Item: BMC AMI DevX
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with BMC AMI DevX

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use BMC AMI DevX products on ZOS for mainframe developers, database administrators , SCM/ALM administrator and users , in order to provide help for the debug, access and administrate DB2 Databases, manage the life cycle (source version, build, delivery) of our applicaitons and component

Pros and Cons

Pros

Mainframe Product integration in IDE Eclipse
SCM/ALM product code pipeline

Cons

The setting of code pipeline is rather difficult to do when you have to modify the process of the delivery . it's not easy to have a general view of all the parameters and sources you have to manage.
Runtime visualizer in the Workbench for Eclipse could be high resource consuming (In Eclipse while building result views and on the Z OS mainframe tracking the activity for analyse). It could be improved maybe having the possibility to not track the whole job or CICS transaction.

Return on Investment

Using Code pipeline in Eclipse helped developers to manage their version and to deliver the modifications more easily and safely and faster.
The several functionalities of BMC AMI DevX plugged in Eclipse improve productivity and the ergonomics for developers.

Ease of Integration

In Eclipse, we want to integrate in Eclipse code pipeline with another product from another editor since a long time. it's a long way if it seems not useful and profitable for BMC.
But it seems we will finally succed in few months.

Developer Experience

The integration of BMC AMI DevX productions in Eclipse helped to change the habits of mainframe developers giving them a helpful and powerful IDE with same functionality as on mainframe.

Key Insights

Do you think BMC AMI DevX delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with BMC AMI DevX's feature set?

Yes

Did BMC AMI DevX live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of BMC AMI DevX go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy BMC AMI DevX again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

If the settings of your IT Site is OK (source listing available, dump trapped, etc.), using code debug or Abend-Aid is useful to understand the origin of an issue.

For newby programers who don't know mainframe emulator, it's easier to begin to work in an IDE like Eclipse.

BMC AMI DevX Code Insights can be hard to use with complex Cobol programs.

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Using BMC AMI DevX with Eclipse

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