Effective September 2008 VisualAge Generator will be withdrawn from marketing and effective September 30, 2009, VisualAge Generator will be withdrawn from service. IBM has provided a migration path for VisualAge Generator users to Rational Business Developer. Please see the Rational Business Developer site for more information.
Server scalability for your enterprise
VisualAge Generator is a true enterprise development tool, providing solutions for back office servers such as Windows NT® and OS/2, scaling up to mid-tier servers such as OS/400®, AIX®, and HP-UX, and scaling all the way up to powerful host servers such as OS/390®, VSE/ESA, and VM/ESA®. With VisualAge Generator, you create your application one time and then generate for the target environments. If you add a new platform, don't re-write, simply re-generate for the new environment!
Not only does VisualAge Generator provide support for the powerful DB2® family, it also provides access to legacy data such as IMS and VSAM, direct access to ORACLE, and support for other non IBM relational databases via ODBC.
VisualAge Generator masks the complexities of communications middleware programming, making it easy for your staff to take advantage of MQSeries®, CICS®, DCE, APPC, TCP/IP, CA/400, and more!
Productivity, productivity, productivity
VisualAge Generator provides rapid application development through the visual composition editor and construction from components, a high-level fourth-generation language for scripting, and the powerful Interactive Test Facility. VisualAge Generator Templates, now integrated into VisualAge Generator, provide for extreme rapid application development!
VisualAge Generator Templates can generate your entire application for you! From the user interface to the database access (Create/Read/Update/Delete) to the error handling, VisualAge Generator Templates automatically generates up to 80% of the application, saving time and money. We do the hard part... you add your business logic. Read more about the Version 4.5 Templates(PDF, 772KB).
With the VisualAge Generator Interactive Test Facility, the developer can test all of the client and server portions of the application on the same developer's workstation. They can also dynamically change test data; single step through code; step over code --which is being worked on - but not yet completed by another team; change code "temporarily" to see if it does what is intended; analyze code traces and much more! Intelligent Dynamic Application Partitioning allows developers to visualize, during a simulated execution, the optimal distribution of the various programs on the different machines to minimize the network traffic and the number of calls between clients and servers in the system.
e-business for the Enterprise
With VisualAge Generator, you can build text user interfaces (3270, 5250, ASCII), graphical user interfaces, and web user interfaces. Web connection components can be easily assembled to create HTML. In addition, VisualAge Generator provides support for Internet and intranet Java™ client access to enterprise applications by generating Java classes and JavaBeans that represent VisualAge Generator servers. VisualAge Generator brings your business to the web, providing Java client access to all supported server environments. VisualAge Generator handles all aspects of communications, allowing you to easily and rapidly create new enterprise transactions with Java client access!
