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This product contains Rational Business Developer, Host Access Transformation Services, and Rational Developer for Power Systems - RPG and COBOL Development Tools for i.

IBM Rational Developer for i for SOA Construction enables you to build innovative rich Web 2.0 applications, and user interfaces (UI), so you can link to the backend RPG, COBOL, and Enterprise Generation Language (EGL) business applications.
Deliver more projects, faster: Allows you to focus on solving business problems and enables you to modernize and extend existing RPG and COBOL business applications. Accelerate in-house development of web and SOA solutions.
Modernize applications: Easily extend existing RPG and COBOL business applications to the web and mobile devices, or into web services. Quickly transform text-based terminal applications to intuitive web, portlet, rich client or mobile device UIs.
Improve developer productivity: Realize productivity gains by moving from older text-based, command-line development tools, to an integrated development environment.
Lower development and training costs: Leverage a modern integrated development environment to attract and retain new talent, many of whom are familiar with Eclipse tools, thereby helping to lower training costs.
Reuse and extend IT assets: Make developers portable across multiple projects and a variety of programming languages and target platforms.
Lean collaborative lifecycle management: Seamless integration with Rational Team Concert enables source control, build automation, and collaborative application lifecycle management (CALM) of software projects.
What’s new in Rational Developer for i for SOA Construction, V8.0.3 including the latest development tools to modernize RPG and COBOL applications on IBM i.
- Operating systems supported: Windows family
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Solutions for Power Systems help you evolve core IT systems towards modern architectures and technologies.
Rational Developer products provide easy-to-use tools and features help your developers rapidly design, code and deploy applications.
Included components
Simplifies development of modern business applications with the open source EGL technology.
Provides a complete RPG and COBOL i development environment with integrated edit, compile, and debug capabilities.
Quickly transform 5250 green screen applications to intuitive Web, portlet, rich client or mobile device user interfaces.
Additional products, services and solutions
Solutions
The IBM Enterprise Modernization solutions for IBM i help organizations cost-effectively and incrementally evolve core IT systems.
Power your planet
Introducing new POWER7 offerings for businesses of all sizes. Smarter Systems for a Smarter Planet.
Power Systems Sandbox
Communities
EGL Café – a web community space for customers, partners and the EGL team to connect, share best practices, resources, and code.
*Pricing: Catalog prices are exclusive of tax and subject to change without notice. Passport Advantage customers will see their Relationship Suggested Volume Pricing during checkout.


