BMC Software

BMC Software is an enterprise software company providing automation, service management, and mainframe solutions for large organizations. Its flagship products include Control-M for application and data workflow orchestration, the BMC AMI portfolio (Automated Mainframe Intelligence) for DevOps, operations, storage, security, and data protection, and BMC Helix for IT service and operations management. BMC exposes programmatic access primarily through the Control-M Automation API (a REST API with Jobs-as-Code), an official Python client (ctm-python-client), a command-line interface (ctm), and a VS Code extension, all maintained under the github.com/controlm organization. Approximately 80% of the Forbes Global 100 rely on BMC technology across financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, telecommunications, and the public sector.

BMC Software publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Ai Infrastructure, Automation, Workflow Orchestration, and Mainframe.

BMC Software’s developer surface includes documentation, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, pricing, signup flow, CLI, and 8 more developer resources.

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27.2/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

1 APIs

CompanyAi InfrastructureAutomationWorkflow OrchestrationMainframeIT Service ManagementDevOpsEnterprise Software

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Composite quality — 27.2/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 9.6 / 20

Commercial Clarity 8.9 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 8.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

Packages

SDKs

CLI

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

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name: BMC Software
description: BMC Software is an enterprise software company providing automation, service management, and mainframe solutions
  for large organizations. Its flagship products include Control-M for application and data workflow orchestration, the BMC
  AMI portfolio (Automated Mainframe Intelligence) for DevOps, operations, storage, security, and data protection, and BMC
  Helix for IT service and operations management. BMC exposes programmatic access primarily through the Control-M Automation
  API (a REST API with Jobs-as-Code), an official Python client (ctm-python-client), a command-line interface (ctm), and a
  VS Code extension, all maintained under the github.com/controlm organization. Approximately 80% of the Forbes Global 100
  rely on BMC technology across financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, telecommunications, and the public sector.
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- Company
- Ai Infrastructure
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- Mainframe
- IT Service Management
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- Enterprise Software
apis:
- name: Control-M Automation API
  description: REST API for Control-M that lets developers programmatically build, schedule, run, and manage application and
    data workflows as code (Jobs-as-Code), including deploy, run, provision, and config services.
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- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.bmc.com/docs/dashboard.action
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.bmc.com/docs/display/public/workloadautomation/Control-M+Automation+API+-+Getting+Started+Guide
- type: Support
  url: https://www.bmc.com/support/support-central.html
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.bmc.com/blogs/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.bmc.com/forms/pricing-request.html
- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.bmc.com/product-trials-demos.html
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  url: https://www.bmc.com/legal/terms-of-use.html
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.bmc.com/legal/privacy-policy.html
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/controlm
- type: Packages
  url: packages/bmc-software-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/bmc-software-packages.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/bmc-software-cli.yml
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  date: '2026-07-19'
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