zPRO Compare

Velocity Software's zPRO zSCHEDULE 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.

The zSCHEDULE feature of zPRO enables automation of many of the tasks that normally would require human presence. It is managed completely via a web based user interface; No 3270 is required. This allows the user to display the currently scheduled events, create a new event, pause, start or delete one or more events and report on last-run status.

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