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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.

The zScheduler 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

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