We performed a comparison between CA Database Management for DB2 for zOS and CA Datacom 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."Improved monitoring and performance management."
"It takes advantage of new features of DB2."
"The most important features are batch reporting and the ability to create repositories, enabling automated analysis. These are valuable because they enable me to do automated analysis of trends over time and reduce the time for comparing performance between two periods to identify anomalies."
"It helps us to reduce hardware costs and to optimize processing times."
"It is very stable. We have had no issues."
"The initial setup is fairly straightforward for a mainframe product."
"It definitely cuts down on our support costs. I do not get woken up in the middle of the night very often for a problem with Datacom."
"Scalability is definitely one thing. The size of the database can grow without any issues. We've got one database table that's got over a billion rows in it; quite a bit of data, and it handles access like a champ."
"Nowadays, CA is doing a lot of improving as far as online maintainability of definitions, which is a huge improvement over the past. I'm able to do a lot of changes without any outage."
"It is a solid product."
"They need to provide a way to create and maintain performance repositories. The online tool is not perfect, but it is giving me what I need."
"All the information we need, we could use to have it in a more usable format."
"Minor stability issues."
"For the "no-outage maintainability" of things, they are making improvements as we speak, but there is definitely still room for more of that."
"The only minor issue that we have had with Datacom is in the installation guide: Some of the sizings for the databases have not really worked out for us, so we had to go in and resize them."
CA Database Management for DB2 for zOS is ranked 30th in Database Development and Management while CA Datacom is ranked 33rd in Database Development and Management. CA Database Management for DB2 for zOS is rated 8.8, while CA Datacom is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of CA Database Management for DB2 for zOS writes "The most useful feature is the ability to create strategies across the products". On the other hand, the top reviewer of CA Datacom writes "It is like a black box type of product. We just set it up and it runs". CA Database Management for DB2 for zOS is most compared with CA IDMS, whereas CA Datacom is most compared with CA IDMS.
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