We performed a comparison between CA Harvest Software Change Manager and Endevor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Broadcom, BMC, Microsoft and others in Software Configuration Management."The ability to give our teams functionality from a control perspective, allowing them to decide how they want to implement the tool, is valuable."
"Using this solution, we were able to implement a full process for all of our lifecycles."
"The source management is excellent."
"It can be very flexible, as far as how you use it. You can make it do nearly anything, but in really clever ways. It is very versatile."
"It standardizes the processing of all the development. Everything gets produced in a constant and consistent manner."
"We can make it do pretty much whatever we want, depending on just how complicated we want it to be, as it is pretty flexible."
"Being able to compare versions is helpful."
"It's the audit-level tracking. If something has gone wrong I can go back and figure out what happened, who did it."
"The management and information CA Endevor Software Change Manager provides is very useful"
"In the last year or so, we had a need to start using a CICS web services, and mesh them in with some distributed functions on an enterprise service bus. We put the web services into Endevor and we manage that way now."
"Security features can be improved."
"Technical support for this solution is very good, although they can still use improvement in some regards."
"Password complexity is not enforced by the tool."
"It is difficult to find file programs and use a different tool for the setup as the compilation process is all locked up."
"Sometimes finding errors and output can be difficult because it spits out so many messages that it is hard to figure out which ones are the ones you need to look at and what flow did it actually take through the processor."
"They need to ditch the Eclipse plugin and just make the development environment for Z the standard Eclipse interface."
"The scalability of Endevor could improve."
"If I had to comment on an area of improvement or something new in the next or future version, I would like to see AI-assisted coding and impact analysis for mainframes."
"The customer service and support team are not helpful."
"The main challenges are its limited interface and the complexity of the customization."
"Needs more audit capability when it comes to changes to settings that are made by administrators, as many of these are done through the panels and are therefore not logged as an action against a configuration item."
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CA Harvest Software Change Manager is ranked 8th in Software Configuration Management while Endevor is ranked 1st in Software Configuration Management with 45 reviews. CA Harvest Software Change Manager is rated 7.2, while Endevor is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of CA Harvest Software Change Manager writes "Powerful UDP functionality with a user-friendly interface". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Endevor writes "A highly stable tool for managing mainframe software development projects that require significant expertise". CA Harvest Software Change Manager is most compared with , whereas Endevor is most compared with BMC Compuware ISPW, OpenText ChangeMan ZMF, IBM Engineering Workflow Management and IBM Rational ClearCase.
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