  Enhancements WebSphere Developer for System z V7.0 contains significant new features and enhancements, including: Core z/OS development - C, C++ support for development, editing, content assist, remote syntax checking, builds
- Ability to create z/OS projects containing UNIX System Services files and folders
- z/OS project restructure that improves granularity of artifact and property management, simplifies compile and build processing, and provides management of project definitions centrally from the host
- Local syntax check upgrades such as supporting remote z/OS artifacts, and CICS V3 API support
- Visual IMS MFS Editor
- Terminal Emulator keyboard mapping
SOA and Web services System z Application Pattern Generator enables: - COBOL data access (CRUD - Create, Read, Update, Delete) back end processing generated from UML and DB Schema's
- Transformations can be defined and customized, popular transformations packaged include CRUD
Upgraded XML and Web Services support improves SOA access to CICS TS V3.1 and IMS V9: - Enterprise Service Tools combines capabilities that were formerly available in the XML Services for the Enterprise plugin and in the Service Flow Modeler plugin. The Enterprise Service Tools also offers the following new features for V7.0:
- Ability to import source programs from a remote project or a remote system
- Ability to incorporate z/OS DB2 support through the z/OS Database Application Generator
- For Enterprise Service Tools single-service projects:
- A new COBOL to WSDL and XSD mapping editor with enhanced wiring features
- Complete integration with CICS Web Services Assistant features
- Enhanced support for the unattended Web Services creation tool ("Batch processor")
- Ability to automatically create "Batch processor input files" (scripts for unattended service creation) from a GUI wizard
- Ability to reload the script into a GUI wizard COBOL to XML Mapping data integrated into the script - Ability to generate CICS native top-down and bottom-up services in unattended mode
- Support for creating multiple operation services in unattended mode
- Integration into the Enterprise Service Tools perspective
- XML enhancements
- For service flow projects
- Ability for a service flow to invoke an external Web service
- Ability to use the channel and container features of CICS for data objects greater than 32K in size
- PL/I support in the New Project wizard, and an importer for PL/I modules
- Ability to view System z Database Application Generator applications in the Enterprise Service Tools Project Explorer
- Remote browse support for file or PDS selection
- Improvements in references to ESQL modules and mapping routines
- Improvements in default screen recognition criteria, and project level preferences for screen recognition defaults
- Improvements in deployment and management of files and artifacts
- Enhanced BIDI and DBCS support
- Ease-of-use and performance enhancements
- Enterprise Service support preview for PL/I includes and generates WSDL and PL/I adapter programs for CICS, IMS, and Batch processing
Windows and AIX Development - Upgraded PL/I and COBOL Windows compilers
- Customized version of TXSeries on the Windows platforms, to support local Windows based development of CICS applications
Integrated application life cycle - Common Access Repository Manager (CARMA)-enabled integrated remote artifact access to user customizable Source Code Management systems.
- CARMA client development provides connection to configured repositories.
- Updates include additional command support
- Enhanced SCLM Developer Plug-in provides new capability including long name support, remote system explorer integration.
- Provides Host Access Transformation function that:
- Supports WebSphere Host Access Transformation Services (HATS) development. Customers must purchase independent HATS licenses for deployment.
- Provides integrated, rich client access enabling WebSphere Developer for System z licensed developers with Time Sharing Option (TSO)/Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF) access through a powerful GUI front end.
Other capabilities include: - Eclipse V3.2 support for a more responsive, attractive, and customizable user interface that increases developer productivity
- Web modeling improvements (Web Diagram Editior)
- Improved Web services tooling
- Improved Java Server Faces (JSF) tools
- Improved portlet development tools
- Enhanced J2EE Connector (J2C) tools
- Latest software leveraged
- Eclipse 3.2
- Java 5
- Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE) 5.0
- Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) support
- New supported runtimes (WebSphere Application Server V6.1, DB2 UDB V9, WebSphere Portal V6)
Technology previews provide insight into IBM plans and directions and information is provided "as-is" and without warranty or condition of any kind. Customers who want to participate in the technology preview to gain early experience with this support should visit the WebSphere Developer for System z support page. This Web site provides you with detailed information about availability dates and terms and conditions. File manager integration technology preview
This technology preview provides eclipse-based integration and access to File Manager VSAM KSDS processing. This component requires IBM File Manager for z/OS V7.1. Asset analyzer technology preview
This technology preview provides integrated application understanding via a Windows-based Asset Analyzer component. This component is for workstation and single user usage only. XML enterprise services PL/I technology preview
This technology preview provides support for generating WSDL and PL/I adapters from PL/I source and includes supporting SOA based Web services integration to CICS and IMS-based PL/I processing. Citrix server technology preview
This technology preview provides geographically distributed development team, or teams working with sensitive data with the ability of installing WebSphere Developer for System z on a Citrix server. | 
