BMC AMI DevX Performance Test vs IBM Application Performance Analyzer for zOS comparison

Hiperstation provides automated functional testing capabilities that help DevOps teams reduce time-consuming, manual steps and ensure mainframe applications are thoroughly tested to safeguard superior performance, reliability and security.

Hiperstation enables developers to:

• Create automated, consistent, repeatable regression and performance tests representing application business requirements.
• Conduct pre-production performance testing for applications and systems software.
• Analyze test results in which all application response differences are identified.
• Thoroughly document mainframe application testing results.
• Simulate server application responses during a user interface test.
• Test changes to the operating system, language environment or subsystems.
• Test application changes without the user interface.

IBM Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS measures and reports how applications use available resources. This easy to use tool helps you identify system constraints and improve application performance.

Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS:

• Helps you maximize the performance of your existing applications and improve response time of online transactions and batch turnaround times.
• Gives you the information needed to isolate performance problems in applications and test the effect of increased workloads on your systems.
• Monitors, analyzes and reports the performance of CICS, Assembler, COBOL, PL/I, C/C++, DB2, IMS WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Application Server applications.
• Collects samples from the monitored address space and analyzes the system or resource application usage of CPU, DASD, I/O or the total address space.
• Features online analysis reports that can be created as PDF or XML files, so that you can view them on workstations or transfer them easily to other applications.