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Rocket Zena pros and cons

Vendor: Rocket Software

4.3 out of 5

8 reviews
100% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

Rocket Zena ensures continuous operation with no critical problems, valued for its scheduling feature, straightforward Linux configuration, and efficient FTP file transfers. The latest version’s web-based client is appreciated, though the task stacking can be cumbersome and error alerts are hard to locate. Users note a disjointed scheduling process due to no wizard-type approach and find the documentation lacking. More open distributed platform use is suggested rather than remaining mainframe-based.

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PROS

Rocket Zena reliably supports continuous business operations.

Its scheduling feature is highly valued for mapping dependencies and providing quick visualizations.

From a Linux configuration perspective, Rocket Zena is straightforward and easy to set up.

Recent updates have introduced a web-based client, enhancing user experience and utility.

The FTP file transfer functionality is particularly valuable, offering robust task scheduling and prompt notifications on task failure.

CONS

Scheduling mapping is a little disjointed and lacks a wizard-type approach.

Creating all components of a mapping or an OPA schedule could be done collectively rather than individually.

When there's an issue or error, alerts are written on a different screen, making it difficult to find and view.

Tasks in the web interface accumulate until manually closed, making management cumbersome.

Communication between different servers could be improved as completed processes sometimes still show as active.

Rocket Zena Pros review quotes

IT Solutions Manager at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees

Dec 28, 2022

The most valuable feature is the FTP file transfer.

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Akash Vishwakarma

RPA Developer at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

Jan 9, 2023

Its FTP feature is very good, as is scheduling any process or task with the Zena client. I have found it to be very helpful. If a task fails, it gives you a prompt.

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Sr. IT Product Manager at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

Nov 3, 2022

You can click Ctrl-G and bring a diagram view. You're able to view in a diagram format. The view that it provides is easy, and you can move to the left, up, or down. You can double-click on a certain process. It'll drill into that process and all of its underlying components. You can double-click on an arrow or a component, and it'll bring up a screen that'll have all the variables that are assigned to that particular piece, as well as the values at run time. So, the diagram feature of it, at least for me, is pretty valuable.

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Bridgette Friedman

System administrator at a wholesaler/distributor with 1,001-5,000 employees

Dec 25, 2022

In the latest upgrade, Zena added a web-based client. The more I use it, the more I like it. It's an excellent interface. They do a good job of steadily improving the solution to make it more useful.

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Saurabh Sadotra

Mainframe System Programmer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jan 7, 2023

I like the whole product, but specifically, I like the license part. It's very easy to acquire a license for this product.

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reviewer2060526

DevOps Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Dec 25, 2022

From a Linux configuration point of view, Rocket Zena is straightforward. It's fairly easy to set up the server and agents once you know how to do it.

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Enterprise Business Intelligence Administration and Management at a government with 11-50 employees

Oct 4, 2020

I have found the scheduling feature the most valuable. I can map dependencies by using ASG-Zena. It gives a nice, quick visualization as to where things are.

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reviewer1336704

IT Manager at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Apr 30, 2020

We haven't had any problems since we installed it. It runs as expected, we haven't had any critical problems. It helps keeps the business running 24/7.

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Rocket Zena Cons review quotes

IT Solutions Manager at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees

Dec 28, 2022

The documentation has room for improvement.

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Akash Vishwakarma

RPA Developer at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

Jan 9, 2023

One area where it could be improved is communication between the different servers. Sometimes there are processes that have already been completed but we get a status notification that they're still active.

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Sr. IT Product Manager at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

Nov 3, 2022

Another one that is probably a little bit bigger for me is that when there is an issue or there's an error, it writes on a different screen. I have to find the actual process name and go to a different screen to view the alert that got generated. On that screen, everyone's processes, not just the processes of the folks in my department, are thrown. It takes me a while to find the actual error so that I could go in there and look at the alert. It could be because of the way it was set up, but at least for me, it isn't too intuitive.

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Bridgette Friedman

System administrator at a wholesaler/distributor with 1,001-5,000 employees

Dec 25, 2022

In the web interface, it stacks the tasks across the top, and they accumulate until you close or clean those out. That seems a little cumbersome. You must right-click and close all tabs constantly to keep the console clean and manage your views.

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Saurabh Sadotra

Mainframe System Programmer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jan 7, 2023

Rocket Zena is a mainframe-based job scheduler. I would like it to be more open so that we can use it on a distributed platform.

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reviewer2060526

DevOps Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Dec 25, 2022

The UI is not intuitive, and it would be nice if there was a web interface.

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Enterprise Business Intelligence Administration and Management at a government with 11-50 employees

Oct 4, 2020

The scheduling mapping is a little disjointed. There is no wizard-type approach. There are a lot of different things that you have to do in completely different areas. They could probably add the functionality for creating all components of a mapping or an OPA schedule. The component creation could be done collectively rather than through individual components.

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reviewer1336704

IT Manager at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Apr 30, 2020

In the next release, I would like the user experience to be improved. The user interface should be more appealing to gen-z.

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