We performed a comparison between Endevor and IBM Rational ClearCase 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."
"The most valuable feature of Endevor is the software controller."
"It provides secure, controlled access to source management."
"Endevor is easy to use."
"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."
"We backup people's source code for them."
"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."
"The management and information CA Endevor Software Change Manager provides is very useful"
"IBM Rational ClearCase is a stable solution. I have not had any difficulty with reliability."
"ClearCase integrates well with other engineering tools and frameworks such as the Eclipse environment."
"The tool had features similar to Git for version control. It offered branching and merging capabilities, providing better control over code management. Integration was possible with other tools, including some change management tools. The overall process was normal."
"Learning the tool for the first time was extremely difficult, and it could be because of all the other processes we had around it. But knowing you can do these things in batch, you can do things in the foreground or online mode, and then these, you have to have a package for. There are these rules, and some of the concepts inside the tool are not clear, like what is the CCID? Why do I have to have one? What is that? And how is it used? As a developer, it's not important to me - I don't know what a CCID is, and I don't care - but apparently it's important to someone."
"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 have better integration with other products."
"There should be better integration between CA Endevor Software Change Manager and Zowe."
"The main challenges are its limited interface and the complexity of the customization."
"The customer service and support team are not helpful."
"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 protection needs to be improved."
"The solution's UI is slow compared to other tools. It is an old tool."
"I have found it very difficult to understand many functionalities in IBM Rational ClearCase. We have had many problems and it is not user-friendly."
Endevor is ranked 1st in Software Configuration Management with 45 reviews while IBM Rational ClearCase is ranked 4th in Software Configuration Management with 6 reviews. Endevor is rated 8.8, while IBM Rational ClearCase is rated 6.4. 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 IBM Rational ClearCase writes "Difficult to use, not efficient, but stable". Endevor is most compared with BMC Compuware ISPW, OpenText ChangeMan ZMF, CA Harvest Software Change Manager and IBM Engineering Workflow Management, whereas IBM Rational ClearCase is most compared with Git, GitHub, Bitbucket and IBM Rational ClearQuest.
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