IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact vs OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence comparison

IBM and Broadcom are both solutions in the Event Monitoring category. IBM is ranked #9 with an average rating of 7.0, while Broadcom is ranked #13. IBM holds a 3.3% mindshare in EM, compared to Broadcom’s 3.4% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of Broadcom users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 23, 2025

IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact and OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence are competing in the IT operations management domain. IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact has an edge with superior pricing and support, though OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence is appreciated for its comprehensive feature set, making it worth the higher cost for its automation and monitoring efficiencies.

Features: IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact offers strong event automation and integration capabilities, facilitating effective incident response and service management. Its powerful tool provides easy integration with other models like Oracle and external systems, ensuring effective event management. The solution is praised for its inherent ISPF APA support, which enhances integration capabilities. OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence stands out for its advanced workload automation and robust monitoring features, providing enhanced operational efficiency. The product offers flexibility with command rules, MSF, RDF Tables, and SSM, which synchronizes tasks. Its ability to run complex tasks and perform automatic IPL and shutdown with minimal intervention ensures reliability.

Room for Improvement: IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact could benefit from enhanced flexibility in configuration and ad hoc automation capabilities, better scalability to accommodate larger enterprise needs, and a more intuitive user interface for improved user experience. OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence could improve by simplifying its initial configuration process, increasing ease of integration with third-party databases, and refining its user interface to make it more user-friendly for new users.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact offers a straightforward deployment model with extensive customer support, ensuring a smooth implementation process. Its simpler initial setup gives it an ease advantage. OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence provides a solid deployment framework but may require more initial configuration efforts. Nevertheless, both products deliver high-quality customer service to support users.

Pricing and ROI: IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact presents an affordable setup cost with a competitive ROI due to its integration capabilities and comprehensive features. OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence reflects a higher initial cost; however, this investment is justified through its enhanced capabilities, offering greater ROI potential for enterprises focusing on maximizing automation and monitoring efficiencies.

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Categories and Ranking

IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact

Ranking in Event Monitoring

9th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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Ranking in Event Monitoring

13th

Average Rating

9.4

Reviews Sentiment

8.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Mainframe Management (7th)

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Event Monitoring category, the mindshare of IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact is 3.3%, up from 2.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence is 3.4%, up from 1.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Hennie Du Toit

Principal Specialist Architecture and Governance at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Event management strengthens with automation but needs better event flooding handling

Better handling of event flooding in IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact would be beneficial. If there are massive issues with power, for example, and we get millions of events, then it struggles to deal with that. Better root cause correlation and faster processing for IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact would be helpful. If there can be more end-to-end functionality, such as observability tools built in natively, that would be great. With correlation, IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact has many functions, but we've built them custom-built. Functions such as automated logging, automated dispatching, and automated notification of engineers could be native in the tool.

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Greg Payne

Sr. Analyst/Technology Infrastructure at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It automates responses, preventing issues from becoming more severe

I just installed version 12.3, which actually already has a number of new features. It's going to make it easier for some of our new users. I'm old-school, I learned it the old way. I actually want to go back and implement it and start doing things the new way. As I need to train people, it's going to make it easier for them and make the learning curve much shorter. The new release addressed some shortcomings of the product. It was old-school. The learning curve was a little bit long in the beginning, but it's really come a long way.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"This product allows us to make use of open-source products, including running Java code."

"The stability has been very good for IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact, rated around eight or nine."

"The most valuable feature that comes with Netcool/Impact is the ISPF APA support. It is inherent to Netcool/Impact, so I can use the ISPF of any other product, which I can invoke and consume through Impact, and do integrations, which is great. I run the Netcool desktop application so I can integrate with other applications in the ticketing system. It's a great ability being able to invoke ISPF and integrate."

"The solution is great at being able to fetch almost any kind of file."

"It is easy to integrate with other models such as Oracle, other systems, external systems, and to reach events."

"The follow-up surprised me. Making sure that I am happy with what I have gone to them on. They will call after I have made changes and verify that I am happy with the changes that I did have to make. If it did not fix the complete problem, they go back over it until I am satisfied."

"It alerts the operators when it is time to repair the communications and the IPLs."

"I do not have to keep recordings. It is there and is proactive. It helps the operators, human editors, and me."

"The performance of it is beyond exceptional. It is probably one of the best products that I have ever worked with. It is easy to use, comprehensive, and can perform almost any task you need it to."

"It's very secure, because it's a legacy application."

"Stability is probably the best out-of-the-box. Put it in, set it up, and you leave it alone. It works wonderfully."

"With the automation pieces we can bring this region up or take this region down, and it allows us to always meet our time critical requirements."

"I can and interrupt what's going on, bring a job down if I need to, and bring it back up."

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Cons

"IBM is not investing in the development of the on-premise version of this solution."

"Stability-wise, this product needs to be improved."

"For improvement, I'd say the dashboard and the overall GUI could use some work. Although, I don't think that there's much improvement that Netcool really needs to achieve in this area, because when we're talking GUI, Impact is able to integrate with any third-party system and it comes with ISPF APA. It's more beneficial than Netcool/OMNIbus in this respect, and it's quite easy to handle."

"The solution is somewhat complicated. It's not exactly straightforward."

"Better handling of event flooding in IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact would be beneficial. If there are massive issues with power, for example, and we get millions of events, then it struggles to deal with that."

"It definitely needs more web-based interface, to be more mobile-open. More APIs, more open source to it."

"It’s a complex product. The initial installation is easy, but implementing various functions is a constant process."

"The further expansion of the mainframe teamcenter interface. Also, the web services support is something that I am looking into."

"Scalability is zero. It cannot be scaled because of its age."

"The GUI interface could be improved, but that is coming. They are working on that."

"The interfaces to USS, CA UIM could be better. CA Common Services interfaces - namely Zdata Mover, Zmessage Service, Zdatacolletcor - are poorly documented."

"Performing a stop/restart of OPS/MVS could be a little smoother. Without special coding, some undesired tasks will be started and some necessary tasks will be stopped if we have to bounce OPS/MVS during the day."

"The reason sometimes it is not stable, we do not have the expertise to write the script."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The licensing is yearly, and although I'm happy with the pricing I do think it could be better."

"Licensing of IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact depends on the number of nodes on the element that you are monitoring."

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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact?

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What is your primary use case for IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact?

IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact is our event management tool, specifically the umbrella fault management tool set. All of our events across the network correlate the data for us, and we have certain use ...

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What advice do you have for others considering IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact?

We remain a partner with IBM Tivoli and continue using their products. We use IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact's AIOps functionality. We experienced some skills issues, but currently receive assistance fr...

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Also Known As

Tivoli NetCool Impact

CA OPS MVS Event Management and Automation, CA OPS/MVS Event Management and Automation, Unicenter CA-OPS/MVS Event Management and Automation

Overview

IBM Tivoli Netcool Impact is an enterprise and network management software that automates the support of business-critical functions. The software helps to enrich events with business context, provides an integrated view of data from multiple sources in context and enables custom automations.

IBM

z/OS, its subsystems, databases, middleware, applications, and software generate thousands of event messages daily. IT professionals need a tool to filter, prioritize, and respond quickly to these events before they impact availability and threaten business processing and associated service level agreements. CA OPS/MVS EMA automates processes, enabling you to resolve problems as they arise. It also automates more routine tasks, simplifying IT management and operations.

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Sample Customers

Claranet, Consolidated Communications, Telus, €sterreichische Bundesbahnen (€BB), Telekom Srbija, Bendigo Community Telco, Capgemini, Schweizerische Bundesbahnen (SBB)

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