be better."
"More connectors could be available for the product as some of the third-party software doesn't have default connectors."
"Updates are constantly delayed."
"The installation of containers could be simplified, as it currently requires a senior-level installer."
"When we do a version upgrade of the system, the platform is kind of complicated."
"The addition of string functionality would be a benefit, particularly in the ESQL space that IBM already uses internally."
BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on zOS is ranked 21st in Database Development and Management with 2 reviews while IBM App Connect is ranked 11th in Cloud Data Integration with 20 reviews. BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on zOS is rated 8.6, while IBM App Connect is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on zOS writes "Improves disaster recovery processes and offers an efficient CPU cycle optimization ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM App Connect writes "Very flexible and user-friendly; embeds with other technologies; no dependency on queue manager". BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on zOS is most compared with AWS Database Migration Service, Qlik Replicate and Dataloader.io, whereas IBM App Connect is most compared with IBM Cloud Pak for Integration, Mule Anypoint Platform, webMethods Integration Server, IBM InfoSphere DataStage and StreamSets.
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