BMC AMI DevX vs Broadcom Test Data Manager comparison

BMC and Broadcom are both solutions in the Test Data Management category. BMC is ranked #6 with an average rating of 7.7, while Broadcom is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.0. BMC holds a 10.7% mindshare in TDM, compared to Broadcom’s 13.2% 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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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 14, 2025

Broadcom Test Data Manager and BMC AMI DevX are competing products in the software testing domain. Broadcom Test Data Manager appears to have an advantage in pricing and support, while BMC AMI DevX offers more advanced features, making it preferable for those requiring robust capabilities.

Features: Broadcom Test Data Manager provides data masking, synthetic data generation, and data subsetting for compliance and flexibility. BMC AMI DevX offers advanced testing environments, continuous integration capabilities, and comprehensive mainframe testing tools, attracting organizations with complex testing needs.

Room for Improvement: Broadcom Test Data Manager could enhance its support for non-relational databases and modern database technologies. Expanding automation and user-friendly interface features would also be beneficial. BMC AMI DevX could improve by offering more competitive pricing and simplifying its advanced feature integrations. Enhancements in ease of use for less technical users could also be considered.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: BMC AMI DevX offers streamlined deployment and extensive customer support, appealing to businesses seeking efficient setup and troubleshooting. Broadcom Test Data Manager provides a standard deployment model with reliable but basic support.

Pricing and ROI: Broadcom Test Data Manager offers a cost-effective solution with substantial ROI, suitable for budget-conscious organizations. BMC AMI DevX, although more expensive initially, justifies the cost with advanced features and operational efficiency, offering significant long-term benefits for larger investments.

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Categories and Ranking

BMC AMI DevX

Ranking in Test Data Management

6th

Ranking in Data Masking

6th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Software Configuration Management (1st), Debugging (7th), Database Development and Management (18th), 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 February 2026, in the Test Data Management category, the mindshare of BMC AMI DevX is 10.7%, up from 3.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Broadcom Test Data Manager is 13.2%, down from 17.8% 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	13.2%
BMC AMI DevX	10.7%
Other	76.1%

Test Data Management

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RobertSamson

Technical Consultant at Services Robert Samson SCRS

Improves disaster recovery processes and offers an efficient CPU cycle optimization

Using BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on z/OS has greatly improved our database administration tasks. Although we don't test the database before production, we have experienced benefits in disaster recovery situations and capacity management. For instance, when facing capacity issues during peak transaction times, I've been able to quickly allocate additional resources to ensure smooth operations. This has been crucial, especially during times when the demand surges, such as peak flight hours.

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Hosney Osman

Technical Solution Architect 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

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Pros

"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."

"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."

"It helps our staff work by speeding up their documentation process."

"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 beneficial in application development."

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

"We had parallel development before, but the way ISPW implements it is better. It has more control and oversight of the process, whereas before, it was like the Wild West. Everybody could have their own package with their own version of the component in it... ISPW is constantly aware of it. It notifies when someone else is using or has a different version of that component."

"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."

"I like the ability to flow through the source and see what happens to the data as the statements are executed. If there is a fault, it will track the event, and we can then look back to see why it may have caused the fault. You can also reverse engineer your test. You can set it so that you can go backward as well as forward in your test. This is something that I haven't done here at my company. Compuware Xpediter is one of the best debugging tools for mainframe software development. We have currently licensed only the COBOL language for Xpediter, but I know they have other languages, including Assembler, PL/I."

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"The solution is saving me time and money in general because this application saves money and a lot of effort."

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

"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."

"What I find to be most valuable is its ability to do synthetic data creation. I love that because it has a lot of flexibility and you do not have to worry about one specific database or how you are going to manage all the data points."

"TDM allows us to find the right test data for the test that we need, and then it also allows us to get the required data inputs into our API test, so that we can do a full test."

"When you have hundreds and hundreds of databases everywhere, how do you do that without looking for keys? If you do it manually, you're going to need a lot of people. With the tool, I work with five people on my team. Right now, we're modeling 700 different databases, and we can do it very quickly because of the tool."

"The solution is very user-friendly. For instance, if I wanted to create a project with Data Generation, Data sub-setting, Selective sub-setting, and Data Marketing, it can be easily done in TDM. And if you want to export these project definitions from one system to another, it can be done with just one click."

"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."

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Cons

"It would be nice to have an audit trail to see what mainframe developers are using what."

"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."

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

"One thing I would really like to see some improvement on is the promotion diagnostic messages. It invokes utilities "under the covers" to copy components, and it does not echo back any of the error messages from those utilities."

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

"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."

"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."

"DB2 is a hard tool to grasp. It's hard for users to learn how to use it. It's not easy to see how it works."

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"Broadcom TDM takes a long time to import documents, which wastes time that could be spent on other things."

"There were some issues with initial setup. It wasn't as smooth as we had thought. We ran into a network issue, a firewall issue, things like that. It wasn't something we could not fix. We worked with CA support and with the client's team to fix it. But there were issues, it took a lot of time to install and configure."

"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."

"They should make the Portal a little more user-friendly, make it even easier to configure things directly from the Portal."

"The relationship between cables needs to be added."

"They could make it easier to model databases, because right now it is really technical, so to train someone on it takes a while."

"The integration with various utilities is also really important. That still has to happen. That's a major area for improvement."

"I would request to extend the data source support because there are a lot of cloud-native SaaS-based solutions in the market. Like, Azure has its data sources, Amazon-specific data sources, and there are a lot of proprietary data sources outside as well. I recommend the team to expand the data source support."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price point is great."

"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."

"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."

"The tool's pricing is high."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

33%

Insurance Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

29%

Insurance Company

Computer Software Company

University

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?

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...

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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 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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What is your primary use case for Broadcom Test Data Manager?

When it comes to use cases for Broadcom Test Data Manager, clients may use it for data masking. From a service provider perspective, regarding the data masking, data subsetting, and data virtualiza...

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What advice do you have for others considering Broadcom Test Data Manager?

If I were to rate their support from one to ten, I would give them a ten. Let's divide the question about Broadcom's standing compared to other vendors. If we talk about Oracle, PostgreSQL, or any ...

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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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