Velocity Software's zPRO zScheduler vs IBM's Operation Manager Scheduler and Broadcom's VM:Schedule

Information for this comparison was taken from the documentation available at the time of the comparison.

zPRO has been designed to assist installations with guest server cloning and provisioning processes as well as many of the tasks related to z/VM system management.

Scheduler Functional Analysis		Velocity Software, Inc. zPRO Scheduler	IBM Operation Manager	Broadcom CA VM:Schedule	More Detail
Browser based User Interface		Yes	No	No
Recurring events		Yes	Yes	Yes
Schedule on Day-of-Week		Yes	Yes	Yes
Schedule on Weekdays or Weekends		Yes	Yes	Yes
Schedule relative time offset		Yes	Yes	Yes
Schedule specific Day-of-Month		Yes	Yes	Yes
Define event time range		Yes	Yes	Yes
Dynamic Add, List, Delete		Yes	Yes	Yes
Auditing		Yes	Yes	Yes
Schedule End-of-Month		Yes	Yes	Yes
Schedule end-of-quarter		Yes	No	Yes
Hold / Release Events		Yes	Unclear	Yes
Deferred execution limit		Yes	Yes	Yes
Event modification		Yes	Yes	Yes
Change event owner		Yes	No	Yes
3270 Command Line Interface		No*	Yes	Yes	*We believe that anything that can be managed with a web interface should be managed with a web interface
3270 Full screen interface		No	No	Yes
Separate event and action		No	Yes	Unknown
Recognize event conflicts		No	Yes	No
Define successor events		No	Yes	Yes
Pass event parameters		No	Yes	Yes
Limit execution count		No	Yes	Yes
Specify multiple start times		No	Yes	Yes
nTH week of month		No	No	Yes
Schedule exits		No	Unknown	Yes
Reports		No	Yes	Yes
Resource consumption limits		No	No	Yes
Skip event execution		No	No	Yes
Run event on different virtual machine		No	Unclear	Yes
Specify SYSNAME		No	No	Yes