Rational Developer for System z

Modern development tools for mainframe application development

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IBM Rational Developer for System z supports CICS, IMS, DB2, and WAS while helping make multiplatform application development faster, more efficient, and less costly

Accelerates the development of your Mainframe applications, including traditional COBOL, PL/I, C/C++, Java, EGL, and Assembler applications, Web services, and XML-based interfaces linking to the Web.

Lowers the cost of traditional mainframe application development via selective workload offloading and reducing MIPS utilization for common development activities
Helps improve the productivity of developers creating and maintaining mainframe applications and web services before, during and after the transition to a SOA-based environment
Facilitates shorter development cycles and helps reduce costs by extracting value from existing applications through reuse and transformation, making them accessible as Web services
Enables developers to rapidly create well-built composite processing that integrates traditional mainframe CICS or IMS transactional applications and WebSphere–based environments
Read about a Developer Productivity Study by Branham Group which compares IBM Rational Developer for System z to traditional IBM Mainframe Development Tools
Includes significant enhancements in Version 7.6 that further increase the efficiency of traditional mainframe and Web services creation
There are two packaged offerings: Rational Developer for System z with Java (support for developing mainframe and J2EE applications) and Rational Developer for System z with EGL (support for traditional mainframe development and application development using EGL)
Operating systems supported: Windows, z/OS

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IBM Rational Developer for System z 7.6

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