We performed a comparison between Endevor and OpenText ChangeMan ZMF based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Broadcom, BMC, Microsoft and others in Software Configuration Management."Having something that is out-of-the-box that you can customize to suit your organization's needs is huge."
"We backup people's source code for them."
"Being able to compare versions is helpful."
"It standardizes the processing of all the development. Everything gets produced in a constant and consistent manner."
"It's the audit-level tracking. If something has gone wrong I can go back and figure out what happened, who did it."
"The source integrity is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of Endevor is customization and ease of use."
"We have used it for years and never had any real issues with it."
"Scalability is great. It has absolutely met every need for us so far. We do have some concurrent development paths and we're able to flexibly assign variables. At the same time, our skeletons assemble where we want them to, so the scalability is very good."
"We audit once a year for our ChangeMan access, accurate financial programs, and all of that. Auditors really love ChangeMan for how easy it is to get through and how tight the security is on it. Our internal auditors, external auditors, and SOX editors love this solution. We're in the healthcare business, so HIPAA regulations and all such things are a big deal, and this makes all that really simple."
"It is difficult to find file programs and use a different tool for the setup as the compilation process is all locked up."
"The solution is very expensive."
"Interfacing with some change control products that are not CA's, it's a little glitchy on the approvals of changes. It requires special needs for the users for approvals."
"The customer service and support team are not helpful."
"Endevor can improve parallel development."
"The initial setup can be less complex and has room for improvement."
"One feature of Endevor is its Backout feature. If there is a problem, it can back out the executables. The only problem with that is that it will not back out the source in Endevor. For example, you can do a back out and it will back out the executable to the previous version, but it doesn't back out the source version in Endevor. It would make it much better if when you did a back out of Endevor, it would back out both the source and the executable and keep them in sync."
"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."
"I would like to see them enable parallel development for online. It's available now for batch stuff on the mainframe. Jenkins, IBM, and Rocket all supposedly already have safe and workable version of Git for the mainframe. With that in mind, we need to know where our feature is."
"As such, there's nothing wrong with the product. It is great, but there are small things that can be better to make it much more friendly. The way you navigate through fields can be improved. If I'm going to stage a component over something that exists and that I've created in another library, and I want to pull it in and write it over what I've got there in my package, I've got to type in that data set name every time. That can be aggravating. It is not a big deal. The way things are sorted can also be improved. If you're doing a delete of a bunch of components, you can't sort those out by type or anything. Some things are just standard, and you can't look at them in a way that would be helpful."
Earn 20 points
Endevor is ranked 1st in Software Configuration Management with 45 reviews while OpenText ChangeMan ZMF is ranked 5th in Software Configuration Management. Endevor is rated 8.8, while OpenText ChangeMan ZMF is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Endevor writes "A highly stable tool for managing mainframe software development projects that require significant expertise". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenText ChangeMan ZMF writes "Very flexible with Johnny-on-the-spot tech support". Endevor is most compared with BMC Compuware ISPW, CA Harvest Software Change Manager, IBM Engineering Workflow Management and IBM Rational ClearCase, whereas OpenText ChangeMan ZMF is most compared with BMC Compuware ISPW.
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