IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact vs OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence comparison

IBM and Broadcom are both solutions in the Event Monitoring category. IBM is ranked #11, while Broadcom is ranked #13. IBM holds a 3.1% mindshare in EM, compared to Broadcom’s 2.8% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of Broadcom users who would recommend it.

IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact

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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

11th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No 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 (6th)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Event Monitoring category, the mindshare of IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact is 3.1%, down from 3.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence is 2.8%, up from 1.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Vijay-Daniel

Assistant Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Supports APA through ISPF and lets us easily integrate with other apps for ticketing purposes

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. Some statistics around the products would also be nice. For example, to see how it performs. So when the bulk copy has been processed by Impact, through a kind of dashboard, it could indicate to the user: ""This many events have been process this many times, and this particular event may cause trouble. This many events are in testing, etc." Basically, I'd like more visibility into the details and particulars through Impact itself, so that we can take action on what's happening, and we can automate. For instance, we could maybe send the events to some kind of server or monitoring program, and perform automation on them.

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it_user351621

IT System Analyst - Lead at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The ability to use command rules is great when our operators have repetitive tasks, but we'd like to automate off of different highlighted messages without actually knowing what the message is.

One of the things we've been wanting to do is to be able to automate off of different highlighted messages without actually knowing what the message is. For example, we'd like to be able to create some generic automation when we receive a warning or alert message to allow, if nothing else, the automation team to know so we can contact the product owner. If there's something we can do to automate or expedite notification to the proper people, we want to try to do that.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

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

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

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

"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 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."

"OPS/REXX is valuable because it allows us almost unlimited flexibility in automating our system."

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

"If something breaks and it goes down when it's not supposed to, automation brings it right back up."

"The documentation is simple, easy to follow, and use. A limited, first-time systems programmer can do it, in that it is out-of-the-box almost functional."

"It allows us to respond faster to issues. If there are issues that come out, we're able to capture a message and alert somebody about it."

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

"Valuable features include: SSM, which provides for orderly startup and shutdown; OPSLOG, which enables filtering by message-id, and/or jobname(s); Rules, as OPS/REXX interface streamlines deployment, interfaces easily with JES2 and z/OS."

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Cons

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

"Because of its age, it's a little bit difficult to modernize some of the integrations and some of the functions."

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

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

"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."

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

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

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

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

20%

Energy/Utilities Company

12%

Computer Software Company

11%

Real Estate/Law Firm

Financial Services Firm

21%

Logistics Company

21%

Computer Software Company

13%

Insurance Company

12%

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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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