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BMC AMI Ops vs SYSVIEW Performance Intelligence comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 15, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

BMC AMI Ops
Ranking in Mainframe Management
4th
Average Rating
9.6
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Workload Automation (26th)
SYSVIEW Performance Intelli...
Ranking in Mainframe Management
1st
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
28
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Mainframe Management category, the mindshare of BMC AMI Ops is 20.9%, down from 21.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SYSVIEW Performance Intelligence is 9.6%, down from 14.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Mainframe Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
SYSVIEW Performance Intelligence9.6%
BMC AMI Ops20.9%
Other69.5%
Mainframe Management
 

Featured Reviews

The service level and automated capacity manager functions allow us to control priorities, support SLA's and manage our 4HRA and reduce MLC for some software bills.
There currently is a WUI that allows an operator a single pane of glass to see how TM is performing to meet service policies within a JESMAS environment. This is a new feature and multiple individuals have expressed desire to not only see real time monitoring, but the ability to historically go back at least several hours or possibly an entire day to review history.
SR
System Programmer at Krungsri
Real-time monitoring has improved incident response but still needs built-in history and prediction
A long-term performance database in SYSVIEW Performance Intelligence would be beneficial to see historical performance for the long term and observe trends. Currently, a program must be created to gather data, and it should be part of the product with a built-in database inside SYSVIEW Performance Intelligence so that a custom program to gather data and keep it somewhere is not necessary. Prediction capability is not available in SYSVIEW Performance Intelligence—the kind of machine learning intelligence desired, such as the ability to predict patterns or seasonality or month-end behavior. However, if there is a chance to use WatchTower, this ability might be gained.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The integration of IMS commands is very useful, because you do not have to switch to another tool to problem solve solutions."
"Enabled me to solve production problems faster or even avoid them preemptively with warnings."
"Batch smoothing our 4HRA and implementation of group capacity profiles has allowed us to run sub-capacity and lower our MLC."
"MainView has enabled me, in the past, to solve production problems faster, or even avoid them preemptively with warnings."
"The stability is very reliable; we have not had any issues."
"We have never had any issues with stability; the product runs without any problems and, on the rare occasion that there is a problem, the recovery is really good, so there was never an outage of SYSVIEW at all."
"I recommend this product to others due to its easy implementation, comprehensive functionality and good organization of documents."
"When we changed to JES3, the programmers didn't have to know anything. The product provided the same interface with the same look and feel."
"Technical support has very good, kind people; they are available and prepared."
"I have to work with other products that are its competition, and so far, SYSVIEW is one of the best out there."
"The transaction troubleshooting for the applications is the product’s most valuable feature, giving the opportunity for those applications to be able to see what's wrong with a transaction and make corrections, giving them the information readily accessible."
"The most valuable thing to us about SYSVIEW is the overall scale of it."
 

Cons

"More visualisation and support for mobile devices would be good."
"More visualisation and support for mobile devices would be good."
"An expansion for distributed systems would be great, but probably not workable."
"Having spoken with the product owner, we discussed the interests of being able to identify the unit of work ID giving us the ability to correlate transactions that cross technologies."
"As for the JES2 component of the product, CA might improve the overall performance when accessing the JES2 spool."
"When making that call to technical support, the triage is sometimes a little rough to get you to someone who will effectively help you."
"If a unit of work ID is associated with a CICS, a DB2, and a MQ transaction, and having that capability correlate to those different technologies via one business application transaction which would be beneficial."
"I think they could improve the frontend action stage and alert thresholds, for a better and more-usable job action or REXX launch."
"The screen layout could be updated and be more modern looking. The product has a 1980’s interface and it seems no investment whatsoever has been made in this respect."
"I would expect this product to be integrated with mainframe Linux system monitoring which is more popular in our mainframe solutions."
"The documentation format could be better. I noticed with the last release that all of the manuals were bundled into one; it used to have a separate installation guide, user guide, etc."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"If you already use other products from BMC, you might be able to get a package deal from BMC's sales department."
"Pricing is a little steep, but there are a lot of other functions that it brings together. It gives you one window to look through to get to a lot of different features. The more products you have from CA, the better pricing they have, the more you can get them doing more things for you."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
23%
Government
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
21%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Performing Arts
9%
Government
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise25
 

Questions from the Community

What is the best network monitoring software for large enterprises?
I have worked from 1973 with all kind of systems in large enterprises across the world. And have experience with all kind of software in monitoring from infra to end to end, it depends on the funct...
What needs improvement with SYSVIEW Performance Intelligence?
A long-term performance database in SYSVIEW Performance Intelligence would be beneficial to see historical performance for the long term and observe trends. Currently, a program must be created to ...
What is your primary use case for SYSVIEW Performance Intelligence?
SYSVIEW Performance Intelligence is used for monitoring CICS and z/OS, and it is also used to monitor metrics and trigger events to OPS/MVS for automation triggering. SYSVIEW Performance Intelligen...
What advice do you have for others considering SYSVIEW Performance Intelligence?
The price of SYSVIEW Performance Intelligence is unknown as I am a user and do not have access to pricing information. I have provided this review with a rating of seven out of ten.
 

Also Known As

BMC MainView, BMC Automated Mainframe Intelligence, Ops Monitoring, Ops Automation for Batch ThruPut
CA SYSVIEW Performance Management, CA SYSVIEW, Unicenter CA-SYSVIEW Realtime Performance Management
 

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Sample Customers

Costco, Dell, Apple, Citi, AT&T, FedEx, Johnson&Johnson, Comcast, Caterpillar, Vodafone, Sysco, Google, Oracle, Microsoft, Walt Disney
Tieto, Navy Federal Credit Union (NFCU)
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