OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence vs PubSub+ Platform comparison

OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence vs. PubSub+ Platform

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Categories and Ranking

OPS/MVS Automation Intellig...

Ranking in Event Monitoring

10th

Average Rating

9.2

Reviews Sentiment

5.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Mainframe Management (4th)

PubSub+ Platform

Ranking in Event Monitoring

11th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Message Queue (MQ) Software (9th), Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) (2nd), Streaming Analytics (15th)

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Event Monitoring category, the mindshare of OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence is 4.1%, up from 3.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of PubSub+ Platform is 2.6%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Event Monitoring Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence	4.1%
PubSub+ Platform	2.6%
Other	93.3%

Event Monitoring

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Sakkamon Rapeepisarn

System Programmer at Krungsri

Automation has improved alerts and file handling but script-based setup still needs simplification

OPS_MVS Automation Intelligence is the automation tool I use. I think OPS_MVS Automation Intelligence is good for creating complex rules because it's coding, but it takes time to learn how to use it. OPS_MVS Automation Intelligence works well if you know the syntax very well and you have experience in creating scripts or REXX syntax; it would be very good and is a good tool, but it takes time to learn, so that is for experienced staff to work with. I would rate the product a six from one to ten. I cannot think of any additional features in the next release of OPS_MVS Automation Intelligence.

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Deepankar Bbhowmick

Integration Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Messaging design has become visual and reliable and now supports fast microservice communication

The unique functions I appreciate about PubSub+ Platform are that it allows me to design my solution in a graphical manner, which is not available in many other products, and the design can also be pushed to the actual infrastructure layer, making it quite advantageous. Mesh technology is useful in scenarios where different geographies have to be connected, although such situations are not commonly found. It is beneficial but not a super-used feature of PubSub+ Platform. The event replay function is quite mature in PubSub+ Platform, allowing me to replay messages that are days in the past, which is a good feature. The main benefits PubSub+ Platform provides for the end-user include building a robust and scalable system with very low network latency, which improves the customer experience, whether using mobile phones or applications. This type of messaging framework is extremely important, and Solace is a very good product in that space. Nowadays, most applications are built using microservices technology, with small microservices interchanging messages via PubSub+ Platform. Without it, realizing a scalable system would not be possible; for example, one cannot have Netflix or similar services that require quick data transit and a good user experience, ensuring that data cannot be lost in transit. The analytics part of PubSub+ Platform is quite useful as it can connect with many analytical software tools, mainly for analysis of system logs, such as Splunk, DataDog, or Prometheus. It has the flexibility to connect with any of these and supports OpenTelemetry, which is not available in many other products, making traceability very easy. I can see how a message travels from a source system to the target system, end-to-end, along with what happens to that message along the path, making the analytics quite good.

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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

"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."

"We used to us an IBM product, but OPS/MVS has a lot more flexibility in what we can do with it."

"It’s invaluable for expediting the shutdowns/IPLs of our z/OS LPARs and monitoring our z/OS LPARs for issues/problems."

"The effectiveness and stability of the solution is something that we require and something that this solution delivers."

"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."

"The performance of it is beyond exceptional."

"The benefits are the ability to do monitoring on your mainframe systems exactly the way you want to do it."

"For the mainframe it's a really good automation tool, it's been really solid for what we needed it for, and it's been flexible and scalable across the enterprise."

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"Because we use it as a message broker, it makes information flow very seamless."

"One of the main reasons for using PubSub+ is that it is a proper event manager that can handle events in a reactive way."

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

"If we talk about Solace, you see the value-add layer; I can say that Solace is a basic Kafka, but on top of that Kafka layer, they have added their own layer that is really good, as this is where it adds value and why we went for it."

"The topic hierarchy is pretty flexible. Once you have the subject defined just about anybody who knows Java can come onboard. The APIs are all there."

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

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

"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."

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Cons

"It needs to have more compatibility/interfaces to other vendors’ products."

"The new release addressed some shortcomings of the product."

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

"There are, however, still some restrictions with sysplex vars as far as which kinds of rules you can use them in, which is also the case for OPSHFI vars."

"The mainframe TSO side still displays green screens."

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

"SSM - when OPSMVS is started, there is a choice of either assuming all microhooks are up or all are down and working from there. It would be better if there was a feature that could discover the true state of every microhook."

"I think, for me, I’d like to see more of its web base."

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"Some improvement is required with Solace professional services. The professional services really needs to drive the solutions for the customers and share best practices."

"For improvements, I would suggest increasing the max payload size to a limit of 100MB or more. The current max payload size is limited to 5MB."

"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?"

"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."

"Some of the feature's gaps with some of the open-source vendors have been closed in a lot of ways. Being more agile and addressing those earlier could be an area for improvement."

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

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

"Potential areas for improvement in PubSub+ Platform are its authentication mechanisms, which could be slightly better."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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"We have been really happy with the product licensing rates. It has been free for us, up to a 100,000 transactions per second, and all we have to do is pay for support. Making their product available and accessible to us has not been a problem at all."

"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."

"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 price of the solution is expensive."

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

"The licensing is dependent on the volume that is flowing. If you go for their support services, it will cost some more money, but I think it is worth it, especially if you are just starting your journey."

"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."

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

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Outsourcing Company

14%

Construction Company

14%

Educational Organization

Financial Services Firm

16%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Construction Company

Outsourcing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	1
Large Enterprise	25

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	15

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence?

My impressions on OPS_MVS Automation Intelligence is that it's quite difficult to use, as it relies mainly on the coding syntax and doesn't provide an easy-to-use GUI. OPS_MVS should have an easy-t...

What is your primary use case for OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence?

We use the auto-purge transaction for some transactions that run very long, and we also use automation to open and close files in CICS as well.

What advice do you have for others considering OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence?

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PubSub+ Event Broker?

Pricing-wise for PubSub+ Platform, I find it a little expensive, so I would rate it at six.

What needs improvement with PubSub+ Event Broker?

Potential areas for improvement in PubSub+ Platform are its authentication mechanisms, which could be slightly better. While simple authentication using basic methods is easy, moving to more robust...

What is your primary use case for PubSub+ Event Broker?

PubSub+ Platform is primarily used for guaranteed delivery of messages from across systems, for microservice-based development, and for high-speed data consumption purposes. Guaranteed transmission...

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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

OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence is designed for effective mainframe automation with flexibility and user convenience, offering tools for synchronized operations and comprehensive platform automation.

OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence provides robust automation features that streamline mainframe operations, enhancing task synchronization and minimizing manual interventions. Its adaptability across multiple platforms, integration capabilities, and support for ad hoc operations ensure an efficient automation environment. However, users identify potential improvements in setup, third-party compatibility, graphical interfaces, and documentation. While it serves diverse automation needs, enhancing web interfaces and API accessibility could further improve user experience.

What are the key features of OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence?

Automatic IPL and Shutdown: Ensures orderly system startups and shutdowns.
System State Manager: Offers synchronized task operations for consistent system states.
OPSLOG: Enables message filtering to streamline communications.
Global Variables: Facilitates script customization and variable management.
OPS/REXX Support: Supports ad hoc operations for versatility in automation tasks.

What benefits and ROI can organizations expect?

Labor Minimization: Reduces manual task handling through automation.
Comprehensive Integration: Seamless connection with legacy applications for smooth operations.
Resource Control: Efficient management of resources across LPARs.
Enhanced Workflow Management: Improved automation of time-critical functions.

OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence is widely deployed in industries requiring high-level automation for mainframe environments. Organizations benefit from its capabilities in message suppression, system activity monitoring, startup and shutdown management, and resource control. Its efficient automation helps in inventory control and ensures seamless function integrations within diverse operational settings.

Broadcom

PubSub+ Platform is designed for real-time message publishing and outstanding interoperability. With features like intuitive administration and topic filtering, it offers both stability and high performance for scalable deployments across diverse scenarios.

PubSub+ Platform enhances data integration with its event mesh and seamless protocol compatibility, providing a comprehensive solution for organizations tracking shipments, generating reports, and managing transactions. Its granular topic filtering and WAN optimization ensure high utility in event-driven applications and cloud deployments. Users highlight the platform's intuitive administration and ease of management, though some seek improved integration with third-party tools and enhanced observability. Concerns include scalability for large payloads and training resource availability. Despite its interface complexity, PubSub+ remains valuable for trading and market data distribution.

What are the key features of PubSub+ Platform?

Real-time messaging: Facilitates seamless communication across platforms.
Flexible topic hierarchy: Supports dynamic topic taxonomy for efficient data management.
Event mesh: Enhances integration and interoperability with diverse protocols.
Intuitive administration: Simplifies system management and configuration.
WAN optimization: Ensures efficient connectivity for global deployment.

What benefits should users look for in reviews?

Messaging stability: Offers consistent performance in dynamic environments.
Scalability: Provides seamless expansion to accommodate growing data volumes.
Security: Maintains robust protection for sensitive information.
Support and configuration: Accessible, reliable support, and UI-driven setup streamline the management.

PubSub+ Platform is widely implemented for asynchronous messaging in industries like finance for trading and market data, logistics for shipment tracking, and tech operations management. It enables companies to modernize applications while ensuring data accuracy and efficiency across global systems.

Solace

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

OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence vs. PubSub+ Platform