IBM OMEGAMON vs. Rocket Mainstar

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM OMEGAMON
Score 8.2 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
Rocket Mainstar
Score 6.6 out of 10
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Rocket® Mainstar® systems optimization and data management solutions let users operate IBM® zSystems/OS®, Db2®, and IMS™ systems more efficiently, with the goal of maximizing the processing power of users mainframes in support of corporate web, mobile, and cloud initiatives.N/A
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IBM OMEGAMONRocket Mainstar
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IBM OMEGAMONRocket Mainstar
Free Trial
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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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IBM OMEGAMONRocket Mainstar
Considered Both Products
IBM OMEGAMON
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 …
Rocket Mainstar

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User Ratings
IBM OMEGAMONRocket Mainstar
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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User Testimonials
IBM OMEGAMONRocket Mainstar
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM
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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Rocket Software
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Pros
IBM
  • reliability
  • strength
  • effectiveness
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Cons
IBM
  • it itself consumes cpu
  • the interface is not user-friendly
  • every release migration is a surprise
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Alternatives Considered
IBM
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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Rocket Software
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Return on Investment
IBM
  • the baseline of mips under control
  • mic invoice flat
  • immediately resolve problems
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