"It's stable enough. I haven't noticed any problems since it was installed."
"It alerts the operators when it is time to repair the communications and the IPLs."
"OPS/REXX is valuable because it allows us almost unlimited flexibility in automating our system."
"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's very secure, because it's a legacy application."
"The service has been wonderful. I like the people that I have had to deal with. The process is very straightforward. I call or use the website."
"It is an easy product to use and it is stable."
"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."
"When we changed to JES3, the programmers didn't have to know anything. The product provided the same interface with the same look and feel."
"The scalability is absolutely fine."
"Thresholds with alerts are valuable, enabling us to fix a problem before it has an impact."
"I use most of the SMS space management extensively, but also the features that enable me to look at dumps and different dataset allocations to the system, and performance data from the queueing and delays."
"We have not had any major issues in approximately 15 years."
"Ability for system diagnostics"
"It is easy to see if anything is wrong. The queues on the system are fast, and it is very intuitive to locate something."
"Between the tech support and the person I was working with, they have been extraordinary."
"We can't see the percentages to see the percentages of the CPU utilized. We should be able to see how much was used by our part of the system. Now, we have to continuously recalculate that information."
"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."
"Because of its age, it's a little bit difficult to modernize some of the integrations and some of the functions."
"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."
"Some of the command sequences are too long."
"One thing that comes to mind is the MQ interface. The last time we tried to use it, it seemed a little clunky."
"It’s a complex product. The initial installation is easy, but implementing various functions is a constant process."
"The things that I would think about would be in relation to JES3. However, I don't know if they'll be able to do much more with that because I don't know how much longer IBM is going to be supporting JES3. So I can understand not doing additional development. But if I were to suggest something it would be the JES3 initiators, the JES3 queues."
"The documentation format could be better. I noticed with the last release that all of the manuals were bundled into one. It used to have a separate installation guide, user guide, etc."
"They are already working on improvements. One of them is the operational intelligence, which is a lot of stuff I am trying to learn and work on right now, which SYSVIEW reports to that all the system things which are going on."
"The documentation, like installation guides and stuff, put it all in one place."
"It confuses a lot of people because there are so many features, but when they see me bouncing around they say, "I didn't know it did that, I didn't know it did that." It takes a long time to find all the different features that are available."
"We are using Datacom as the database system, so maybe a little bit more integration with that."
"If a unit of work ID is associated with a CICS, a DB2, and a MQ transaction, and having that capability correlate to those different technologies via one business application transaction which would be beneficial."
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