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Rational® Developer for System z speeds the development of traditional mainframe, Web and composite applications

Accelerates the development of your Web applications, traditional COBOL and PL/I applications, Web services and XML-based interfaces.
- WebSphere Developer for System z has been renamed to Rational Developer for System z
- Includes significant enhancements in Version 7.5 that further increase the efficiency of traditional mainframe and Web services creation
- 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
- Helps simplify the overall service-flow development process with enterprise service tools
- Enables developers to rapidly create well-built composite processing that integrates transactional 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
- There are now 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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Enables IT organizations to increase maintenance productivity
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Assists enterprise modernization and rapid application Development using Rational Developer for System z
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Provides assistance in identifying and transforming existing COBOL code to a web service
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