Rocket Zena Reviews

We use the solution for kicking off Oracle products such as the PeopleSoft Process Scheduler, and then we also use the solution for managing files on the Windows infrastructure.

The visual whiteboard for design and execution included with the solution is very crucial to those who are new to Rocket Zena, especially so that the learning curve is minimized and they can focus on accomplishing the task.

We process our system's payroll through Rocket Zena. The fact that it's a multi-process, multi-layered application, means that we can rely on the solution for kicking off processes, notifying user vendors of the steps, completions, error logging, and historic events from the previous run times. 

Rocket Zena's ability to automate jobs on the mainframe as a distribution workload automation solution is good. The solution continuously improves over time. We're eager to start the latest upgrade this coming year that'll put us on the cloud. Hopefully, this will improve the product even more.

We can run things natively without the scheduler if needed. The solution working properly and up to date without the need for a mainframe scheduler is crucial. 

We use the solution to manage a few complex operational workflows end-to-end across multiple technology stacks.

Rocket Zena does a great job of simplifying our cross-platform processes through automation. The solution helps speed operations up and keeps them automated allowing us to focus on other priorities.

The solution helps increase our completion rates by working overnight to meet our SLAs. Rocket Zena completes 30 percent of our workload outside of our standard work hours.

Rocket Zena's cross-platform job scheduling helped us save around 40 percent of programming time by automating repetitive tasks. We use the solution to transfer our current files and keep up with our infrastructure on a few automated jobs, such as refreshing our database which happens overnight.

The solution helped free up around 15 percent of our engineer's time to focus on more value-added work.

I have been using the solution for file transfers, scheduling my RPA processes, and email scheduling.

There are some RPA tasks that I need to use on a daily basis. They have to be scheduled for 4:00 AM Indian Standard Time when nobody is working. We can schedule our tasks for any time and Zena gives us a notification that the task has been completed.

It has saved me a lot of time because I'm not having to go through the tasks and run them manually. I can schedule them and they run in seconds. It's helped improve my productivity a lot as well. By scheduling one task I can do another task at that same time. We have some processes that need to be executed every five minutes during the day. It has helped me save that time as I can schedule them using Zena. No programming is required, only some basic knowledge, which is in the Zena manual, is sufficient. Because there is no programming it has saved me a lot of time.

So far, I have achieved 98 percent accuracy with this product. It has increased the accuracy I have achieved for my client. They no longer have to look at jobs. Before, they would keep a watch on every process and task that was running. Now they don't have to. The notification goes to them and to the developer as well. We have a good accuracy rate.

It has helped free up a lot of time. For example, there is a process that takes five to six hours to handle 600 to 800 files daily. We have automated it through Zena, so whenever a file comes into the folder, we just trigger the job and the file is processed within no time, meaning within two to three seconds. Earlier, a file used to take two to three minutes when a human was involved. Now, it is automated through Zena. Those five to six hours have been reduced to a one-hour task with 90 percent accuracy and no human intervention is required. It has freed up developers, my managers, and the engineers too.

And in terms of process consolidation, there is one FTP process where we needed to connect to the FTP, copy a file, and paste it into a different server. But there was no fixed time for when the file would come into the folder. There, the solution has helped us a lot. Whenever the file comes in, the system uses the FTP option and copy-pastes it to the other server. That is saving us a lot of time and those files that are copied and pasted to the other server are very important files for the client.

That process used to take 30 to 40 minutes of manual work to check things and we get three to five such files daily. Now, Zena checks the conditions we have set and fulfills them. If something is wrong, the file goes to a different location and we get an email about a failure in the process.

We have achieved a very good level of optimization so far. Processes we used to run manually are all automated now. Even the morning and evening email notifications to clients and employees are very easy. We focus more on the productivity side rather than on daily, mediocre work.

It's mainly for scheduling and automating tasks. It's a scheduling tool. We have jobs to run in the middle of the night. We have something called Night Cycle that promotes data in the middle of the night. We use this tool to basically create a process that:

• Brings down our applications.
• Takes a backup of our databases.
• Creates extracts from the tables.
• Runs the process with recovery migration and sends that data over to different environments.

After it's all done, it brings up the applications again.

My understanding is that we are using its latest version, and one of the reasons we're moving away from it is that it is off the support. So, I don't know if they're still continuing on, but I'm pretty sure we have the latest version

The only other tool I could compare it to currently is Control-M. I have worked with other automation tools in the past but not as much as Rocket Zena. In terms of comparison with Control-M, its user interface is way better than Control-M. You can click Ctrl-G and bring a diagram view. You're able to view in a diagram format. The view that it provides is easy, and you can move to the left, up, or down. You can double-click on a certain process. It'll drill into that process and all of its underlying components. You can double-click on an arrow or a component, and it'll bring up a screen that'll have all the variables that are assigned to that particular piece, as well as the values at run time. So, the diagram feature of it, at least for me, is pretty valuable.

We use Zena to schedule various Powershell and batch script jobs within the company. Some of them are PowerShell scripts. Zena schedules jobs within SAP. It's integrated with our servers and applications. 

We don't have any workflows going across multiple stacks. Ours are pretty isolated to specific applications and areas. We can organize folders and groupings within our Zena console for each area. We have them organized by business areas like finance and HR or the server where they run. 

Before we had Zena, we scheduled jobs in different ways, and it wasn't centralized. Some were manually kicking off jobs. People were scheduling tasks on desktops and servers and using that functionality for business processes. Zena pulled everything into one integrated area to make everything more manageable and give us greater insight into what is happening. It's an improvement over people independently scheduling their tasks with various methods. 

Our process is better documented now that we have Zena. When someone wants to schedule a job, they submit a request through our ticketing solution that goes to the batch scheduling team. The entire process is documented, so we know who requested the job and what they want to do. It tells us if they wrote the script or if a developer wrote it. We have all that documented.

Zena increased our completion rates and freed people from the need to monitor or launch jobs manually. It's automated, and we get an email notification or text message if a job fails. It significantly reduces programming time by automating repetitive tasks. We often use Zena to schedule multi-step jobs. That saves a ton of time.

It's automated, which reduces human error. It does a great job. I can't think of an instance when a job failed unless the script had an error. I've only been managing Zena for probably three years, but I imagine it reduced the costs of our automation workloads.

It's a scheduling product, and it's used for scheduling jobs. For example, instead of doing manual transfers, I can schedule file transfers from one system to another during weekdays. I can schedule a job to transfer a file from one system to another from Monday to Friday in the evening. 

We also use it for monitoring and managing jobs. If there is any issue, we can also restart a job. It's not just used for file transfers; it's also used for many payroll tasks and projects. 

It does automation. You can choose the time and date you want to run a job. You can stop a workflow so that you can run the jobs later in the day as well. If, for example, you are not working in the morning, you can specify that you don't want to run the file in the morning and Rocket will not let it run. So, it's also a workload automation tool to avoid repetitive and manual tasks.

It can also be customized to your calendar. For example, we know we won't be working on December 24th, so we can schedule it to skip sending us data files on that day. It can be scheduled to only send information on business days and not on holidays. 

It helps to schedule jobs and avoid manual, repetitive tasks. Jobs get done automatically. We can specify the time and date to run a job.

We use Rocket Zena for SFTP transfers between the servers or to the customer. Export or import of data to a database is scheduled with Rocket Zena. We also run external scripts and schedule backup jobs with Rocket Zena.

It has been beneficial to have a central scheduler that is solely used by all teams to schedule jobs.

We use it across mainframe Linux and Windows environments for batch and full workflow dependency. We do a lot of ETLs, so there are a huge number of dependencies, such as, get the flat file from an SFTP or call a script to pull the data out of a data structure. If you don't have the data, then nothing else should run.

It has replaced every single Windows Task Manager or Task Scheduler. 

We are looking to use Zena for automation on the mainframe but for now, we use it for scheduling batch jobs but only for Migos applications. We're looking to expand it for application planning on the mainframe.

We want it to mitigate human errors and do end to end batch processing. We only use it now for Linux and Windows. We want to use it for various platforms. Our IT Infrastructure is very diverse and we want Zena to replace human intervention. 

I have been using ASG-Zena for around ten years.