IBM CICS Transaction Server vs. SYSVIEW Performance Management

IBM CICS Transaction Server

SYSVIEW Performance Management

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
IBM CICS Transaction Server	Score 8.6 out of 10	N/A	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
SYSVIEW Performance Management	Score 9.6 out of 10	N/A	SYSVIEW performance management from Broadcom is a mainframe monitoring solution providing unified real-time visibility into mainframe application performance and transaction flows enable easier analysis between captures.	N/A

Pricing

IBM CICS Transaction Server

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Free Trial
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Community Pulse
	IBM CICS Transaction Server	SYSVIEW Performance Management
Considered Both Products	IBM CICS Transaction Server Verified User Anonymous 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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. Incentivized Helpful?	SYSVIEW Performance Management Gadi Ben-Avi z/OS system Programmer Chose SYSVIEW Performance Management SYSVIEW replaced TMON. Today it seems like a good choice. We tried OMEGAMON and just couldn't get it to work the way we liked. Incentivized Helpful?

Features

IBM CICS Transaction Server

SYSVIEW Performance Management

Application Servers

Comparison of Application Servers features of Product A and Product B
	IBM CICS Transaction Server 8.0 Ratings 0% above category average	SYSVIEW Performance Management - Ratings
IDE support	5.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Security management	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Administration and management	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Application server performance	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Installation	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Open-source standards compliance	7.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	IBM CICS Transaction Server	SYSVIEW Performance Management
Small Businesses	NGINX Score 9.1 out of 10	No answers on this topic
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User Ratings
	IBM CICS Transaction Server	SYSVIEW Performance Management
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	IBM CICS Transaction Server	SYSVIEW Performance Management
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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Any z/OS monitoring. I don't know of any performance monitoring scenario where it doesn't excel. Incentivized Gadi Ben-Avi z/OS system Programmer Read full review
Pros	De facto standard in the legacy enterprise Multiplatform connection Native connection with DB2 Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Show system Status Show DASD status Show USS details Incentivized Gadi Ben-Avi z/OS system Programmer Read full review
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 Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Non that I know of Incentivized Gadi Ben-Avi z/OS system Programmer Read full review
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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	SYSVIEW replaced TMON. Today it seems like a good choice. We tried OMEGAMON and just couldn't get it to work the way we liked. Incentivized Gadi Ben-Avi z/OS system Programmer Read full review
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 Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	It makes finding performance problems quick and easy Incentivized Gadi Ben-Avi z/OS system Programmer Read full review
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