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CA Database Management for DB2 for zOS vs CA IDMS comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

CA Database Management for ...
Ranking in Database Development and Management
30th
Average Rating
8.8
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
CA IDMS
Ranking in Database Development and Management
31st
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Database Development and Management category, the mindshare of CA Database Management for DB2 for zOS is 0.5%, down from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of CA IDMS is 0.8%, down from 0.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Database Development and Management
 

Featured Reviews

it_user481251 - PeerSpot reviewer
The most useful feature is the ability to create strategies across the products.
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.
it_user558606 - PeerSpot reviewer
We get network database performance. It supports our back office.
I don't have anything to add. I've heard about web services. We might be looking at a Java connection or web services in the future. It's serving our purpose right now. We're not looking for anything new. For what we do, it meets all our needs. We have to use DB2 when we need more relational constructs, expanded inquiry and reporting; so it's not perfect in that regards. We use it really for our transaction processing, not as much for reporting. For transaction processing, it's doing the job we need. To go into more in-depth, high-volume reporting, we offload a lot of the data to DB2.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It takes advantage of new features of DB2."
"Improved monitoring and performance management."
"​It is very stable. We have had no issues."
"​It helps us to reduce hardware costs and to optimize processing times.​"
"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."
"It is a really stable platform. It has been around for many years. We trust it implicitly. ​"
"Technical support is very good. They are very knowledgeable, very quick to respond, and very nice people, too.​"
"The most useful feature is the governance feature, because it can show us and help us to manage user profiles very quickly and using it in assertive way."
 

Cons

"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."
"All the information we need, we could use to have it in a more usable format.​"
"Minor stability issues."
"Right now, it's not easy to start using this solution. You have to take long course and train people. It's not an easy path."
"​I would like to see it made simpler to operate and maintain."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Do not hold back on asking questions about the maintenance and continued support of the product."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
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Financial Services Firm
24%
Computer Software Company
13%
Government
10%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
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Also Known As

CA Database Management Solutions for DB2 for z/OS
IDMS
 

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Sample Customers

Blue Hill Data Services
Blue Hill Data Services Inc.
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