Last year we converted several Compuware products to IBM PDTOOLS replacements. Some brief comments:
File Manager: * IBM's conversion took much longer than expected. * Jobs which involved large files often ran longer and used more CPU (50% or more) using File Manager than FileAid. This was largely resolved by changing these jobs to use some other utility (Syncsort copy was found to outperform FileAid in almost all of these cases.) * FileAid and File Manager handle truncation of VB files differently. This was often an issue for us. Application Performance Analyzer: No issues of signifigance that I was aware of. Fault Analyzer: *We still have open PMRs because of this product. These mostly involve large dumps. In some cases dumps are not viewable. We have exposed issues in PDS/E code that can hang jobs in the midst of a dump in such a way that the job must be forced. Debug Tool: *Our users have deemed this as all but unusable. *We have experienced severe performance issues with large complex programs. Jobs that ran in 3 minutes when monitored with Expeditor run for over 3 hours with debug tool. *We have experienced abends under CICS that only occur in conjunction with Debug Tool. *At no time since we started trying to use Debug Tool have we had less than 2 open PMRs. HourGlass: *This has worked pretty well for us. We had one problem where the date was rolling at midnight under conditions where the doc said it should not. This was ultimately resolved. Jeff Holst Fiserv ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
