BMC AMI DevX Reviews & Insights

It is used by our COBOL Development for their Day-to-Day development, these could be bug fixes, feature changes or other changes like compliance changes.
Also, when there is a need to do some analysis on the code so that you can input onto a requirement Document or simply for knowledge sharing.
The whole of the development lifecycle is achieved via AMI DevX (Analysis, Code changes, Debug, Test and Deloy via Code pipeline.

As a Developer this is a tool to use for my Day-to-day basic development activities (Code, Debug , Test , Deploy)

All products give the developers and system programmers excellent support in their daily work. They are saving a lot of time when analysing any kind of problems (abends and dumps) or trying to improve performance of home grown software.

We are just starting our mainframe modernization effort. BMC AMI DevX is a fantastic toolbox to help with research, development, and improve our speed to market. Plus, it will be an advantage in attracting younger developers.

I love these tools! However, my company has not yet transitioned from SCLM to a modern repository, and this is causing most of our developers to remain within TSO for all their development. It's been a slow adoption up to this point, but we are moving toward more modernization this year and next, so with any luck, we'll see usage pick up. Success depends on the speed at which your management is willing to move.

We are both new and old users of BMC AMI DevX tools within our organization. We are in the midst of cutting over from IBM's Software Configuration and Library Manager (SCLM) to BMC AMI DevX Code Pipeline and Workbench for Eclipse (that's the new) and we recently reinstalled Code Debug (formerly known as Xpediter) as well as Abend-AID and File-AID, all three of which we have used previously under the Compuware umbrella (that's the old). Our goal is to modernize the mainframe developer experience while establishing a solid base from which we can implement a fully integrated DevOps lifecycle that encompasses both our mainframe and our distributed platforms.

The trick has always been to support "old school" mainframe developers in a cutting edge DevOps world. BMC AMI DevX manages to provide cross-platform interfaces and solutions that honor the past while serving the future. Change almost always involves a hit to productivity as developers unlearn old procedures and incorporate new ones. Eventually the new way of doing things should lead to higher productivity. Anyone introducing change seeks to have that "productivity dip" be as shallow as possible and last as short a time as possible. BMC AMI DevX accomplishes that well.

Mainframe development, source code management, as well as build, test and deployment automation.

I have been very happy with the product and its features. The support on the product is also very good. Perhaps it's not appropriate for small scale operations due to the

connecting maifnrame onprem CICD pipelines to a hybrid cloud environment

enabler for hybrid cloud on leagcy systems that utilize mainframe tech

We as a business need a tool for newer developers to confidently interface with mainframe applications and tools. I use it for my primary development on all applications that i support. We also have an integration with our version control software that allows us to manage our changes through BMC AMI DevX.

BMC AMI DevX is suitable for new developers to have a familiar environment to develop not-so-familiar applications.

We use BMC AMI DevX products on ZOS for mainframe developers, database administrators , SCM/ALM administrator and users , in order to provide help for the debug, access and administrate DB2 Databases, manage the life cycle (source version, build, delivery) of our applicaitons and component

If the settings of your IT Site is OK (source listing available, dump trapped, etc.), using code debug or Abend-Aid is useful to understand the origin of an issue.

For newby programers who don't know mainframe emulator, it's easier to begin to work in an IDE like Eclipse.

BMC AMI DevX Code Insights can be hard to use with complex Cobol programs.

Using BMC AMI DevX is a central part of my job. All products being used are required for different functions in our mainframe.

We have always had great assistance with all the products, but installation is still taking longer. We are still working on the installation of Fastcopy 6.1.0 on our mainframe. Since the product is now owned by a new company, we asked BMC if we required an additional license to move forward. They apparently know, but the installation instructions we used don't seem to be complete. We did not get extra help afterward.

We have been using the DevX product for a long time now. We have some problems to solve: young developers need to integrate, source code management needs to be done, production fallback needs to be met, release management needs to be met, and reporting on change needs to be done.

Source Code Management/Deploy management for the mainframe. Integration with an inter-platform deployment process.