BMC AMI DevX vs Protegrity’s Data Protection Platform comparison

BMC and Protegrity are both solutions in the Data Masking category. BMC is ranked #3 with an average rating of 7.8, while Protegrity is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.0. BMC holds a 5.7% mindshare in DM, compared to Protegrity’s 6.9% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of BMC users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Protegrity users who would recommend it.

BMC AMI DevX

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 15, 2026

Protegrity’s Data Protection Platform and BMC AMI DevX compete in data protection and development tools. Protegrity is advantageous for data protection features and pricing, while BMC AMI DevX is preferred for comprehensive development capabilities justifying its cost.

Features: Protegrity's Data Protection Platform provides advanced data encryption, privacy enforcement, and regulatory compliance. BMC AMI DevX offers integration tools, application development support, and efficient performance monitoring.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Protegrity ensures streamlined deployment with strong customer support focusing on security. BMC AMI DevX, though complex, provides extensive resources and responsive customer service.

Pricing and ROI: Protegrity's lower setup cost provides good ROI through data protection. BMC AMI DevX's higher initial cost is offset by long-term ROI due to extensive development features and efficiency.

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Categories and Ranking

BMC AMI DevX

Ranking in Data Masking

3rd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Software Configuration Management (1st), Debugging (2nd), Database Development and Management (11th), Mainframe Application Development (1st), Test Data Management (4th), Mainframe Testing Tools (1st), AI Software Development (30th)

Protegrity’s Data Protectio...

Ranking in Data Masking

5th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

5.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Database Security (6th), Data Governance (29th)

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Data Masking category, the mindshare of BMC AMI DevX is 5.7%, up from 4.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Protegrity’s Data Protection Platform is 6.9%, down from 7.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Data Masking Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
BMC AMI DevX	5.7%
Protegrity’s Data Protection Platform	6.9%
Other	87.4%

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Featured Reviews

Wisdom Mbiza

Product Engineer at Absa Group

Modern tools have boosted mainframe file extraction speed and simplified everyday workflows

I definitely think BMC AMI DevX could be improved or enhanced in terms of the logging in features. BMC AMI DevX's logging in feature is not so great. Whenever you try to log in, it always prompts you for passwords. Then when you have to switch sessions, because we usually have to switch between production and UAT, there's no quick way of switching between the two. Every time you try to switch, it prompts you to log in. Additionally, there's a pop-up that I always receive. When you click X on it, it doesn't disappear. Eventually, I just end up minimizing it. Furthermore, the startup of BMC AMI DevX takes a long time to start up before it loads. It doesn't just immediately start up and it's ready. It takes a good solid two to three minutes before it's ready so that you can work on it. BMC AMI DevX's logins and the other ones I can understand because security has to be there, but I do feel that once I've logged in, I shouldn't need to log in again. The startup problem is the annoying one because if I want to do something, I need to open it two or three minutes earlier to give it time to load up. The startup problem is the one that definitely needs to be addressed.

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Bethanywalstad Wallister

Java Application Developer at Hexaview Technologies

Data protection platform has secured sensitive test data and supports confident project work

In my opinion, Protegrity's Data Protection Platform has really worked well and has done the best work. What it lacks is quality features, but we cannot expect that unless in profiling types of tools. Masking is layered well in different types of data. I can say that the system works well. I have not had any downsides when working with this platform; most of the time it lags down only when we are working on large volumes of data, and that's when we can experience minimal lags. The needed improvement is that the system can be upgraded to be faster and more flexible when it comes to speed, so it can handle large volumes of data without any challenge.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"As far as the software vendors that I work with go, Compuware has some of the best support, in terms of listening to customer requests and accepting enhancements to the product and the like."

"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."

"For bank applications, DB2 is the best on the market."

"One of the features that the developers like is that they can retrieve what they need with the tool. They don't have to go through some process or request something be done by another team. They can get the programs they need, compile them, retrieve the JCL and alter the JCL if they need to, and put these programs wherever they need to go for their testing."

"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."

"I like the ability that it has to format copy books in a presentable manner. So, you will be able to see the starting offset in length of each field within the layout."

"It does our CICS NEWCOPYs and our Db2 binds for us, whereas before, that was a manual process. It takes a lot of the workload off of the operations folks and off the DBAs."

"I like that Compuware File-AID can actually map out control sections within load modules, or, as they're now known, program objects."

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"Overall, I have had a positive experience with Protegrity’s Data Protection Platform, as it provides strong data protection capabilities, supports compliance requirements, and helps organizations securely use sensitive data across business and analytics workloads."

"Its technical support team is helpful."

"The product is stable."

"I can fully recommend Protegrity's Data Protection Platform to others looking for data protection and for streamlining data operations in an organization because this is the most flexible platform for managing data in terms of security and production."

"The solution’s pricing is moderate."

"The most valuable feature of Protegrity Data Security is the reduction of information being exposed."

Cons

"While I am aware of the possibility to integrate Git with BMC AMI DevX zAdviser, this integration does not fit within our solution landscape."

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

"The area for improvement is related to the testing tools that are available for unit testing or acceptance testing."

"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 ISPW plugin could be improved to add some functionality which is already in ISPF panels and not in the plugin."

"One area for improvement with this product could be in providing clearer guidance and tools for disaster recovery planning and execution."

"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."

"BMC AMI DevX is a strong platform, but there are a few areas where it could improve, such as simplifying the initial installation and configuration, especially for first-time users."

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"I can see that the price of Protegrity's Data Protection Platform is a bit high, but the setup is flexible, and the licensing terms are easy to manage, usually complying with our enterprise policies."

"The solution's UI could be better."

"Protegrity is using a different OS which has some bugs. Sometimes it's causing an initialization error."

"Protegrity Data Security could improve by having more integration."

"Protegrity’s Data Protection Platform could be improved by simplifying deployment and integrations, as well as providing more advanced reporting and dashboard capabilities."

Pricing and Cost Advice

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

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

"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."

"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."

"We pay for a few additional services apart from its licenses."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

32%

Insurance Company

Manufacturing Company

Construction Company

Financial Services Firm

29%

Insurance Company

10%

Computer Software Company

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	19

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for BMC Compuware Topaz Enterprise Data?

I don't directly deal with the pricing side of the solution.

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What needs improvement with BMC AMI DevX?

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What is your primary use case for BMC AMI DevX?

I work on mainframe, and some of the developers prefer to code on BMC AMI DevX because it looks more modern. For me, my basic use of it is just to extract information. Most of the time we end up ha...

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What needs improvement with Protegrity Data Security?

Protegrity’s Data Protection Platform could be improved by simplifying deployment and integrations, as well as providing more advanced reporting and dashboard capabilities. I would like to see a mo...

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What is your primary use case for Protegrity Data Security?

I use Protegrity’s Data Protection Platform to protect sensitive customer and business data through data masking, tokenization, and encryption while supporting regulatory compliance with secure dat...

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What advice do you have for others considering Protegrity Data Security?

The AI governance and security capabilities are aligned with enterprise requirements, providing policy-based control, data protection, and compliance support for AI, analytics, and workloads. Overa...

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Also Known As

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

Protegrity Data Security

Overview

BMC AMI DevX is a mainframe DevOps platform for IBM Z environments that helps development and platform engineering teams increase release velocity, reduce change risk, and build a sustainable mainframe developer workforce.

Whether the priority is attracting the next generation of mainframe talent, safely evolving decades of business-critical code, accelerating release velocity, or demonstrating development ROI to leadership — BMC AMI DevX is designed to address all on a single platform. Teams can connect existing tools and adopt capabilities incrementally using an open-borders integration approach.

A 2025 Forrester Total Economic Impact study found that customers using BMC AMI DevX onboarded developers 50% faster, completed code changes 33% faster, increased release frequency by 50%, and reduced change failure rate by 33%.

Key capabilities:

Modern IDE integration (VS Code, Eclipse) with a unified development environment that reduces context switching
AI-powered code analysis including dependency mapping, impact analysis, and runtime execution path visualization
Automated unit, functional, integration, and performance testing with code coverage analysis
Git-compatible CI/CD integration with event-driven webhooks and an open plug-in library
DORA metrics and DevOps KPI tracking with AI/ML anomaly detection across the mainframe SDLC

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Protegrity’s Data Protection Platform offers robust data security through comprehensive encryption and privacy management. It meets compliance requirements while enabling businesses to safeguard sensitive information across digital landscapes.

Designed for advanced data protection, Protegrity’s platform integrates seamlessly within existing infrastructures to enhance security measures. Its tools allow enterprises to manage data privacy effectively, meeting compliance demands and protecting assets against unauthorized access. The platform is suitable for businesses aiming to secure data without compromising performance or user experience, providing an adaptable solution that scales according to the specific needs.

What are the most valuable features of Protegrity’s platform?

Data Masking: Protects sensitive information by concealing data elements while keeping data format and integrity.
Tokenization: Replaces sensitive data with non-sensitive equivalents, reducing risk of data breaches.
Encryption: Uses advanced algorithms to secure data both at rest and in transit, ensuring unauthorized access prevention.
Access Controls: Provides granular control over who can access sensitive information, strengthening privacy policies.

What benefits to expect when evaluating Protegrity’s platform?

Efficient Compliance: Simplifies adherence to data privacy regulations like GDPR and CCPA, reducing legal risks.
Risk Reduction: Minimizes exposure to potential data breaches and cyber threats.
Scalability: Adapts to changing data protection requirements as businesses expand.
Cost Efficiency: Reduces the need for extensive manual processes, lowering operational expenses.

Across industries such as healthcare, finance, and retail, Protegrity’s Data Protection Platform is implemented to enhance data security frameworks. It supports compliance with industry-specific regulations while protecting sensitive customer and transaction data, ensuring trust and maintaining brand integrity.

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Sample Customers

NRB, Iberdrola, Consorzio Servizi Bancari

A $4 billion retail conglomerate and holding company

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