We performed a comparison between Endevor and Gen based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about BMC, IBM, Broadcom and others in Mainframe Application Development."The most valuable features are stability and ease of use."
"The most valuable feature of Endevor is the software controller."
"The developers can very easily see what has changed on a particular piece of source code or a program, and others can look at that as well so they can coordinate their changes. It makes it much easier to promote a piece of code up to production."
"We have been able to replicate entire SDLCs for new clients and have them loaded and ready to use Endevor in as little as one week. This was possible with the use of Endevor variables within the processors, so that a single processor was able to function for multiple systems across the entire SDLC."
"It's very flexible. A new technology comes along, this can be multiplied to handle the new technology quite easily."
"Being able to compare versions is helpful."
"The source integrity is the most valuable feature."
"Having something that is out-of-the-box that you can customize to suit your organization's needs is huge."
"You can easily manage the code, and you can easily find other changes, other group changes, other models, other components."
"CA Gen has provided us web development capability."
"Full packets, enable you to develop software and systems using these packets, and implement software on the mainframe side and the client side. You can use the same packets, so it's very powerful."
"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 initial setup can be less complex and has room for improvement."
"It is still kind of behind the times. It needs to catch up with all the millennials that want a distributed look and feel."
"I would like to have better integration with other products."
"Endevor can improve parallel development."
"It is difficult to find file programs and use a different tool for the setup as the compilation process is all locked up."
"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."
"I cannot use DB2 specifications, DB2 comments, easily."
"The product needs to be well marketed, then adopted. I am not seeing many customers using the product."
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Endevor is ranked 3rd in Mainframe Application Development with 45 reviews while Gen is ranked 4th in Mainframe Application Development. Endevor is rated 8.8, while Gen is rated 8.6. 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 Gen writes "Rapid development software tool. Mature solution to make changes and put them in production". Endevor is most compared with BMC Compuware ISPW, OpenText ChangeMan ZMF, CA Harvest Software Change Manager, IBM Rational ClearCase and IBM Engineering Workflow Management, whereas Gen is most compared with IBM Rational Developer for z Systems.
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