BMC AMI DevX vs Endevor comparison

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BMC and Broadcom are both solutions in the Software Configuration Management category. BMC is ranked #1 with an average rating of 7.8, while Broadcom is ranked #3. BMC holds a 9.3% mindshare in SCM, compared to Broadcom’s 11.9% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of BMC users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of Broadcom users who would recommend it.

BMC AMI DevX

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90% willing to recommend

BMC AMI DevX

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 15, 2026

Endevor and BMC AMI DevX are competing enterprise software management tools for enhancing mainframe operations. BMC AMI DevX appears to have the upper hand with advanced features that justify its cost.

Features: Endevor offers comprehensive version control, robust integration capabilities, and automated build processes suitable for complex environments. BMC AMI DevX excels with advanced debugging tools, real-time monitoring, and extensive automation, with specialized functionalities for intricate system management.

Room for Improvement: Endevor could benefit from an improved footprint checking process, reduced time consumption for support responses, and enhancements in its csv utility and reporting. BMC AMI DevX might enhance user-friendliness, reduce its learning curve for less experienced users, and incorporate more seamless updates to match evolving enterprise demands.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Endevor provides a streamlined deployment model and responsive customer service, easing implementation. BMC AMI DevX, supported by extensive documentation and personalized support, smoothens deployment for larger enterprises with its proactive support model and detailed guidance.

Pricing and ROI: Endevor's competitive setup cost attracts budget-conscious buyers and delivers ROI by streamlining workflows. BMC AMI DevX, though costlier upfront, offers significant ROI through enhanced productivity and reduced downtime, balancing its high initial cost with potential long-term gains in operational efficiency.

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BMC AMI DevX vs. Endevor

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Categories and Ranking

BMC AMI DevX

Ranking in Software Configuration Management

1st

Ranking in Mainframe Application Development

1st

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Debugging (2nd), Database Development and Management (11th), Test Data Management (4th), Mainframe Testing Tools (1st), Data Masking (3rd), AI Software Development (29th)

Endevor

Ranking in Software Configuration Management

3rd

Ranking in Mainframe Application Development

3rd

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Software Configuration Management category, the mindshare of BMC AMI DevX is 9.3%, down from 22.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Endevor is 11.9%, down from 26.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Software Configuration Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
BMC AMI DevX	9.3%
Endevor	11.9%
Other	78.8%

Software Configuration Management

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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RobertMartin3

Production Supervisor Technical at Ontario Power Generation

Asset dashboards have created slow, rigid workflows and have limited effective life cycle tracking

The single dashboards do not help my team or the company as a whole. I feel the dashboards are not helpful because the search features are not customizable. The software is web-based and the server is extremely slow. To improve Endevor, its cloud or web-based server capabilities should be increased so that the software is faster. The ability to customize reports should be increased.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"BMC AMI DevX tools have noticeably impacted our developers' productivity and efficiency."

"I have worked with DB2's great features in the last five years. The IDAA feature transformed the vision of warehousing, business analytics, and big data at my bank. Besides the mainframe, I saw that this solution was evolutionary. It gives real-time information."

"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."

"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."

"Compuware Xpediter is one of the best debugging tools for mainframe software development."

"The plugin ISPW integrated into Eclipse is a really valuable functionality for developers who already use it."

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

"Our intention is to use Topaz for the next generation of mainframe developers to maintain mainframe applications."

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"We backup people's source code for them."

"It is extremely stable software."

"It standardizes the processing of all the development. Everything gets produced in a constant and consistent manner."

"They provide answers and solutions."

"I would definitely advise to go with Endevor, no question."

"They've got plug-ins now to run it through Eclipse, they've got a lot of APIs, they handle UNIX files. I can't really think of any serious lack that they haven't addressed."

"The source management is excellent."

"The most valuable feature of Endevor is customization and ease of use."

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Cons

"It would be good if the vendors would work together or at least have some collaboration between them, so they would know what would work and what wouldn't work. Right now, the way things are working, they're relying on the customer to make everything work."

"The solution could be improved by being better integrated with the open world. In the next release, I would like to have the ability to work in an open environment whilst remaining integrated with the legacy environment."

"It's a very complicated tool."

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

"Initial setup can be tricky in some cases."

"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."

"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."

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

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"It is stable. We do not have any issues with it. It is just complex because it is a tool set. It is not a plug and play kind of product at all."

"Learning the tool for the first time was extremely difficult, and it could be because of all the other processes we had around it. But knowing you can do these things in batch, you can do things in the foreground or online mode, and then these, you have to have a package for. There are these rules, and some of the concepts inside the tool are not clear, like what is the CCID? Why do I have to have one? What is that? And how is it used? As a developer, it's not important to me - I don't know what a CCID is, and I don't care - but apparently it's important to someone."

"Sometimes finding errors and output can be difficult because it spits out so many messages that it is hard to figure out which ones are the ones you need to look at and what flow did it actually take through the processor is what they call them."

"The Eclipse based UI still needs improvement and CA is working on that in v18."

"I find the ISPF interface to be lacking. It seems like you have to navigate to a lot of different screens to work with the same element."

"It's complex because it depends upon your development architecture. Also, it's reached the limits of automation and freedom given to end users."

"Needs more audit capability when it comes to changes to settings that are made by administrators, as many of these are done through the panels and are therefore not logged as an action against a configuration item."

"The graphical user interface. It would be a big tool to change (but needed), just because as the workforce kind of ages and retires, the younger generation is not as familiar with mainframe and looking at a green screen is not really a huge selling point to them."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price point is great."

"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."

"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."

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

"In general, Compuware tools are very competitive."

"Licensing is fairly simple, you don't need multiple licenses."

"The solution is very expensive."

"Just make sure if you are going to license, ensure you license the right features."

"The product is expensive."

"It's competitively priced and, as far as I know, it's just an enterprise license. We have found it is worth the money."

"It's worth the value. The pricing is fairly good, justifiable for the return on investment."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

30%

Insurance Company

Manufacturing Company

Construction Company

Financial Services Firm

25%

Outsourcing Company

Insurance Company

Construction Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	20

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	40

Questions from the Community

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

My understanding is that BMC AMI DevX is an enterprise product with custom licensing, so pricing is typically negotiated based on factors such as the modules purchased, organization size, and usage...

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What needs improvement with BMC AMI DevX?

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. It could also i...

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What is your primary use case for BMC AMI DevX?

My main use case for BMC AMI DevX is to work with COBOL and JCL development on IBM. I mainly use it for editing, browsing data sets, submitting jobs, and debugging applications. I appreciate the Ec...

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What needs improvement with Endevor?

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What is your primary use case for Endevor?

My main use case for Endevor is asset management. For asset management, we use Engage software for life cycle management, eHealth, and eStrategy.

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What advice do you have for others considering Endevor?

My advice to others looking into using Endevor is that if you are a nuclear electrical utility, the software is likely well-suited, but if you are any other utility, the software is poorly suited f...

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Also Known As

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

CA Endevor Software Change Manager, Endevor Software Change Manager, CA Software Change Manager for Mainframe, CA Endevor SCM

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

BMC

Endevor provides automatic build processes, history logging, source code management, and integration for agile development. It focuses on lifecycle management, catering to code security and traceability with flexibility and scalability.

Endevor is designed for mainframe environments, offering features like version control, automated compilation, and code integrity. Its integration capabilities facilitate development transitions from development to production, ensuring auditing, security, and synchronization. The flexibility it provides accommodates changing technologies, supporting a wide range of application lifecycle processes. While it excels in many areas, some aspects, such as integration with open systems and the modernization of ISPF and Eclipse Plugin, require enhancements.

What are the key features of Endevor?

Automatic Build Processes: Streamlines code compilation and validation.
History Logging: Maintains comprehensive change records.
Source Code Management: Ensures security with strict controls.
Integration for Agile Development: Enhances collaboration and efficiency.
Application Lifecycle Management: Includes approval gates and audit trails.

What benefits do users seek in reviews?

Customization: Supports bespoke needs and growing platforms.
Ease of Use: Simplifies complex development processes.
Scalability: Adapts to enterprise demands and workload increases.
Error Reduction: Standardized approaches minimize mistakes.
Flexibility: Accommodates evolving technology standards.

Industries traditionally utilize Endevor for structured mainframe code management, ensuring consistency and reliability in software lifecycles. It's used to transition code through phases like development and QA, intensively managed to retain code stability and security, key for sectors reliant on large-scale legacy system operations.

Broadcom

Sample Customers

NRB, Iberdrola, Consorzio Servizi Bancari

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