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What is Gen?

CA Gen provides a single, integrated development environment that can help your teams create and maintain large-scale business applications for multiple platforms. This streamlined environment can help reduce manual labor and speed migration time while ensuring the future relevance of existing environments and applications.
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Gen is the #4 ranked solution in top Mainframe Application Development solutions. PeerSpot users give Gen an average rating of 8.6 out of 10. Gen is most commonly compared to BMC AMI DevX Workbench for Eclipse: Gen vs BMC AMI DevX Workbench for Eclipse.
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Mainframe Application Development
August 2025
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Gen mindshare

As of August 2025, the mindshare of Gen in the Mainframe Application Development category stands at 6.4%, up from 6.3% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Mainframe Application Development Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Gen6.4%
BMC Compuware Topaz Workbench26.1%
IBM Rational Developer for z Systems20.9%
Other46.6%
Mainframe Application Development
 
 
Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

  • "CA Gen has provided us web development capability."
  • "Full packets, enable you to develop software and systems using these packets, and implement software on the mainframe side and the client side. You can use the same packets, so it's very powerful."
  • "You can easily manage the code, and you can easily find other changes, other group changes, other models, other components."

Room for Improvement

  • "The product needs to be well marketed, then adopted. I am not seeing many customers using the product."
  • "I cannot use DB2 specifications, DB2 comments, easily."
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Gen was previously known as CA Gen.

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Gen Reviews Summary
Author infoRatingReview Summary
Consultant4.0No summary available
IT Solution Architect at HCS5.0No summary available
Banking Application Development Manager4.0No summary available
President at Ciss inc4.5No summary available
Development Platforms Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees4.0No summary available
Senior Developer at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees4.5No summary available