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You've discovered one of the differences between a Cisco L3 switch and a Cisco router, the former is often poorer in feature supported.
The only L3 switch, that I'm aware of, that had something like NBAR was the 6500 with a sup-32 PISA, which supported FPM.
As to alternatives, some NBAR is just the same as ACL but with a "pretty face". Some NBAR, though, does deeper packet inspection. The latter, just cannot be done on almost all Cisco L3 switches.
If you really need advanced NBAR matching, you'll need a Cisco ISR or ASR.
