OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence vs PubSub+ Platform comparison

Broadcom and Solace are both solutions in the Event Monitoring category. Broadcom is ranked #13, while Solace is ranked #12 with an average rating of 8.5. Broadcom holds a 3.4% mindshare in EM, compared to Solace’s 0.2% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of Broadcom users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Solace users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 23, 2025

OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence and PubSub+ Platform are products in IT infrastructure management and data streaming. PubSub+ Platform holds an advantage due to its extensive feature set, despite OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence's appealing pricing and support.

Features:OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence provides advanced automation for mainframe systems with tools like System State Manager, automation for message traffic, and operational analytics. PubSub+ Platform offers powerful event streaming and management, supporting real-time data integration with features such as flexible topic hierarchies, seamless protocol exchange, and robust event mesh capabilities.

Room for Improvement:OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence could enhance its integration capabilities and expand its flexibility for non-mainframe environments. Additionally, improving its user interface would benefit ease of use. PubSub+ Platform could increase its compliance features and simplify initial setup. It might also improve the dashboard functionality for better user experience and analytics visibility.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service:OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence provides a straightforward deployment for mainframe environments with comprehensive documentation and reliable support. PubSub+ Platform offers adaptable deployment options across cloud and on-premises setups, backed by responsive and knowledgeable customer service. Its flexibility makes it suitable for diverse IT settings.

Pricing and ROI:OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence presents lower setup costs, making it attractive for enterprises focused on mainframes. Its pricing structure facilitates a strong ROI due to targeted functionalities. PubSub+ Platform involves higher initial expenses but justifies them with scalable architecture and advanced features, promising substantial long-term ROI for businesses seeking comprehensive data solutions.

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Categories and Ranking

OPS/MVS Automation Intellig...

Ranking in Event Monitoring

13th

Average Rating

9.4

Reviews Sentiment

8.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Mainframe Management (7th)

PubSub+ Platform

Ranking in Event Monitoring

12th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Message Queue (MQ) Software (8th), Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) (2nd), Streaming Analytics (12th)

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Event Monitoring category, the mindshare of OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence is 3.4%, up from 1.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of PubSub+ Platform is 0.2%, up from 0.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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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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BhanuChidigam

Sofware Engineering Manager at Wells Fargo

Performs well, high availability, and helpful support

We use approximately four people for the maintenance of the solution. My advice to others is this solution has high throughput and is used for many stock exchanges. For business critical use cases, such as processing financial transactions at a quick speed, I would recommend this solution. I rate PubSub+ Event Broker an eight out of ten.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

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

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

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

"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 is an easy product to use and it is stable."

"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."

"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."

"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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"When it comes to granularity, you can literally do anything regarding how the filtering works."

"We like the seamless flexibility in protocol exchange offering without writing a code."

"This solution reduces the latency to access changes in real-time and the effort required to onboard a new subscriber. It also reduces the maintenance of each of those interfaces because now the publisher and subscribers are decoupled. Event Broker handles all the communication and engagement. We can just push one update, then we don't have to know who is consuming it and what's happening to that publication downstream. It's all done by the broker, which is a huge benefit of using Event Broker."

"In my assessment of Solace against other products — as I was responsible for evaluating various products and bringing the right tool into companies in the past — I worked with multiple platforms like RabbitMQ, Confluent, Kafka, and various other tools in the market. But I found the event mesh capability to be a very interesting as well as fulfilling capability, towards what we want to achieve from a digital-integration-strategy point of view... It's distributed, yet it is intelligently connected. It can also span and I can plug and play any number of brokers into the event mesh, so it's a great deal. That's a differentiator."

"I rate the PubSub+ Platform a 9 out of 10."

"The most useful features has been the WAN optimization and probably the HybridEdge, which requires some third-party adapters or plugins. The idea that we can position Solace as a protocol-agnostic message transport fabric is key to our company having all manners of asynchronous messaging protocols from MQ, Kafka, JMS, etc. I really like the WAN optimization: Send once over a WAN, then distribute locally as many times as there are subscribers."

"As of now, the most valuable aspects are the topic-based subscription and the fanout exchange that we are using."

"When we went to add another installation in our private cloud, it was easy. We received support from Solace and the install was seamless with no issues."

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Cons

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Some of the command sequences are too long."

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"The licensing and the cost are the major pitfalls."

"We've pointed out some things with the DMR piece, the event mesh, in edge cases where we could see a problem. Something like 99 percent of users wouldn't ever see this problem, but it has to do with if you get multiple bad clients sending data over a WAN, for example. That could then impact other clients."

"The product should allow third-party agents to be installed. Currently, it is quite proprietary."

"One of the areas of improvement would be if we could tell the story a bit better about what an event mesh does or why an event mesh is foundational to a large enterprise that has a wide diversity of applications that are homegrown and a small number off the shelf."

"The ease of management could be approved. The GUI is very good, but to configure and manage these devices programmatically in the software version is not easy. For example, if I would like to spin up a new software broker, then I could in theory use the API, but it would require a considerable amount of development effort to do so. There should be a tool, or something that Solace supports, that we could use for this, e.g., a platform like Terraform where we could use infrastructure as code to configure our source appliances."

"We have requested to be able to get into the payload to do dynamic topic hierarchy building. A current workaround is using the message's header, where the business data can be put into this header and be used for a dynamic topic lookup. I want to see this in action when there are a couple of hundred cases live. E.g., how does it perform? From an administration perspective, is the ease of use there?"

"The integrations could improve in PubSub+ Event Broker."

"A challenge we currently have is Solace's ability to integrate with single sign-on in our Active Directory and other single sign-on tools and platforms that any company would have. It's important for the platforms to work. Typically, they support only LDAP-based connectivity to our SQL Servers."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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"It could be cheaper. Its licensing is on a yearly basis."

"Having a free version is critical for our technology operations use case. This is primarily because our technology operations team is a cost center in our company. They are not profit drivers and having a free version for installation will probably meet our needs. Even for production, it'll support up to a 100,000 messages per second. I don't think in technology operations that we have that many events and alerts from our detection tools. Even if I have 20 or 30 event detection products out there, they're only going to publish the things which are critical or warnings. I don't think we'll ever reach a 100,000 messages per second."

"The pricing and licensing were very transparent and well-communicated by our account manager."

"We are looking for something that will add value and fit for purpose. Freeware is good if you want to try something quickly without putting in much money. However, as far as our decision is concerned, I don't think it helps. At the end of the day, if we are convinced that a capability is required, we will ask for the funding. Then, when the funding is available, we will go for an enterprise solution only."

"There are different tiers where you can choose what would work for you. As a customer, you need to know roughly how many messages a month you will use."

"I would rate the product's pricing a ten out of ten."

"The price of PubSub+ Event Broker is reasonable for the capability it offers. However, when compared to others solutions on the market it is expensive."

"The price of the solution is expensive."

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Regarding improving the PubSub+ Platform, I'm not sure about the pricing aspect, but I heard that it is quite expensive compared to Kafka. That's the only concern I can mention; otherwise, it was a...

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My typical use case for the PubSub+ Platform is as an event-driven solution for communication between two components.

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Also Known As

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

PubSub+ Event Broker, PubSub+ Event Portal

Overview

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.

Broadcom

PubSub+ Platform supports real-time shipment tracking, IT event management in multiclouds, and connects legacy and cloud-native systems for application modernization. It's utilized for trading, streaming market data, and app-to-app messaging, enhancing event-driven architectures with reliable message queuing.

Organizations adopt PubSub+ to efficiently transport events across hybrid and cloud environments, managing audit trails and long processing tasks. The platform aids integration through dynamic data publication, event mesh capabilities, and WAN optimization. Features like seamless integration, protocol agnosticism, and flexible topic hierarchy enhance versatility. Solace Admin Utility simplifies configuration and management, while the event portal allows hybrid deployment.

What are the key features of PubSub+ Platform?

Dynamic Data Publication: Enables flexible and responsive data handling.
Event Mesh Capabilities: Facilitates efficient event transportation.
WAN Optimization: Enhances data transfer across networks.
Protocol Agnosticism: Supports a wide range of protocols for integration.
Flexible Topic Hierarchy: Allows detailed and organized data exchange.
Solace Admin Utility: Provides intuitive configuration and management.
Granular Topic Filtering: Offers precise data filtering options.
Guaranteed Messaging: Ensures reliable message delivery.

What benefits or ROI should users consider?

Seamless Integration: Reduces complexity in connecting systems.
Performance and Scaling: Supports high-load environments efficiently.
Asynchronous Messaging: Improves application performance.
Robust Support System: Provides guidance and problem resolution.

PubSub+ is implemented in industries requiring real-time data handling and integration between disparate systems. Financial institutions use it for trading and streaming market data, while logistics companies benefit from real-time shipment tracking. Enterprises apply it to modernize operations by connecting legacy systems with cloud-native applications, enhancing their architecture and ensuring data reliability across environments.

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Sample Customers

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FxPro, TP ICAP, Barclays, Airtel, American Express, Cobalt, Legal & General, LSE Group, Akuna Capital, Azure Information Technology, Brand.net, Canadian Securities Exchange, Core Transport Technologies, Crédit Agricole, Fluent Trade Technologies, Harris Corporation, Korea Exchange, Live E!, Mercuria Energy, Myspace, NYSE Technologies, Pico, RBC Capital Markets, Standard Chartered Bank, Unibet

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