CA Database Management for DB2 for zOS vs IDERA SQL Doctor comparison

Broadcom and IDERA are both solutions in the Database Development and Management category. Broadcom is ranked #18 with an average rating of 10.0, while IDERA is ranked #35. Broadcom holds a 0.7% mindshare in DDM, compared to IDERA’s 0.6% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Broadcom users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of IDERA users who would recommend it.

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Categories and Ranking

CA Database Management for ...

Ranking in Database Development and Management

18th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

8.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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IDERA SQL Doctor

Ranking in Database Development and Management

35th

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Database Development and Management category, the mindshare of CA Database Management for DB2 for zOS is 0.7%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IDERA SQL Doctor is 0.6%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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JOY GHARAMI

Technical Project Manager at Interra Information Technologies, Inc.

Report generation offers invaluable insights into database performance

I basically use the solution for database management and to view the performance of a particular database object, any specific program, batch program, or online programs. Using the CSSZ tool, I can effectively monitor performance. In case of an exception, I can inform the application team. At DB2…

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Menoj Roekalea

DBA Consultant at Brocacef

By capturing performance issues when they happen, we do not miss crucial data

* Indexing and locking analyses * The ability to generate optimize scripts. * The prioritized recommendations are nice to have. Furthermore, you can have multiple scans archived when comparing the tracing from a baseline perspective. Two scans can give us insights concerning the difference between a good and a bad situation.

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The reports generated and the old statistics shown are really helpful."

"Improved monitoring and performance management."

"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."

"It takes advantage of new features of DB2."

"You can have multiple scans archived when comparing the tracing from a baseline perspective. Two scans can give us insights concerning the difference between a good and a bad situation."

Cons

"Minor stability issues."

"All the information we need, we could use to have it in a more usable format."

"In the case of any particular SQL which is executing for a longer time and causing issues with any particular store or DB2 programs, if it could pinpoint the problems like any other tool should do, that would be really helpful."

"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."

"SQL Doctor should be improved in Availability Groups, mirroring, and clustering analyses. We mostly see index and query plan analyses. It should be broader than this."

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The solution operates on JetOS platform. It is a very good, perfect solution. I would rate it ten out of ten. Currently, I do not have any planning for investment at all.

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Overview

Database Management for DB2 for z/OS solutions from CA Technologies provide a set of tools designed to ensure optimal database and SQL performance, efficient administration, and reliable backup and recovery of DB2 databases, systems and apps.

Broadcom

SQL Doctor helps database administrators to tune SQL Server performance, security, and disaster recovery via expert recommendations in physical, virtual, and cloud environments - including managed cloud databases. Unlike its competitors, it provides display health of all SQL Servers, generation of ready-to-run SQL scripts to optimize and undo optimization, limiting of analysis to specified databases, applications, and performance categories, and real-time, as-needed, and scheduled checkups.

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Sample Customers

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