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IBM CICS Transaction Server vs. IBM OMEGAMON

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM CICS Transaction Server
Score 8.6 out of 10
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IBM CICS (Customer Information Control System) is mixed-language application server that runs on IBM z/OS. CICS® Transaction Server, often called CICS, is used for hosting transactional enterprise applications in a hybrid architecture.N/A
IBM OMEGAMON
Score 7.6 out of 10
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The IBM OMEGAMON product family for IBM Z mainframe and middleware subsystems presents a mainframe monitoring solution, a suite of products used to monitor and manage sophisticated mainframe applications and environments. The OMEGAMON products share a common technology, Tivoli® Management Services on z/OS®.N/A
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Considered Both Products
IBM CICS Transaction Server
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Chose IBM CICS Transaction Server
IBM CICS Transaction Server product works well in conjunction with IBM DB2 and they go together very well. Both are equally scalable and reliable products to use. They both can handle very large numbers of transactions and have been around for decades and stood for times and …
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Chose IBM CICS Transaction Server
There is no comparison, in practice, the possibility of using the latest programming languages but, above all, the databases can be different and more modern than DL1.
IBM OMEGAMON
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Chose IBM OMEGAMON
Naturally, during the software selection, other tools from other similar vendors were compared as functionalities. more benchmarks have been made to control the Omegamon overhead on applications. certainly, it has influenced the fact that the mainframe base software is IBM and …
Features
IBM CICS Transaction ServerIBM OMEGAMON
Application Servers
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IBM CICS Transaction Server
8.0
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IBM OMEGAMON
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Administration and management9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Application server performance10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Installation8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Open-source standards compliance7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
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Score 9.1 out of 10

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User Ratings
IBM CICS Transaction ServerIBM OMEGAMON
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User Testimonials
IBM CICS Transaction ServerIBM OMEGAMON
Likelihood to Recommend
The strengths of CICS are certainly the scalability. The multilevel architecture of the CICS regions, security, and performance, manages to manage large volumes of transactions with efficient performances.
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Certainly, the tool is useful for debugging applications and for real-time monitoring. It's a bit less useful, not to say useless when applications are client servers. We have used it heavily above all to optimize the DB/2 applications. We managed to reduce the need for additional MIPS year by year.
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Pros
  • De facto standard in the legacy enterprise
  • Multiplatform connection
  • Native connection with DB2
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  • reliability
  • strength
  • effectiveness
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Cons
  • Would like to see the transaction response matrix on the average transaction response among all requests.
  • Would like to see GUI tool to be able to see currently running transactions
  • Would like to be able to get the details of where the cics transaction was triggered from
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  • it itself consumes cpu
  • the interface is not user-friendly
  • every release migration is a surprise
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Alternatives Considered
IBM CICS Transaction Server product works well in conjunction with IBM Db2 and they go together very well. Both are equally scalable and reliable products to use. They both can handle very large numbers of transactions and have been around for decades and stood for times and have great experience by those who have used it.
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Naturally, during the software selection, other tools from other similar vendors were compared as functionalities. more benchmarks have been made to control the Omegamon overhead on applications. certainly, it has influenced the fact that the mainframe base software is IBM and Omegamon is IBM so the compatibility problems are automatically solved.
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Return on Investment
  • It has allowed us to use our decades old code and still continue to support the business
  • Allows us to have faster time to market and modernize our systems
  • We can still continue to use our legacy resources for modern systems
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  • the baseline of mips under control
  • mic invoice flat
  • immediately resolve problems
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