BMC AMI DevX vs Broadcom Test Data Manager comparison

BMC and Broadcom are both solutions in the Test Data Management category. BMC is ranked #7 with an average rating of 7.7, while Broadcom is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.5. BMC holds a 5.8% mindshare in TDM, compared to Broadcom’s 16.2% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of BMC users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of Broadcom users who would recommend it.

BMC AMI DevX

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Broadcom Test Data Manager

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94% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2025

Broadcom Test Data Manager and BMC AMI DevX are competing in enhanced data management and application development. Broadcom appears to have the upper hand in pricing and support, whereas BMC AMI DevX justifies its price with a rich feature set.

Features: Broadcom Test Data Manager provides advanced data masking, synthetic data generation, and data subsetting, crucial for secure test data management and compliance. BMC AMI DevX offers comprehensive debugging capabilities, source code management, and a streamlined development portal, which significantly benefits development-focused teams.

Room for Improvement: Broadcom Test Data Manager could enhance integration with non-relational databases and improve its user interface for a more intuitive experience. Its synthetic data generation for newer database systems is also awaited. BMC AMI DevX needs a more straightforward deployment model, enhanced mainframe support, and broader integration capabilities to accommodate diverse infrastructures.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Broadcom Test Data Manager is recognized for straightforward deployment and reliable customer support, facilitating quick implementation. BMC AMI DevX, while offering proactive support, has a more complex deployment process but is well-suited for integration with existing systems.

Pricing and ROI: Broadcom Test Data Manager offers a competitive pricing model that appeals to cost-sensitive buyers, delivering a high ROI by reducing setup expenses. BMC AMI DevX, although requiring a higher initial investment, provides substantial returns through its feature-rich offerings, catering to those prioritizing capabilities over cost.

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Categories and Ranking

BMC AMI DevX

Ranking in Test Data Management

7th

Ranking in Data Masking

8th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Software Configuration Management (1st), Debugging (8th), Database Development and Management (20th), Mainframe Application Development (1st), Mainframe Testing Tools (1st)

Broadcom Test Data Manager

Ranking in Test Data Management

2nd

Ranking in Data Masking

3rd

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

AI Synthetic Data (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the Test Data Management category, the mindshare of BMC AMI DevX is 5.8%, up from 4.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Broadcom Test Data Manager is 16.2%, down from 17.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Test Data Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Broadcom Test Data Manager	16.2%
BMC AMI DevX	5.8%
Other	78.0%

Test Data Management

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Brian Westerman

Director of R&D at Syzygy Inc.

Helps to make mainframe data management process easier and saves manhours

We plan to replace BMC Compuware File-AID due to its price. Two years back, we paid 11,000 dollars. However, the current price is 27,900 dollars. The price has increased to at least eight times its initial cost. We would need to pay around 60,000 dollars to have all three products together. We also encountered issues during version updates.

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Hosney Osman

Senior Operation Engineer at Vodafone

Offers great utility with synthetic data generation and reliable technical support

Overall, this can definitely be the advantage of the product, and I'm happy with these functionalities that Broadcom provides. I totally recommend any application working on the database layer directly and I don't recommend any applications from other external vendors to perform the same function. Oracle and PostgreSQL have similar applications and they both work directly in the database, reading directly from the database, transforming values in another table within the same database, making it easy to run. The solution is saving me time and money in general because this application saves money and a lot of effort. I can generate any amount of data from Broadcom Test Data Manager, which has a lot of information and equations regarding this task. It saves money because my testing team needs this data to create use cases tested on realistic data. Broadcom Test Data Manager adds great value to my organization, but I believe it can be afforded only in international, large-sized companies. It is not affordable for medium or small-sized organizations.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"I have worked with DB2's great features in the last five years. The IDAA feature transformed the vision of warehousing, business analytics, and big data at my bank. Besides the mainframe, I saw that this solution was evolutionary. It gives real-time information."

"I think the most valuable features are code management, code deployment, and code generation. The fact that those three features are included makes BMC Compuware ISPW a robust product. If one of those features was missing, it would be less robust and less interesting. But because it has those three features, it is a very good solution for code development and management."

"From a user perspective, the GUIs make it easier for people to see and interact with files on the mainframe."

"The most valuable feature of Topaz is Xpediter. It's more flexible than Xpediter through MVS."

"BMC Data Management improved our data recovery process by simplifying it."

"Once we got the configurations and deployment rolled out, it was very stable. I haven't had any major issues with Eclipse or the Topaz Workbench plugins."

"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."

"We can develop in parallel today on ISPF, but it's giving us the advantage of the newer interface into the mainframe programming languages that younger programmers can use and are familiar with, rather than using the ISPF green screen."

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"The combination of extract, mask, and load, along with synthetic data, is what is generally needed by any of our clients, and CA TDM has really good compatibility in both of the areas."

"Core features that we needed were synthetic data creation, and to be able to do complex data mining and profiling across multiple databases with referential integrity intact across them. CA's product actually came through with the highest score and met the most of our needs."

"It allows us to create a testing environment that is repeatable. And we can manage the data so that our testing becomes automated, everything from actually performing the testing to also evaluating the results."

"When I run my App Test, I can directly connect with TDM. I can publish all my data into one table in TDM, then run my App Test directly."

"There is other stuff that they are working on right now, and that includes things like the vTDM or Virtual Test Data Management. That is where they have the ability to do test data clones. It is really neat because after doing some of that creation, or if you are going to do some subsetting, then you have a great looking database."

"Data generation, data masking, and data subsetting are three key features of this tool."

"The whole process is done by functions which are compiled on the source environment itself. Normally, you take the data from the source, you manage them - for example, mask them - and then you load this masked data into the destination. With this solution, it's completely different. On the source environment, there are functions compiled inside the environment, which means they are amazingly fast and, on the source environment, data are masked already. So when you take them, you already take masked data from the source. So you can copy them, even with an unencrypted pipe."

"Broadcom TDM's best feature is the self-service portal."

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Cons

"We plan to replace BMC Compuware File-AID due to its price. Two years back, we paid 11,000 dollars. However, the current price is 27,900 dollars. The price has increased to at least eight times its initial cost. We would need to pay around 60,000 dollars to have all three products together. We also encountered issues during version updates."

"It's not as intuitive as it should be. In terms of navigation, there is a large training curve for using it. For a millennial it might be better, if they're used to Eclipse. But coming from a non-Eclipse environment and using Eclipse, though I have experience with Eclipse, it might be cumbersome."

"Their technical support could be better. There were times where, when we reported bugs, they would fix one bug but add another one. That's probably because of their support model. A lot of organizations are developing software using Agile rather than the Waterfall method, so things are happening all over the place. You get things quicker, but sometimes one fix will break another one or add other bugs."

"There are some features that are not well documented, so documentation could use a little help, on things like setting up deployment and which structures in the database correspond to which tables."

"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."

"It often doesn't play well with other plugins in the environment."

"Technical support has gotten better over the years, though there's always room for improvement."

"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."

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"All financial institutions are based on mainframes, so they're never going to go away. There are ppportunities to increase functionality and efficiencies within the mainframe solution, within this TDM product."

"The additional feature probably would be a data reservation that is more robust, where you can actually use it consecutively."

"As the solution continues to evolve, the one thing I like about it is the API-friendly layers that they have added into the realm. So, I just would like to see more support around that and more usability."

"Get everything centralized into the portal."

"A lot of research, data analysis, and work needs to be done on the source system in the tool which requires a data expert. This tool definitely requires a senior person to work on this issue, as it might be a challenge for a tester."

"We had one user that was primarily working on it, who probably spent a few months initially setting it up."

"Broadcom Test Data Manager is for data management. I would like to see some extension with data warehousing concerning ETL. It should also integrate with Jira or other reporting tools. Currently, after creating data, we update tickets and other information in various tools. This would enable us to attach relevant files or information to specific tickets."

"When we publish a lot data into the target, sometimes it is not able to handle it."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price point is great."

"In terms of pricing, there isn't an extra charge for the parts of it we use. It comes with the licenses we purchased for other products, so no complaints there. The licensing is built in with the other products that you purchase from Compuware."

"It has saved our developers time and effort when working on documentation, which is now more readable and fluent."

"In general, Compuware tools are very competitive."

"The only thing I would mention related to the licensing and/or the pricing, is that they have some visualization features in there that are licensed by concurrent users. We're starting to trip up on that. We're looking to probably increase the number of concurrent licenses that we have. But those types of licensing strategies, where they license by concurrent users or the number of seats is confusing for some people. They don't understand why it works sometimes and doesn't work other times."

"I like the seat-based licensing much more than MSU-based licensing, and that the cost has been competitive."

"Know all the data requirements before buying this product. There are a lot of features for this tool, which may or may not be useful to a particular company. Make sure of what your requirements for your data are."

"The cost of this tool is pretty high... CA provides licenses for different utilities like masking but even if you break it up, the pricing is still high."

"It can be scaled for as many licenses as the customer is willing to pay. It's kind of expensive."

"Part of the licensing is dependent on whether you want to use the portal. It's based on floating users. The other part is dependent on what type of system you are using. We are using mainframe, so we paid good money for a mainframe license."

"The tool's pricing is high."

"I would rate Broadcom TDM's pricing as four out of five."

"Mainly, we compete with the IBM team and Informatica, and if you compare the license cost, Broadcom is too flexible. Depending on the customer's budget, we suggest they buy only respective SKUs, and it's much cheaper compared to others because we have gone over multiple deals where pricing was never a factor in differentiating products."

"My company makes yearly payments toward the licensing costs. So, I consider the licensing costs to be expensive, especially considering what I have heard from my colleagues."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

37%

Insurance Company

12%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

27%

Government

Computer Software Company

Retailer

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Large Enterprise	16

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	30

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Compuware File-AID?

The product has made our mainframe data management process easier. It has helped us save manhours. The tool's most valuable feature is the ability to edit tape files. Its ability to clone files is ...

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What needs improvement with Compuware File-AID?

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What is your primary use case for Compuware File-AID?

We use the solution clone test files.

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What do you like most about Broadcom Test Data Manager?

The solution has a portal where we can create data. We can also create synthetic data with the help of the product. We can use it to create a new data set in the database, eliminating many issues. ...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Broadcom Test Data Manager?

The tool's pricing is high.

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What needs improvement with Broadcom Test Data Manager?

In terms of areas for improvement in Broadcom Test Data Manager specifically, I recognize that building the ERD diagram after connecting to the database is very difficult and requires improvement e...

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Also Known As

File-AID, Data for Db2, Code Debug, Data Studio, Workbench for Eclipse, Code Pipeline

CA Test Data Manager, DataMaker, DataFinder, Fast Data Masker, CA TDM

Overview

BMC AMI DevX is a comprehensive solution enhancing code management and testing efficiency. It offers debugging capabilities within financial applications and integrates data management seamlessly, serving major banking sectors with reliable performance.

AMI DevX is tailored for banking industries, optimizing application debugging in COBOL and enhancing data handling in robust financial systems. It simplifies mainframe data management with real-time insights, improving efficiency through editing and cloning functionalities. The tool's integration with Compuware File-AID for IMS and DB2 ensures streamlined development processes. Challenges include a steep DB2 learning curve and initial setup complexities, with technical support inconsistencies and steep pricing impacting affordability. Despite this, its valuable features significantly support large banking operations.

What features make BMC AMI DevX valuable?

Line-by-Line Code Debugging: Allows precise identification and rectification of issues.
Variable Change & Line Skipping: Flexibility in testing without recompiling.
Database-Independent Testing: No need for loading databases during testing.
Real-Time Data Insights: Enhances decision-making with immediate information.
Data Warehousing & Analytics: Facilitates comprehensive data analysis.
Integration & Formatting: Streamlines development by simplifying data processes.

What benefits should users look for in reviews?

Improved Efficiency: Streamline data management and editing capabilities.
Robust Debugging: Effective in both online and batch COBOL program debugging.
Enhanced Financial Application Support: Superior handling in grants and loans applications.
Comprehensive Testing: Enables creation of clone test files for thorough testing.

In large banking sectors, BMC AMI DevX is integral for grants and loans-related applications. Its robust nature supports financial systems, offering debugging for COBOL, updating data in Compuware File-AID for IMS, and integrating DB2. Users implement this for exceptional data management and application reliability.

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Broadcom Test Data Manager enables effective test data processes with tools for synthetic data generation, data masking, and data subsetting. It enhances automation and ensures data privacy and compliance, catering to diverse testing environments.

Broadcom Test Data Manager provides centralized data management with flexible functionalities like cubing and test matching, simplifying the creation and handling of test data. It supports both relational and non-relational data, optimizing test processes for effective results. Users find its intuitive UI and self-service portal time-saving. However, enhancements in programmatic capabilities, non-relational data handling, automation, and integration speed are needed. A unified web-based interface, better API usability, and expanded data source support could improve user experience. Mainframe functionality, data reservation, and web-based UI transitions also require focus for stability and scalability improvements.

What are its key features?

Synthetic Data Generation: Create realistic test data without affecting actual records.
Data Masking: Protect sensitive data through advanced masking techniques.
Data Subsetting: Efficiently manage data volumes by extracting relevant data portions.
Centralized Management: Simplifies data operations through a single management point.
Flexible Functionalities: Offers cubing concepts and test matching for precise data targeting.
Comprehensive Data Support: Handles both relational and non-relational data seamlessly.

What ROI benefits should you consider?

Enhanced Automation: Streamlines test data processes, reducing manual effort and errors.
Time Savings: Intuitive interfaces and self-service portals increase efficiency.
Compliance Assurance: Adheres to data privacy norms, safeguarding sensitive information.
Reduced Disk Usage: Efficient data subsetting decreases storage requirements.
DevOps Integration: Seamlessly integrates with pipelines, accelerating testing phases.

Broadcom Test Data Manager is widely used in industries like healthcare and finance for data masking and test management. It aids in creating synthetic data, managing subsetting, and anonymizing information, particularly valuable in handling regulated data. Its alignment with DevOps and comprehensive data capabilities are key in supporting secure, efficient testing workflows.

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Sample Customers

Helvetia, The IMT Group, Hapag-Lloyd, Royal Bank of Canada, Chunghwa Telecom

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