CA Database Management for DB2 for zOS Reviews

Name: CA Database Management for DB2 for zOS
Brand: Broadcom
Rating: 4.4 (13 reviews)

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What is CA Database Management for DB2 for zOS?

Database Management for DB2 for z/OS solutions from CA Technologies provide a set of tools designed to ensure optimal database and SQL performance, efficient administration, and reliable backup and recovery of DB2 databases, systems and apps.

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CA Database Management for DB2 for zOS is the #30 ranked solution in top Database Development and Management solutions. PeerSpot users give CA Database Management for DB2 for zOS an average rating of 8.8 out of 10. CA Database Management for DB2 for zOS is most commonly compared to CA IDMS: CA Database Management for DB2 for zOS vs CA IDMS.

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January 2025

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JOY GHARAMI

Technical Project Manager at Interra Information Technologies, Inc.

I basically use the solution for database management and to view the performance of a particular database object, any specific program, batch program, or online programs. Using the CSSZ tool, I can effectively monitor performance. In case of an exception, I can inform the application team. At DB2…

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it_user481251

Senior Database Administrator at a local government with 501-1,000 employees

The feature that we find most useful is the consistent ability to create 'strategies’ across the products. These strategies allow consistent foundations for the business processes and provide the ability to repetitively use them by different resources. These 'strategies' allow the establishment of methods that fit directly into our business needs and prepare the DBAs how to best handle the situations.

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it_user481251

Senior Database Administrator at a local government with 501-1,000 employees

The feature we find most useful is the consistent ability to create ‘strategies’ across the products that allow for consistent foundations for the business processes and the ability to repetitively use them by different resources. These strategies allow for the establishment of methods that fit directly into our business needs and preps the DBAs as we need to best handle situations.

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CA Database Management for DB2 for zOS mindshare

As of January 2025, the mindshare of CA Database Management for DB2 for zOS in the Database Development and Management category stands at 0.5%, down from 0.9% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Last updated Jan 10, 2025

Valuable Features

"The reports generated and the old statistics shown are really helpful."
"It takes advantage of new features of DB2."
"The most important features are batch reporting and the ability to create repositories, enabling automated analysis. These are valuable because they enable me to do automated analysis of trends over time and reduce the time for comparing performance between two periods to identify anomalies."

Room for Improvement

"In the case of any particular SQL which is executing for a longer time and causing issues with any particular store or DB2 programs, if it could pinpoint the problems like any other tool should do, that would be really helpful."
"They need to provide a way to create and maintain performance repositories. The online tool is not perfect, but it is giving me what I need."
"Minor stability issues."

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