We performed a comparison between BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on zOS and Informatica PowerExchange based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Oracle, Quest Software, SolarWinds and others in Database Development and Management."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."
"The agentless RCDC enablement through PowerExchange is a great idea and has worked very well so far."
"The transformation work called for Informatica PowerExchange. It was easy to work with this and very stable."
"The most valuable feature is connectivity to data sources."
"The main benefit of PowerExchange is its native real-time capabilities. Competing tools are counting on third-party packages or Oracle to offer real-time capabilities. However, Informatica has a native ability to scan the data on the file system level and capture the changes almost instantly when I push it to the consumers. The solution has a powerful built-in replication engine."
"From the product feature or product capability perspective, the aspects around integration, transformation, and standardization are valuable. It's fairly easy to use. It has a GUI-based interface."
"It is a scalable and versatile solution."
"This product is easy to install and it can be done in a few hours."
"The data transformation is the solution's most valuable feature."
"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."
"The solution could be made more user-friendly. The configurations are also quite difficult."
"The connectivity with T24 core banking could be improved."
"The product's high costs can be an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Should diversify more, maybe with a reporting and visualization utility,"
"Pushdown optimization could be improved."
"Informatica is very expensive in all aspects, so the pricing is something that could be improved."
"Apache Spark has a machine learning algorithm, an area where Informatica PowerExchange lacks."
"V10.2 is very stable, but we are still struggling to make V10.5 stable. We found services that were down, and PowerExchange stopped working."
BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on zOS is ranked 21st in Database Development and Management with 2 reviews while Informatica PowerExchange is ranked 21st in Data Integration with 19 reviews. BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on zOS is rated 8.6, while Informatica PowerExchange is rated 7.8. 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 Informatica PowerExchange writes "Handles big data better than competitors". BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on zOS is most compared with AWS Database Migration Service, Qlik Replicate, IBM App Connect and Dataloader.io, whereas Informatica PowerExchange is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Oracle GoldenGate, Azure Data Factory, SSIS and Qlik Replicate.
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