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BMC Compuware Topaz Workbench pros and cons

Vendor: BMC
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BMC Compuware Topaz Workbench Pros review quotes

JW
Mar 16, 2021
The smart editor helps because it will code-complete for me. I can see code working a lot faster and I'm able to get things coded in less time.
JE
Oct 28, 2018
It helps our staff work by speeding up their documentation process.
TM
Aug 22, 2018
From a user perspective, the GUIs make it easier for people to see and interact with files on the mainframe.
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JM
Aug 28, 2018
The most valuable feature of Topaz is Xpediter. It's more flexible than Xpediter through MVS.
SS
Sep 25, 2018
It's a modernized development portal and helps reduce the learning curve for younger people coming in to work on the platform,
 

BMC Compuware Topaz Workbench Cons review quotes

JW
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.
JS
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.
JE
Oct 28, 2018
It often doesn't play well with other plugins in the environment.
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TM
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.
JM
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.