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BMC AMI DevOps for Db2 vs Gen comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

BMC AMI DevOps for Db2
Ranking in Mainframe Application Development
4th
Average Rating
7.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Gen
Ranking in Mainframe Application Development
2nd
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Mainframe Application Development category, the mindshare of BMC AMI DevOps for Db2 is 5.4%, up from 1.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Gen is 15.5%, up from 2.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Mainframe Application Development Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Gen15.5%
BMC AMI DevOps for Db25.4%
Other79.1%
Mainframe Application Development
 

Featured Reviews

Jeemit Zaveri - PeerSpot reviewer
Mainframe Modernization Co E & Transformation Lead at cmc
Schema comparison has improved automated impact analysis and now needs native mainframe deployment
There is an area in this product that I would like to see improved or enhanced in the future. This product is a containerized product, which is good news and a very good part. However, the product can run on Linux and I think it can also run in Windows, but what I am looking for is that if this product is to cater to mainframe-based database changes, then the product should also be deployable on mainframe. Containerization is not new in mainframe and is possible, with an offering called ZCX, a containerization offering already available on the mainframe. Rather than hosting on a Linux machine, I could host it in the mainframe natively and make the changes in the mainframe. First, from an architectural standpoint, I want to see containerization running natively on the mainframe rather than deploying on Linux and then making a connection to the mainframe to make the changes in the mainframe. Second, the entire ecosystem of Db2 includes a product called Command Center, and the user interface of the Command Center looks a bit traditional in nature. With today's emerging UI frameworks, that interface is extremely traditional. There is improvement opportunity in that area. From the demonstration, I learned that having those things pre-recorded on YouTube or somewhere already hosted would be helpful. There is a playlist on YouTube, but it is more for Jenkins, while my shop uses Azure DevOps and they also have an offering on Azure DevOps, but there is no video for that. If we would not have had that demonstration from their side, we would have struggled. The improvement that I suggest is that the things people generally struggle with is the starting point and the demonstration of how to use the product. This can be very well documented upfront, or in today's date, documentation is not something that one looks for. One directly looks for a demonstration. If there is something ready to use, something one can just see, observe, and understand, then it will reduce the number of questions from the user side.
IR
Consultant
Full packets enable software implementation on the mainframe and client sides
I rate it eight out of 10. It's just very powerful tool, very powerful product to use. Nowadays, there are a couple of mainframe companies, using mainframe products, so to be honest, I'm not recommending it. Of course, if you have mainframe and you have do something in the mainframe that’s different.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Schema Comparison is a game-changer feature."
"If you’re writing a simple barebones COBOL program, it may take 20-30 hours, but with a solution like this it can be done in around four hours."
"Advantage Gen greatly enhanced productivity as well as development of solutions in mainframes, Client, and server applications."
"Coding on CA Gen is easy."
"It has lived long beyond what people thought was its life expectancy as a product, largely because it is such a quality tool that people can't replace."
"CA Gen has provided us web development capability."
"You can easily manage the code, and you can easily find other changes, other group changes, other models, other components."
"If you want to be the first in market and you have a short time to generate, or to develop your application, and if you're looking for a platform that supports multiple frameworks, multiple platforms such as mainframe, Java, and .Net, or the others, you need a modelling tool, rather than a language or technology."
"Full packets, enable you to develop software and systems using these packets, and implement software on the mainframe side and the client side. You can use the same packets, so it's very powerful."
 

Cons

"From the demonstration, I learned that having those things pre-recorded on YouTube or somewhere already hosted would be helpful."
"The world is changing, the technologies are changing - COOL:Gen needs to change as well."
"Nowadays, there are a couple of mainframe companies, using mainframe products, so to be honest, I'm not recommending it."
"If I look into the native COBOL language it can be more efficient, and CA Gen adds what seems to be some unnecessary lines of code; it’s not an apples to apples comparison."
"The product needs to be well marketed, then adopted. I am not seeing many customers using the product."
"The weak side is, I cannot use the DB2 specifications, DB2 comments, easily."
"Personally, I think the tool has taken a turn for the worse."
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