--- title: Enterprise PL/I for z/OS Reviews meta_title: 'Enterprise PL/I for z/OS Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Enterprise PL/I for z/OS works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 3.9 review_count: 4 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-12' parent_category: name: IT Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-management --- # Enterprise PL/I for z/OS Reviews **Vendor:** IBM **Category:** [OS Imaging & Deployment Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/os-imaging-deployment) **Average Rating:** 3.9/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 4 ## About Enterprise PL/I for z/OS IBM Enterprise PL/I for z/OS is a software development environment for building and maintaining PL/I applications on IBM z/OS operating systems. This enterprise solution allows you to incorporate modern web technology, such as web services, XML, JSON and Java into your existing PL/I applications. ## Enterprise PL/I for z/OS Reviews ### 1. PLI Skill certification **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Daniel B. | DB2 - Z/OS Application Programer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 12, 2022 **What do you like best about Enterprise PL/I for z/OS?** Very helpful for earn and practice skills in this case in PLI, more lenguage knowledge, it is compatible with visual studio code, infact PLI has no competitors, cause is a very specific lenguage **What do you dislike about Enterprise PL/I for z/OS?** Nothing at really, the process is according to the level of knowledge, **Recommendations to others considering Enterprise PL/I for z/OS:** It's a native old programming lenguage, created by IBM, for this is a little obsolete, However, so far it has not been possible to replace it. **What problems is Enterprise PL/I for z/OS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Build better programs, with more domain of the elements of lenguage that is old and unknown as is PLI, yes I'm more productive, the business performance was increased. ### 2. It's a command line interface **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 13, 2022 **What do you like best about Enterprise PL/I for z/OS?** We can track each and every thing Because it's mostly jobs related so based on the job number we can track how the task was done and way was the problem in it. **What do you dislike about Enterprise PL/I for z/OS?** I'm not sure but in my opinion it is so complex, if you understand the flow process then it is easy to track and each and every thing in the system so that you can simplify your work **What problems is Enterprise PL/I for z/OS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I users this product in production support project on that time i used this for solving the user's issue, We can easily access the resources even you don't know the path, by using howkey tool ### 3. Every project is thinking of migration **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2021 **What do you like best about Enterprise PL/I for z/OS?** I have seen many banking platform majority of them are tryinng or working for migration to cloud or some other platform which is new into the industry but the thing is it is not easy for them to migrate such a bug system. **What do you dislike about Enterprise PL/I for z/OS?** UI features, can only be done at channel system. Should be allowed for personal laptop device. No one like mainframe in market. **Recommendations to others considering Enterprise PL/I for z/OS:** Make GUI better to work independently for developer **What problems is Enterprise PL/I for z/OS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Calculation of cashback Pics clause difination cave made simple. Also the tools and their description ### 4. Great software for developing and building PL/I app’s on Z/OS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Praveen kumar P. | I.T Analyst, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 13, 2022 **What do you like best about Enterprise PL/I for z/OS?** User interface is difficult to access and but confused while navigating through screens **What do you dislike about Enterprise PL/I for z/OS?** Improper corporation modern web technology **What problems is Enterprise PL/I for z/OS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Building the PL/I applications on multiple technologies which really made my work easy and automated things work so easy ## Enterprise PL/I for z/OS Discussions - [What is Enterprise PL/I for z/OS used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-enterprise-pl-i-for-z-os-used-for) - [View Enterprise PL/I for z/OS pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/enterprise-pl-i-for-z-os/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-21+19%3A24%3A33+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=09248ece-4a53-4d70-9614-2662e547759a&secure%5Btoken%5D=085a3ff3c2f675b10c7cfbed223f9005b62fd575f27a650056e622674933522a&format=llm_user) ## Enterprise PL/I for z/OS Features **Administration** - Compression - Automation - Web Interface - Administration Console **Deployment** - Device Variety - OS Variety - Deployment Methods **Imaging** - Remote Imaging - Offline imaging - Online imaging ## Top Enterprise PL/I for z/OS Alternatives - [SmartDeploy](https://www.g2.com/products/smartdeploy/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (145 reviews) - [Ivanti Endpoint Manager](https://www.g2.com/products/ivanti-endpoint-manager/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (134 reviews) - [KACE Unified Endpoint Manager](https://www.g2.com/products/kace-unified-endpoint-manager/reviews) - 4.1/5.0 (93 reviews)