JAMS new implementation
May 07, 2025

JAMS new implementation

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with JAMS

We are moving away from CA7 on our AS400 platform and onto JAMS. There are thousands of business critical batch jobs that run on a daily basis that need to be scheduled and monitored. Our developers are finding JAMS a lot easier to manage and write jobs for than using the old JCL format. Scheduling is easy and we're working towards a fuly automated solution with errors being logged automatically and notification calls to on-call staff also being automated, doing away with a 24/7 eye's on requirement.

Pros

  • integrate with mulitple OS's
  • Simplified job creations and extended job attributes that can be applied to all jobs from a parent folder
  • multiple calendars (great for retail businesses where there are financial dates and retail trading dates to be met)
  • Creating schedules using simplified language

Cons

  • Training is quite expensive and could be streamlined
  • adding GoAnywhere SFTP product as an add-on module instead of a separate product
  • We have no clear view on this as we are currently running our legacy solution in parallel
  • Once we have migrated off our mainframe application there will be savings, but this was not purely a cost saving exercise but more of an enabling function
This can be deployed to a wide variety of server OS's and adding a server to JAMS is extremely easy.
Whether you're messaging, logging a ticket and discussing with an engineer. The JAMS technical staff are extremely knowledgable and answer calls very quickly. They have follow the sun support, so you're never waiting for any amount of time for assistance. We also subscribe to their professional services and can log time with an engineer at a moments notice.
Our developers found it easier to get going with JAMS and there seemed to be better calendar and scheduling options available in JAMS. JAMS also supported legacy OS versions that were unsupported and did not work in Automic. This was a vital requirement in selecting a solution that will support the business

Do you think JAMS delivers good value for the price?

Not sure

Are you happy with JAMS's feature set?

Yes

Did JAMS live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of JAMS go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy JAMS again?

Yes

We looked at a number of products and ran a POC against a rival product and this was the hands down winner, a number of business areas agreed with our findings. Using JAMS has a small learning curve but most of our developers needed very little help in getting going.

JAMS Feature Ratings

Workload Automation
9.8
Multi-platform scheduling
10
Central monitoring
10
Logging
Not Rated
Alerts and notifications
Not Rated
Analysis and visualization
10
Application integration
9

JAMS Training

  • In-Person Training
People that were involved in the POC found the training a lot easier to follow. I think most people would have preferred to just get the training material and run through themselves.

Comments

  • Peter Hegland | TrustRadius Reviewer
    Peter Hegland
    commented 21 days ago
    Hi - sorry for my slow response Thank you for being a loyal JAMS customer and for taking the time to leave us a review We are looking to make our training more self-serve in the future so people can watch on their own schedule. We are also looking to add-on an SFTP product in the near future. If you would like to chat more about those topics or anything JAMS related please reach out. My email is peter.heglandjamssoftware.com and I am the CEO. Thanks again Peter Hegland CEO of JAMS

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