We performed a comparison between OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence and SCOM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"OPS/REXX is valuable because it allows us almost unlimited flexibility in automating our system."
"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 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 reduces the number of repetitive motions required by a human to respond to the system."
"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."
"Because we can define complex commands, the training of new operators is quicker. We can also put checks in place, that will prevent user errors."
"It's very flexible. You can customize what you need to, which is good. For example, you can do your own coding inside the tool, make your own scripting tooling."
"The most valuable features for us are the monitoring, the health explorer, and the console."
"We have found the scalability capabilities to be okay."
"It takes a lot of the headache out of managing your data centers and software in other places."
"The advantages of SCOM are that it is definitely user friendly and a more appropriate solution for what we need."
"The solution is used for monitoring the hardware inventory. For instance, it helps with the whole operational monitoring view for the company's infrastructure."
"The monitoring features are the most valuable. We have seen a major benefit from that so far."
"SCOM has improved our organization by simplifying the monitoring process. The system tells you what the bi-weekly or monthly usage was and that enables us to report this information to the manager. It shows if there was a connectivity issue that needs to be fixed and it's easier to concentrate on what needs to get fixed. System errors, therefore, get fixed faster."
"This solution saves us a lot of work because it reduces the effort that is required in order to start monitoring."
"Some of the command sequences are too long."
"Because of its age, it's a little bit difficult to modernize some of the integrations and some of the functions."
"The reason sometimes it is not stable, we do not have the expertise to write the script."
"The interfaces to USS, CA UIM could be better. CA Common Services interfaces - namely Zdata Mover, Zmessage Service, Zdatacolletcor - are poorly documented."
"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."
"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 further expansion of the mainframe teamcenter interface. Also, the web services support is something that I am looking into."
"The dashboard features are not user-friendly for our management team, only for the technical department."
"The price could be improved."
"Regarding certain issues in the solution, it can be difficult to generate reports if we have a program that is not user-friendly for reporting. While this is not necessarily negative, we may need to use another solution."
"I would like to see better support for monitoring Unix-based systems."
"I would like to see more standard libraries for the market solutions, out of the box, that you don't need to do a lot of work on."
"Application monitoring must be improved."
"They can focus more on cloud monitoring instead of on-premise monitoring. We should be able to monitor cloud-related applications. They can include this feature in the next release. If it is in the cloud, we can have scalability by using Kubernetes. The container is containerized, packaged, and managed using Kubernetes. This feature is not there in SCOM. Going forward, if they can focus on that, it will be great."
"I would like to better be able to monitor Oracle processes."
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OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence is ranked 14th in Event Monitoring while SCOM is ranked 3rd in Event Monitoring with 77 reviews. OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence is rated 9.4, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence writes "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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SCOM writes "Has a good reporting engine, but its monitoring of the cloud-based environment could be improved". OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence is most compared with BMC MainView, IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON and BMC TrueSight Operations Management, whereas SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Datadog, Nagios XI and AppDynamics.
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