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Velocity Software's zSPOOL vs IBM's Operations Manager Spool Viewing and Broadcom's VM:Spool

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 zSPOOL feature of zPRO provides installations the ability to manage spool files by listing, transferring, purging and VIEWING the contents of nearly any spool file across your z/VM enterprise from a single browser window. For open spool file viewing, you can set refresh intervals to watch new console traffic. zSPOOL allows you to schedule the closing of open console logs each day and also provides a function to define a set of rules and a time of day to evaluate all your spool files to clean up. DCSS/NSS spool management is also included that allows you to list all DCSS/NSS files and view any users connected to them.
Function/Feature Velocity Software, Inc. zPRO zSPOOL Feature IBM Operations Manager Broadcom CA VM:Spool More Detail
Browser Based User Interface
Yes
No
No
View Closed Spool Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
View Open Spool Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Set Variable Auto-refresh for Open Consoles
Yes
No
No
Enterprise Viewing of Spool Files (single pane of glass)
Yes
No
No
Transfer Ownership of Spool Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
On-Demand Purge of Spool Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Search for Spool Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
DCSS/NSS Detailed Mapping
Yes
No
No
Detect Unowned Spool Files
Yes
No
No
Spool Usage Summary Report
Yes
No
Yes
Print Contents to PDF
Yes
No
No
On-demand or Scheduled Closing of Open Consoles
Yes
No
No
Spool File Cleanup Processing
Yes
No
Yes* 		*VM:Spool allows definition of purge rules, but does not schedule the cleanup processing
Backup/Restore Spool Files
No*
No
Yes 		*zSPOOL DCSS/NSS backup/restore process is available
Backup/Restore DCSS/NSS Files
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

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