--- 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: '2026-09-22' 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.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** January 12, 2022 At G2, we prefer fresh reviews and we like to follow up with reviewers. They may not have updated their review text, but have updated their review. **What do you like best about Enterprise PL/I for z/OS?** Very helpful for earning and practicing skills in this case in PLI, more language knowledge, it is compatible with Visual Studio Code, in fact, PLI has no competitors because it is a very specific language. **What do you dislike about Enterprise PL/I for z/OS?** Nothing 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 language, created by IBM, for this reason it 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 command of the elements of a language that is old and unknown like PLI. Yes, I'm more productive, and the business performance has 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.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **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.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2021 **What do you like best about Enterprise PL/I for z/OS?** I have seen many banking platforms, and the majority of them are trying or working on migrating to the cloud or some other platform that is new to the industry. However, it is not easy for them to migrate such a large system. **What do you dislike about Enterprise PL/I for z/OS?** UI features can only be done at the channel system. Should be allowed for personal laptop devices. No one likes mainframe in the market. **Recommendations to others considering Enterprise PL/I for z/OS:** Make the GUI better to work independently for developers. **What problems is Enterprise PL/I for z/OS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Calculation of cashback. Pics clause definition 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.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **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=2026-09-30+09%3A28%3A55+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=cd2311b0-0f04-41d1-bce4-e83d59bdb391&secure%5Btoken%5D=ff851355d1399dbe582b2fa84ea921c095e325429dfe4e2820b53a859edbe650&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 - [Ivanti Autonomous Endpoint Management](https://www.g2.com/products/ivanti-autonomous-endpoint-management/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (387 reviews) - [SmartDeploy](https://www.g2.com/products/smartdeploy/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (145 reviews) - [KACE Unified Endpoint Manager](https://www.g2.com/products/kace-unified-endpoint-manager/reviews) - 4.1/5.0 (93 reviews)