We performed a comparison between Endevor, IBM Rational ClearCase, and Visual Studio Team System based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Broadcom, BMC, Microsoft and others in Software Configuration Management."The most valuable features are stability and ease of use."
"Our automation, our development implementations are all automated, which is a huge amount of time savings."
"It's the audit-level tracking. If something has gone wrong I can go back and figure out what happened, who did it."
"The most valuable feature of Endevor is the software controller."
"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."
"The approach of writing a single set of Endevor processors to work across multiple instances of the application (separate systems) made the processors fairly complex, but once you understand them, they are so powerful."
"The tools are specifically designed for mainframe environments, providing features tailored to the unique requirements of the systems, ensuring there are no mistakes."
"It was an easy install. Since it was all set up, it pretty much runs itself now."
"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."
"ClearCase integrates well with other engineering tools and frameworks such as the Eclipse environment."
"IBM Rational ClearCase is a stable solution. I have not had any difficulty with reliability."
"The most valuable feature is the code management, where there is sharing of code for developers and it is distributed within the organization."
"The product helps with version control. I can build, develop, test and deploy applications from a single platform."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...Every month there is an increase in the number of users. It is a scalable solution."
"Microsoft makes great products. They are quite robust."
"I am not familiar with any issues with respect to stability, and I have never seen Team System crash."
"The solution has a good framework that is user friendly and scalable."
"IntelliSense and CodeLens are helpful because they can show you details about your function, such as how many times it is called from other places within the code."
"The solution is very stable."
"They need to ditch the Eclipse plugin and just make the development environment for Z the standard Eclipse interface."
"Endevor can improve parallel development."
"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."
"There are a lot of screens in it. The process for moving out my other solutions, it could be more convenient. There are a lot of steps to go through and a lot of screens to go through to get it accomplished."
"The scalability of Endevor could improve."
"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."
"I would like to have better integration with other products."
"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."
"Support response time could stand improvement."
"The technical support could be better."
"The stability of the product could be better."
"I would say compared to some more modern tools which are made to work offline, with this solution you have to be connected all of the time and with a central server. In our case, it's not a big problem because we all work on-premises, but it can be an issue if you have teams in different locations."
"The tool's subscriptions are expensive for medium and small businesses. It works fine on Windows. However, it is not stable on other platforms."
"Accessibility switches available on the desktop should also be available on mobile devices for coding or developing on the go."
"I would like to see the inclusion of more programming languages, especially better support for Java."
"The overall customer support needs to improve."
