Learn what your peers think about BMC Compuware Topaz Workbench. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
Technical Analyst at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Mar 16, 2021
I'm waiting to see what 19.2 for Topaz looks like, but I have a problem with the JES Explorer right now. It limits you to a certain prefix for job names and there are some groups that have multiple prefixes that they'd like to see all at once in their job names, because of how they work in a group. And they can't see that in the JES Explorer.
Lead Mainframe Systems Programming Analyst at a logistics company with 10,001+ employees
Oct 8, 2018
The area for improvement is related to the testing tools that are available for unit testing or acceptance testing. I know they have some out there that we are not licensed for at this time, but it seems like some of the Eclipse tools that are used for other programming languages, they're all just built-in and they're a little more intuitive to the developers. Making those testing tools as intuitive as possible, and as integrated as possible into the workbench, would be really beneficial.
Learn what your peers think about BMC Compuware Topaz Workbench. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
Mainframe Systems Programmer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Aug 22, 2018
I'm always looking for improvement in things like the documentation, to make things a little bit easier and simpler to understand, a place where people can go to troubleshoot issues.
Lead Specialist at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Aug 28, 2018
The ability to edit source code that has special characters is limited.
The ability to incorporate or convert REXX into macros that are usable under the Topaz software is not there. And the REXX macros that I have developed over 40 years of work are useless, so I have a toolbox I can't use or deploy using the Topaz technology, while I can use it under MVS.
